Super-sized, twelve-year-old Liam makes a giant leap for boy-kind by competing with a group of adults for the chance to go into space. When Commander Salamander and his band of pirates capture the 'Star Warts' spaceship, Commander Toad is forced to hop the plank.Ĭosmic / Frank Cottrell Boyce.

Willy Wonka’s mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way.Ĭommander Toad and the space pirates / by Jane Yolen. Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.Ĭharlie and The Chocolate Factory / Roald Dahl. In 2015, when England becomes the first nation to introduce carbon dioxide rationing in a drastic bid to combat climate change, sixteen-year-old Laura documents the first year of rationing as her family spirals out of control.Ĭatching fire / Suzanne Collins. Eighteen-year-old Bitterblue, queen of Monsea, realizes her heavy responsibility and the futility of relying on advisors who surround her with lies as she tries to help her people to heal from the thirty-five-year spell cast by her father, a violent psychopath with mind-altering abilities. After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune.īitterblue / Kristin Cashore. A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters.īad Beginning / Lemony Snicket. In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.Īlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll. Teenaged Amy, a cryogenically frozen passenger on the spaceship Godspeed, wakes up to discover that someone may have tried to murder her.

The Returning by Christine Hinwood