RIF's 60th Anniversary Highlighted Book for 2009. Katniss Everdeen survived the Hunger Games and came home a victor, but the Capitol is furious and the districts are quietly beginning to rebel. When a shocking announcement forces Katniss back into the arena, she realizes that the stakes are no longer just about her own survival. Can Katniss find a way to fight back before everything she loves is destroyed?

Mysterious disappearances. An urban legend rumored to be responsible. And one group of friends...

The struggle to get into a top-tier college consumes sixteen-year-old Genie's every waking thought...

When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson dies from two gunshot wounds, his community is thrown into an...

There never was a story that was happy through and through. When writer Arthur Ransome leaves his...

LaToya Williams lives in Montgomery, Alabama, and attends a mostly white high school. It seems as if...

RIF's 60th Anniversary Highlighted Book for 1993. The story of a dystopian community ruled by the Committee of Elders, which tightly controls every aspect of society. When 12-year-old Jonas is granted the highest job in the society, Receiver of Memory, he learns from the Giver all that has been sacrificed in the name of order and sameness.

RIF's 60th Anniversary Highlighted Book for 2008. In a dark future where the government forces one boy and one girl from each district to fight to the death on live television, sixteen-year-old Katniss volunteers to take her little sister's place in the games. Armed with her bow and a fierce will to survive, she enters an arena where the rules can change at any moment. But what happens when the thing that might save her life could also start a revolution?