Akira, 19, senior in HS: Your run-of-the-mill peppy teenage girl. Loves her mother. Average popularity. Stunningly beautiful. Bane, 17, suspected serial killer: A boy who's been through too much. Has nothing. Wise beyond his years, but was rendered mute as a child. His body is grotesquely scarred and beaten. What happens when the two meet in a dark alley?

"Jane Eyre" follows the emotions and experiences of its eponymous character, including her growth to adulthood, and her love for Mr. Rochester, the byronic master of fictitious Thornfield Hall.

"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as children.