Read these if you like Coming-of-age Stories

Listing 31 stories.

A young boy finds a clearing while exploring the wilderness and meditatively observes the nature around him.

The child of two psychiatrists grows up in a social bubble consisting of her parents' colleagues and their children. She forms a special bond with one of the colleagues in particular, an asexual male psychologist who functions as an aunt.

A young boy burns with childish attraction for his mother's beautiful friend, but finds that a single mistake could ruin everything he imagined between them.

With a local man on trial for the murder of his family and a history of tragedy in the town, a group of neighborhood kids contemplate death.

A young boy comes of age in front of a television screen playing monster movies in 1970s America.

A Navy SEAL in Afghanistan asks the Virgin Mary for a miracle out on the battlefield.

A boy and his friends swim in a river near their small hometown. After, the boy watches as his older brother splits off from the group to chat with a girl, and leaves his boyhood behind.

When a young boy visits the family farm on the prairie, he dreams that he is becoming a man, but a fierce storm and an untimely lightning strike humble and frighten him.

Set in a futuristic technology-driven junior high school, a young boy must partner with a classmate and complete a project with no internet.

In 1920s Boston, two lower-class boys, one Jewish and one Catholic, work together at a corner store. Despite their religious differences and difficult upbringings, they form an unbreakable bond.