Classic read-alikes

If you're looking for a book to read or recommend and all that's coming to mind are "classic" youth and YA books, here are some contemporary books that you might like!

If you like this classic...	Try these contemporary titles!
The Chocolate War	Bullyville, Prep
Z for Zachariah	Gone, Life as We Knew It, The Dead and the Gone
The Witch of Blackbird Pond	The Minister's Daughter, Witch Child
The Cay	Hippie Chick, Overboard
Forever	Story of a Girl, When it Happens
Homecoming	Buried
Anne of Green Gables	Hattie Big Sky, Billie Standish was Here, Dairy Queen
The Dark is Rising	The Pellinor series, the Mortal Instruments series, the Keys to the Kingdom series
A Wrinkle in Time	The Gideon trilogy, Bunker 10, London Calling, the Caretaker trilogy
Little Women	Lucky
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	The Gollywhopper Games
The Saturdays	The Penderwicks
The Narnia series	Magic or Madness, the Dark Materials trilogy
Black Beauty	Firehorse
Ballet Shoes	The Year My Sister Got Lucky
The Babysitters' Club series	The Peaches series, the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series
The Secret Garden	The Gemma Doyle series, Flora Segunda
A Little Princess	Pulling Princes, the Princess Diaries series, Finding Hattie
The Nancy Drew series	Bad Kitty, the Enola Holmes series, Kiss Me Kill Me, Kisses and Lies
Pride and Prejudice	The Luxe series, Cassandra's Sister
Watership Down	The Redwall series
Sounder	Laika
Hatchet	The Killing Sea, Peak, The Winter Road
A Day No Pigs Would Die	Out of the Dust
The Hobbit	The Farsala trilogy, The Sea of Trolls, the Ranger's Apprentice series

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