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| Cherry Heaven |
Adlington, L.J. |
YA FIC ADLINGTON |
| Kat and Tanka J leave the war-torn city, move with their adoptive parents to the New Frontier, and are soon settled into a home called Cherry Heaven, but Luka, an escaped factory worker, confirms their suspicion that New Frontier is not the utopia it seems to be. |
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| Feed |
Anderson, M.T. |
YA FIC ANDERSON |
| In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble. |
| The Handmaid's Tale |
Atwood, Margaret |
YA FIC ATWOOD |
| It is the world of the near future, and Offred is a handmaid. She is hoping the commander makes her pregnant because she is only valued if her ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she had a job of her own, a husband, and a child, but all of that is gone now. |
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| The Hunger Games (Catching Fire) |
Collins, Suzanne |
YA FIC COLLINS |
| 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. |
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| The Silenced |
Devita, James |
YA FIC DEVITA |
| In a world filled with sanctions and restrictions, Marena struggles to remember the past: a time before the Zero Tolerance Party murdered her mother and put her father under house arrest. A time before they installed listening devices in every home and forbade citizens to read or write. A time when she was free. |
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| Little Brother |
Doctorow, Cory |
YA FIC DOCTOROW |
| After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right. |
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| City of Ember Trilogy |
DuPrau, Jean |
YA FIC DUPRAU |
| In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions. |
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| Among the Hidden |
Haddix-Peterson, Margaret |
YA FIC HADDIX |
| 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. |
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| Brave New World |
Huxley, Aldous |
YA FIC HUXLEY |
| Huxley's story shows a futuristic World State where all emotion, love, art, and human individuality have been replaced by social stability. An ominous warning to the world's population, this literary classic is a must-read. |
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| The Giver (Gathering Blue) |
Lowry, Lois |
YA FIC 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. |
| Declaration (The Resistance) |
Malley, Gemma |
YA FIC MALLEY |
| In 2140 England, where drugs enable people to live forever and children are illegal, teenaged Anna, an obedient "Surplus" training to become a house servant, discovers that her birth parents are trying to find her. |
| The Knife of Never Letting Go |
Ness, Patrick |
YA FIC NESS |
| Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World. |
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| 1984 |
Orwell, George |
YA FIC ORWELL |
| 1984 is the story of one man's struggle against the ubiquitous, menacing state power (“Big Brother”) that tries to dictate nearly every aspect of human life. The novel is a classic in anti-utopian fiction, and a trenchant political satire that remains as relevant today as when it was first published. |
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| The Adoration of Jenna Fox |
Pearson, Mary E. |
YA 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. |
| The Forrest of Hands and Teeth |
Ryan, Carrie |
YA FIC RYAN |
| Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the Unconsecrated, aggressive flesh-eating people who were once dead. |
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| Unwind |
Shusterman, Neal |
YA FIC SHUSTERMAN |
| In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs--and, perhaps, save their own lives. |
| Gem-X |
Singer, Nicky |
YA FIC SINGER |
| Sixteen-year-old Maxo Strang, the most perfect human ever made, suddenly discovers a "crack" in his face, which leads him to expose his community's dark underworld of secret scientific research and the city's corrupt supreme leader. |
| The Uglies (Preties, Specials & Extras) |
Westerfeld, Scott |
YA FIC WESTERFELD |
| Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will will be transformed into beauties whose only job is to have a great time, Tally's best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all. |
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