Dystopian - Kids Fiction

After humans destroyed the flowers, trees, and nature in 2020, the world above ground is destroyed. Only a few insects and earthworms remain, and they're the heroes of our story! A grandpa earthworm tells two young earthworms the story of how the world above...

What if you lived in a world without books? After a devastating Blight killed off all the trees, paper is worth more than just about anything. Juni's parents died when she was young, so now it's just her and Grandpa Edgar. When she's not...

Jeremy controls the dreams of City dwellers to keep the earth safe. But then he sees Callie dreaming of singing and begins to wonder if there is more to life than being safe. Everyone in the City is assigned a job by the choosers--keeper,...

Suzanne Collins continues the amazing story of Katniss Everdeen in the phenomenal Hunger Games trilogy. Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and...

The third book in Suzanne Collins's phenomenal and worldwide bestselling Hunger Games trilogy is now available in paperback. "My name is Katniss Everdeen. Why am I not dead? I should be dead." Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has...

One morning Rafe wakes up to discover his bedroom is floating in a vast sea of water. An unforgettable illustrated novel for ages 10 and up with elements of James and the Giant Peach meets Waterworld and The Road. One morning Rafe wakes up...

The Zombie Chasers meets The Goonies in David Macinnis Gill's middle grade debut about a group of tweens who ride out the zombie apocalypse on a cobbled-together train. Fans of Ty Drago's The Undertakers: Rise of the Corpses and Max Brallier's The Last Kids...

Keep your ears wide open. Bodies of water are dripping from icy ceilings. Their rhythms begin to dissolve the borders of inaudible worlds into dewdrops. Shimmering in mid-air, they cling onto the frozen blades of breathing stalagmites, resisting descent. Infecting these subterranean lungs of...

A power-hungry father, terrible secrets, and laiders await you. Back at the Institute, Dash and Charlotte wonder if they have made the right choice in returning to Diamond Towers. Toxic zombies, called the Forsaken, emerge out of the mist. And Charlotte's powers are on...

There is no such thing as happily ever after. Everything Charlotte Winston thought she knew has been thrown out the window. From the moment she opens her eyes, the world she remembered ceases to exist, and in its place is a post-apocalyptic realm filled...

What if dreams were dangerous? What if your strongest abilities made you a fugitive? Tweens and middle grade readers who enjoy dystopian and fantasy fiction will be pulled into a world of secrets, control, and power in this novel from Jerel Law, the author...

Welcome to the world of Jack Wenland, future first officer of the interplanetary and interdimensional Time Guardian Bureau. In this exciting trilogy, Jack is sent back in time from our future to the end of the nineteenth century, where he lands in The Marysburgh...

Race through an exciting and dangerous fantasy world on the back of a toad in this wildly original combination of Hunger Games and Amulet. Kayla is a peasant who cares little about the world outside her town or the wildly popular Kingdom Races. That...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author David Baldacci as you've never seen him before.NARRATOR: Nicola BarberFORMAT: 12 CDs, UnabridgedWhy would Quentin Herms flee into the Quag? There was nothing in the Quag except certain death.Vega Jane has never left the village of Wormwood. But...

Perfect for fans of The Marrow Thieves, Hatchet and The City of Ember, H.E. Edgmon's middle grade debut offers a bittersweet tale of hope and survival, a modern classic for the climate change generation.One year ago, a solar flare scorched the Earth and destroyed...

In award-winning author Kristen Kiesling and illustrator Rye Hickman's YA graphic novel The Harrowing, a psychic teen hunts potential killers until she discovers the boy she loves is her next target. Rowan Sterling should be worrying about normal teenage things like attending college and...

When Ella Karman debuts on the Social Stock Exchange, she finds out life as a high-profile "Influencer" isn't what she expected. Everyone around her is consumed by their rankings, in creating the smoke and mirrors that make them the envy of the world.But then...

Shawn's Window is just that... the window that Shawn sits beside in his kindergarten classroom. However, this window gives readers a close look into the heart and soul of this five-year-old mystery, known as Shawn. Why is he always gazing out through this window?...

Life is bleak but uncomplicated for Tess, living in a not-too-distant future where the government, faced with humanityAuthor: Tiffany TruittISBN-10: 1620610000ISBN-13: 9781620610008Publisher: Entangled PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/25/2012Pages: 296Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 8.15h x 5.53w x 1.05dReview Citation(s): Voice of Youth Advocates 12/01/2012 - Reviewed - More...

Sixteen-year-old Aronade's life has changed dramatically. She was taken from the compound and placed in a private school for the elite, a group of people genetically altered to increase their longevity. She is still reeling from the knowledge she is a carrier of a...

In award-winning author Kristen Kiesling and illustrator Rye Hickman's YA graphic novel The Harrowing, a psychic teen hunts potential killers until she discovers the boy she loves is her next target. Rowan Sterling should be worrying about normal teenage things like attending college and...

The Friend "Ly" Forest: An American Adventure in Adverbs and Adjectives represents our journey through this great country and all the incredible animals we meet along the way. What starts out as a rabbit, "Rich" Ly, chasing a dream and losing his way but...

This is a story about hope, kindness and redemption set in a grey dystopian world. When a great feather drifts from the leaden sky, two children recognize its extraordinariness and take it to the village for its protection. The villagers, however, want to encase...

One word has changed everything. Always in hiding, never safe as long as the Common may be watching, while the all-powerful ruling authority, the Common, is most certainly plotting their ruthless and exacting revenge. With one word--"Revolution"--Alpha Robins has endangered so much, and has...

The Friend "Ly" Forest: An American Adventure in Adverbs and Adjectives represents our journey through this great country and all the incredible animals we meet along the way. What starts out as a rabbit, "Rich" Ly, chasing a dream and losing his way but...

