Peter Pan

Summary: The three children of the Darling family—Wendy, John, and Michael—find themselves going on a series of impossible adventures in the magical world of Neverland after meeting Peter Pan, the boy who never grows old. Peter is the leader of a band of “lost boys” who are constantly at war with Captain Hook and his pirate crew.

The book is, in many ways captivating and wonderfully weird, but it has a much darker side to it than the Disney movie would suggest, part of which comes from the racial and gender-based prejudices that are present in the writing. I found the book simultaneously repulsive and entrancing.