F.A. Day Library: Classic & Modern Pairs

In Shakespeare’s classic romance/tragedy, the lovers are torn apart — or, “star-cross’d,” to use the play’s phase—by the feud between their families, the Montagues and Capulets of Verona, Italy.

Sixteen year old Hazel, who has cancer, meets Augustus at a kids-with-cancer support group and as they fall in love they both wonder how they will be remembered.

Harper Lee's classic novel of a lawyer in the deep south defending a black man charged with the rape of a white girl One of the best-loved stories of all time. Librarians across the country gave the book the highest of honors by voting it the best novel of the twentieth century.

This searing and heartwrenching portrait of a young biracial girl dealing with society's ideas of race and class is the winner of the Bellwether Prize for best fiction manuscript addressing issues of social justice.

Orphan Oliver starts life in a workhouse & is then sold into an undertaker's apprenticeship. Escaping & traveling to London, he meets the Artful Dodger, a gang member of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin.

Six dangerous outcasts, one impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world & destruction if they don't kill each other first.

Set in Scotland charting the bloody rise to power & tragic downfall of the warrior Macbeth who was informed by Three Witches that he is to become king without descendants. How will he react?

Beautiful Creatures centers on a girl descended from a family of witches who draws a non-magical young man, Ethan into her world of good or evil. The book has three older witches called the Sisters, & like Macbeth, explores issues of family, prophecy and intrigue.

A classic of twentieth-century literature,the Great Gatsby is the story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan.

A contemporary retelling of The Great Gatsby except it's a teenage girl entangled in the romance and drama of a Hamptons social circle and the scandal that shakes the summer community.

As life on Mars becomes impossible, Martians and their terrifying machines invade the earth.

After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave. Cassie runs from Them but must choose: between giving up or to getting up.

A landmark work of teen fiction about a boy called Ponyboy who finds himself on the outskirts of regular society.

A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.

A young runaway boards a raft & sets off down the Mississippi, setting in motion a series of adventures that intrigue readers of all ages. Huck Finn and his companion, escaped slave Jim, form one of literature's greatest friendships.

(North Bound) Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Native American is the school mascot.

Lizzie Bennet isn't interested in prom designer dresses and expensive shoes. Lizzie is less than impressed by Darcy, who's snobby and pretentious. So why does Lizzie find herself drawn to him anyway?

A spirited young woman in early 19th-century England must cope with the courship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.

(North Bound) In the utopian World State, everyone consumes daily grams of soma to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing

Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.