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We have picked our favorite books about post-apocalyptic survival. Plague, War, Natural Disasters, Zombies...How would you survive if the world as we know it ended? These titles are classified as Teen Middle School (TM) and can be found in the Teen section of the library. |
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It's the End of the World and I'm in My Bathing Suit by Justin A. ReynoldsWhen the electricity goes out, twelve-year-old Eddie and his friends set out to investigate what is going on when they make the startling discovery that they are the only ones left in their neighborhood--and perhaps the only people left anywhere.
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D-39: A Robodog's Journey by Irene LathamA robodog, D-39, and his human friends discover challenges, danger, and the strength to persevere in this war and survival dystopian novel in verse about friendship and family.
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96 Miles by J. L. EsplinThe sons of a survivalist father are robbed of their supplies when they are home alone during a massive blackout that tests the limits of their skills and sense of morality.
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Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth PfefferWhen a meteor pushes the moon closer to the earth and sets into motion a series of destructive weather events that wipe out coasts, rock the continents, and block out the sun, Miranda and her family must find a way to survive in a desperate and unfamiliar world.
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Maximum Ride Forever by James PattersonThe ninth and ultimate encore adventure in the best-selling series finds Max boldly navigating post-apocalyptic regions with her broken flock in search of answers about what has happened to their world. By the internationally acclaimed author of the Alex Cross series.
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The Firefly Code by Megan Frazer BlakemoreMori and her friends live a normal life on Firefly Lane in Old Harmonie, a utopian community where every kid knows he or she is genetically engineered to be better and smarter, but when a strangely perfect new girl named Ilana moves in, the friends begin to question the only world they have ever known.
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The List by Patricia FordeA Wordsmith's apprentice responsible for safeguarding forbidden language in a neo-medieval world where all but 500 sanctioned words are strictly censored uncovers a sinister plan to suppress all remaining language by robbing everyday citizens of their ability to speak.
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The Ark Plan by Laura MartinA century and a half after cloned dinosaurs forced humans to move into underground compounds, Sky discovers a clue to the whereabouts of her long-missing father and ventures above ground on a quest that has the potential to save the world.
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The Long Road by Christopher HoltDogs Max, Rocky, and Gizmo continue on their quest to find their families and uncover the mysteries behind the Praxis virus as they travel through the swamplands toward Baton Rouge, making new friends and facing old enemies along the way.
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Fever Crumb by Philip ReeveIn a future London, England, foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer, but at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present.
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The Last Book in the Universe by W. R. PhilbrickAfter an earthquake has destroyed much of the planet, an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the Earth of a distant future.
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Last Day on Mars by Kevin EmersonWhile moving to Mars with his scientist parents and the other survivors of Earth, Liam, a boy from the early 23rd century, makes a profound discovery about the nature of time and space when the sun inexplicably starts to go supernova.
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Above World by Jenn ReeseThe Coral Kampii, like legendary mermaids, live isolated from the Above World, but when the devices that allow them to breathe underwater start to fail, Aluna and her friend Hoku go to that forbidden place to find help.
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The Giver by Lois LowryLiving in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.
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The Maze Runner by James DashnerSixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
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Among The Hidden by Margaret Peterson HaddixIn a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to have only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.
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The Big Dark by W. R. PhilbrickWhen a solar event knocks out the planet's entire electrical network, young Charlie watches his neighborhood spiral into brutal anarchy and risks his safety to venture to a hospital for life-saving medicine for his mother.
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