I'll tell you what, at first I liked the books in the Odd Thomas series, but as it dragged on (and boy did it drag) the protagonist's personality got more and more annoying and all of the author's stupid little self-insert fantasies got worse and worse, until the point where it was eventually unbearable. now even the first book is a bad memory
hunger games series is also awful. just the whole thing, all of it
Be me in 4th grade
4th grade? the giver seems a bit... much... for elementary school
speaking of the giver, I did like it. gathering blue was alright too. messenger was kind of odd, but it was the first one I read, so I have a bit of an attachment to it