Lee Bacon's The Fall of the Robots is the thrilling and hilarious sequel to The Last Human--which is in the works to be a major motion picture from the producers of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse--about a world where robots and humans coexist . ....

The world was not ready for what happened. And in the mountains and valleys of Virginia, a group of young friends wondered what to do in this different world. Their parents and older siblings were taken away, or "disappeared," and have not been seen...

✨ Embark on a magical journey with "The Enchanted Spellbook: 20 Magical Experiments for Young Wizards." Delve into 46 pages of captivating science and magic, as you unveil the secrets of levitating bubbles, sparkling volcanoes, and more. With premium color pages and a glossy...

I wanted to write and speak with the voice of a child, dream like a child dreams, and fantasize like only a child can.I wanted to search the world over and look for differences in the children's stories. I wanted transient time and spaces...

In Wild, the second book of the Alice in Fred's Place trilogy, Rondy and her family have escaped from New Carolina and Main's unrelenting vigilance. But, with virtually no food or water and winter still upon them, survival takes precedence over the rescue of...

In this first book of the Alice in Fred's Place trilogy, Rondy Suristein learns that her safe, secure life is anything but. It begins when she is arrested for the crime of missing a Dentist appointment. This glitch in Main's instructions is quickly remedied,...

Return to the world of the bestselling Running Out of Time with this middle grade thriller from Margaret Peterson Haddix, where Zola discovers she's related to Jessie Keyser and her seemingly perfect utopian world is covering up a dark reality.Twelve-year-old Zola thinks she has...

In the not-too-distant future, Leadership controls everything and everyone, and a new regulation threatens to take away 13-year-old Wren's little brother. Already reeling from her grandmother's relocation, Wren must give up school, her friends, and the protection of her parents to save her little...

The dreams I once had as a soldier fade to nothing, insignificant as the last battle for Earth looms darker each day.Whatever makes my mind unique could provide our rebellion with an army large enough to crush the Mandate and the other group circling...

Eighteen-year-old Raquel isn't eighteen anymore... During Raquel's first semester of college, she witnesses the end of the world, only to wake up in her old room at her parents' house two years in the past. Even worse, it seems she's the only one who...

High adventure and intrigue await in this classic work of science fiction from critically acclaimed Tripods author John Christopher. After the disastrous Breakdown of the twenty-first century, the world has made a change. Now, in the twenty-third century, all cities are ordered and sterile,...

The Zombie Chasers meets The Goonies in David Macinnis Gill's middle grade debut about a group of tweens who ride out the zombie apocalypse on a cobbled-together train. Fans of Ty Drago's The Undertakers: Rise of the Corpses and Max Brallier's The Last Kids...

Dreaming is the ultimate mistake. Creativity is a crime. Magic is madness. The Regime bans arts and a single order prevails.Calista Knight is a spirited young girl too curious for her own good and an asthmatic outsider at the famous Fortress Military Academy. Yearning...

Mia finds her biggest challenge yet is in her own home when her parents reject the gospel message and threaten to have her best friend's family arrested. When she runs away from home and straight into the grasp of her nemesis, who will help...

Snow White collides with Divergent in this dystopian fairytale. The Coterie was once a godsend; a group of high-esteemed intellectuals who looked out for the people of Dyvercity. Until Estrella. Aided by a government-banned AI, Estrella's power is unchecked and the divisions of Dyvercity...

The Zombie Chasers meets The Goonies in David Macinnis Gill's middle grade debut about a group of tweens who ride out the zombie apocalypse on a cobbled-together train. Fans of Ty Drago's The Undertakers: Rise of the Corpses and Max Brallier's The Last Kids...

From the critically acclaimed author of The Ash House, in a society where emotions themselves are thought to be the cause of the illness that has taken over the world, sisters Ani and Payton must unravel a dark truth in this story that explores...

In this spellbinding fantasy novel, newcomer David Whitley has imagined a nation at a crossroads: misshaped by materialism and facing a choice about its future. He has brought to life two children who will test the nation's values-and crafted a spellbinding adventure story that...

PURA BELPRÉ HONOR WINNER BEST OF THE YEAR New York Times - Kirkus - Booklist - Chicago Public Library The follow-up to Newbery and Pura Belpré Award-winning The Last Cuentista For 400 years, Earth has been a barren wasteland. The few humans that survive...

"Visual storytelling at the highest level" -- The New York Times Book Review A boy named K must navigate a world of outrageously unkind adults in this hysterical, Kafkaesque middle grade graphic novel, with art reminiscent of James Marshall. K is nice, polite, and...

Trapped between life and death, Aiden is running out of time.The government has moved Aiden to a remote island where he faces an uncertain future. He only hopes the scientists will find the cure before it's too late. Meanwhile, James and Cecily, have taken...

Elery, a woodland elf, wishes he could be like his friend, Sammy. He thinks Sammy's ability to fly makes him better and more important than a woodland elf. With the help of a wise friend, Elery discovers that you will never be more happy...

They say we were created in a lab to be the ultimate fighting soldiers. They say that we have intelligence beyond anything ever seen. They say we belong to no one, but the government. That's what they say, but we say they are wrong.We...

"Visual storytelling at the highest level" -- The New York Times Book Review A boy named K must navigate a world of outrageously unkind adults in this hysterical, Kafkaesque middle grade graphic novel, with art reminiscent of James Marshall. K is nice, polite, and...

Emmy Award-winning actress Tatiana Maslany narrates a brand-new recording of the final audiobook in the worldwide bestselling trilogy from Suzanne Collins Narrated by Tatiana MaslanyRun time and CD count: 11 hours and 5 minutes / 9 CDsKatniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even...