Read Series: Children Of The Star
by Author Sylvia Engdahl
Book
This Star Shall Abide (1972)
I read this book in junior high, and it was highly influential to me... it is about a world in which non-believers are sent away to recant and be punished. But then, all is not what it seems. I loved it as a kid, and more recently read the book again along with the other two books in the trilogy...