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I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith
★★★★· Published 1948· 390 pages
Narrated by 17-year-old Cassandra, writing from the crumbling castle her eccentric, broke family calls home. One of the most charming coming-of-age novels there is.
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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.
★ 5A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Sara Crewe loses everything and holds onto her kindness anyway. I loved it fiercely as a kid, and it still gets me.
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.