The protagonist is overlooked, disadvantaged, or underestimated — and proves everyone wrong.
Tara Westover grew up in the mountains of Idaho, never attending school, shaped by a survivalist father and a mother who followed. At seventeen she entered a classroom for the first time — and couldn'…
Ender Wiggin is recruited into a brutal military academy in space, where children are trained to fight an alien invasion. The games are never just games — and the stakes are higher than Ender knows.
A memoir of a childhood spent in the desert and in poverty with brilliant, alcoholic, charismatic parents who believed they were giving their children freedom — and what it cost.
In the ruins of North America, Katniss Everdeen volunteers to fight to the death in a televised spectacle — and becomes the spark of a rebellion.
In a Roman-inspired empire, a Scholar girl goes undercover in a brutal military academy while a young soldier questions the empire he serves — and their fates become impossibly entangled.
A street thief with an impossible power joins a band of rebels plotting to overthrow an immortal god-emperor — in a world where ash falls from the sky and the good guys lost a thousand years ago.
In a medieval world on the edge of collapse, a young knight's apprentice must complete the final mission of a dying order — a quest that will test everything they know about loyalty, courage, and sacr…
Fourteen-year-old Ponyboy Curtis navigates the violent divide between the working-class Greasers and the wealthy Socs, discovering that the world is more complex — and more cruel — than any label can …
On the shattered plains of Roshar, a war has been fought for years over the body of a slain king. Three people — a surgeon-turned-soldier, a highprince's ward, and a thief — are pulled toward a secret…
Francie Nolan grows up in the tenements of early-twentieth-century Brooklyn, watching her dreamer father and iron-willed mother navigate poverty — and discovering that education is the only ladder out…
After a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness, thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson must survive alone with nothing but a hatchet and his own resourcefulness.