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Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Teen Reads
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You & me at the end of the world
by Brianna Bourne
Polar opposites Hannah and Leo team up to figure out why they are the only two people left in a world where nothing is what it seems before they are torn apart forever. Simultaneous eBook.
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Gearbreakers
by 2000- Mikuta, Zoe Hana
A Gearbreaker, Eris Shindanai destroys giant mechanized weapons called Windups from the inside until one of her missions goes awry and she finds herself in prison facing off against a cybernetically enhanced Windup pilot. 35,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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The sound of stars
by Alechia Dow
Planet Earth is occupied by aliens called the Ilori, and because human emotional expression is grounds for execution, books, music, and art have all been outlawed, but when an alien finds seventeen-year-old Ellie's secret library it changes things for both of them
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Each of us a desert
by Mark Oshiro
Destined to a solitary life in the desert, a storyteller longing for a kindred spirit encounters the cold and beautiful daughter of her village's murderous conqueror before nightmarish threats challenge their unlikely relationship
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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. By the best-selling author of the Unwind dystology.
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Hell followed with us
by Andrew Joseph White
"Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him...Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can't get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with. Benji is rescued by a group ofteens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. The ALC's leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot...Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens...Benji accepts Nick's terms...until hediscovers the ALC's mysterious leader has a hidden agenda, and more than a few secrets of his own"
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Want
by Cindy Pon
A tale set in a heavily polluted Taipei of the near future follows the efforts of a group of teens to save their city in the face of social divisions that enable the wealthy to secure long, protected lives while the poor suffer illness and early death. Simultaneous eBook.
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War girls
by Tochi Onyebuchi
A tale set in a Black Panther-inspired Nigeria follows the experiences of two sisters in a 22nd-century world devastated by war and climate change who fight against violence and political unrest to secure a safe and peaceful life together. By the author of Crown of Thunder. Simultaneous eBook.
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The ballad of songbirds and snakes
by Suzanne Collins
A prequel set in the world of Panem 64 years before the events of The Hunger Games begins on the morning of the reaping of the Tenth Hunger Games. By the award-winning author of the Underland Chronicles. Simultaneous eBook.
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The loop
by Ben Oliver
Enduring a tortuous existence on a futuristic death row for teens where inmates can delay their execution date in exchange for becoming laboratory subjects, Luka uncovers rumors about chaos spreading throughout the outside world before he becomes targeted by his crazed fellow prisoners. Simultaneous eBook.
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