Coming of Age books--Honors English 12

A cool image and quotation...it came from here.

On Friday, we checked out the movie trailer for the film The Perks of Being a Wallflower. It's based on Stephen Chbosky's novel of the same name, and it's a coming-of-age story about a freshman who's trying to find his way in the world and is befriended by a couple of seniors at his school.

As we discussed in class, there are MANY books and movies that fit the definition of a coming-of-age story, or a bildungsroman (a novel about coming-of-age), partly because this genre is so relevant to so many of us and our own experiences.

In Honors English 12, in addition to our in-class novels and texts ("The Body," Catcher in the Rye, Hamlet, Pride and Prejudice and Frankenstein), students will read an independent book in class and outside of class. Students should choose a book that has a coming-of-age story as its basis...it may be a novel or a memoir. We'll talk in class about some choices; additionally, please post recommendations below! One cool website that has some suggestions is this one.