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Scott Pilgrim vs. the world (Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 2) Bryan Lee O'Malley · 2005 · ★ 4.2 · 200p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Does Scott and Ramona's burgeoning relationship have a future? Isn't Scott still supposedly dating Knives Chau? Who is Ramona's second evil ex-boyfriend, and why is he in Toronto? Who are The Clash At Demonhead, and what kind of bizarre art-punky music do they play? Who's their hot girl keyboardist, and what is Scott's relation to her? Why is The Clash At Demonhead Knives Chau's new favourite… Shares: Teenagers, Coming-of-age

Scott Pilgrim, Vol 4 Bryan Lee O'Malley · 2007 · ★ 4.0 · 216p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Scott Pilgrim's life is fantastic. He's 23 years old, in a rock band, between jobs, and dating a cute high school girl. Everything's awesome until a seriously mind-blowing delivery girl named Ramona Flowers enters his life. Shares: Teenagers, Coming-of-age

Organise Your Family Nicole Avery · 2013 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Family life can be chaotic— whether you have one child or five.Organise Your Family will show you how to introduce routine, plan your meals and get the family finances in order.Learn how to organise your family chaos and have time left over to actually enjoy being a parent.Nicole Avery is the master organiser behind popular blog ‘Planning with Kids’, where she shares tips and tricks to organising… Shares: Interpersonal relations, Families

Harriet Spies Again Helen Ericson · 2002 · ★ 3.9 · 230p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Harriet M. Welsch is up to her old spying tricks when her beloved nanny Ole Golly, who had married and moved to Montreal, returns without her husband, Harriet's friend Sport announces he has a crush on a schoolmate, and the people across the street appear to be holding a child hostage. Shares: Interpersonal relations, Families, Friendship

REST OF HER LIFE, THE Laura Moriarty · 2007 · ★ 4.0 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate This incredibly nuanced, beautifully written novel treats moral dilemma with the riveting, character-driven plot of a Jane Hamilton or a Jodi Picoult. This novel looks at one incident and how it changes everything for Leigh, the mother of a pretty, popular high school senior, and their entire family. It’s a novel about mothers, daughters, sisters, and female friends, and the ripple effect that an… Shares: Teenagers, Coming-of-age, Families

Scott Pilgrim & the infinite sadness (Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 3) Bryan Lee O'Malley · 2006 · ★ 4.1 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Ramona's third evil ex-boyfriend, Todd Ingram, is currently dating the former love of Scott Pilgrim's life! Envy Adams broke Scott's heart a year and a half ago. Now she and her evil art-rock band are back, and they're getting Scott's band to open a show two days from now! That's just enough time for Scott to fight Todd, keep Ramona happy, fend off demented ex-girlfriends, and practice that new… Shares: Teenagers, Coming-of-age

No Such Thing as the Real World An Na · 2009 · ★ 4.0 Graduation from high school?A senior thesis?A betrayal by someone you love?A loss of innocence?The death of a parent?Losing the family you always wished you had?Facing a harsh reality?What's the line that separates childhood from the "real world"? And what happens when it's nothing you imagined it would be?Do you want to be a published author?The editors at HarperCollins invite you to submit a… Shares: Interpersonal relations, Coming-of-age

Bloodsucking Fiends Christopher Moore · 1995 · ★ 4.2 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate At last, a love story you can really sink your teeth into! With a psychedelic inventiveness that invites comparison with Kurt Vonnegut and Tom Robbins, Christopher Moore, the author of Coyote Blue, spins a hip tale of vampires on the loose and in love in San Francisco. When Jody wakes up in an alley, under a dupster, with a badly burned arm and a pain in her neck, she knows it isn't going to be… Shares: Teenagers, Coming-of-age

Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe (Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 5) Bryan Lee O'Malley · 2009 · ★ 4.0 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Scott Pilgrim's life is fantastic. He's 23 years old, in a rock band, between jobs, and dating a cute high school girl. Everything's awesome until a seriously mind-blowing delivery girl named Ramona Flowers enters his life. Shares: Teenagers, Interpersonal relations, Coming-of-age

Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life Bryan Lee O'Malley · 2004 · ★ 4.2 · 168p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Scott Pilgrim's life is fantastic. He's 23 years old, in a rock band, between jobs, and dating a cute high school girl. Everything's awesome until a seriously mind-blowing delivery girl named Ramona Flowers enters his life. Shares: Teenagers, Coming-of-age

Conversations With Friends Sally Rooney · 2017 · ★ 3.7 · 315p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Frances is a coolheaded and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, they meet a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into her world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman’s sophisticated home… Shares: Interpersonal relations, Coming-of-age, Friendship

The Tender Years Janette Oke · 1997 · ★ 4.1 · 271p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Virginia is a young girl becoming slowly but surly a very beautiful young women. But during her tender years she is involved in conflicts between friends, right and wrong, and wondering what to do during circumstances. When her friend, Jenny Wood, is always coming up with plans and harmless gags, to trick people, Virginia must make a decision about what to do. Virginia's efforts to convert Jenny… Shares: Teenagers, Friendship

At the Foot of the Rainbow Gene Stratton-Porter · 1907 · ★ 3.7 · 258p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Friends since childhood, Dannie Macnoun has always admired and gone out of his way to help Jimmy Malone and, despite the great harm he suffers at Jimmy's hands, remains blind to his friend's deceitful and spiteful character. Shares: Interpersonal relations, Friendship

Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney · 2007 · ★ 4.5 · 223p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Greg Heffley finds thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings like him share the hallways with much bigger kids who are already shaving. But nothing scares Greg more than the moldy piece of cheese on the blacktop. Can he and his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, make it through the year without getting the Cheese Touch? Shares: Interpersonal relations, Families, Friendship

Net of Jewels Ellen Gilchrist · 1992 · 360p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares: Coming-of-age, Families

The goodbye summer Patricia Gaffney · 2004 · ★ 3.4 · 460p · ≈ 15h · Moderate The New York Times bestselling author is back with a warm, winning new novel about daring to love, braving a loss, and setting yourself free. Caddie Winger's mother died when she was nine, and Caddie was raised by her grandmother. Now their roles are reversed, and it's Caddie -- thirty-two years old, still living with her grandmother, and giving piano lessons to neighborhood children -- who takes… Shares: Interpersonal relations, Families, Friendship

The Measure Nikki Erlick · 2022 · ★ 4.0 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Eight ordinary people. One extraordinary choice. It seems like any other day. You wake up, drink a cup of coffee, and head out. But today, when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. The contents of this mysterious box tells you the exact number of years you will live. From suburban doorsteps to desert tents, every person on every continent receives the same box. In… Shares: Families, Friendship

Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants Louise Rennison · 2002 · ★ 4.0 · 214p · ≈ 7h · Moderate The further confessions of teenaged Georgia Nicolson continue as, among other things, she begins to wonder if Robbie is really the right boy for her. Shares: Interpersonal relations, Families

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