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For the libertarian and generally anti-authoritarian, Robert Heinlein and Harry Turtledove are much better than Ayn Rand or Friedman at this age. For high school students, perhaps you could add Hayek and Friedman, but I don’t think those work for most kids. Good American and European history, from texts written by scholars trained before PC dominated academia should be helpful as well. To show the authoritarian mentality, but from an interesting twist, I’d recommend bright high school students read Machiavelli’s The Prince — I read in a high school and it was a powerful stimulus to distrust (or at least to question closely) the motives of those in power.