Young Adult Dystopian Fiction

A girl born into nothing. A prince who hates his family. A world encased in water. Maliyah Adley was content with life. Despite the conditions caused by The Collapse, it was all she knew. Then, her family disappeared. Reaching out wasn’t an option—the Royals would kill her if she did. She had to become self-sufficient, silently growing up in the Roots, until her eighteenth birthday, when she finally decided to swim up to the dock, bow her head by the Lavender Crystalline, and pray. That’s when Alaric, youngest prince of the Great Cherry, makes an appearance.

A dangerous secret. A deadly skill. Nya is an orphan struggling for survival in a city crippled by war. She is also a Taker - with her touch, she can heal injuries, pulling pain from another person into her own body. But unlike her sister, Tali, and the other Takers who become Healers, Nya's skill is flawed: she can't push that pain into pynvium, the enchanted metal used to store it. All she can do is shift it into another person, a dangerous skill that she must keep hidden. If discovered, she could be used as a human weapon.

The haven city of Beckenshire has been demolished, and most of the rebels lie beneath the rubble. The few that remain scramble to communicate with the outside world, knowing that if they are to stand a chance in the coming war, they can't do it alone. In this gripping conclusion to The Liberty Box Trilogy, new and surprising alliances are formed, passions run high, and our heroes learn what they are really made of. Do they have what it takes to fight for freedom - even if it means paying the ultimate price?

Time can be your worst enemy. On the water planet of Dalanda, a mergirl discovers a deadly truth that will literally destroy her world. In a caste system where no one will listen to a 16th-born, speaking up can be hard. Astrid has learned to bow under the disdainful gaze of her society. She has learned to be silent and fade into the crowd. But the time for that is over. Now, she must reveal herself and speak up to save her people.

Twins who are not twins but are much more. Sumire and Violet will come face-to-face with the greatest threat our planet has ever known. Wracked by plague, famine, darkness, earthquake, and the death of an untold multitude, this world is home to two young twins destined to become mankind’s last hope. Born continents apart and yet identical in every respect, Violet and Sumire will face our greatest nightmare. Alone and yet never alone, these two girls will find each other and defeat overwhelming odds to join the rest of our heroes in what may ultimately become humanity’s last stand.

Eisige Begegnungen mit Mammuts, unerbittliche Kämpfe gegen Neandertaler, unheimliche Entdeckungen in der Pyramide des Pharao - im Kampf gegen den tyrannischen Herrscher Nimrod musste Jason schon etliche Gefahren meistern. Nun findet er sich unvermittelt im alten Rom wieder. Doch bevor er nach dem dortigen Timelock suchen kann, lässt Nimrod ihn gefangen nehmen. Er will sich seinen Gegner endgültig vom Hals schaffen und hat auch schon einen Plan, wie: Jason soll als Gladiator im Kolosseum kämpfen!

After barely surviving the Helix’s ruthless control and escaping into the wilderness, Runa now faces an even greater challenge—surviving the desert of the Unknown Region, alone. Cut off from her friends, with only the enigmatic Caudex to guide her, she must navigate a brutal landscape where the very elements seem determined to consume her. But the sands whisper of secrets buried beneath their shifting tides—secrets that hold the key to Pendomus’s past and the war that is yet to come.

Three months ago, Romy emerged from the cultivation tanks after a year floating inside. Body intact. Mind broken. Memory gone. Now she undergoes regular testing as doctors work to find out...well, she's not exactly sure what. The tests must have something to do with the reason she can't remember her knot - the single lucid memory the other insane soldiers on Orbito Four still possess. Whatever the researchers are searching for, if it aids the soldiers in the deathly war against the lethal alien invaders - the Critamal - the excruciating pain is worth it. But a grey-eyed man has other plans.

Winner of the National Book Award, Pete Hautman pens a futuristic satire brimming with wry humor and honored by a Booklist starred review. Welcome to the United Safer States of America in 2076! Here, prisoners perform all manual labor. And the country is finally safe. Sixteen-year-old Bo ignores governmental protective devices capturing every action and word. He endures the avalanche of safety regulations. But when he’s accused of spreading a rash at school, anger and jealousy threaten to override his daily dose of calming Levulor and earn him a "job" in the Canadian tundra.

