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Ce roman est l'histoire de Nadia, enfant puis adolescente, qui apprend à lire et à découvrir le monde. Deux univers se font face : celui de l'école et celui de la maison, presque étanches. Qu'est-ce que la géographie, avec ses caps et ses péninsules, ses systèmes climatiques et ses sommets culminants, face à la géographie intime de chaque élève ? Qu'est-ce que l'Histoire, avec ses dates et ses héros, face à l'histoire ordinaire de Nadia ? Nadia qui vit dans une Zone à Urbaniser en Priorité au lendemain de la guerre d'Algérie ?

A New York Times Notable Book. "A rich, seductive meld of characters real and fictive, of history and fancy." -New York Times Book Review.

A funny and incisive Korean family coming-of-age novel in stories about a 12-year-old boy who moves with his mother and sister from Korea to work at their father's Asian gift shop in a New Jersey strip mall—and the growing pains that ensue. You're twelve years old. A month has passed since your Korean Air flight landed at lovely Newark Airport. Your fifteen-year-old sister is miserable. Your mother isn't exactly happy, either.

The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (*The New Yorker*) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature—and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of books.

A moving novel entwining the many faces of motherly love. Jillian Connors has the perfect daughter: loving and smart, she's an Olympic hopeful with a bright future. But when Gabby becomes pregnant, Jillian fears that future is lost. Worse, she must confront her own secret past and hope the decisions she's made don't drown their whole family. Gabby can't believe God let this happen to her. She knew the risks, but who thinks about that when they're in love?

I try to see him among a migrating flock—he will take the loneliness of my room on his long journey; each whistling note he makes will be a little of my sadness falling over the ocean, to be swallowed in the clash of waves and the commotion of many birds flying. “Tell me the truth,” demands fifteen-year-old Megumi Shimizu as her mother hurriedly packs. But her mother refuses to admit that she is leaving forever—leaving her husband to his mistress, her home to her silent, resentful mother-in-law, her daughter to survive, if she can.

Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Nuruddin Farah is one of Africa's most respected contemporary writers. Maps is the first novel in his acclaimed Blood in the Sun trilogy, set in his native land. Askar lost his father in the bloody war between Ethiopia and Somalia, and his mother died giving birth to him. Taken in by Misra, a kindhearted woman, he grows up in a small village. But as an adolescent, a true child of his times, he begins to feel suffocated there and goes to live with his cosmopolitan aunt and uncle in the capital.

A powerful coming-of-age novel about a seventeen-year-old girl who joins a radical environmental movement in the Pacific Northwest. Ever since her older brother Andy died, Alison’s life has been just as dark as her home in Tacoma, Washington. Her mom is in perpetual mourning, her father ran out on them, and after hanging out with Andy’s hard-partying friends for a year, Alison’s reputation is trashed.

In 1973, fifteen-year-old Qʔóqʔéskʔiʔ, or "Squito" Bob, is a mixed-blood Nleʔkepmx boy trying to find his place in a small, mostly Native town. His closest friends are three Nleʔkepmx boys and a white kid, an obnoxious runt who thinks himself superior to his friends. Accepted as neither Native nor white, Squito often feels like the stray dog of the group and envisions a short, disastrous life for himself. Home Waltz follows the boys over thirty-six hours on what should be one of the best weekends of their lives.

Imbued with passion, creativity, and insight, Brandon Reid's debut novel is a wonderfully creative coming-of-age story exploring indigeneity, masculinity, and cultural tradition. Twelve-year-old Derik Mormin travels with his father and a family friend to Bella Bella for his grandfather's funeral.