Author: Jenny Yount

Classic Fiction Books
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
By: Stephen Chbosky………………..F CHBOSKY
To Kill a Mockingbird
By: Harper Lee…………………………………...…..F LEE
The Catcher in the Rye
By: J.D. Salinger………………………..F SALINGER
Lord of the Flies
By: William Golding……………..…….F GOLDING
Pride and Prejudice
By: Jane Austen…………………….……….F AUSTEN

Classic Junior Books
Anne of Green Gables
By: L.M. Montgomery...………...JF MONTGOMERY
Little Women
By: Louisa May Alcott………………………...JF ALCOTT
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
By: Mark Twain…………………..…………………...JF TWAIN
The Secret Garden
By: Frances Hodgson Burnett…….JF BURNETT
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
By: C.S. Lewis………………………….……………….JF LEWIS
Tuck Everlasting
By: Natalie Babbitt………………..…………...JF BABBITT
Alice in Wonderland
By: Lewis Carroll…………………………...JF CARROLL
Hatchet
(Brian's Saga #1)
By: Gary Paulsen…………………………...JF PAULSEN
Holes
By: Louis Sachar………………………...……..JF SACHAR

Young Adult The Classic's
Book List

The Outsiders
By: S.E. Hinton…………………………………………….YA HINTON
The Outsiders is about two weeks in the life of a 14-year-old boy. The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. According to Ponyboy, there are two kinds of people in the world: Greasers and Socs. A soc (short for "social") has money, can get away with just about anything, and has an attitude longer than a limousine. A greaser, on the other hand, always lives on the outside and needs to watch his back. Ponyboy is a greaser, and he's always been proud of it, even willing to rumble against a gang of socs for the sake of his fellow greasers--until one terrible night when his friend Johnny kills a soc. The murder gets under Ponyboy's skin, causing his bifurcated world to crumble and teaching him that pain feels the same whether a soc or a greaser.
A Separate Peace
By: John Knowles………………………………...YA KNOWLES
An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, “A Separate Peace” is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to the second world war. Set at a boys boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, “A Separate Peace” is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.

The Book Thief
By: Markus Zusak……………………………….………...YA ZUSAK
It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still. By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, left behind there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordion-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, and wherever there are books to be found. But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up and closed down. A Wrinkle in Time
By: Madeleine L'Engle…………………………..…..YA L’ENGLE
It was a dark and stormy night. Out of this wild night, a strange visitor comes to the Murry house and beckons Meg, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe on a most dangerous and extraordinary adventure—one that will threaten their lives and our universe.
The Giver
By: Lois Lowry…………………………………..…………..YA LOWRY
Twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind this fragile community.

Speak
By: Laurie Halse Anderson………….…YA ANDERSON
The first ten lies they tell you in high school. "Speak up for yourself—we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Only her art class offers any solace, and it is through her work on an art project that she is finally able to face what really happened at that terrible party: she was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her. Her healing process has just begun when she has another violent encounter with him. But this time Melinda fights back, refuses to be silent, and thereby achieves a measure of vindication.
The Chocolate War
By: Robert Cormier…………………………….YA CORMIER
Jerry Renault ponders the question on the poster in his locker: Do I dare disturb the universe? Refusing to sell chocolates in the annual Trinity school fund-raiser may not seem like a radical thing to do. But when Jerry challenges a secret school society called The Vigils, his defiant act turns into an all-out war. Now the only question is: Who will survive? First published in 1974, Robert Cormier's groundbreaking novel, an unflinching portrait of corruption and cruelty, has become a modern classic.