Even More Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction for Young Readers
Explore gripping dystopian and post-apocalyptic fiction for young readers! Discover thrilling books filled with survival, rebellion, and futuristic worlds perfect for teens and YA fans.
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The People of Sparks
by Jeanne DuPrau
Having escaped to the Unknown Regions, Lina and the others seek help from the village people of Sparks.
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Orvis
by H. M. Hoover
When Toby stumbles upon Orvis - an obsolete robot - he is about to shut himself down. . . forever. Toby knows how Orvis feels: no one wants her either. A spacer all her life, her too-busy-for-Toby parents have packed her away to school on Earth. But when her domineering grandmother decides to send her to school on Mars, Toby rebels. With Orvis and her only other friend Thaddeous - a lonely castoff too - the trio set off in search of sanctuary with her great-grandmother. But to get there they will have to cross The Empty.
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The Big Empty
by J. B. Stephens
After half of the world's population is killed by a plague, seven teenagers seek a better life in a nightmarish future by deciphering coded messages and trying to avoid the Slashers. Original.
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Thinner Than Thou
by Kit Reed
Rev. Earl's luxury spa, Sylphania, is the rage for those with severe eating disorders until Jeremy Devlin enters and discovers the dark secrets at the core of Earl's empire.
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This Side of Paradise
by Steven L. Layne
After his father begins working for the mysterious Eden Corporation and forcibly relocates the family to the village of Paradise, teenage Jack uncovers a sinister plot that threatens to destroy them all.
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Mortal Engines
by Philip Reeve
In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, a fifteen-year-old apprentice is pushed out of London by the man he most admires and must seek answers in the perilous Out-Country, aided by one girl and the memory of another.
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A Rag, a Bone and a Hank of Hair
by Nicholas Fisk
A thrilling futuristic novel set at the end of the 22nd century. The government is cloning new people and has manufactured a 1940s wartime family who are unaware that nothing they know is real. Our hero is sent to monitor these 'Reborns' and gradually becomes aware of a horrible underlying secret. A brilliant plot twist at the end turns the book on its head. An exciting sci-fi novel which will appeal especially to boy readers, with the topical subject of cloning. This extraordinarily prophetic 80's novel, which was published in the Oxford Children's Modern Classics series in 1999, is now reissued in a smaller, mass-market paperback format.
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When the City Stopped
by Joan Phipson
When a series of strikes and labor disputes immobilize the Australian city where they live, a young boy and his sister join their cleaning lady and her crippled husband and try to make their way out of an increasingly hostile environment.
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Downwind
by Louise Moeri
After fleeing their California home to escape a possible radiation leak from a nuclear power plant, twelve-year-old Ephraim and his family find themselves caught up in circumstances perhaps even more threatening to them.
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I Feel Like the Morning Star
by Gregory Maguire
Three teenagers in a post-holocaust survival colony find that their shelter has become a prison and decide to break out.
