A number of Mary Renault’s books - The Persian Boy in particular, but Fire From Heaven, and The King Must Die probably qualify too.
OK - marketed as YA with the author expecting adult interest. I missed that. It wasn’t in the YA section at the library.
How about another King novel…IT. Seven main characters, who are all children for at least half of the story. King’s good at writing kids, I think.
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Juliet in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet?
Or how about Pug and Tomas in Feist’s Magician?
Also The Body. Definitely a classic.
Misfortune-Wesley Stace
And his kids, two books later.
Rynn Jacobs, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (excellent book, adequate movie)
And The Shining and to some extent Salem’s Lot. King does like to use young protagonists.
Since my mind’s on it, many of the characters in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, by George R. R. Martin. The books are split up into short chapters with each following one protagonist’s point of view for a while. In the first book, A Game of Thrones, there are eight various POVs after the prologue, five of which (Sansa, Arya, Bran, Jon Snow, and Daenerys) are children, and remain so since the book spans just a few months. Sansa is 11, Arya is 8 I think, Bran is 7, I believe Jon was 14, and Daenerys was 13.
John Wheelwright (the narrator) and Owen Meany in John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany.
Darn you Annie!
I was going to post Lord of the Flies.
Now I can’t think of another one. I will say many of Heinlein’s ‘juvenile’ books have children as protagonists and I believe there could be debate about whether they were actually written for children or not.
Since I’ve just finished it, Jack in Emma Donoghue’s “Room”.
That’s especially apposite because the book isn’t just written from Jack’s viewpoint, it’s written in the first person, in his voice.
King again: the novella (and film) Stand by Me.
Annie mentioned it above – the novel was called The Body.
Parts of The Dark Tower series are told from Jake’s point of view.
I don’t remember how old Todd was at the beginning of Apt Pupil, but I think he was in middle school.
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones has a teenage narrator, Matilda.
Chaim Potek’s good book The Chosen and his absolute masterpiece My Name is Asher Lev. The former is told from the point of view of a Jewish boy as he grows up in the 1940’s, aging from 15-to-18. The latter is told by a Jewish male from age 4-to-early twenties, with a gift for art.
Both books have sequels–The Promise and The Gift of Asher Lev.
Much of Betty Smith’s brilliant, beautiful A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is told from the perspective of young Francie Nolan, whom we see age from 12 - 18ish, with flashbacks of her even younger years, as she grows up in impoverished early 19th century Williamsburg (Brooklyn). With plots involving bigamy, rape, abortion, war, harsh poverty, alcoholism, sickness and death, I don’t think it’s a book primarily for kids.
::cough:: 20th. The story is just winding down when boom, Francie’s sitting at her desk going :eek: at a headline that says WAR and nothing else. That’d be the Great War, with guys going off to fight 
and job opportunities opening up for women. 