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child hero ~ adult novel

Description: novels with a child protagonist or point of view

Rank Title Author Added

1

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

44,561 members

1,336 reviews

3.9

7 Members: dara85, KimarieBee, blackdove07, nessreader, Amsa1959, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

To Kill a Mockingbird

79,082 members

1,435 reviews

½ 4.4

7 Members: KimarieBee, blackdove07, nessreader, Dilara86, ahef1963, StefanieGeeks, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by Charles Dickens

24,472 members

242 reviews

3.8

5 Members: aulsmith, nessreader, Dilara86, Amsa1959, ahef1963

4

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

by Jonathan Safran Foer

16,539 members

468 reviews

4.1

5 Members: blackdove07, nessreader, Amsa1959, ahef1963, StefanieGeeks

5

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

43,349 members

521 reviews

3.9

5 Members: aulsmith, nessreader, Amsa1959, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

14,964 members

968 reviews

4.1

5 Members: nessreader, Dilara86, Amsa1959, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

50,009 members

749 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: aulsmith, nessreader, Dilara86, Amsa1959, ManWithAnAgenda,ahef1963

8

by Orson Scott Card

41,444 members

1,051 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: blackdove07, nessreader, ahef1963, StefanieGeeks,ManWithAnAgenda

9

The Summer Book

by Tove Jansson

3,015 members

134 reviews

4.1

4 Members: blackdove07, nessreader, Dilara86, Amsa1959

10

43,808 members

1,013 reviews

3.9

4 Members: KimarieBee, nessreader, Amsa1959, ManWithAnAgenda,ahef1963

11

The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet

2,169 members

105 reviews

3.9

3 Members: nessreader, Amsa1959, ahef1963

12

The Butcher Boy

by Patrick McCabe

1,564 members

33 reviews

3.8

3 Members: nessreader, Dilara86, Amsa1959

13

The Little Friend

7,284 members

158 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: dara85, Amsa1959, ManWithAnAgenda

14

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

23,079 members

941 reviews

3.8

3 Members: Amsa1959, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

Cold Sassy Tree

by Olive Ann Burns

4,158 members

87 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, ManWithAnAgenda

16

by Stephen King

22,113 members

411 reviews

4.1

3 Members: Amsa1959, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

69,918 members

1,086 reviews

3.8

3 Members: blackdove07, nessreader, ManWithAnAgenda,ahef1963

18

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

10,792 members

245 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

19

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

4,051 members

79 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: KimarieBee, nessreader

20

Something Wicked This Way Comes

by Ray Bradbury

11,471 members

298 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Amsa1959, ManWithAnAgenda

21

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

by Alan Bradley

7,792 members

657 reviews

3.8

3 Members: blackdove07, nessreader, Amsa1959,ahef1963

22

The Virgin Suicides

by Jeffrey Eugenides

12,738 members

257 reviews

3.8

2 Members: blackdove07, nessreader

23

Kafka on the Shore

by Haruki Murakami

18,170 members

471 reviews

4.1

2 Members: blackdove07, Amsa1959

24

Bastard Out of Carolina

by Dorothy Allison

5,209 members

119 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, nessreader

25

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

13,170 members

489 reviews

3.8

2 Members: nessreader, ahef1963

26

2,958 members

253 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, nessreader

27

The Ninth Life of Louis Drax

660 members

22 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: nessreader, Amsa1959

28

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

by Muriel Barbery

11,923 members

656 reviews

3.8

2 Members: nessreader, Amsa1959

29

by John Wyndham

4,794 members

122 reviews

3.9

2 Members: nessreader, ahef1963

30

by Stephen Kelman

941 members

62 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: nessreader

31

A Painted House

by John Grisham

9,385 members

113 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

32

by William Kent Krueger

2,799 members

199 reviews

4.2

Member: dara85

33

by Kaye Gibbons

3,460 members

64 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

34

2,256 members

125 reviews

3.8

Member: nessreader

35

What Maisie Knew

2,133 members

42 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: nessreader

36

3,684 members

161 reviews

3.8

Member: blackdove07

37

15,102 members

806 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

38

by Jeffrey Eugenides

27,288 members

632 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

39

Reading in the Dark

by Seamus Deane

1,251 members

18 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: nessreader

40

Lights All Night Long

by Lydia Fitzpatrick

209 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

41

History of Wolves

by Emily Fridlund

1,292 members

79 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

42

Lonely Castle in the Mirror

by Mizuki Tsujimura

446 members

16 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

43

The Impossible Fortress

by Jason Rekulak

467 members

52 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

44

by Michael Morpurgo

255 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: Amsa1959

45

Down the Rabbit Hole

by Juan Pablo Villalobos

359 members

22 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: nessreader

46

Life! Death! Prizes!

63 members

8 reviews

3.8

Member: nessreader

47

by Claire Cameron

356 members

45 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: nessreader

48

When Mr. Dog Bites

by Brian Conaghan

142 members

10 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: nessreader

49

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

by Stephen Chbosky

20,911 members

753 reviews

4

Member: nessreader

50

by Marcelo Figueras

195 members

11 reviews

4.1

Member: nessreader

51

by Stephen King

760 members

12 reviews

3.8

Member: nessreader

52

Zazie in the Metro

by Raymond Queneau

1,695 members

32 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: nessreader

53

82 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: nessreader

54

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

17,393 members

226 reviews

4

Member: aulsmith,ahef1963

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July 2013
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