“I was born with a reading list I will never finish.” —Maud Casey
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The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak
This book is cleverly narrated during Nazi Germany and quite poetically tells the story of a young girl named Liesel who steals banned books and houses a Jewish man with the help of her foster family.
—Submitted by Lisa Peterson, Facebook
Picador, Australia; Knopf, US
Looking for Alaska by John Green
This is by the same author as The Fault in Our Stars, and deals with the universal topic of unrequited love when Miles "Pudge" Halter falls in love with the mysterious and elusive Alaska Young at his boarding school.
—Submitted by annakopsky
Dutton Juvenile
