Emily Bazelon

The Essential Bildungsromans

<p>Growing up is hard to do. “The dim closet, the high drawers, like games she wasn’t big enough to play,” Henry James once wrote. The hazards today include sexting and cyber-bullying, as Emily Bazelon, senior editor at Slate and the author of the new book <i><a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Sticks-Stones-Defeating-Rediscovering-Character/dp/0812992806/">Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy</a></i>, knows all too well. She picks her favorite coming-of-age stories.</p>