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对于有一定英文基础的学习者，读什么效果好？YA读物（Young-Adult literature），即青少年文学，最合适不过了。比如大家都爱的《哈利•波特》（Harry Potter）、《饥饿游戏》（The Hunger Games）、《暮光之城》（ Twilight）……除了这些时下流行的小说，还有一些你可能没听说过，但在国际上经久不衰且广受外国小伙伴欢迎的作品必须安利，那就是《时代》周刊TIME曾评选出的百部最佳青少年文学小说。榜单TOP10来了，还不赶快收藏起来~

14岁的少年阿诺出生于美国的印第安保留区，他希望靠自己的力量掌握未来，于是离开了村落，来到富裕小镇上的白人学校就读。在那里，他成了异类，全校只有两名印第安人：一个是他，另一个是学校的吉祥物塑像…… 

书中故事是作者根据自己的亲身经历改编的，既能让你热泪盈眶又能让你捧腹大笑，读起来就像捧起了一本私人日记。

你能从这名少年悲喜交集的生活中感受到文化差异的困境，又能被他勇敢挣脱命运、面对挑战的决心所感动。该书曾获得2007年“美国国家图书奖”，2008年“波士顿环球报好书奖”，2008年“华盛顿图书奖”，2008年美国青少年图书馆协会年度最佳图书等十多个奖项。

Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live.

《哈利•波特》系列小说及电影完结后，每逢听到一小点儿关于哈利•波特或罗琳的小道消息，麻瓜们仍旧会格外激动。或许正如哈利、赫敏、罗恩的孩子们依旧从九又四分之三站台开始了霍格沃茨之旅一般，多少年后，我们也会让自己的孩子捧起这部小说，看他们再次为魔法世界而兴奋和感动。

What more can be said about this iconic franchise? How about this: seven years after the final volume was published, readers young and old still go crazy at the slightest rumor of a new Potter story.

二战时期的德国，小女孩莉赛尔生活在慕尼黑远郊的寄养家庭中。战乱中，她发现了一种让她难以抗拒的东西——书。在养父的帮助下，她学会了读书，并将偷来的书籍与邻居，以及躲在她家地下室的犹太人一同分享……

获颁美国图书馆协会Pintz奖、荣获2006年Book Sense儿童文学类年度选书等多个奖项。

该书也被翻拍成了同名电影《偷书贼》The Book Thief (2013)。

Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak’s groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau.  This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul.

你或许听说过《小王子》，但还不知道这本脑洞大开的《时间的皱纹》。有读者评价它“就像是《星际穿越》的童话版”，这是一部集科学、幻想、神秘主义于一身的历险故事。讲述了小姑娘Meg 和有神奇力量的弟弟 Charles Wallace, 以及他们的新朋友Calvin在神秘女巫的帮助下，通过“时间的皱褶”进入另一个星球，援救他们被困父亲的惊险历程。

该书曾获1963年纽伯瑞奖（Newberry Award），并于1964年荣获了世界儿童文学界公认的最高荣誉——安徒生奖 (Hans Christian Anderson Award)。

This surrealist adventure has provided generations of children with their first-ever mind-blowing experiences, as Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe travel across the fifth dimension in search of Meg’s father. But the sci-fi also has a message: Meg learns self-sufficiency and bravery in the process.

在朱克曼家的谷仓里，快乐地生活着一群动物，其中小猪威尔伯和蜘蛛夏洛建立了最真挚的友谊。然而，一个消息打破了谷仓的平静：威尔伯未来的命运竟是成为熏肉火腿。作为一只猪，绝望悲痛的威尔伯似乎只能接受任人宰割的命运了，然而，看似渺小的蜘蛛夏洛却说：“我救你。”于是，夏洛用自己的蛛丝在猪栏上织出了被人类视为奇迹的蛛网文字，彻底逆转了威尔伯的命运。但此刻，蜘蛛夏洛的生命却走到了尽头……

这本书在国外家喻户晓，在国内大家可能知道更多的是那部同名电影。讲述的看似只是一只蜘蛛和小猪的故事，却关乎友谊、爱、生命与死亡，写给孩子，也写给大人。

Readers are still drawn to the simplicity and beauty of arachnid Charlotte’s devotion to her pig pal Wilbur. Though family farms may be less common than they were in 1952, E.B. White’s novel remains timeless for its enduring meditation on the power of friendship and of good writing.

