Dystopian
Middle School
Songlight
by Moira Buffini

Hiding her gift of songlight, the forbidden ability to telepathically communicate, Elsa's grief draws her friend Nightingale to her, thrusting the two into the middle of a war that threatens their very existence.
Snowglobe
by Soyoung Park

Given the opportunity to enter Snowglobe, the last place on Earth that's warm, where its residents, in exchange for fame, fortune and safety, broadcast their lives 24/7 to the less fortunate outside, Chobahm discovers reality is a lie—and the truth is out of reach. 
Into the sunken city
by Dinesh Thiru

In a world where the rain never stops, impoverished Jin Haldar is offered the score of a lifetime—a massive stash of gold hidden in the sunken ruins of Las Vegas—and must do what she promised herself she'd never do again: dive. 
The house of the scorpion
by Nancy Farmer

In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrâon, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States
The loop
by Ben Oliver

"Luka Kane has spent 736 days wrongfully imprisoned inside the Loop awaiting his execution. But things are starting to change. Whispers of war are circulating. Strange things are happening to the prisoners. And the warden delivers a message: Luka, you have to get out ... Now Luka must decide whether breaking out of the Loop is his only way to survive. But the population on the outside may be far more terrifying than anything he could have imaged. And in order to save his family, he'll have to discover who is responsible for the chaos that has been inflicted upon the world."
Alone out here
by Redgate, Riley

When the apocalypse arrives early, a group of teens, including First Daughter Leigh Chen, search for a habitable planet on a starship manned by the pilot's mysterious daughter with whom Leigh struggles for control of the mission. 
The electric kingdom
by David Arnold

After a deadly Fly Flu spreads throughout the world, survivors Nico, her dog, young artist Kit, and the mysterious Deliverer roam the earth, seeking to evade the Flies and find a place where life and love can thrive again
The words in my hands
by Asphyxia

Near-future Australia is controlled by Organicore, a company that produces the "perfectly balanced" synthetic meals that have all but replaced wild food, but Piper McBride, sixteen, deaf, and cued white, begins to wonder if wild food is as dangerous as Organicore's propaganda says
This is not the Jess Show
by Anna Carey

Frustrated by the drama that always finds her regardless of her efforts to keep her head down, a high school junior witnesses the spread of a mysterious illness in her 1998 community before discovering an iPhone from the future among her best friend's possessions.
Any sign of life
by Rae Carson

"Paige Miller is determined to take her basketball team to the state championship, maybe even beyond. But as March Madness heats up, Paige falls deathly ill. Days later, she wakes up attached to an IV and learns that the whole world has perished. Everyone she loves, and all of her dreams for the future--they're gone. But Paige is a warrior. She pushes through her fear and her grief and gets through each day scrounging for food, for shelter, for safety. As she struggles with her new reality, Paige learns that the apocalypse did not happen by accident. And that there are worse things than being alone"
Rise of the Red Hand
by Olivia Chadha

"The South Asian Province is split in two. Uplanders lead luxurious lives inside a climate-controlled biodome, dependent on technology and gene therapy to keep them healthy and youthful forever. Outside, the poor and forgotten scrape by with discarded black-market robotics, a society of poverty-stricken cyborgs struggling to survive in slums threatened by rising sea levels, unbreathable air, and deadly superbugs. Ashiva works for the Red Hand, an underground network of revolutionaries fighting the government, which is run by a merciless computer algorithm that dictates every citizen's fate. She's a smuggler with the best robotic arm and cybernetic enhancements the slums can offer, and her cargo includes the most vulnerable of the city's abandoned children. When Ashiva crosses paths with the brilliant hacker Riz-Ali, a privileged Uplander who finds himself embroiled in the Red Hand's dangerous activities, they uncover a horrifying conspiracy that the government will do anything to bury. From armed guardians kidnapping children to massive robots flattening the slums, to a pandemic that threatens to sweep through the city like wildfire, Ashiva and Riz-Ali will have to put aside their differences in order to fight the system and save the communities they love from destruction"
Gearbreakers
by Zoe Hana Mikuta

