While all these books have differing storylines and appear to be completely unrelated to one another, there is a common theme that intertwines them. The idea of coming of age describes how characters change and mature during a story; it is about characters not only growing up in terms of age, but also about characters growing forward and progressing as a person. Every one of these novels contains characters developing both physically and mentally. Often times, this theme involves someone becoming mature beyond their years due to some sort of struggle or
