The novel that became an award-winning play and a major motion picture and that has charmed generations of readers, Carson McCullers’s classic The Member of the Wedding is now available in small- format trade paperback for the first time. Here is the story of the inimitable twelve-year-old Frankie, who is utterly, hopelessly bored with life until she hears about her older brother’s wedding. Bolstered by lively conversations

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Follows an awkward, anxious, and insecure teenage girl through the final week of her eighth grade before she moves on to high school.

The story of Paul Dedalus, an anthropologist preparing to leave Tajikistan. Reflecting on his life, he has a series of flashbacks starting from his childhood in Roubaix; his mother's attacks of madness, his father's alienating depression. He remembers a student trip to the USSR, where a clandestine mission led him to offer up his own identity for a young Russian, whom he considered a phantom twin for the remainder of his life.

An American man living in Paris recalls his adolescence in New York City with his depressed widowed mother and other people that made an impression on his life.

After his Marine father is killed in Iraq, high school lacrosse player Conor Sullivan begins to act in self-destructive ways until one of his father's friends, Sgt. Major Duke Wayne, steps in and takes him to a Six Nations work camp for at-risk youth.

Nolan Byrd is not alone in his frustration with getting pushed around by the school bully, but without question, Nolan is one of Bubba's favorite targets. It's bad enough that Bubba stole and brainwashed Nolan's ex-best friend, but to make matters worse, he seems to get a special thrill from humiliating nolan in front of the girl of his dreams. After a particularly embarrassing incident, Nolan decides he's had enough and Shredderman, his alter ego,...

Depicts students at a Portland, Oregon high school before and during a tragic school shooting. Follows a young boy who takes over the wheel from his drunken dad while returning from lunch. Then follows another student who crosses paths with the first, then the other of the two boys in camouflage gear, carrying heavy bags, who arrive inside the school and begin shooting. No explaination for the shooting is given, it simply places the audience in the...

"Angelina and the silver locket": Angelina borrows her mother's precious silver locket without permission and is devastated when she loses it. "Show and tell": Angelina takes her baby sister, Polly, to 'Show and Tell Day' at school. "The proposal": Angelina doesn't believe Mr. Operatski is a worthy suitor for Miss Lilly and sets out to prove it. "Heads and tails": The new statue of Queen Seraphina is missing its head. Will Angelina and her friends...

A group of high school boys is out to get revenge on the road house/brothel that kicked them out for being too young; High schoolers get revenge on a group of religious fanatics and politicians who want to shut down their Shakespeare production.

After living her whole life in the city, 27-year-old Taeko decides to visit her relatives in the countryside. As she travels, memories of her youth resurface. And after meeting young farmer Toshio, she wonders if she's been true to the dreams of her childhood self.