The theme of children banding together to protect themselves/deal with a problem that the adults in their lives can’t or won’t; preferably without the weird sex stuff King puts in nearly all his books, but it’s presence wouldn’t be a dealbreaker.
Not looking for books with children/teens as the target audience. If the narrator is an older version of one of the child characters, shocked they survived to adulthood, that would be fine.
by Chloraborealis