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Here is a list of our favorite dystopian books for teens in high school! These titles can be found in in the Teen section of the library. Please note that these titles include Teen High selections, unless otherwise noted. |
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The Grace Year
by Kim Liggett
Tierney dreams of a life outside the strict society that criminalizes teen girls and banishes them into the wild for one year to be cured of their "magic" but leaving could be more dangerous than staying.
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Want
by Cindy Pon
A tale set in a heavily polluted Taipei of the near future follows the efforts of a group of teens to save their city in the face of social divisions that enable the wealthy to secure long, protected lives while the poor suffer illness and early death.
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Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves
by Meg Long
On a frozen wasteland of a planet, a girl is on the run with a wolf who is born to be a killer but bound to be her guide. As they fight to escape ice goblins, giant bears, and a ruthless leader intent on trapping them both, one question drives them relentlessly forward: where do you turn when there is nowhere to hide?
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The Testing
by Joelle Charbonneau
Sixteen-year-old Cia Vale is chosen to participate in The Testing to attend the University; however, Cia is fearful when she figures out her friends who do not pass The Testing are disappearing.
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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.
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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
by Suzanne Collins
A prequel set in the world of Panem 64 years before the events of The Hunger Games begins on the morning of the reaping of the Tenth Hunger Games.
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Ready Player Two
by Ernest Cline
A 1980s cultural assessment of the fantastical future of online behavior continues the story that began in the internationally best-selling futuristic novel, Ready Player One, that inspired a blockbuster Steven Spielberg film.
This title can be found in the adult fiction section of the library.
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Call Down the Hawk
by Maggie Stiefvater
In a world where dreamers have the ability to pull the wonders and catastrophes of their dreams into reality, a thief becomes inextricably tied to the dream objects she pursues while a hunter races to prevent destructive dreaming. By the award-winning author of the Raven Cycle series.
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Girls with Sharp Sticks
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Suzanne Young
A group of students at the Girls of Innovations Academy learns lessons about obedience and troublesome personal interests give way to dark secrets and the truth about their identities.
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The Darkest Legacy
by Alexandra Bracken
"Five years after the destruction of the so-called rehabilitation camps that imprisoned her and countless other Psi kids, seventeen-year-old Suzume 'Zu' Kimura must use her powerful voice to fight back and save the friends who were once her protectors"
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The Block
by Ben Oliver
Fighting to retain his sanity in the face of Happy’s manipulation tactics while imprisoned within the virtual-reality world of the Block, Luka endeavors to build an army to prevent the disclosure of his friends’ secret hiding location.
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Shatter Me
by
Tahereh Mafi
Incarcerated her whole life, Juliette is released on the condition that she use her abilities in support of the dictatorship, but she soon finds herself allying with a resistance movement.
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Crazy House
by James Patterson
In a future world where teenagers are taken, imprisoned, and forced to fight for their survival, well-behaved Cassie will do whatever it takes to save her rebellious twin sister from Death Row.
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Ash and Quill
by Rachel Caine
Imprisoned in Philadelphia after fleeing London, Jess and his band of exiles confront book-burning adversaries before striking a bargain to share their knowledge about a machine capable of breaking the Library's rule.
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Replica : Lyra / Gemma
by Lauren Oliver
Escaping from the clandestine research facility where they were created, two replicas, or human models known more by their numerical designations than by their individual names, team up with a sickly girl who has mysterious family ties to the facility.
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Grace and Fury
by Tracy E Banghart
Two sisters, one a consort destined to be a symbol of perfect female subjugation, the other a prisoner taking the fall for her sister's dangerous secret, contemplate an impossible sacrifice while navigating the machinations of a traitor in their midst.
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The Giver
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P. Craig Russell
Presenting a graphic novelization of Lois Lowry's novel. Jonas, a boy from a seemingly Utopian, futuristic world, receives special training from The Giver, who alone holds the memories of the true joys and pain of life.
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Atlantia
by Allyson Braithwaite Condie
Rio has waited her whole life for the opportunity to leave the sheltered, underwater city of Atlantia for life on the surface, but when Rio is forced to remain below, she is left with increasingly dangerous questions about the complex system constructed to govern the fragile divide between land and sea.
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Flawed
by Cecelia Ahern
A popular and dutiful girl in a society where obedience is paramount and rebellion is harshly punished is compelled to make an instinctive, rule-breaking decision at the risk of life-changing repercussions.
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Firstlife
by Gena Showalter
Locked in an asylum for her refusal to let her parents dictate her afterlife choices, Ten Lockwood finds herself caught in a violent power struggle between the two leading Everlife realms that would do anything to claim her powerful soul.
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