BVBook Verdict

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Books like The box of delights, or When the wolves were running

Loved The box of delights, or When the wolves were running by John Masefield? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from young adult, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

10 books · ranked

  1. 1

    The Hunger Games

    Suzanne Collins · 2008 · Young Adult

    A girl volunteers for a televised fight to the death to save her sister; a propulsive, sharp dystopian thriller.

  2. 2

    The Fault in Our Stars

    John Green · 2012 · Young Adult

    Two teenagers with cancer fall in love; funny and heartbreaking without ever being saccharine.

  3. 3

    The Hate U Give

    Angie Thomas · 2017 · Young Adult

    A teenager witnesses a police shooting and finds her voice; urgent, powerful and humane.

  4. 4

    The Red Pony

    John Steinbeck · 1933 · Young Adult

    Tells story of a young boy and his life on his father's ranch. Ownership of a red pony teaches ten-year-old Jody about life and death.

  5. 5

    The Yearling

    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings · 1938 · Young Adult

    Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag after a fatal encounter with his mother and makes it a part of his family and his best friend. But life in the Florida backwoods is harsh, and so, as h

  6. 6

    I Capture the Castle

    Dodie Smith · 1948 · Young Adult

    Cassandra, the 17-year-old narrator, lives an eccentric existence in a crumbling castle in the English countryside in the 1930s. Her father is a former bestselling novelist now suffering from a chroni

  7. 7

    Novels (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Mark Twain · 1922 · Young Adult

    THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER Take a lighthearted, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, seen through the eyes of a very special boy named Tom Sawyer. It is a dreamlike summertime world of hooky and advent

  8. 8

    The Bell Jar

    Sylvia Plath · 1948 · Young Adult

    The Bell Jar is the only novel written by American poet Sylvia Plath. It is an intensely realistic and emotional record of a successful and talented young woman's descent into madness.

  9. 9

    Alanna

    Tamora Pierce · 1954 · Young Adult

    "From now on, I'm Alan of Trebond, the younger twin. I'll be a knight. And so yound Alanna of Trebond begins the journey to knighthood. Though a girl, Alanna has always craved the adventure and daring

  10. 10

    The Ugly American

    William J. Lederer · 1958 · Young Adult

    This book is a fictionally written depiction of America^s failed foreign policy, tactics and blunders in a country depicted as an area similar to Viet Nam. The journalist author was entrenched in the

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