A young wizard discovers his magical heritage on his 11th birthday and attends a school of witchcraft and wizardry.
Harry Potter
A hobbit is recruited by a wizard and a group of dwarves to reclaim a lost kingdom and a treasure guarded by a dragon.
The Hobbit
A young girl and her family hide from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II, and she records her experiences in her diary.
The Diary of Anne Frank
A dystopian society forces young people into a televised fight to the death.
The hunger games
A young girl and her siblings discover a magical world inside a wardrobe and join forces with a lion to defeat an evil queen.
Narnia
A family moves to a secluded hotel for the winter, where the father descends into madness, endangering them all.
(Hint: A horror novel by Stephen King featuring a haunted hotel.)
The Shining
A girl falls down a rabbit hole into a bizarre and fantastical world.
Alice in Wonderland
A dystopian world where a "Big Brother" government watches everyone and controls every aspect of life.
(Hint: A classic novel by George Orwell about surveillance and totalitarianism.)
1984
A dystopian society burns books to suppress knowledge, and a fireman begins to question this way of life.
Fahrenheit 451
A lawyer in the American South defends a black man wrongly accused of a crime in a racially charged environment.
To kill a mockingbird
A little prince travels from planet to planet, learning life lessons and discovering the nature of love.
The little prince
A woman in the Roaring Twenties throws extravagant parties in hopes of seeing the woman he loves again.
(Hint: A novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald about love, wealth, and the American Dream.)
The Great Gatsby
A brilliant detective uses logic and keen observation to solve crimes in Victorian London.
Sherlock Holmes
A group of boys stranded on an uninhabited island try to govern themselves, with disastrous results.
Lord of the flies
Two young people from families who are enemies fall in love, despite their families’ hatred for each other.
Romeo and Juliet