The story is a coming-of-age tale set during the early 1980s in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

She received praise in the young adult realm for weaving themes of body image and self-esteem into a coming-of-age tale.

It is also a coming-of-age tale; the Son seems to have made a terrible and irretrievable mistake in the process of learning about growing up.

More than ever, it is a coming-of-age tale, about the wonder that a girl can feel on the brink of womanhood (Smith).

The first novel, "Spin," a coming-of-age tale with an emphasis on flying, arrived in 1991.

The reason the story works is that it's a classic coming-of-age tale.

But as a coming-of-age tale, it gives off the pained sincerity of a young adult novel.

The echo makes sense: as in a coming-of-age tale, Orwell ventures out into the world, and is changed by it.

It is a coming-of-age tale set in the early twentieth century.

Bookended with these coming-of-age tales are four stories about midlife crises.