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Books like The Magic Finger
Loved The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from young adult, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
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The Hunger Games
A girl volunteers for a televised fight to the death to save her sister; a propulsive, sharp dystopian thriller.
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The Fault in Our Stars
Two teenagers with cancer fall in love; funny and heartbreaking without ever being saccharine.
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3
The Hate U Give
A teenager witnesses a police shooting and finds her voice; urgent, powerful and humane.
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Flowers for Algernon
Until he was thirty-two, Charlie Gordon --gentle, amiable, oddly engaging-- had lived in a kind of mental twilight. He knew knowledge was important and had learned to read and write after a fashion, b
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The Outsiders
Class warfare among teenagers, written by a teenager; the book that arguably invented modern YA.
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The White Mountains (The Tripods #1)
Young Will Parker and his companions make a perilous journey toward an outpost of freedom where they hope to escape from the ruling Tripods, who capture mature human beings and make them docile, obedi
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Where the Red Fern Grows
Where the Red Fern Grows is a 1961 children's novel by Wilson Rawls about a boy who buys two hunting dogs. ---------- Also contained in: Prentice Hall Literature: Bronze
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A Bear Called Paddington
Mr. and Mrs. Brown first met Paddington, a most endearing bear from Darkest Peru on a railway platform in London. A sign hanging around his neck said, "Please look after this bear. Thank you" So that
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. is a 1970 novel by Judy Blume, typically categorized as a young adult book. It follows a sixth-grade girl who has grown up without a religious affiliation, due to
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Go Ask Alice
A teen plunges into a downward spiral of addiction in this classic cautionary tale. January 24th After you’ve had it, there isn't even life without drugs… It started when she was served a soft drink l