In genre studies, a coming-of-age story is a genre of literature, theatre, film, and video game that focuses on the growth of a protagonist from childhood...

Coming-of-age stories focus on the growth of a protagonist from childhood to adulthood, although "coming of age" is a genre for a variety of media, including...

Coming of age ceremonies Coming of age is a young person's transition from being a child to being an adult. The specific age at which this transition takes...

focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from childhood to adulthood (coming of age), in which character change is important. The...

up coming of age in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Coming of age is a young person's formal transition from adolescence to adulthood. Coming of Age may...

"Coming of Age in Karhide" is a science fiction short story by Ursula K. Le Guin, first published in 1995. The story is set on the fictional planet of...

Bildungsroman or coming-of-age story, focused on a young girl named Nell, set in a future world in which nanotechnology affects all aspects of life. The novel...

to be free of the creature. The book has often been described as a bildungsroman, or coming-of-age story, as it explores Ged's process of learning to...

Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation is a 1928 book by American anthropologist Margaret Mead based...

(Korean: 아담이 눈뜰 때) is a Korean novel written by Jang Jung-il. It is a coming-of-age story of a 19-year-old boy who has taken a gap year to retake the yearly...

befitting end to the coming-of-age story". A critic from OTTplay wrote that "Ustaad is a coming-of-age story depicting the transition of a directionless teenager...

Disney XD series Kickin' It as Jerry Martinez and the 2020 American coming-of-age story Blast Beat as Carly Andres. In 2018, his debut studio album ¿Téo...

Snack Shack is a 2024 American coming-of-age comedy film written and directed by Adam Carter Rehmeier. Set in the summer of 1991, it stars Conor Sherry and...

in April 2012. In 2016, he published his first novel, Jane Two, a coming-of-age story drawing inspiration from his own childhood and early experiences...

A Scatter of Light is a young adult coming-of-age story written by Malinda Lo and published on October 4, 2022, by Dutton Books for Young Readers. A standalone...

autobiographical coming-of-age story Ophelia, was published by Mondadori Electa. Pagani is from Piattoni, a town in the province of Ascoli Piceno, Marche...

first-person narrator is Cassandra Mortmain, who tells the story through her journal. It is a coming-of-age story in which Cassandra becomes a young woman and experiences...

Story of the Buried Life is a 1929 novel by Thomas Wolfe. It is Wolfe's first novel, and is considered a highly autobiographical American coming-of-age...

spin-offs after the events of the film Return of the Jedi (1983). Skeleton Crew tells a coming-of-age story about four children who make a discovery on...

exploring the life of fictional female chess prodigy Beth Harmon. A bildungsroman, or coming-of-age story, it covers themes of adoption, feminism, chess...

light-hearted coming-of-age story that every middle class person especially the college going kids would relate to." Subhash K. Jha of Firstpost praised...

the traditional coming-of-age story arc." Sasha Li is a recent fashion grad living in L.A. who is unable to find work and lives off of a lucrative one...

adapted into the 1986 film Stand by Me. The story takes place during the summer of 1960 in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine. After a boy disappears...

Dinner in America is a 2020 American coming of age black comedy film written, directed, and edited by Adam Carter Rehmeier. It stars Kyle Gallner, Emily...

Coming of Age in Mississippi is a 1968 memoir by Anne Moody about growing up in rural Mississippi in the mid-20th century as an African-American woman...

friend"). The series has been characterized as a bildungsroman, or coming-of-age story. In an interview in Harper's Magazine, Elena Ferrante has stated that...

Guardado, Natalie (ed.). "'IT' star Wyatt Oleff says the movie is "a coming of age story"". PulseSpikes. World Press Group, Inc. Retrieved September 12, 2019...

The Secret Life of Bees is a novel by the American author Sue Monk Kidd. Set in 1964, it is a coming-of-age story about loss, betrayal, and the interracial...

It tells the coming-of-age story of Calogero Anello, a young New Yorker torn between the temptations of organized crime and the values of his hardworking...

in Public School and the 2018 Netflix films Alex Strangelove, a coming-of-age story, and The Package, a raunchy comedy. Doheny was born and raised in...