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A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
Madeleine L'Engle
★★★★· Published 1962· 218 pages
Meg travels across the universe to rescue her father, armed with love and stubbornness. A childhood favorite that holds up.
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The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)
Megan Whalen Turner
A quest fantasy narrated by a cocky young thief, and then that ending. I did not see it coming.

The Giver (Giver, #1)
Lois Lowry
The book that made a lot of us fall for dystopias. A boy discovers what his tidy, colorless world quietly traded away, and it stuck with me for years.
★ 5Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1)
Tamora Pierce
Alanna disguises herself as a boy to train as a knight. I devoured this whole series growing up.