Sherie: I read this book in year 10. It had a deep impact on me, as did Orwell's 1984 (read the same year, I think we had to compare/discuss them as an English assignment). Not a month passes when something I hear in the news or read in the papers or read here in BB makes me think of BNW. If anything, MORE students need to read it. When I feel that my DD is old enough I'll give it to her.

A contemporary novel that would 'prime' a teen to read these kind of thought-provoking futuristic novels is Gemma Malley's The Declaration. ...my favourite novel of 2007.