Excellent Extracurricular Reading for Teenagers: the Little Prince

The contents of this book include a "hat" that eats an elephant, a weird little prince, an alien visitor who falls from the sky, a baobab tree that penetrates the planet, forty-three sunsets in a day, the little prince is made to cry, the little prince falls in love with a flower, the crying little flower, the king who is in charge of an old mouse, the king who is willing to keep raising his hat, the drunkard who doesn't want to drink, etc.