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YA Lit
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100

 A story about an age-old vendetta between two powerful families erupts into bloodshed and two star-crossed lovers.

What is Romeo & Juliet?

100

A group of teens are mysteriously teleported into a giant, stone maze. Not only has their memory been cleared, but they also have no indication as to why they have ended up in this position and what means they must take to escape.

What is Maze Runner?

100

An 11-year-old boy who discovers he is the son of famous wizards and will attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

What is Harry Potter?

100

Set in a post-apocalyptic nation where children are forced to compete in a televised fight to the death. The story follows the struggle of a young girl to survive in a harsh and cruel world.

What is The Hunger Games?

100

A Swiss student of natural science who creates an artificial man from pieces of corpses and brings his creature to life. Though it initially seeks affection, the monster inspires loathing in everyone who meets it.

What is Frankenstein?

200

The story of the Joad family who travels to California from Oklahoma because landlords evicted tenant farmers due to the drought and dust storms. On the way, however, they stop at their first campground only to hear that California conditions are no better than Oklahoma's.

What is Grapes of Wrath?

200

A story about a society with citizens who have no memories of its past, except for the individual known as the Receiver of Memory. Citizens are not given freedom or choice. Without choice, the elders of society believe they can prevent negative elements, such as war and poverty.

What is The Giver?

200

A young girl and a 103 year old guy fall in love, but their love story is complicated by the fact that he is a vampire and she's a human.

What is Twilight?

200

An American astronaut, Mark Watney, as he becomes stranded alone on Mars in 2035 and must improvise in order to survive.

What is The Martian?

200

A promise made twenty-eight years ago calls seven adults to reunite in Derry, Maine, where as teenagers they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city's children.

What is IT?

300

The story of a teenage boy, Holden Caulfield who has been expelled from his prep school and is wandering through New York City over a few days, struggling to come to terms with the complexities of growing up and the seeming phoniness of the adult world

What is Catcher in the Rye?

300

A story set in New England in the near future, posits a Christian fundamentalist theocratic regime in the former United States that arose as a response to a fertility crisis.

What is The Handmaid's Tale?

300

On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

What is Divergent?

300

The novel takes place in Jackson, Mississippi in 1962, during the time of Jim Crow segregation. This book concerns two Black maids working in white households who build a relationship with a young woman and come to explore the racial divisions of the time.

What is The Help?

300

This story follows a man's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so he may find new blood and spread undead curse, and the battle between him and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.

What is Dracula?

400

John Steinbeck's recreation of the biblical Cain and Abel story as told through two generations of brothers who betray one another. 

What is East of Eden?

400

The story of Guy Montag and his transformation from a book-burning fireman to a book-reading rebel. Montag lives in an oppressive society that attempts to eliminate all sources of complexity, contradiction, and confusion to ensure uncomplicated happiness for all its citizens.

What is Fahrenheit 451?

400

The story of a 16-year-old girl who is diagnosed with cancer. She joins a support group where she meets a young man, and there is a rollercoaster of emotions throughout this novel as the relationship between them develops.

What is The Fault in Our Stars?

400

Set on the desert planet Arrakis, this is the story of a boy who is heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the “spice” melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness.

What is Dune?

400

A family moves cross-country to be the care takers of The Overlook. The Overlook is a hotel in the Colorado Mountains which needs to be tended to when it is closed during the winter months. However, the hotel has an evil past and presence. The evil of the hotel destroys the family.

What is The Shining?

500

A mysterious Army Air Forces regulation which asserts that a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions but that if he makes the necessary formal request to be relieved of such missions, the very act of making the request proves that he is sane and therefore cannot be relieved of his duties.

What is Catch-22?

500

The totalitarian regime of Oceania is able to manipulate their citizens into believing anything, which allows them as much power as they could possibly want.

What is 1984?

500

Orphaned and expendable, Alina Starkov is a soldier who knows she may not survive her first trek across the Shadow Fold―a swath of unnatural darkness crawling with monsters. But when her regiment is attacked, Alina unleashes dormant magic not even she knew she possessed.

What is Shadow and Bone?

500

This book explores the biographies of three African-American women who worked as computers to solve problems for engineers and others at NASA. For the first years of their careers, the workplace was segregated and women were kept in the background as human computers.

What is Hidden Figures?

500

The story revolves around schoolteacher Ichabod Crane who competes against Brom Bones, a local prankster farmer, for the hand of Katrina Van Tassel.

What is The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?