因为一双运动鞋，无辜男孩斯坦利被关进了美国德克萨斯的青少年拘留所。在那里，他和其他小伙伴必须进行牢狱改造，在已经干涸的河床上挖洞。渐渐，他们发现了这里不可告人的秘密…… 

有读者评价这本书是“儿童版的越狱和肖申克的救赎”。复杂的叙事和引人入胜的故事，也让这部书成了畅销书，并获得了纽伯瑞奖（Newberry Award）及国家图书奖。同样也被翻拍成了电影《别有洞天》Holes (2003)。

Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes.

动画片《了不起的狐狸先生》、德普叔主演的电影《查里和巧克力工厂》的原著作者是英国著名文学家Roald Dahl。他72岁时还出版了这部《玛蒂尔达》，凡是读过他的书的孩子都会情不自禁迷倒在他创造的魔力世界里。这部作品的主人公玛蒂尔达是个甜美又有志向的小女孩，不过她的父母却觉得她很招人烦。她希望学校能与众不同，在那里她却遇到了一位毒舌且痛恨孩子的女校长。有一次玛蒂尔达忽然发现了她有一种可以穿越到过去的能力，并开始了与恶毒校长的战斗……

这本书也被翻拍成了同名电影，主演小姑娘很萌~

With apologies to the lovable Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, this may be Roald Dahl’s most compelling read for young people. Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a kid-hating terror of a headmistress. When Matilda is attacked by the Trunchbull she suddenly discovers she has a remarkable power with which to fight back. It'll take a superhuman genius to give Miss Trunchbull what she deserves and Matilda may be just the one to do it!

波尼是个孤儿，他知道生活不简单，不过他还有兄弟和好哥们儿。当城南富家子弟的学生帮派过来欺负他们这些贫民窟的孩子们时，波尼相信能与哥们儿们渡过难关。然而一天晚上，一件出人意料的事颠覆了波尼的整个世界……

作者写这本小说的时候只有18岁，却成就了一部极具戏剧性且经典的作品。《纽约时报》这样评论该书：“相比其他描写美国高中生日常的小说，这部更黑暗、更真实。”

小说曾被翻拍成电影《小教父》（1983），由经典电影《教父》的导演弗朗西斯•科波拉执导。里面还有阿汤哥打酱油~

Written over forty-five years ago, The Outsiders is a dramatic and enduring work of fiction. S. E. Hinton's classic story of a boy who finds himself on the outskirts of regular society remains as powerful today as it was the day it was first published.

"The Outsiders transformed young-adult fiction from a genre mostly about prom queens, football players and high school crushes to one that portrayed a darker, truer world." —The New York Times

一个乏味至极的下午，百无聊赖的男孩米洛，在自己的房间发现一个神奇的收费亭。他开着电动玩具车，驶过收费亭，踏上一趟不可思议的奇妙旅程。他来到“决定岛”，邂逅了闹钟狗、骗人虫、色彩大师、噪音医生、真理公主……这部睿智犀利、经久不衰的奇幻故事来自美国著名儿童文学作家杰斯特，1986年获得普利策漫画奖，1995年获得美国艺术文学院奖。故事不断被改编成电影、动画、戏剧、话剧和音乐剧，根据本书改编拍摄的《幻象天堂》被评为“全球最佳动画片”。

For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason! Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing. Life is far from dull. In fact, it’s exciting beyond his wildest dreams. . .

12岁的男孩Jonas生活在一个看起来富足而舒适的世界里。然而这个世界没有色彩、记忆、感情，人们只有最基本的生活需求。有一天，他被赋予了特殊的使命，成为了“记忆授予者”接班人。他必须独自承受痛苦、恐惧和孤独，同时，也因此体会到了什么是温暖与爱，得到了以前所不曾有过的体验。逐渐，他开始发现这个世界的不合理与脆弱… 本书获得1994年纽伯瑞奖（Newberry Award），在当代极具影响力。翻拍电影《记忆传授人》（2014）演员里有梅姨和霉霉~ 

The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. 

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