Youth Reads: Romeo and Juliet
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
“Romeo and Juliet,” perhaps the best-loved and most-performed of Shakespeare’s oeuvre—and certainly one of the most frequently taught in schools—has..Read more
Katrina King
Youth Reads: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
BY MARK TWAIN
Mark Twain, born Samuel Longhorne Clemens in 1835, was unquestionably one of the finest satirists and authors that America has..Read more
Youth Reads: Lord of the Flies
BY WILLIAM GOLDING
“Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and a divided household falls. And if Satan also is divided against..Read more
Youth Reads: The Catcher in the Rye
BY J. D. SALINGER
Holden Caulfield is a name that has inspired movies, books, songs, job losses, and even murders. It is not the name of..Read more
Youth Reads: The Outsiders
BY S.E. HINTON
Our teenage years are formative ones for all of us, but rarely is that so spectacularly obvious as in the..Read more
Youth Reads: Heart of Darkness
BY JOSEPH CONRAD
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-born sailor who became a British citizen in 1886 at the age of 29. In 1890..Read more
Youth Reads: Rebecca
BY DAPHNE DU MAURIER
“What’s in a name?” William Shakespeare famously queried—a pertinent question when dealing with a book bearing a single name as..Read more
Youth Reads: The Crucible
BY ARTHUR MILLER
Drama can be a powerful tool in the right hands. For proof of this, one need look no further than..Read more
Youth Reads: To Kill a Mockingbird
BY HARPER LEE
“To Kill a Mockingbird” is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, first published in 1960. It is the only novel written by..Read more
Youth Reads: The Scarlet Letter
BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Few stories have the distinction of titles so memorable and descriptive that they enter the vernacular as everyday expressions. Nathaniel..Read more
