/lit/ - Literature

hello lit. i need your help. as part of my secondary education class, one of the projects involves building a lesson plan around a "young adult novel". now, admittedly, i don't read very much, but i generally consider this kinds of books (hunger games, harry potter, divergent, etc) to be complete childish garbage. and so i come to you: are there legitimately good YA novels? could you please recommend me what you consider the best? i really, really don't want to waste my time with something that sucks because an entire 45%-of-my-grade project rests on this.

and uh, i said i dont really read, but i do have two favorite books: the man who was thursday and the midwich cuckoos. dunno if there are any YA books like those, but that'd be cool

Time to be honest /lit/, do any of you read YA books and do you enjoy them?