The Hunger Games is an addictive tale that steals you away into a dangerous country. Katniss Everdeen lives in a dark world woven with injustice. She fights to survive every day. Her family staves off starvation while the president and others in the Capitol lounge around with an abundance of food. Yearly these very men and women raised in laziness enjoy the Hunger Games, an invention of the Capital to keep the poor dying families in check.
The story Restart follows Chase Ambrose as he navigates his way through 7th grade. The only thing is that Chase can’t remember anything from his past after he fell off his roof. Chase has to figure out his past and who he used to be. Will he choose his past or make a new version of himself? This book is great because you get to hear all of the main characters' points of views in different chapters. My favorite characters are Joel and Shoshanna. I would recommend this book for late elementary and middle schoolers.
In Fable by Adrienne Young, Fable is a 17-year-old girl who was left by father on Jeval, an island full of thieves. Fable spent four years surviving and saved money for passage off of Jeval to work for her father as he promised her a job. She manages to escape on a ship called the Marigold, which is run by captain West and his shipmates. They all venture across The Narrows and face many challenges along the way.
The House on Mango Street depicts the life of a girl, Esperanza. It shows her early life, all the way up to adulthood. Esperanza struggles with living a poor life often faced by immigrants, unable to live in a house of her own. She learns that life isn’t fair, and how difficult it is to grow up. Despite all this, she still dreams of owning her own house one day, on a hill, with a big yard. Esperanza’s story is one of my favorites.
Holden Caulfield, a distraught and confused teen gets expelled from his school and must learn to navigate the world around him. Inside, Holden is alone and scared, believing that everyone is a “phony”. Holden journeys around New York to try and make meaningful connections with someone but fails over and over.
The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby is a spin-off featuring George and Harold’s own comic creation, Super Diaper Baby. In this book, Super Diaper Baby battles the evil Deputy Dangerous, who has turned into a giant piece of poop.
In Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot, the twelfth book in the series, George and Harold face their smelliest villain yet. Sir Stinks-A-Lot, a gym teacher turned evil, devises a plan to mind-control students into becoming well-behaved robots, and only Captain Underpants can stop him.
In the eleventh book, Captain Underpants and the Tyrannical Retaliation of the Turbo Toilet 2000, one of George and Harold’s oldest foes, the Turbo Toilet 2000, makes a comeback. After being accidentally reanimated, the Turbo Toilet 2000 seeks revenge, leading to a chaotic battle between it and Captain Underpants.
The tenth book, Captain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers, continues the time-traveling chaos. After Tippy Tinkletrousers’ latest scheme, George and Harold find themselves traveling through time, from the Ice Age to the dinosaur era, as they try to stop him from changing history.
Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers is the ninth book in Dav Pilkey’s series, bringing back the fan-favorite villain, Tippy Tinkletrousers. This time, Tippy’s time-traveling antics lead to an epic adventure where George and Harold face school bullies and even go back in time to kindergarten.
