Readers' Advisory -- Youth Services: Testing TEEN MIDDLE: Alternate History

We have picked our favorite books about post-apocalyptic survival. Plague, War, Natural Disasters, Zombies...How would you survive if the world as we know it ended? These titles are classified as Teen High School (TH) and can be found in the Teen section of the library.

Dry
by Neal Shusterman

A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions and turns Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone. She is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive.

All That's Left In the World
by Erik J. Brown

Putting their trust in one another, two boys, Andrew and Jamie, search for civilization in a world ravaged by a deadly pathogen, but their secrets could cost them everything as they try to find the courage to fight for the future, together.

Eat Your Heart Out
by Kelly deVos

Six disgruntled teens are forced to spend their winter break at fat camp during Flagstaff, Arizona's worst blizzard in a century, only to find that Camp Featherlite is even worse than expected because it is crawling with genetically-modified monsters

Spill Zone
by Scott Westerfeld

When a disaster destroys her city, ends her parents' lives and leaves her sister badly scarred, Addison earns money by taking photographs of the devastation for high-paying art collectors, including an eccentric patron who offers a million dollars for a life-risking image.

Any Sign of Life
by Rae Carson

Waking up from a deadly illness to a world that has perished, Paige Miller struggles to endure her new reality and learns that there are worse things than being alone.

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.

Strange Exit
by Parker Peevyhouse

Trapped on an orbiting spaceship after a nuclear event destroys life on a forgotten Earth, a 17-year-old girl is challenged to convince her in-stasis fellow passengers to leave their virtual-reality world, before a new friend begins making murderous decisions.

Hawk
by James Patterson

Growing up hard and fast in gritty, post-apocalyptic New York City, 17-year-old Hawk, a teen who is not aware of her relation to Max, gives up her search for her biological family before realizing that she is being targeted by an assassin.

This place : 150 years retold
by Katherena Vermette

A graphic novel anthology depicts the last one hundred fifty years of Canadian history as seen through the eyes of the Indigenous peoples who inhabited the land before the Europeans arrived

The Last 8
by Laura Pohl

Clover Martinez, a young survivor of an alien invasion that has killed everyone she knows, learns that other teen survivors are hiding at the former Area 51, where the discovery of a hidden spaceship makes her question who she can trust.

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.

Children of Eden
by Joey Graceffa

As an illegal second child hiding from the world and living vicariously through her twin brother, Rowan makes a reckless decision to go out into the world for one night of adventure and becomes a renegade on the run.

Scythe
by Neal Shusterman

Forced to become trained killers in a disease-free world where people can only die if eliminated by professional assassins, teens Citra and Rowan reluctantly train under a master reaper who informs them that the one who successfully kills the other will become his apprentice.

Renegades
by Marissa Meyer

In a ruined world where humans with extraordinary abilities have become the world's champions of justice, a vengeance-seeking girl and a justice-seeking boy team up against a villain who has the power to destroy everything they have worked to protect.

Black River Falls
by Jeff Hirsch

Escaping the virus that ravaged his town by robbing victims of their memories, seventeen-year-old Cardinal cares for a group of orphaned kids in a quarantined mountain camp until a mysterious young woman appears and threatens his closed-off world.

Orleans
by Sherri L Smith

Set in a futuristic, hostile Orleans landscape, Fen de la Guerre must deliver her tribe leader's baby over the Wall into the Outer States before her blood becomes tainted with Delta Fever.

Frozen : Heart of Dread
by Melissa De la Cruz

More than a century after a disaster wiped out most of humanity and covered much of the earth with ice, Cass yields to the voice in her head urging her to embark on a journey across a poisoned sea to the mythical land, Blue.

The Eleventh Plague
by Jeff Hirsch

Twenty years after the start of the war that caused the Collapse, 15-year-old Stephen Quinn, his father, and his grandfather were among the few who survived and turned to scavenging in order to survive. When his grandfather dies and his father decides to risk everything to save the lives of two strangers, Stephen's life is turned upside down.

The 5th Wave
by Richard Yancey

After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one. Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and Cassie, along with her brother and another boy, are on the run from THEM, the beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see, leaving everyone wondering who can be trusted.

Eve
by Anna Carey

When Eve discovers the terrible fate that awaits students when they graduate from their all-girls school, she sets off on a treacherous journey into the wilds of New America, searching for a place where she can survive.