Tuck Everlasting

Tuck Everlasting
By Natalie Babbitt

I read this book years and years ago, and rereading it was like visiting an old friend!
This story is sort of a meditation on life and death, and poses the question: what would happen if you could live forever? What if you could choose to do that? And what if you couldn't choose, but it happened anyway?
A little girl named Winnie falls in love with a peculiar family who "kidnap" her, and she is forever changed by the strange story they tell her about a magical spring, and the events that follow the kidnapping.

Every Soul a Star
By Wendy Mass

Since I just saw an annular solar eclipse over the weekend in northern California, I was particularly thrilled by this novel! It also recently won the California Young Reader Medal.
Told in alternating chapters by three 13-year-old characters--Ally, Bree, and Jack--this is the story of a total solar eclipse and the people brought together by this rare and powerful astronomical event.
The three teenagers are strangers whose lives intersect in an unusual way in the middle of the woods one summer, and each of them experiences changes which will shape them forever.

The Maze Runner

The Maze Runner
By James Dashner

Oh man, this is definitely a page-turner. It seriously kept me up at night.
For those who love The Hunger Games, Dashner's dystopian world will probably interest you...
This story is about a 16-year-old boy, Thomas, who finds himself trapped inside a giant maze along with a hundred other teenage boys. They have all had their memories wiped out, and they spend their days trying to survive--and find a way out. There are huge half-mechanical, half-insect monsters hunting them down, spying creatures combing the landscape, and the maze walls shift each evening...this is a world no one would want to find themselves in, especially at night. And it appears to be a giant puzzle with no solution. Enter Thomas, who seems to know something no one else knows...