In a world where genes have been damaged and those with chromosomal defects are hunted down and imprisoned, Cam and Liddy fear for their lives. Escaping capture, they join a covert network, which opposes the strict gender and purity laws, and welcomes difference. There, Cam meets Tom. As their bond strengthens and her latent talents emerge, her true heritage and the extent of her powers are revealed.

Wanted. It's something I've had to get used to since being placed on the government's Most Wanted list. On the run, with my family and Finn by my side, we now have to evade not only the Arvies, but teams of soldiers sent to find and capture me. Little do they know, I'm battling my own demons. After the receiving large doses of mind-enhancing serum, a monster has been unleashed inside my mind. It promises death and destruction; its power, greater than anything I could imagine.

Die Rettung deiner Zukunft liegt in der Vergangenheit. Jason wächst in einem Überwachungsstaat auf. Doch immer wieder beschleicht ihn das Gefühl, dass etwas mit dieser Realität nicht stimmt: die Mammuts im Zoo. Die riesige Pyramide, die dem Despoten Nimrod als Herrschersitz dient. Nimrods mit übermenschlichen Kräften ausgestattete Leibgarde ... Als Jason eine Widerstandsgruppe kennenlernt, erfährt er, dass Nimrod die Vergangenheit verändert hat, um in der Gegenwart die Herrschaft an sich zu reißen. Kann Jason diese Timelocks finden und zerstören?

Chester Aldair is a gay teenager who dies by suicide, making him a severe criminal. In Galena, technology has advanced to the point where people no longer die from natural causes, and as a result, the government has instituted, "The Age of Volition," which is a law requiring that everyone lives until they're seventy-five years old. Once someone turns seventy-five, they can choose how much longer they live for.

After escaping the clutches of a government testing facility, William Fay and his friends hide out in an abandoned mansion where they search for a group of others like their kind. Upon discovering these others, William finds himself attracted to one. Now he must win her trust while avoiding getting caught by the government.

Der Abschluss der dystopischen Blockbuster-Reihe von Franzi Kopka. Das Partnerschaftsprogramm der Regierung ist beendet. Mae hat fest damit gerechnet, es ...

Zoes Welt steht Kopf. Denn die Deaktivierung der Überwachung hat alles verändert. Flynn wird ihr gefährlich – auf andere Weise, als sie es jemals geahnt hätte. Seine provokante Art geht nicht spurlos an ihr vorbei. Auch seine ständigen Versuche, die Themen auf eine persönliche Ebene zu lenken, machen es ihr nicht leichter. Zugegeben: Flynn weckt ihr Interesse. Sie spricht verdammt gerne mit ihm. Und dummerweise gelingt es ihm viel zu gut, sie zu reizen. Intime Gespräche entstehen, die längst nichts mehr mit dem eigentlichen Job zu tun haben. Die Grenzen verschwimmen.

Humanity teeters on the verge of extinction. Only the hours of darkness offer the survivors respite from the Sun’s deadly radiation. But despite the hardships, seventeen year old Lyra Ellsworth and her mother have carved a little life for themselves in a quiet camp hidden in the woods. So when raiders slaughter her friends and raze their home to the ground one terrible night, Lyra has no choice but to risk everything in search of sanctuary. Hunters stalk the forests. Ex-soldiers patrol the streets. Even nature itself has evolved to kill her.

Danger lurks around every corner for Melody and Harlow as they travel to a mysterious new land to discover the secrets of magic in the final chapter of The Emergence trilogy. Their shared struggles with loss and love bring them closer together than they could have ever imagined. Meanwhile, a new evil arises threatening to tear apart everything that they and their extended family hold dear. Join the whole crew in one last adventure that will determine the fate of the world and push the boundaries of magic to the moon and back.

Safety is an illusion. We're back to where we started - two sisters living under a government we can't trust. The rest of our friends are either dead or missing. Texas should be our haven, our escape from the British. But what if we've traded one prison for another?

The creatures arrived on June 6th, 2026, by the hundreds of thousands, silently drifting down out of the sky, hovering at a geostationary orbit for three months all over the planet, taking up positions. No one knew what they wanted...why they came...or why they wouldn't just go away. And then, three months later, the unthinkable happened. They suddenly came to life, hunting us down. We called them gorgons—after the mythical creature Medusa—because their eyes had the power to paralyze us with just one look.