Lord of the Flies William Golding Dystopia As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. William Golding’s compelling story about…
I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons Peter S. Beagle Fantasy Dragons are common in the backwater kingdom of Bellemontagne, coming in sizes from mouse-like vermin all the way up to castle-smashing monsters. Gaius Aurelius Constantine Heliogabalus Thrax (who would much rather…
I Must Betray You Ruta Sepetys Ages 12-17 Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer, but Romanians aren’t free to dream; they are bound by rules and force. Amidst the tyrannical…
Hollow City The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children Ages 12+ Having escaped Miss Peregrine’s island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and the rest of the peculiar children are fleeing the malevolent wights following them. Miss Peregrine…
Genius The Game Leopoldo Gout Ages 12-18 In Genius: The Game, an action-packed young adult novel by Leopoldo Gout, three brilliant teens from around the world use their knowledge of hacking, engineering, espionage, and activism in a race to save…
Frankenstein Mary Shelly Ages 15+ Mary Shelley’s classic tale adapted for children with illustrations
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury Dystopia Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his…
Eleanor & Park Rainbow Rowell Coming of Age Ages 14+ Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits-smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and…
Dry Neal & Jarrod Shusterman Dystopia The drought—or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it—has been going on for a while now. Everyone’s lives have become an endless list of don’ts: don’t water the lawn, don’t fill up your pool, don’t…
Downsiders Neal Shusterman Dystopia Ages 12+ Beneath the sewer grates and manholes of the city lies a strange and secret world called the Downside. Every Downsider knows that it’s forbidden to go Topside, and most fear a collision of the…