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Wastelands : Stories of the Apocalypse
Through the best post-apocalyptic literature of the last two decades Wastelands explores the scientific, psychological, and philosophical questions of what it means to remain human in the wake of Armageddon. Whether the end of the world comes through nuclear war, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm, these are tales of survivors, in some cases struggling to rebuild the society that was, in others, merely surviving, scrounging for food in depopulated ruins and defending themselves against monsters, mutants, and marauders.
333 p. 2008
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 Science Fiction: Contemporary
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Adlington, L. J.
The Diary of Pelly D
When Toni V, a construction worker on a futuristic colony, finds the diary of a teenage girl whose life has been turned upside-down by holocaust-like events, he begins to question his own beliefs.
282 p. 2005
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Science Fiction
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Atwood, Margaret Eleanor
Oryx and Crake : a Novel
In a world in which science-based corporations have recently taken mankind on an uncontrolled genetic-engineering ride, Snowman (the narrator) now searches for supplies in a wasteland while recounting events that lead the world to where it is.
376 p. 2003
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Bodeen, S. A.
The Compound
After his parents, two sisters, and he have spent six years in a vast underground compound built by his wealthy father to protect them from a nuclear holocaust, fifteen-year-old Eli, whose twin brother and grandmother were left behind, begins to suspect that his father has perpetrated a monstrous hoax on them all.
248 p. 2008
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A Child Called It
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Brooks, Max
World War Z: an Oral History of the Zombie War
The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, and recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead. World War Z is the result.
342 p. 2006
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Brooks, Terry
Armageddon's Children
Logan Tom is doomed to remember the past and determined to rescue the future. Far behind him lies a boyhood cut violently short by his family's slaughter, when the forces of madness and hate swept our world after decadent excesses led to civilization's downfall. Somewhere ahead of him rests the only chance to beat back the minions of evil that are systematically killing and enslaving the last remnants of humanity. Navigating the scarred and poisoned landscape that once was America and guided by a powerful talisman, Logan has sworn an oath to seek out a remarkable being born of magic, possessed of untold abilities, and destined to lead the final fight against darkness.
371 p. 2006
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Child, Lincoln
Deep Storm : a Novel
Summoned to diagnose a strange medical ailment among an expedition crew, ex-Navy physician Peter Crane discovers that the condition is linked to the top secret scientific research conducted twelve-thousand feet beneath the Atlantic Ocean . . .
scientists are excavating the most extraordinary discovery ever made. Is it the greatest archaeological find in history or might it be a cover for something far more sinister . . . and deadly.
370 p. 2007
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Christopher, John
The White Mountains
Young Will Parker and his companions make a perilous journey toward an outpost of freedom where they hope to escape from the ruling Tripods, who captures mature human beings and make them docile, obedient servants.
184 p. 1967
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DuPrau, Jeanne
The Prophet of Yonwood
While visiting the small town of Yonwood, North Carolina, eleven-year-old Nickie makes some decisions about how to identify both good and evil when she witnesses the townspeople's reactions to the apocalyptic visions of one of their neighbors. Third in the Book of Ember series.
289 p. 2006
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Hautman, Pete
Hole in the Sky
In a future world ravaged by a mutant virus, sixteen-year-old Ceej and three other teenagers seek to save the Grand Canyon from being flooded, while trying to avoid capture by a band of renegade Survivors.
179 p. 2001
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Hoffman, Alice
Green Angel
Haunted by grief and by her past after losing her family in an explosion, fifteen-year-old Green retreats into her ruined garden as she struggles to survive emotionally and physically on her own.
116 p. 2003
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King, Stephen
Cell : a Novel
Mayhem and violence are unleashed around the world when a pulse from a mysterious source transforms all cell phone users into savage homicidal maniacs, and only a small band of "normies" who avoided the technological attack can stop the rampage.
355 p. 2006
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King, Stephen
The Mist
An unnaturally strange mist that may have been unintentionally unleashed by a nearby military base, seethes with unearthly sounds and movements and creeps inexorably into a sleepy American town on a hot lazy day. A group of neighbors trapped in a grocery store by the mist must fight the things that live within it.
230 p. 2007
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Marsden, John
Tomorrow When the War Began
Seven Australian teenagers return from a camping trip in the bush to discover that their country has been invaded and they must hide to stay alive.
286 p. 1995
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War Stories
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O'Brien, Robert C.
Z for Zachariah
Seemingly the only person left alive after the holocaust of a war, a young girl is relieved to see a man arrive into her valley until she realizes that he is a tyrant and she must somehow escape. [Edgar Award Winner]
249 p. 1975
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Mysteries for Teens
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Pfeffer, Susan Beth
Life as We Knew it
Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.
337 p. 2006
Appears on the following book lists:
Science Fiction
Andre Norton Award
Teens' Top Ten Winners
Fabulous Reads for Middle Schoolers
Maud Hart Lovelace Nominees 2009-2010: Division II
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Pfeffer, Susan Beth
The Dead and the Gone
After a meteor hits the moon and sets off a series of horrific climate changes, seventeen-year-old Alex Morales must take care of his sisters alone in the chaos of New York City.
321 p. 2008
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Sob Stories
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Philbrick, W. R.
The Last Book in the Universe
After 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.
223 p. 2000
Appears on the following book lists:
Science Fiction
Science Fiction
Discussion Guides - Children's Books
Discussion Guides - Teen Books
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Powers, Tim
Three Days to Never
When Einstein told Roosevelt in 1939 that the atomic bomb was possible, he did not tell the president about another discovery he had made, something so horrific it remained a secret--until now. When a young girl takes a videotape labeled from her grandmother's house, they find themselves caught in the middle of a murderous power struggle that originated long ago in Israel and Germany. An adventure story that blurs the lines between espionage and the supernatural; good and evil; past, present and the possiblility of no future.
420 p. 2006
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Stephens, J. B.
The Big Empty
After half of the world's population is killed by a plague, seven teenagers seek a better life in a nightmarish future by deciphering coded messages and trying to avoid the Slashers.
204 p. 2004
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