Spring Awakenings: Coming of Age Fiction Display

With Spring reminding us of renewal and growth, the library has a collection of coming of age fiction on display. 

According to Bloom's Literary Reference (which is available to Fontbonne students), coming of age fiction can be defined as, "stories that mark a child's passage from innocence to experience or knowledge, in which the child usually pays the price of pain or disillusionment". 

Included in our library Spring Awakenings display are the following titles: 

~Ask Me No Questions by Marina Budhos

~The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 

~Dreamland by Sarah Dessen 

~The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros 

~Life of Pi by Yann Martel 

~Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff

~The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd

~The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman 

~My Antonia by Willa Cather 

~The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri 

~The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

~A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 

~Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson