Call it egotistical or narcissist, but it’s what we all look for in books – the right stories that help us make sense of the world that we live in every day. Here the author of Where Things Come Back and Noggin lists his favourite absolutely genius, life-changing coming of age books for teens
I was a terrible reader as a kid. I mean terrible. Super slow and very unfocused. It took me forever to read a book and I remember being well into high school and still needing my mom to sit down and read aloud to me so I could pass my English tests and such.
But then I found the kind of books that were for me – not high fantasy or science fiction like I’d been trying (and failing) to become obsessed with. No, I wanted realistic coming of age stories, usually about kids who couldn’t figure out what the hell to do with themselves, pretty much just like me.
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