Dystopian Fiction for Grades 6-8
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| Augarde | X-Isle Baz and Ray win coveted spots on X-Isle, but they find the island to be a violent place ruled by a fanatical preacher. (476 pp.) | Y Augarde |
| Bacigalupi | Ship Breaker When Nailer finds a beached ship, he must decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl in the wreckage. (326 pp.) | Y Bacigalupi |
| Card | Ender's Game Military prodigy Ender Wiggin is sent to Battle School, where he must train to fight against a deadly alien race if mankind is to survive. (324 pp.) | Y Card |
| Clayton | The Roar In an overpopulated future world, Mika refuses to believe his twin sister was killed after being abducted, and continues to search for her. (481 pp.) | Y Clayton |
| Courage | The Loudness Forced from the colorful streets of the Other Side to an overcrowded capital city on the verge of collapse, Henry realizes that not everyone is who they seem to be. (330 pp.) | Y Courage |
| Dashner | The Maze Runner Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with his new community if he is to escape. (375 pp.) | Y Dashner |
| DuPrau | City of Ember In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city. (270 pp.) | Y DuPrau |
| Farmer | The House of the Scorpion In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, a 140-year-old drug lord. (380 pp.) | Y Farmer |
| Fisher | Incarceron Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, helps a young prisoner escape. (442 pp.) | Y Fisher |
| Hirsch | The Eleventh Plague Stephen travels the post-Collapse America scavenging with his father and grandfather until tragedy strikes and he finds his way to Settler’s Landing, a community that seems too good to be true. (304 pp.) | Y Hirsch |
| Holyoke | The Neptune Project A group of kids who have been genetically altered to survive in the ocean must embark on a dangerous underwater journey to find refuge. (341 pp.) | Y Holyoke |
| Kostick | Epic On New Earth, a world based on a video role-playing game, Erik and his friends engage in unusual gambits to save Erik's father. (364 pp.) | Y Kostick |
| Krumwiede | Freakling In Taemon's city, everyone has the power of telekinesis, so when he loses his in a traumatic accident he is exiled to the dud farm. (320 pp.) | Y Krumwiede |
| Lowry | The Giver Jonas becomes his community's Receiver of Memories and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. (180 pp.) | Y Lowry |
| Perry | The Scavengers Twelve-year-old Ford Falcon learns to survive in the tough world outside the Bubble Cities by scavenging--skills she needs when her parents unexpectedly go missing. (272 pp.) | Y Perry |
| Reese | Above World After centuries of surviving in the ocean, the technology that allows the Coral Kampii to breathe underwater is failing, and Aluna goes to the forbidden “Above World” to find help. (356 pp.) | Y Reese |
| Shusterman | Unwind In a future world where teens can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested, three such teens band together. (335 pp.) | Y Shusterman |
| Wells | Variant Upon arriving at Maxfield Academy, Benson discovers that the school is a prison and no one is what he or she seems. (376 pp.) | Y Wells |
| Westerfeld | Uglies In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from ugly to supermodel gorgeous--but with a price. (425 pp.) | Y Westerfeld |
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