To celebrate National Teenagers Day on March 21, I started thinking about some fictional teenagers who have stood out in their characterization of the curiosity and confusion of the pre-adult years. In pressing my recent reads, I came up with a list of 6 books that are not specifically written for a teenaged audience and…
Tag: Coming of age novels
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There’s a line at the end of Pretty Woman where Richard Gere shows up to claim Julia Roberts. He climbs up the fire escape, purportedly to rescue her from the awful life she’ll have to go back to now that their arrangement is over. Then he asks her what happens after the prince rescues the princess and she…
