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ROPES: Coming of Age    by ROPES Galway
Price: $9.99 USD. 23750 words. Language: English. Published on June 17, 2013. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.

ROPES is a literary journal published by the students of the MA in Literature and Publishing at NUI Galway. This year is the 21st birthday of our publication! The theme this year is “Coming of Age”. All proceeds of the journal are going towards Jigsaw, a support service for young people in Galway.
Fell Winter Omnibus: The Ulfr Crisis    by AJ Cooper
Price: $9.99 USD. 118840 words. Language: English. Published by Realms of Varda  on June 14, 2013. Fiction » Fantasy » Epic.

An evil not seen in hundreds of years has awakened in the highland nation of Badelgard. The Ulfr - the original inhabitants of the land whose evil was matched only by their power over death - stir from their barrows. The cold begins to set in. But there is more to fear than darkness and snow in this fell winter. This omnibus includes novels FELL WINTER, HIGH QUEEN, and DRAGON'S SON.
Chowderhead: The Extremely Surprising Teenage Novel    by Benjamin Volkaiser
Price: $2.99 USD. 45110 words. Language: English. Published on June 13, 2013. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.

Chowderhead is a sharp and unpredictable telling of one teen's turbulent, humorous, and often shocking journey into adulthood.
Scudding    by Leonard Gray
Price: $2.99 USD. 58290 words. Language: English. Published on June 13, 2013. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.

Grant Sheffield gets into the adult world with a series of screw-ups and narrow escapes. He graduates from college (barely). He drives through the West in a second-hand VW camper with two girls he meets while getting his car fixed. He drops them off and gives a ride to two other girls, and finally finds the one he really wants, in California.
A Simple Rendezvous    by Sherry Isaac
Price: $0.99 USD. 2310 words. Language: Canadian English. Published on June 12, 2013. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.

A sixteen-year-old innocent engages an online acquaintance to usher her into a brand new life. Short story.
Thanks be to the Booze    by Brian Quat
Price: Free! 1080 words. Language: English. Published by Write On E-Publishing, LLC  on June 11, 2013. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.

Campus life and the apathy of youth. Let's go to that thing, or get a beer, do we have to get dressed? Screw it, let's just get high!
Ледоход    by Robert Townsend
Price: $4.99 USD. 61520 words. Language: Russian. Published on June 10, 2013. Fiction » Young adult or teen » Adventure.

“Ледоход” - повествование о подростках, растущих в пустынной области между верхним полуостровом Мичигана и севером Висконсина на американском Среднем Западе. Это - трогательная история дружбы детства, перерастающей в глубокую любовь.
Trail of Tears, A Short Story    by Dana Michelle Burnett
Price: $0.99 USD. 5430 words. Language: English. Published on June 7, 2013. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.

"That was the first time that I really began to think of myself as different. My mother pushed her ideas into my head until I was backed into a corner with only my family to keep me company. It was a lonely place to be." It's not easy being different, and Ana struggles to balance life between her Cherokee ancestry and the life of a typical child in a small town.
Shame, A Short Story    by Dana Michelle Burnett
Price: $0.99 USD. 4530 words. Language: English. Published on June 7, 2013. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.

The neighbors were tolerant and intrigued by my mother. Even when she and my father were standing in the front yard yelling and swearing at each other, they would look the other way and still smile at my mother when they passed her on the street the next day.
Pocahontas, A Short Story    by Dana Michelle Burnett
Price: $0.99 USD. 2160 words. Language: English. Published on June 7, 2013. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.

I could not wait for my mother to see the play. She would be proud of having me for a daughter. People would tell her that she should take me to Hollywood, that I had natural talent. Then I would be famous, it would not matter what other people thought about her, my mother would go back to just being my mother because of my fame and fortune.