The curious incident of the dog in the night time, Mark Haddon
--> An autistic, 15 year old boy investigates the murder of his neighbour's dog which turns his world upside down.
Extremely loud and incredibly close, Jonathan Safran Foer
--> A 9 year old boy, whose father used to design treasure hunts for him, finds a key in a vase and starts off on a quest to find what lock it fits. His father died two years before the event, in the 9/11 attacks and this might be the last quest he designed for his son.
To kill a mocking bird, Harper Lee
--> A black man, Tom Robinson, is accused of raping a young white woman. The book tells the story of Jem and Scout, the children of the man who is appointed as Tom's lawyer, and all the trouble they go to when the whole town turns on them for being "a nigger-lover".
The hunger games, Suzanne Collins
--> Set in a future where there is only one continent, with one government and 12 districts. Every district has to send one boy and one girl off to the "hunger games", a "game" in which they have to fight each other in order to survive.
The life of Pi, Yann Martel
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
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Feel free to suggest your own favourites in the comments!
