Young Adult Dystopian

Ready Player One meets The Hunger Games In a dystopian future, Morrow Adams strives to escape his corporate-controlled existence on Earth. Logging into the hyper-real VR game called The Binding, he plays it to break from the limitations of his real life. But the real-world implications of the game can lead to something greater... or something much worse. Few have crossed the elusive Binding in the game, but if you do, real-life opportunity awaits—physical passage to a new world. But the same corporation that Morrow tries to escape from on Earth also controls the virtual game world—a ...

Something terrible has finally happened. A nuclear holocaust has destroyed civilization. For one whole year, 16-year-old Ann Burden has lived alone on her family’s farm, somehow sheltered from the radiation in the valley. As she hears the final radio station going off the air, she believes she is the only person left alive. But when Ann sees smoke from a faraway campfire, she knows there is at least one other survivor....

After America’s Second Civil War, the Pro-Choice and Pro-Life armies came to an agreement. According to their Bill of Life, human life may not be terminated from the moment of conception until the age of thirteen. But between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, the child may be gotten rid of by their parent through a process called “unwinding.”

When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that got her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government "rehabilitation camp." She might have survived the mysterious disease that killed most of America's children, but she and the others emerged with something far worse: frightening abilities they cannot control. Now sixteen, Ruby is one of the dangerous ones.

"You can't touch me," I whisper. I'm lying, is what I don't tell him. He can touch me, is what I'll never tell him. But things happen when people touch me. Strange things. Bad things. No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal, but The Reestablishment has plans for her. Plans to use her as a weapon. But Juliette has plans of her own.

After the first wave, only darkness remains. After the second, only the lucky escape. And after the third, only the unlucky survive. After the fourth wave, only one rule applies: Trust no one. Now, it's the dawn of the fifth wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth's last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker.

Dying is easy, staying alive is the problem in New York City. The phage virus went airborne two years ago, triggering the Fall. Now tropes own the night, freaks stalk the subways and the dead have returned. War has taken to the streets; kill or be killed. Mercy Dawes, survivor with a dark secret, faces down the City of Death. Will hope and love win out over despair and loss? It’s time to stay alive, time to choose sides. Where will your choice lead you Mercy Dawes? Will you live, will you survive?

Thanks to Connor, Lev, and Risa—and their high-profile revolt at Happy Jack Harvest Camp—people can no longer turn a blind eye to unwinding. Ridding society of troublesome teens while simultaneously providing much-needed tissues for transplant might be convenient, but its morality has finally been brought into question. However, unwinding has become big business, and there are powerful political and corporate interests that want to see it not only continue, but also expand.

There are still countless tales of the Scythedom to tell. Centuries passed between the Thunderhead cradling humanity and Scythe Goddard trying to turn it upside down. For years humans lived in a world without hunger, disease, or death with Scythes as the living instruments of population control. Neal Shusterman—along with collaborators David Yoon, Jarrod Shusterman, Sofía Lapuente, Michael H. Payne, Michelle Knowlden, and Joelle Shusterman—returns to the world throughout the timeline of the Arc of a Scythe series.

An extinction-level solar event forces kids, teens, and young adults to survive together in underground bunkers run by the US government. Forced labor, forced reproduction, and an uncertain future follow the survivors as they work towards getting topside again to a much-changed world. Strong female and LGBTQ characters meld together in an evolving story of struggle and conflict. This story contains strong language and some adult themes.

When Calamity lit up the sky, the Epics were born. David's fate has been tied to their villainy ever since that historic night. Steelheart killed his father. Firefight stole his heart. And now Regalia has turned his closest ally into a dangerous enemy. David knew Prof's secret and kept it even when Prof struggled to control the effects of his Epic powers. But facing Obliteration in Babilar was too much. Once the Reckoners' leader, Prof has now embraced his Epic destiny.

When the Tribunal exiled Miriam's brother, Derrick King, from the Chosen Community of Pacific Edge, Miriam promised Derrick she would help. To help, she must escape. The problem, escaping from Pacific Edge was impossible.

"Chaer-Ul is dead." So reads a sign at the edge of a ruined and long-abandoned highway. Four years have passed since the events of Martyr, and other-earth has enjoyed a time of unprecedented peace and prosperity. The popular sentiment is that Justin and Maya should be crowned. But there are rumors that an old enemy may have survived, and worse - that a new and more terrible one has arisen. With more to lose than ever before, our heroes must enlist the aid of some unlikely allies as they prepare for the inevitable conflict. Faith and loyalties will be tested, and some may fall, before the ...

Winner of the Reality Calling Christian Religious Fiction Award! What if one day, you took a different path, a bridge over instead of under? Could that change everything? Could you ever go back? For college student Justin Mayer, an ordinary day turns extraordinary when he finds himself in a world like, yet fundamentally unlike his own. Narrowly escaping the clutches of a malevolent figure, he learns that this is a world ravaged by plague, and divided by holy war. At the center of the conflict: an ancient deity named Chaer-Ul, whose motives are anything but clear. What's more, it seems that ...

"I and my two thousand eight hundred and eighty-three sisters, brothers, and half-siblings are heirs to some of the richest families in the world. We are also genetically engineered freaks..." — Allison Kemp Allison, a wry and athletic teen, faces the challenge of a lifetime when she and those she loves are targeted by RealHuman, a cult determined to protect the human race from any rise of a genetically engineered species. When a mad scientist's plan to create Humans 2.0 was discovered a decade ago, courts around the world awarded The Kokoa Foundation millions of dollars to provide ...

After fleeing the revolution and settling into the craggy cliffs of New Pythos, the dragonlords are eager to punish their usurpers and reclaim their city. Their first order of business was destroying the Callipolan food supply. Now they're coming for the dragonriders. Annie is Callipolis' new Firstrider, charged with leading the war against New Pythos. But with unrest at home, enforcing the government's rationing program risks turning her into public enemy number one.

This is Catalyst: Book 3 of the Non-Entity Series. Tea has been set free and now is on the front lines with the resistance. Will the resistance be able to take down the Foundation? Will Tea find love amidst the fight for her life? Find out in book 3 of the Non-Entity Book Series.

Powers She Never Wanted. Powers She Can’t Control… Being an orphan is never easy. For teenagers like Emily Heart, it’s nearly impossible when you’re living on the streets. Yet, none of this is her fault. Someone kidnapped her and rewired her DNA. Now every day is a struggle. Everyone wants a piece of her. All Emily wants is her old life back. A life filled with family, friends, and a future she can count on. But staying alive won’t be easy, not with powers she can’t control. Even the slightest emotion can send her rocketing forward through time, never knowing how far she’ll ...

She wasn’t sure if she was ready to be a captain, but Razar had made her one, but not on The Hippocrates. Willie was glad about that but running security for merchant ships was not what she’d expected. The Golden Fleece was the finest merchant ship in the fleet, and everyone knew it had the most valuable cargo and the best armaments. Why would even a stupid pirate try to capture it? Maybe because they were stupid, and she was sure they would try. It was okay because she liked action and with this assignment, she was sure she would get it.

Twenty years ago America Singer entered the Selection and won Prince Maxon's heart. Now the time has come for Princess Eadlyn to hold a Selection of her own. Eadlyn doesn't expect her Selection to be anything like her parents' fairy-tale love story...but as the competition begins, she may discover that finding her own happily ever after isn't as impossible as she's always thought.