One Day

Frazzled: Ordinary Mishaps and Inevitable Catastrophes

The Last Straw

Double Fudge

The Willoughbys

Dream On, Amber

Me, My Dad and the End of the Rainbow

EllRay Jakes Is a Rock Star!

It’s time for eighteen-year-old James Sveck to begin his freshman year at Brown. Instead, he’s surfing the real estate listings, searching for a sanctuary—a nice farmhouse in Kansas, perhaps. Although James lives in twenty-first-century Manhattan, he’s more at home in the faraway worlds of Eric Rohmer or Anthony Trollope—or his favorite writer, the obscure and tragic Denton Welch. James’s sense of dislocation is exacerbated by his willfully self-absorbed parents, a disdainful sister, his Teutonically cryptic shrink, and an increasingly vague, D-list celebrity grandmother. Compounding matters is James’s growing infatuation with a handsome male colleague at the art gallery his mother owns, where James supposedly works at his summer job but where he actually plots his escape to the prairie.

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One Day

Sandhya S Persaud, Maryam Ahmad, Alexandra Ramotar, 2009

Frazzled: Ordinary Mishaps and Inevitable Catastrophes

Booki Vivat, 2017

The Last Straw

Jeff Kinney, 2009

Double Fudge

Judy Blume, 2002

The Willoughbys

Lois Lowry, 2008

Dream On, Amber

Emma Shevah, 2014

Me, My Dad and the End of the Rainbow

Benjamin Dean, 2021

EllRay Jakes Is a Rock Star!

Sally Warner, Jamie Harper, 2011