Books to screen

Youth shelf help book to screen

If you enjoyed these screen adaptations, why not read the book? Or better still, try the book first!

 

Recommended

Youth Diversity Disability Wonder.png Before I Fall, Lauren Oliver

The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

Everything, Everything, Nicola Yoon

The Fault in Our Stars, John Green

The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, Jenny Han

Wonder, R.J. Palacio

Classics

Kids shelf help gifts and powers A Series of Unfortunate Events series, Lemony Snicket

Anne of Green Gables series, L.M. Montgomery

Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson

Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White

Fantastic Mr Fox, Roald Dahl

JumanjiChris Van Allsburg

The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling

Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson

Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

Mary Poppins, P.L. Travers

Nancy Drew series, Carolyn Keene

The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett

Comedy

Kids-shelf-help-1-19.png Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison

The Babysitter’s Club series, Ann M. Martin

Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, Jeff Kinney

Jessica Darling’s It List, Megan McCafferty

The Kissing Booth, Beth Reekles

Drama

Adults shelf help wartime stories.jpg 13 Reasons Why, Jay Asher

Beautiful Boy, David Sheff

Between Shades of Grey, Ruta Sepetys

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, John Boyne

How I Live Now, Meg Rosoff

If I Stay, Gayle Forman

The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick

Jasper Jones, Craig Silvey

Looking for Alaska, John Green

Looking for Alibrandi, Melina Marchetta

Outsiders, S.E. Hinton

Paper Towns, John Green

Pretty Little Liars series, Sara Shepard

Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson

Tomorrow When the War Began series, John Marsden

War Horse, Michael Morpurgo

Fantasy

Epic high fantasy.jpg Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer

Avalon High series, Meg Cabot

The BFG, Roald Dahl

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl

The Chronicles of Narnia Series, C. S. Lewis

Eragon, Christopher Paolini

Harry Potter Series, J. K. Rowling

His Dark Materials series, Philip Pullman

The House with the Clock in its Walls, John Bellairs

The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien

How to Train Your Dragon series, Cressida Cowell

Inkheart, Cornelia Funke

Matilda, Roald Dahl

Percy Jackson series, Rick Riordan

Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie

Shadow and Bone, Leigh Bardugo

The Spiderwick Chronicles, Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum

Paranormal

Kids-shelf-help-1-16.png Beautiful Creatures, Kami Garcia

Hush hush, Becca Fitzpatrick

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children series, Ransom Riggs

The Mortal Instruments series, Cassandra Clare

The Spook’s Apprentice, Joseph Delaney

Twilight series, Stephanie Meyer

Vampire Academy series, Richelle Mead

The Witches, Roald Dahl

Romantic drama

Adults shelf help Australian rural authors A Walk to Remember, Nicholas Sparks

All the Bright Places, Jennifer Niven

Five Feet Apart, Rachel Lippincott with Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis

The Last Song, Nicholas Sparks

Midnight Sun, Trish Cook

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, Becky Albertalli

The Sun is also a Star, Nicola Yoon

Sci-fi and action adventure

Adults shelf help Cyberpunk steampunk.jpg The 100 series, Kass Morgan

The 5th Wave, Rick Yancey

A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle

The Darkest Minds, Alexandra Bracken

Delirium, Lauren Oliver

Divergent series, Veronica Roth

The Host, Stephanie Meyer

The Hunger Games series, Suzanne Collins

I am Number Four, Pittacus Lore

The Knife of Never Letting Go, Patrick Ness

The Maze Runner series, James Dashner

The Mortal Engines, Philip Reeve

Ready Player One, Ernest Cline

Scott Pilgrim series, Brian Lee O’Malley

Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz