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  • Growing Up

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  • Growing Up in Coal Country

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  • The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia

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    The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia is a memoir by Esther Hautzig about her family's exile in Siberia during the Second World War. After the Soviets invaded their homeland of Poland, Esther's wealthy Jewish family was sent to Siberia. In contrast to their previous privilege, here they face many hardships. Esther's parents work in a gypsum mine, and she is sent to work in the fields, all along facing hunger and cold winters. The memoir is a bildungsroman told through a historical backdrop.

  • A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana

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    A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana is a 2001 memoir by Haven Kimmel. The book recalls Haven's ("Zippy's") childhood in a small Indiana town and the people she lived with. Her mother is a bookworm, her father a gambler, her intense older brother and her unenthused sister. Zippy has adventures with her friends and neighbors, often revolving around animals: she saves a pig, raises a chicken and rescues her cat.

  • Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table

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  • Peekay Growing Up in The Power of One

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    What does a poor boy do upon entering a wealthy school If hes Peekay he befriends Morrie In the book Power of One by Bryce Courtenay Peekay a young English boy living in South Africa around the WWII era is sent off to his second boarding school with nothingno friends no money only the knowledge he obtained from his adult friends back home and his boxing skills Peekay has been an outsider since he went to his last boarding school at the age of five where he was surrounded by Afrikaner children w

  • Fear of Growing up in The Catcher in the Rye

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    The most powerful theme in this book has got to be the fear of growing up Holden portrays this in several instances in the book For example Holden is almost constantly calling several things phony These phony things are usually things he relates to adulthood Not only does Holden fear adulthood himself but he also wants to save others from becoming adults As he explains about his dream job we learn that Holdens only place in life is to catch people who fall from the rye A global issue is people

  • The Black Cat

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    The story is told by the murderer himself the first person narrator speaking on the eve of his execution for the crime of killing his wife He begins his account in the remote past of his own childhood The narrator says that he was an extremely sensitive boy so passive that his schoolmates teased him He explains that as a child he always had a passion for animals Since he had this passion for animals his parents allowed him to have a great variety of pets growing up So early in his marriage he w

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