A Gearbreaker, Eris Shindanai destroys giant mechanized weapons called Windups from the inside until one of her missions goes awry and she finds herself in prison facing off against a cybernetically enhanced Windup pilot. 
Sanctuary
by Paola Mendoza

In 2032, when sixteen-year-old Vali's mother is detained by the Deportation Forces, Vali must flee Vermont with her little brother, Ernie, hoping to reach their Tia Luna in the sanctuary state of California
Internment
by Samira Ahmed

Forced into an interment camp for Muslim-American citizens in a near-future United States, 17-year-old Layla Amin helps forge an alliance of new friends and outside sympathizers before becoming the leader of a revolution against the camp's corrupt guards.
Verify
by Joelle Charbonneau

A first entry in a planned duology finds a girl's perceptions of her peaceful world shattered by her mother's inexplicable murder and her neighbors' reluctance to ask questions. 
Beware the night
by Jessika Fleck

Enduring a life of cruel servitude on her island home, 17-year-old Veda joins a dangerous revolution to fight against injustice and the boy she loves. 
Contagion
by Teri Terry

Kidnapped after her rare survival of an epidemic triggered by a biological experiment gone wrong, a teen endures torturous experiments before escaping and joining a group of kids who seek to discover a cure.
Shatter city
by Scott Westerfeld

In a sequel to Impostors, Frey assumes her twin's identity to destroy her murderous father before becoming stranded in a city of interface-regulated emotions, where she joins in the defense against catastrophic invaders. 
How we became wicked
by Alex Yates

Pursued by enemies who would exploit them to find a cure, three teen survivors of a plague that has divided the world into the violent infected and contained, isolated uninfected question their beliefs about what the plague actually does. 
American heart
by Laura Moriarty

Imagine a United States in which registries and detainment camps for Muslim Americans are a reality. This is the world of fifteen-year-old Sarah-Mary Williams of Hannibal, Missouri. Sarah-Mary, who has strong opinions on almost everything, isn't concerned with the internments, as she doesn't know any Muslims. She assumes that everything she reads and sees in the news is true, and that these plans are better for everyone's safety. Then she meets Sadaf, a fugitive escaping to Canada. Should she turn her in... or help her?
The rule of one
by Ashley Saunders

"In the near-future United States, a one-child policy is ruthlessly enforced. Everyone follows the Rule of One. But Ava Goodwin, daughter of the head of the Texas Family Planning Division, has a secret--one her mother died to keep and her father has helped to hide for her entire life. She has an identical twin sister, Mira. For eighteen years Ava and Mira have lived as one, trading places day after day, maintaining an interchangeable existence down to the most telling detail. But when their charade is exposed, their worst nightmare begins. Now they must leave behind the father they love and fight for their lives. Branded as traitors, hunted as fugitives, and pushed to discover just how far they'll go in order to stay alive, Ava and Mira rush headlong into a terrifying unknown."
Warcross
by Marie Lu

A teen hacker and competitive bounty hunter who tracks down rule breakers of a wildly popular alternate-reality game accidentally glitches herself into a championship tournament, where she becomes an overnight sensation before being recruited as a spy for the game's billionaire developer. 
The maze runner
by James Dashner

Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape
Matched
by Allyson Braithwaite Condie

Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her, so when Xander appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows he is her ideal mate--until Ky Markham's face appears for an instant before the screen fades to black
Divergent
by Veronica Roth

In a dystopian future-era Chicago, 16-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 uncovers powerful secrets and truths about her identity, her family and the order of her society.
Gone
by Michael Grant

In a small town on the coast of California, everyone over the age of fourteen suddenly disappears, setting up a battle between the remaining town residents and the students from a local private school, as well as those who have "The Power" and are able to perform supernatural feats and those who do not. 
Graphic Novels
Danger and other unknown risks
by Ryan North

Years after the world ended, Earth is now unstable due to magic and Marguerite de Pruitt and her dog, Daisy, must stop it from titling into deadly chaos—a mission they've trained their whole lives for, or so they think. 
Ever after
by Olivia Vieweg

"Stranded between safe zones, two young women, Vivi and Eva, trek across the German countryside. Together they'll face their inner demons and dodge packs of the undead."
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