Tuck Everlasting
Natalie Babbitt · Books & reports
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Walk Two Moons
Sharon Creech · Books & reports
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Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro · Books & reports
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Candide
Voltaire · Books & reports
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte · Books & reports
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Lord of the Flies
William Golding · Books & reports
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Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury · Books & reports
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The Giver
Lois Lowry · Books & reports
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky · Books & reports
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston · Books & reports
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The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton · Books & reports
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The Book Thief
Markus Zusak · Books & reports
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Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer · Books & reports
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky · Books & reports
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A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle · Books & reports
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Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · Books & reports
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Holes
Louis Sachar · Books & reports
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The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne · Books & reports
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville · Books & reports
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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens · Books & reports
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The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger · Books & reports
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut · Books & reports
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Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes · Books & reports
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Night
Elie Wiesel · Books & reports
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Life of Pi
Yann Martel · Books & reports
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East of Eden
John Steinbeck · Books & reports
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson · Books & reports
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · Books & reports
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Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad · Books & reports
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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck · Books & reports
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