Tag Archives: Coming of Age

Looking for Alaska by John Green

John Green explores the consuming nature of grief in his debut young adult fiction novel
Posted on August 1, 2014 by Kimberly Lane (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

Looking for Alaska is a wonderfully beautiful tragedy. In it, we follow Miles “Pudge” Halter as he is sent away from his hometown in Florida to boarding school in Culver Creek, Alabama in a scenario that seems to parallel author … Continue reading →

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“The Secret Life of Bees,” by Sue Monk Kidd

A young girl grapples with her mother’s death and the universal problem of growing up
Posted on August 3, 2012 by Antal Polony (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

Growing up has never been easy for any one. In Sue Monk Kidd’s critically acclaimed first novel The Secret Life of Bees, her protagonist, Lily Owens, does so in the midst of the Deep South’s Civil Rights revolt. The memory … Continue reading →

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