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 City of Ember
by Jeanne 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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Invitation to the Game
by Monica Hughes
Unemployed after high school in the highly robotic society of 2154, Lisse and seven friends resign themselves to a boring existence in their "Designated Area" until the government invites them to play The Game.
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House of Stairs
by William Sleator
This chilling, suspenseful indictment of mind control is a classic of science fiction and will haunt readers long after the last page is turned. One by one, five sixteen-year-old orphans are brought to a strange building. It is not a prison, not a hospital; it has no walls, no ceiling, no floor. Nothing but endless flights of stairs leading nowhere--except back to a strange red machine. The five must learn to love the machine and let it rule their lives. But will they let it kill their souls? "An intensely suspenseful page-turner." --School Library Journal "A riveting suspense novel with an anti-behaviorist message that works . . . because it emerges only slowly from the chilling events." --Kirkus Reviews
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Pod
by Stephen Wallenfels
As alien spacecraft fill the sky and zap up any human being who dares to go outside, fifteen-year-old Josh and twelve-year-old Megs, living in different cities, describe what could be their last days on Earth.
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X-Isle
by Steve Augarde
After they are granted coveted places on an island in a future world devastated by flooding, Baz and Ray discover that their new home is ruled by an unpredictable religious fanatic and they plan a dangerous rebellion against him.
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Songs of Power
by Hilari Bell
Someone is trying to sabotage the underwater habitat where Imina, the granddaughter of an Inuit shaman, lives after terrorists have infected the earth's food supply, and Imina must call on her still undeveloped magical skills to save the colony.
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Floodland
by Marcus Sedgwick
After global warming causes the sea to rise until cities in England become islands, ten-year-old Zoe goes on a harrowing solitary boat journey to search for her parents.
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Out of Nowhere
by Gerard Whelan
A boy wakes up in a room built of stone -- he knows his name is Stephen, but can remember nothing else about himself. All traces of human life have disappeared, until the visitors arrive -- strange men with supernatural powers.
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The Patchwork People
by Louise Lawrence
In a dismal Wales of the future, with few jobs and fewer resources, a group of destitute, jobless young people becomes involved with a rich girl whose life is impoverished in spite of her material comforts.
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Dead Water Zone
by Kenneth Oppel
For as long as he can remember, Paul has looked after his younger, weaker brother Sam. But when Sam leaves home to work as a research assistant in Watertown, he disappears into the dark folds of the city's noxious slum. When Paul goes looking for Sam in Watertown, he learns a dark secret: something in the water is changing the residents of Watertown, transforming them into something inhuman. But can Paul reach Sam before the dark waters get to him first?
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Weather Eye
by Lesley Howarth
In England in 1999, thirteen-year-old Telly organizes her fellow climate observation club members to calm the planet's turbulent weather.
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The Tripods Trilogy
by John Christopher
Three stories recount a gripping science fiction saga of alien invaders on Earth, describing the earthlings' battle to save their own precious freedom.
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After the Bomb
by Gloria D. Miklowitz
After an accidental nuclear explosion off the coast of California, Philip searches for his family through a heavily militarized and devastated Los Angeles.
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Outside
by Andre Norton
A young girl determines to find out what is "outside" the sealed off city in which she's always lived but discovers that the only way she can get out is with the help of a mysterious rhyming man.
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The City Under Ground
by Suzanne Martel
After a great atomic explosion a group of scientists retreat under ground. In a later century one of their descendants, Luke 15 P 9, finds and explores a secret passage to the surface. At the same time that he discover a small colony of friendly people living on the surface, a hostile underground settlement is found.
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The Vandal
by Ann Schlee
Et fremtidssamfund, der ikke er så fjernt endda, om en by, der fornægter sin fortid og gør de personer fredløse, der tør at sætte spørgsmålstegn ved samfundets undertrykkelse og ensretning
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Empty World
by John Christopher
When a deadly virus kills off most of the world's population, a teenaged boy tries to survive in a seemingly empty England.
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Those who Fall from the Sun
by Josephine Rector Stone
Separated from her family group during a hurried flight from a chaotic Earth, a teen-age girl finds that her heretofore unappreciated prophetic vision helps to guide the vessel she is traveling in to a small, hospitable planet.
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The Crystal Drop
by Monica Hughes
Drought and the hole in the sky have destroyed Megan and Ian's world. They are now alone except for an uncle who lives far away. Megan insists they must find him.
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The Dream Catcher
by Monica Hughes
In a future world whose people are clustered in domed cities, fifteen-year-old Ruth, who possesses great extrasensory powers and who has received troubling messages in her dreams from another center of civilization, accompanies a group to search for the source of the messages.
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Earthchange
by Clare Cooper
After a catastrophe turns Earth into an inhospitable wilderness, young Rose sets out to find help for her grandmother and a baby, warding off wolves and fierce humans, and finally reaching a group of survivors with scientific interests in restoring Earth to its original beauty.
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The Lake at the End of the World
by Caroline Macdonald
In 2025, in the wake of global environmental devastation, the members of one surviving family encounter a teenaged boy from a mysterious clandestine community.