Young Adult Books For Movie Lovers

Told from the perspective of the sister of a closeted male to female transgendered high school student, Luna shifts between describing the pressure of keeping a brother's double life a secret and heartbreaking flashbacks of Liam/Luna as a child in moments that seem to scream he was born into the wrong body.

Like The Breakfast Club, The Hate List is about unlikely friendships. The novel follows loner Valerie as she returns to her high school after her boyfriend brings a gun to school killing some of their classmates and eventually himself. When her old friends reject her she finds herself warming to people she'd put on her hate list, as she deals with the guilt this list she used for venting was what her boyfriend used as a hit list.

Told in romantic vignettes not unlike Valentine's Day, How They Met is a plethora of adorable and tragic anecdotes of teenage romance the author,David Levithan, started writing for his friends in high school. Some examples of these tales include one about an elementary school matchmaker and another featuring a college interview turned coming out.

Like Dead Poets, Looking for Alaska strikes a great balance between comedic moments and tragic outcomes, all while incorporating wonderful literary references. Set in a coed boarding school in Alabama. Miles is obsessed with famous dying words, and has a mega-crush on resident wild child Alaska Young. Expect the same kind of tear-jerker moment and redemption you know and love in Dead Poets.

Like Minority Report, Feed takes a grim look at the future. In Feed's world children have feeds implanted in their heads during their childhood. Like a twitter thread/facebook/commercial stream hybrid this is how everyone finds out everything from what band to check to which friend is at the concert. Feed's narrator Titus learns what happens when you mess with the feed/s suggestions when he falls for a rebellious girl who had her feed implanted much later than most.