Growing up

  • Barron's Merlin series
  • Carmody’ Obernewtyn Chronicles
  • Cleary's Ramona books
  • Ender's Game / Ender's Shadow series (but they become adults quickly
  • Garth Nix's Sabriel/Lirael/Abhorsen
  • Haddix's series, including Among the Hidden and Among the Betrayed, etc.
  • Hurwitz's Russell
  • L'Engle's whole main cast of characters – the growing up is not a clear-cut sequential thing but all those kids age.
  • Lewis’ The children in the Narnia Series
  • Lovelace's Betsy-Tacy
  • Marsden's Tomorrow when the War Began series
  • Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, etc.
  • Montgomery's Anne Shirley
  • Rowling's Harry Potter
  • Rowlings’ Harry Potter
  • Tamora Pierce's several series: Lioness Rampant; The Immortals; Circle of Magic/Circle Opens
  • The Prydan Chronicles
  • Townsend's Adrian Mole (now in his 30's with two kids!)
  • Voigt's Tillerman
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