Political Coming-of-Age Stories

Holden Caulfield is the protagonist of The Catcher in the Rye.

Maycomb is the town where the story of To Kill a Mockingbird takes place.

Napoleon is the pig who leads the rebellion against the humans in Animal Farm.

The island where the boys are stranded in The Lord of the Flies is called Lord of the Flies.

The society where everyone is assigned a role and there is no freedom in The Giver is called The Community.

The annual event where children are forced to fight to the death in The Hunger Games is called The Hunger Games.

The faction that values intelligence and knowledge in Divergent is called Erudite.

The organization that created the maze in The Maze Runner is called WICKED.

The cancer support group that Hazel and Gus attend in The Fault in Our Stars is called The Support Group.

Eleanor and Park meet at Omaha Central High School in Eleanor & Park.

Simon uses Tumblr to come out to his friends and family in Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda.

Khalil is the black teenager who is shot and killed by a police officer in The Hate U Give.

Justyce is the black teenager who is wrongly accused of a crime in Dear Martin.

Junior is the Native American teenager who leaves his reservation to attend an all-white school in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.

Malala Yousafzai is the Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot in the head by the Taliban for speaking out about the importance of education for girls in I Am Malala.