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"   Photo: Amazon Have you cried your way through The Giver movie yet? Lois Lowry&amp;#039;s Newbery Medal winner from the mid-&amp;#039;90s with its depiction of a suspiciously idealized world paved the way for current dystopian hits like The Hunger Games and Divergent. It&amp;#039;s worth rereading if the last time you read it was when Jared Leto was still best known as playing Jordan Catalano. And while you&amp;#039;re at it, here are 10 other classic young adult novels filled with mystery and heartbreak and menstruation that you totally need to read again. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E. L. Konigsburg, 1967  Photo: Amazon Did you know that you have to pay nearly $400 for the privilege of an adult sleepover at the Museum of Natural History? In this novel, Connecticut siblings Claudia and Jamie Kincaid get to stay at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among marble statues and medieval armor and all, for free. As stowaways. Best childhood rule breaking everywhere! And the whole novel is in the form of a letter to their grandfather from, yes, Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin, 1978  Photo: Amazon This book was probably the first thriller so many of us read. So there&amp;#039;s a group of random people\u2014an Asian family, a bookie, a judge, and so many more\u2014who live in an apartment complex near the mansion of Sam Westing, a paper magnate who was murdered and it&amp;#039;s up to this ragtag crew to solve that mystery! And maybe find themselves in the process.  Ramona Quimby, Age 8, Beverly Cleary, 1981  Photo: Amazon Really, each and every book in the Ramona series is amazing and perfect, but this is the one I remember the best. She lives in a pre-Portlandia Portland, Ore., and has a doll named Chevrolet and accidentally cracks a raw egg on her head and has a know-it-all sister named Beezus. We are all Ramona. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1909  Photo: Amazon Mary Lennox is a brat who grew up in India and became an orphan when her parents died in a rather gruesome cholera epidemic. I&amp;#039;m going to admit something dark: I was so entranced by the stone-walled secret garden in this book that I would have traded lives with her in a heartbeat. I would have given her my loving parents and all the California sunshine just so I could have my own garden that &amp;quot;bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.&amp;quot; A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L&amp;#039;Engle, 1962  Photo: Amazon Raise your hand if you can recite the first line of this novel. Say it with me now, fellow nerds: &amp;quot;It was a dark and stormy night.&amp;quot; Meg Murry is our heroine, Charles Wallace is her brother, and Calvin O&amp;#039;Keefe is her dreamy neighbor. This book&amp;#039;s plot involves traveling through space and time, magical creatures, and something called a tesseract. Basically geek paradise.  Harriet the Spy, Louise Fitzhugh, 1964   Photo: Amazon Harriet is a sixth grader who has nanny named Ole Golly and lives on the Upper East Side. She spends a lot of time recording her thoughts in a notebook. But Gossip Girl this is not.  Are You There God? It&amp;#039;s Me, Margaret, Judy Blume, 1970  Photo: Amazon You could reread any of Judy Blume&amp;#039;s novels\u2014Deenie, Tiger Eyes\u2014and be perfectly blissful. And you should! But Are You There God? It&amp;#039;s Me, Margaret is perhaps the most iconic. Yes, it&amp;#039;s about religion and choosing sides, but it&amp;#039;s also about menstruation. The descriptions of the belts needed to secure sanitary pads onto their underwear definitely made me a lifetime tampon user. (Although I&amp;#039;m told they&amp;#039;ve since taken out the mentions of the belts in updated versions, which is sort of a shame.) Jacob Have I Loved, Katherine Paterson, 1980  Photo: Amazon This book has it all: Twins, an island on the Chesapeake, an older love interest, and weird grandmas. It&amp;#039;s about ambition, family, and striking out on your own. You can try not to cry, but you won&amp;#039;t succeed. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt, 1975  Photo: Amazon Okay, so you meet the coolest family in the world that conveniently has a hot 17-year-old son. Except they&amp;#039;re immortal, which sounds great until you realize that it means that you have to live on society&amp;#039;s fringes and that a man in a yellow suit will follow you trying to unleash your secret. Tragedy ensues, choices are made. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1932  Photo: Amazon When it snows, do you think about pouring maple syrup in the powder to make candy? Have you ever considered playing with a pig&amp;#039;s bladder like it&amp;#039;s a balloon? That may have taken place in the first book in the Little House series, Little House in the Big Woods, but they all run together in my head as one epic story of Wisconsin homesteading. There&amp;#039;s death and sickness and the aforementioned slaughtered pig, but it all manages to feel so cozy. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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