Meg's father has been experimenting with time travel when he disappears in L'Engle's iconic, wonderfully imaginative sci-fi story. Meg, her brother Charles and their friend Calvin set off on a dangerous outerspace adventure to track him down. (amazon.com)

"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them," says Holden Caufield at the start of this once-banned book. (amazon.com)

Censorship and defiance are the themes in Bradbury's classic novel about a fireman whose job it is to burn books and the houses in which they are hidden. (amazon.com)

Lowry's distopian masterpiece, about a society that lives without fear, without choices, without feelings, follows 12-year-old Jonas, who becomes burdened with memories. (amazon.com)

Each of the seven books in Rowling's spellbinding series delivers mystery, magic and heart. (amazon.com)

Elegant and haunting, O’Dell’s classic YA read follows a young Indian girl left behind by her people on an island in the pacific. (amazon.com)

The March sisters captivate and inspire in Alcott's story about four sister's growing up in Civil War-era New England. (amazon.com)

"Maybe there is a beast….maybe it’s only us." Goldring’s must-read high school staple, set on a deserted island, follows the disastrous undoing of a group of British schoolboys who attempt to govern themselves. (amazon.com)

In this YA thriller, suspense writer Duncan crafts a chilling tale about a young woman who's being stalked by her jealous, long-lost sister. (amazon.com)

In this riveting mystery, 16 people are invited to the reading of Samual Westing's will. They have the chance to become millionaires--depending on how the play a dark, dangerous game. (amazon.com)

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