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Grades 7-9
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Article 5
by Kristen Simmons

Ember Miller has perfected the art of keeping a low profile in a future society in which Moral Statutes have replaced the Bill of Rights and offenses carry stiff penalties, but when Chase arrests her mother, Ember must take action.
TEEN DYSTOPIAN SIMMONS KRISTEN
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Awaken
by Katie Kacvinsky

In the year 2060, when people rarely leave their houses and instead do everything online, Madeline, the daughter of the man who created the national digital school, is wooed by radicals who are trying to get people to "unplug."
TEEN DYSTOPIAN KACVINSKY KATIE
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Breathe
by Sarah Crossan

Struggling for survival in a dystopian world where air is restricted, resistance member Alina and once-privileged new friends Quinn and Bea embark on a dangerous journey outside their protective dome environment to pursue free lives in the face of dwindling oxygen supplies. 
TEEN SCI-FI CROSSAN SARAH
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Dream Bender
by Ronald Kidd

In a world where dreambenders manipulate dreams in order to remove emotions both negative and positive, Jeremy, an apprentice dreambender, discovers Callie's dreams of singing and wonders if there is more to life than security at any cost.
TEEN FANTASY KIDD RONALD
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Glitch
by Heather Anastasiu

Set in an underground society where human emotions are blocked by computer chip implants, a "glitch" enables Zoe experiencing her real feelings. She is forced to hide the truth about her newly discovered telekinetic powers that, if discovered, would prompt her deactivation.
TEEN DYSTOPIAN ANASTASIU HEATHER
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The Fog Diver
by Joel N. Ross

Working with salvagers in a fog-covered world that has forced civilization to move to the highest mountain peaks, thirteen-year-old Chess hides a deadly secret about his ability to survive while his crew leader forges an evil plan.
TEEN ADVENTURE ROSS JOEL
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Freakling
by Lana Krumwiede

Losing his powers in a traumatic accident, twelve-year-old Taemon, a boy from a world where most people have telekinetic abilities, is exiled to a colony with fellow disabled people and comes to enjoy the community's acceptance and manual labors before encountering dangerous secrets.
TEEN DYSTOPIAN KRUMWIEDE LANA
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Impostors
by Scott Westerfeld

A new series set in the world of the mega-best-selling Uglies finds Frey disguised as her twin sister, Rafi, being sent as collateral in a precarious deal in order to protect Rafi from their father’s enemies, but Col, the son of a rival leader, begins to suspect that all is not what it seems, with dangerous consequences. 
TEEN SCI-FI WESTERFELD SCOTT
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The Other Life
by Susanne Winnacker

Years after a rabies mutation drove survivors into underground bunkers, Sherry teams up with Joshua, who takes her to Safe Haven and helps rescue her family while fending off part-human, part-beast creatures known as Weepers.
TEEN DYSTOPIAN WINNACKER SUSANNE
Grades 10-12
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An Ember in the Ashes
by Sabaa Tahir

Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution.
TEEN FANTASY TAHIR SABAA
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Cinder
by Marissa Meyer

As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.
TEEN SCI-FI MEYER MARISSA
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Dry
by Neal Shusterman

A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive.
TEEN DYSTOPIAN SHUSTERMAN NEAL
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The Fever King
by Victoria Lee

A sole survivor of the viral magic that killed his undocumented family and gave him telepathic abilities is recruited into the fiercely elite offices of a minister of defense whose offer to secretly train him is complicated by the actions of his dangerously cruel, alluring son.
TEEN FANTASY LEE VICTORIA
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Internment
by Samira Ahmed

Set in a futuristic United Sates where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence.
TEEN DYSTOPIAN AHMED SAMIRA
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The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe
by Allyson Braithwaite Condie

A teen captain of her Outpost's last mining ship targets a band of thieving river raiders before the activities of an unknown traitor make her question how far she is willing to go for revenge. 
TEEN FANTASY CONDIE ALLYSON
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The Marrow Thieves
by Cherie Dimaline

In a world where most people have lost the ability to dream, a fifteen-year-old Indigenous boy who is still able to dream struggles for survival against an army of "recruiters" who seek to steal his marrow and return dreams to the rest of the world.
TEEN SCI-FI DIMALINE CHERIE
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Metaltown
by Kristen Simmons

Living day to day in an impoverished city where illness is rampant and brutal street rules are the highest law, best friends Colin and Ty work for pennies at a weapons factory before their paths intersect with that of the factory owner's daughter, who dreams of the day when she can become the family's first woman overseer.
TEEN DYSTOPIAN SIMMONS KRISTEN
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Scythe
by Neal Shusterman

In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants. The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn't.
TEEN DYSTOPIAN SHUSTERMAN NEAL
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War Girls
by Tochi Onyebuchi

A tale set in a Black Panther-inspired Nigeria follows the experiences of two sisters in a 22nd-century world devastated by war and climate change who fight against violence and political unrest to secure a safe and peaceful life together.
TEEN SCI-FI ONYEBUCHI TOCHI
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We Set the Dark on Fire
by Tehlor Kay Mejia

A society wife-in-training has an uncomfortable awakening about her strictly polarized society after being recruited into a band of rebel spies and falling for her biggest rival. 
TEEN DYSTOPIAN MEJIA TEHLOR
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