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Apocalypse & Dystopia
What if it's the end of the world as we know it? What if the world has gone horribly wrong?
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  Cover Art: Enclave Aguirre, Ann
Enclave
In a post-apocalyptic future, fifteen-year-old Deuce, a loyal Huntress, brings back meat while avoiding the Freaks outside her enclave, but when she is partnered with the mysterious outsider, Fade, she begins to see that the strict ways of the elders may be wrong-- and dangerous.
262 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: X-Isle Augarde, Steve
X-Isle
Baz and Ray, survivors of an apocalyptic flood, win places on X-Isle, an island where life is rumored to be better than on the devastated mainland, but they find the island to be a violent place ruled by religious fanatic Preacher John, and they decide they must come up with a weapon to protect themselves from impending danger.
476 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Pure Baggott, Julianna.
Pure
In a post-apocalyptic world, Pressia, a sixteen-year-old survivor with a doll's head fused onto her left hand meets Partridge, a "Pure" dome-dweller who is searching for his mother, sure that she has survived the cataclysm.
434 p. 2012
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Ashes Bick, Ilsa J.
Ashes
Seventeen-year-old Alex, veteran Tom and eight-year-old Ellie, join forces after an electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky and kills most of the world's population, turning some of those who remain into zombies and giving the others superhuman senses.
465 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Taken Bloor, Edward, 1950-
Taken
In 2036 kidnapping rich children has become an industry, but when thirteen-year-old Charity Meyers is taken and held for ransom, she soon discovers that this particular kidnapping is not what it seems.
247 p. 2007
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: World War Z: an Oral History of the Zombie War Brooks, Max
World War Z: an Oral History of the Zombie War
The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven to preserve the first-hand experiences of the survivors of those apocalyptic years, traveled throughout the world to record the testimony of men, women and children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead.
342 p. 2006
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  Cover Art: The Hunger Games Collins, Suzanne
The Hunger Games
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
374 p. 2008
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: The Maze Runner Dashner, James
The Maze Runner
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze. Just like Thomas, the Gladers don’t know why or how they got to the Glade. All they know is that every morning the stone doors to the maze that surrounds them have opened. Every night they’ve closed tight. And every 30 days a new boy has been delivered in the lift.
375 p. 2009
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Wither DeStefano, Lauren
Wither
After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world.
358 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Dark Life Falls, Kat.
Dark Life
When fifteen-year-old Ty, who has always lived on the ocean floor, joins Topside girl Gemma in the frontier's underworld to seek and stop outlaws who threaten his home, they learn that the government may pose an even greater threat.
297 p. 2010
Children's Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Shades of Grey: the Road to High Saffron Fforde, Jasper.
Shades of Grey: the Road to High Saffron
Color Control Agency employee and House of Red member Eddie Russet experiences discontent with his limited vision when he meets Gray Nightseer Jane, who suggests that their color-blind world was brought about by a disaster that nobody is allowed to acknowledge.
390 p. 2009
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: The Dark City Fisher, Catherine
The Dark City
Sixteen-year-old Raffi, Master Galen, and a mysterious traveler, Carys, enter the ruined city of Tasceron seeking a relic that may save the world, while evading the Watch, a brutal organization opposed to the Order to which Raffi and Galen belong.
376 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Incarceron Fisher, Catherine
Incarceron
To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.
442 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: The Line Hall, Teri
The Line
Rachel thinks that she and her mother are safe working for Ms. Moore at her estate close to The Line, an invisible border of the Unified States, but when Rachel has an opportunity to Cross into the forbidden zone, she is both frightened and intrigued.
219 p. 2010
Children's Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Nomansland Hauge, Lesley
Nomansland
Living under a strict code of conduct in an all-female community 500 years after the earth's destruction, a sensitive teenaged girl raised to be a hunter discovers forbidden relics from the Time Before.
243 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: The Enemy Higson, Charles
The Enemy
After a disease turns everyone over sixteen into brainless, decomposing, flesh-eating creatures, a group of teenagers leave their shelter and set out of a harrowing journey across London to the safe haven of Buckingham Palace.
440 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: The Eleventh Plague Hirsch, Jeff
The Eleventh Plague
Fifteen-year-old Stephen, his father, and grandfather travel post-Collapse America scavenging, but 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.
278 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: The Immortal Rules Kagawa, Julie
The Immortal Rules
After Allison is forced to flee the city, she joins a band of humans who are seeking a legend -- a possible cure to the disease that killed off most of humankind and created the creatures threatening humans and vampires alike.
504 p. 2012
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Darkness Becomes her Keaton, Kelly
Darkness Becomes her
In post-apocalyptic New Orleans, now a sanctuary for supernatural beings, a hardened teenager on the run searches for the truth about her monstrous heritage and discovers a curse that could ignite the ancient war between gods and monsters.
273 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: The Limit Landon, Kristen
The Limit
When his family exceeds its legal debt limit, thirteen-year-old Matt is sent to the Federal Debt Rehabilitation Agency workhouse, where he discovers illicit activities are being carried out using the children who have been placed there.
291 p. 2010
Children's Fiction Book
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