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Cherry Heaven
L.J. Adlington (YA ADLINGTON)
Cat and Tanka think they will be safe in their new home of Cherry Heaven, but maybe it isn’t the utopia they expected. [Grades 7-10] |
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The Diary of Pelly D.
L.J. Adlington (YA ADLINGTON)
Tony V’s life changes the moment he picks up the diary. Who is Pelly D. and what
secrets does her diary hold? [Grades 7-10] |
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Feed
M.T. Anderson (YA ANDERSON)
The Internet and television can be piped directly into your brain, and you can be carefully controlled. [Grades 8+]
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Ship Breaker [Has a Sequel]
Paolo Bacigalupi (YA BACIGALUPI)
Devastated by "city-killer" hurricanes, most coastal lands are under water and society is starkly divided between haves and have-nots. [Grades 7+]
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood (YA ATWOOD)
In the near future where the United States used to stand, fertile women are strictly controlled and separated into social castes. (Grades 9+) |
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The Compound
S.A. Bodeen (YA BODEEN)
Eli’s family survived the nuclear war in their bunker, but six years on, things just aren’t quite right. You don’t leave the bunker...and you certainly can’t ask questions… (Grades 7+) |
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Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury (YA BRADBURY)
Firemen don’t exist to fight fires; they’re here to set them. [Grades 9+]
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Obernewtyn [Series]
Isobelle Carmody (YA CARMODY)
If only people knew that being born stupid and unremarkable was the real blessing… otherwise, you get sent to Obernewtyn. [Grades 7-9] |
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Graceling
Kristin Cashore (YA CASHORE)
Some people are born with a Grace — a special ability. Katsa’s Grace is killing… and a corrupt king is ready to exploit it. [Grades 8-11] |
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Matched [Trilogy]
Ally Condie (YA CONDIE)
Cassia has always done what Society dictated. Until a glitch in her matching ceremony shows her two possible mates. Now she wonders what to choose: safety with Xander or rebellion with Ky. [Grades 9+] |
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The Maze Runner [Trilogy]
James Dashner (YA DASHNER)
Thomas lives in a mysterious society, inescapable due to the gigantic maze surrounding it. The only trouble—he has no clue how he got there!
[Grades 6-10] |
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Little Brother
Cory Doctorow (YA DOCTOROW)
After a massive terrorist attack, the government revokes all personal privacies. But when they threaten Marcus, he decides that someone needs to be watching the watchers. [Grades 9+] |
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City of Ember [Series]
Jeanne DuPrau (YA DUPRAU)
In a city that will soon be in perpetual darkness, can Lina and Doon find the light? [Grades 6-8] |
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The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm
Nancy Farmer (YA FARMER)
When General Matsika’s children are Kidnapped, the Ear, the Eye, and the Arm must find them amongst gangsters, toxic waste dumps, and mutants. [Grades 7-10] |
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The Girl Who Could Fly
Victoria Forester (YA FORESTER)
When Piper reveals that she can fly, she is quickly taken to a government facility to be trained.
But something is very, very wrong. [Grades 5-7] |
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Lord of the Flies
William Golding (YA GOLDING)
When their plane crashes on a deserted island, can a group of schoolboys survive
the wild… and each other? [Grades 9+] |
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Among the Hidden [Series]
Margaret Peterson Haddix (YA HADDIX)
Shadow Children Series. Luke is the third child in a world that doesn’t allow more than two children per family. His options are hiding or dying. [Grades 5-8] |
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Epic [Series]
Conor Kostick (YA KOSTICK)
In New Earth, violence is banned. All conflict must be settled by a deadly video game.
[Grades 8+] |
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Wicked Lovely
Melissa Marr (YA MARR)
Aislinn just wanted to keep her head down and survive to her 18th birthday. She never asked to be a pawn in an unseen faery war. [Grades 9+] |
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The Knife of Never Letting Go [Trilogy]
Patrick Ness (YA NESS)
Chaos Walking Trilogy. Women have been wiped out, and your thoughts can be read at will… (Grades 9+) |
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The Adoration of Jenna Fox
Mary Pearson (YA PEARSON)
They keep telling her that she’s Jenna Fox. So why doesn’t she have Jenna’s memories? [Grades 8-12]
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Mortal Engines [Series]
Philip Reeve (YA REEVE)
The Hungry Cities Chronicles. In a world where large cities consume smaller towns for power, getting exiled from the largest city of all is a death sentence. [Grades 7-10] |
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How I Live Now
Meg Rosoff (YA ROSOFF)
Daisy thought she was escaping her stepmother, but she was actually stepping into a dangerous police state and a race for survival. [Grades 9-12] |
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Under the Never Sky
Veronica Rossi (YA ROSSI)
Aria and Perry, two teens from radically different societies, hate being dependent on one another until they overcome their prejudices and fall in love, knowing they can't stay together. [Grades 7+] |
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Divergent [Trilogy]
Veronica Roth (YA ROTH)
On her 16th birthday, Tris decides she will change her social "faction." This means she must endure brutal tests of strength and courage. [Grades 9+] |
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Glow [Series]
Amy Kathleen Ryan (YA RYAN)
As two spaceships travel to New Earth, the first attacks the second, separating teenage fiancés Waverly and Kiernan. Thus begins their story. [Grades 8+] |
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Unwind
Neal Shusterman (YA SHUSTERMAN)
Following the Second Civil War, you can’t abort a fetus… but you can retroactively “unwind”
unwanted teens for their body parts. [Grades 8+] |
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Truesight [Trilogy]
David Stahler (YA STAHLER)
Jacob is a Seer on a planet where most of the population is blind. Such freaks of nature will not be tolerated. [Grades 5-7] |
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Impossible
Nancy Werlin (YA WERLIN)
Lucy’s family is under an ancient curse, and she has only nine months to break it before
her baby daughter is born. [Grades 8-11] |
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Uglies [Series]
Scott Westerfeld (YA WESTERFELD)
Everyone in Tally’s world gets to be supermodel-gorgeous. What could possibly be wrong in a society like that? [Grades 6 ] |
