Coming of Age

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Are You Experienced?

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William Sutcliffe’s novel is a gift for any English teacher! Dave travels to India with Liz hoping to get her into bed. Liz travels with Dave wanting a companion for her voyage of “self-discovery”. This novel is a gentle but pointed satire on the pretentious delusions of western backpackers when they meet Indian culture. It also pokes fun at the fumblings of young “love” … and much more. Lots of humour and lots to talk about. Give this one a try! (235 pages)
Level: B

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Are You Experienced? Glossary

Glossary by Christian de Thurah for use with William Sutcliffe’s highly teachable novel for level B. If you buy 10 or more copies of this workbook, we will reduce the price to kr. 10,95 ex. moms when we invoice you!

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big mouth & ugly girl

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Joyce Carol Oates’ hard-hitting, celebration of friendship in unlikely circumstances:

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Matt Donaghy is the class joker, and Ursula Riggs is the misfit loner. Neither knows the other. But when Matt is suddenly arrested on a charge of threatening to blow up the school and massacre the students, Ursula is the only one who sees through the hysteria and hypocrisy, and corroborates Matt's story. The case is dropped, but Matt's old friends avoid him, and his teachers treat him with kid gloves. Even Ursula, apparently his only friend during the crisis, can't meet his eye. But Ursula can't remain aloof when she catches Matt contemplating suicide — and a friendship is born. This may sound like just another novel for young adults, but Joyce Carol Oates’ sure touch with small town life and great depiction of character turns it into something much more. Lots of good but accessible language — half the book is written in the first person. This one gets 5 stars! (288 pages)
Level: B/C

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Boy A

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Boy A is a coming-of-age story that looks at difficult questions about rehabilitation and redemption through the story of one young man. Jack, at the age of 24, has spent most of his young life in juvenile prisons for a monstrous crime — the murder of another child, the stuff that newspaper horror stories are made of. Completely innocent of the world, he is released from prison with a new name, new job, new home, new life. His anonymity is both a blessing and a curse as Jack has to deal with not being able to tell the people he gets to know, and love, of his true past. With the help of a benevolent case worker, he sets about trying to leave his past behind and ingratiate himself to this bewildering society. He gets a job, makes friends, and might even have the opportunity to fall in love with a co-worker. Yet Jack knows he is living a lie. The past haunts him and, in particular, memories of the boy he stood trial with cause him anxiety. To his new friends, he is a good guy with occasional flashes of unexpected violence. To his new girlfriend, he is strangely inexperienced and unreachable. To his case worker, he’s a victim of the system and of media-driven hysteria. But to himself, Jack is on permanent trial: can he really start from scratch, forget the past, become someone else? Can he ever truly connect with his new friends while hiding a monstrous secret? Slowly the world closes in on him. Author: Jonathan Trigell. (248 pages)
Level: B

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Catcher in the Rye

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J.D. Salinger's classic picture of a 16-year old American boy and his feelings about his teachers, parents, friends and acquaintances. (192 pages)
Level: B

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Coming of Age in Mississippi

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The classic story by Anne Moody of growing up poor and black in the rural south.— Mississippi in the 40s and 50s. A story that brings vividly to the reader the sights and smells of suffering. The story of a courageous black girl who dared to challenge a racist society. First published in 1968. (374 pages)
Level: B/A

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Gabriel's Gift

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Gabriel. a 15-year-old North London schoolboy, is forced to come to terms with a new life once the equilibrium of the family has been shattered by his father's departure. His confused and immature parents are busy making messes of their lives. But Gabriel has a “gift” that helps him to make sense of his world — he can paint. A charming novel. (178 pages)
Level: B

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In the Deep End

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En god roman skrevet på et let tilgængeligt sprog om tanker og følelser omkring en hed ungdoms-forelskelse — og ikke mindst om springet til sex — og om tidlig graviditet. En meget relevant bog, selvom ikke alle klasser vil være åbne nok til at diskutere disse ting. Bogen er også velegnet til at indgå som selvlæst. Author: Kate Cann. (208 pages)
Level: 10. kl.

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Life-Changing Stories of Coming of Age

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This collection contains extracts from novels and autobiographies and one complete story. They all deal with the confusion, pain and joy involved in discovering the possibilities of life.The authors are: Jill Ker Conway (The Road from Coorain), Mary Karr (The Liars' Club), John Gardner (Grendel), Walter White (A Man Called White), Lynda Barry (The Good Times are Killing Me), Garrison Keillor (Don: The Story of a Young Person), Andrei Makine (Once Upon the River Love), Spalding Gray (Sex and Death to the Age of 14), Russell Baker (Growing Up), James Joyce (Araby), Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn), Albert Murray (Train Whistle Guitar), Sherwood Anderson (Winesburg Ohio). Editor: Thomas Dyja. (295 pages)
Level: Gymnasiet

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Love, Shelley

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Kate Saksena’s novel is a series of letters written by Shelley between her 14th and 15th birthdays to her favourite singer: Ziggy. Shelley has lots to talk about: a mother with an alcohol problem, trouble at school. But Shelley is a gutsy and attractive girl who doesn’t give up. A real novel, written in relatively short sentences, which weaker pupils can manage. Read the whole book — or just some of the letters. (218 pages)
Level: C-D

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Never Far from Nowhere

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Andrea Levy’s novel is the story of two sisters, Olive and Vivien, born in London to Jamaican parents and brought up on a council estate. Olive, always at odds with British society, gradually gets to feel that her home is in Jamaica. Whereas Vivien, in spite of trials and tribulations, ends up feeling that she is very much English. A story of multicultural England today, of coming of age, of searching for identity. This new novel has rapidly become a classic of contemporary social realism. (282 pages)
Level: B/C

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Oranges are not the Only Fruit

Author: Jeanette Winterson. Brought up by an obsessed evangelical mother and a silent father, Jess is destined to be a missionary. But as adolescence and the outside world intrude on their quiet home of purity, Jess begins to develop very different ideas of her own. A tough look at the outposts of religious excess and human obsession — but also a love story and one that has lots of humour. (171 pages)
Level: B

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Vernon God Little

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Fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little is in trouble, and it has something to do with the recent massacre of 16 students at his high school. Soon, Martirio, the barbecue sauce capital of Texas, is flooded with wannabe CNN hacks, eager for a scapegoat. Vernon is an unlikely hero in an evil world. A contemporary, but very original, Catcher in the Rye. NB! Full of highly idiomatic language! (277 pages)
Level: B/A

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