Aguirre, Ann.
Enclave.
Y FIC Agguirre
In a post-apocalyptic future, fifteen-year-old Deuce, a loyal
Huntress, brings back meat while avoiding the Freaks outside her
enclave, but when she is partnered with the mysterious outsider,
Fade, she begins to see that the strict ways of the elders may be
wrong--and dangerous.
Augarde, Steve.
X-Isle.
Y FIC Augarde
Baz and Ray, survivors of an apocalyptic flood, win places on
X-Isle, an island where life is rumored to be better than on the
devastated mainland, but they find the island to be a violent
place ruled by religious fanatic Preacher John, and they decide
they must come up with a weapon to protect themselves from
impending danger
Blackman, Malorie.
Naughts
& Crosses. Y FIC Blackman
Sephy is a Cross -- a member of the dark-skinned ruling class.
Callum is a Naught -- a "colorless" member of the underclass who
were once slaves to the Crosses. The two have been friends since
early childhood, but that's as far as it can go. In their world,
Naughts and Crosses simply don't mix.
Clayton, Emma.
Roar. Y FIC Clayton (SERIES)
In an overpopulated world where all signs of nature have been
obliterated and a wall has been erected to keep out plague-ridden
animals, twelve-year-old Mika refuses to believe that his twin
sister was killed after being abducted, and continues to search
for her in spite of the dangers he faces in doing so.
Collins, Suzanne.
The
Hunger Games. Y FIC Collins (SERIES)
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain
control through an annual televised survival competition pitting
young people from each of the twelve districts against one
another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test
when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
Condie, Allyson Braithwaite.
Matched.
Y FIC Condie
In the society, officials decide who you love, where you work and
when you die. Cassia has always trusted their choices. It's hardly
any price to pay for a long life, the perfect job, the idela mate.
So when her best friend appears on the Matching screen. Cassia
knows with complete certainty that he is the one, until she sees
another face flash for an instant before the screen fades to
black. Now Cassia is faced with impossible choices, between Xander
and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path no one else
has ever dared follow, between perfection and passion.
DeStefano, Lauren.
Wither.
Y FIC DeStefano
After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb
with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty,
girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the
world.
Dunkle, Clare B.
The
Sky Inside. Y FIC Dunkle
Martin lives in a "perfect world" under the protective dome of
suburb HM1, where every year a new generation of
genetically-engineered children is shipped out to meet their
parents. And it's all about to come crashing down because a
stranger has come to take away all the little children, including
Martin's sister, Cassie, and no one wants to talk about where they
have gone. Martin has a choice either to remain in the dubious
safety of HM1, or to break out of the suburb into the mysterious
land outside.
Farmer, Nancy.
The
House of Scorpion. LT Y FIC Farmer
In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special
status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of
a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United
States.
Fukui, Isamu.
Truancy.
Y FIC Fukui
In the City, where an iron-fisted Mayor's goal is perfect control
through education, fifteen-year-old Tack is torn between a growing
sympathy for the Truancy, an underground movement determined to
bring down the system at any cost, and the desire to avenge a
death caused by a Truant.
Haddix, Margaret Peterson.
Among
the Hidden. YPB Haddix (Shadow Children SERIES)
In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a
family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years
in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third"
convinces him that the government is wrong.
Haddix, Margaret Peterson.
Found.
Y
FIC
Haddix
(The
Missing SERIES)
When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted,
learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of
nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that
they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two
opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time.
Halam, Ann.
Dr.
Franklin's Island. YPB H
When their plane crashes over the Pacific Ocean, three science
students are left stranded on a tropical island and then
imprisoned by a doctor who is performing horrifying experiments on
humans involving the transfer of animal genes.
Hautman, Pete.
Rash.
Y FIC Hautman
In a future society that has decided it would "rather be safe than
free," sixteen-year-old Bo's anger control problems land him in a
tundra jail where he survives with the help of his running skills
and an artificial intelligence program named Bork.
Karp, Jesse.
Those
that Wake. Y FIC Karp
When a consumer-driven future society runs amok, unleashing
near-cosmic forces, Mal and Laura search for their families only
to find that something or someone has erased them from the
memories of everyone they have ever known.
Levitin, Sonia.
The
Goodness Gene. Y FIC Levitin
As son of the Compassionate Director of the Dominion of the
Americas, Will, along with his twin brother Berk, has been groomed
for leadership in a society that values genetic fitness, but he
encounters information which causes him to question that society
as well as his own identity.
Lowry, Lois.
The
Giver. YPB Lowry
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas
becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his
community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in
which he lives.
McKissack, Pat.
The Clone Codes.
Y FIC McKissack
On the run from a bounty hunter who arrested her mother for being
part of a secret society devoted to freeing clones,
thirteen-year-old Leanna learns amazing truths about herself and
her family as she is forced to consider the value of freedom and
what it really means to be human in 2170 America.
Oliver, Lauren.
Delirium. Y FIC Oliver (Series)
Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that
prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable,
and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth
birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love. Sequel:
Pandemonium
(2012)
Orwell, George.
1984:
A Novel. YPB Orwell
Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government
watches over all citizens and directs all activities.
Patterson, James.
Witch
and Wizard. Y FIC Patterson
Torn from their parents in a society increasingly controlled by
the government, 15-year-old Wisty and her older brother, Whit, are
incarcerated in a totalitarian prison where they discover they
have incredible supernatural powers.
Pearson, Mary.
The
Adoration of Jenna Fox. Y FIC Pearson
In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have
made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a
seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and
suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her
existence.
Roth, Veronica.
Divergent.
Y FIC Roth
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose
among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the
rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she
discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one
group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
Sampson, Jeff.
Vesper:
A Deviant's Novel. Y FIC Sampson
By the time sixteen-year-old Emily discovers that she and several
of her high school classmates in their small Washington town are
products of genetic engineering, they display all very dangerous
powers by night and are stalked by a murderer.
Stahler, David.
Truesight.
Y FIC Stahler
In a distant frontier world, thirteen-year-old Jacob is uncertain
of his future in a community that considers blindness a virtue and
"Seers" as aberrations.
Treggiari, Jo.
Ashes,
Ashes. Y FIC Treggiari
In a future Manhattan devastated by environmental catastrophes and
epidemics, sixteen-year-old Lucy survives alone until vicious
hounds target her and force her to join Aidan and his band, but
soon they learn that she is the target of Sweepers, who kidnap and
infect people with plague.
Westerfeld, Scott.
Pretties.
Y FIC Westerfeld. (SERIES)
Finally surgically transformed into a "pretty," sixteen-year-old
Tally, now gorgeous and programmed to think only happy thoughts,
is plagued by tangled memories of living in the Smoke, a rebel
colony of "ugly" runaways hiding from the Special Circumstances
authorities.
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