Forgotten YA Adaptations
If you devoured Scott Westerfeld’s teen dystopian series Uglies and just clocked that Netflix has, nearly 20 years later, turned it into a film. Here are some other teen books that made it to movieland but are now for the most part forgotten. Did you see or read any of these?
The 5th wave
Yancey, Rick author
2013
Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them.
City of bones
Clare, Cassandra, author
2015
Suddenly able to see demons and the Shadowhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizarre world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.
The dark is rising
Cooper, Susan, 1935- author
1973
On his eleventh birthday, Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of the Old Ones, destined to seek the six magical Signs that enable the Old Ones to triumph over the evil forces of the Dark.
Eragon
Paolini, Christopher, author
2005
Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes that he is merely a poor farm boy - until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed. Gifted with only an ancient sword, a loyal dragon, and sage advice from an old storyteller, Eragon is soon swept into a dangerous tapestry of magic, glory, and power. Now his choices could save - or destroy - the Empire.
I am number four
Lore, Pittacus, author
2011
In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien.
Mortal engines
Reeve, Philip, author
2012
In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, a fifteen-year-old apprentice is pushed out of London by the man he most admires and must seek answers in the perilous Out-Country, aided by one girl and the memory of another.
Tomorrow, when the war began
Marsden, John, 1950-
2006
Seven Australian teenagers return from a camping trip in the bush to discover that their country has been invaded and they must hide to stay alive.
The vampire's assistant
Shan, Darren, author
2008
After traveling with Mr. Crepsley, the vampire who made him into a half-vampire, Darren returns to the freak show known as the Cirque du Freak and continues to fight his need to drink human blood.