The Diary of Pelly D
10 best books like The Diary of Pelly D (L.J. Adlington): In the Name of God, The Carbon Diaries 2015, The Secret Under My Skin, Fault Line, Singing the Dogstar Blues, Broken, Pod, Truesight, The Sky Inside, The Silenced
Seventeen year-old Nadia is an excellent student, daughter and sister, and above all wants to be the best Muslim she can be. But she's conflicted about her Westernized peers, the economic, social and political struggles of her country, and the war raging in Iraq. When her cousin is arrested by the...
| Author | Saci Lloyd |
| ISBN | 0340970154 |
[3.5] It takes a lot to get me reading YA ... like the only realistic fictionalisation (that I know of) of a Second World War-style rationing scheme implemented to curb environmental damage and climate change - a dream policy of plenty of hardcore greens. As I've often thought when reading posts by Marxists...
| Author | Janet McNaughton |
| ISBN | 0060089911 |
In the year 2368, humankind must struggle to survive under dire environmental conditions and strict government control. In this startling world, one brave young woman begins to unravel a web of lies about life on Earth that will empower her to discover, at last, who she really is. McNaughton vividly...
| Author | Janet Tashjian |
| ISBN | 0805080635 |
A hard-hitting novel that breaks open the gritty world of teen relationship abuse
Seventeen-year-old Becky Martin dreams of being a stand-up comic. She also craves the affection of a boyfriend. When attractive Kip, a rising star in the San Francisco comedy club scene, comes into Becky's...
Seventeen-year-old Joss is a rebel, and a student of time travel at the prestigious Centre for Neo-Historical Studies. This year, for the first time, the Centre has an alien student? Mavkel, from the planet Choria. And Mavkel has chosen Joss, of all people, as his roommate and study partner. Then Mavkel...
| Author | Susan Jane Bigelow |
| ISBN | 1936460041 |
In a post-war, future world, where first contact has been made with intelligent life and humans are colonizing the stars, the nations of Earth have been united under a central government. Extrahumans, those possessing supernatural abilities such as flight and strength, are required by this government...
| Author | Stephen Wallenfels |
| ISBN | 1608980103 |
Surviving a massive alien siege is one thing-surviving humanity is another. I'm all cried out. I'm still alone. The sky is full of giant spinning black balls that kill anyone stupid enough to go outside. I've only been out of the car twice-once to pee and once to look at the sky. That one look was enough for...
| Author | David Stahler Jr. |
| ISBN | 0060522879 |
Everyone in Jacob's colony is born blind. It has always been this way. They embrace the philosophy of Truesight: Blindness brings unity, purity, and freedom. It is an exceptional community. Everyone is happy.
As Jacob nears his thirteenth birthday, he anxiously anticipates his new role...
| Author | Clare B. Dunkle |
| ISBN | 1416924221 |
Martin lives in a perfect world.
Every year a new generation of genetically-engineered children is shipped out to meet their parents. Every spring the residents of his town take down the snow they've stuck to their windows and put up flowers. Every morning his family gathers around their television...
| Author | James DeVita |
| ISBN | 0060784628 |
In a world filled with sanctions and restrictions, Marena struggles to remember the past: a time before the Zero Tolerance Party murdered her mother and put her father under house arrest. A time before they installed listening devices in every home and forbade citizens to read or write. A time when she...
| Author | Carol Plum-Ucci |
| ISBN | 0152165568 |
In a New Jersey suburb, two women die of brain aneurysms within twenty-four hours--events that cause the government to suspect that a terrorist cell has unleashed a deadly biochemical agent. With each glass of water they drink, the people of Trinity Falls are poisoning themselves.
A world...
| Author | Sonia Levitin |
| ISBN | 0525473971 |
How much can you trust the government? How much power should you give them? How does one define “best interest”? Levitin’s book makes the reader think about issues such as these. It is set in a future-world where the locations in the former United States have been renamed, and all the inhabitants...
The gripping sequel to hugely successful THE DIARY OF PELLY D. It?s ten years since the terrible war in the cities that took Kat and Tanka?s parents. A new life in the New Frontier beckons them, far from bullet holes and bomb craters. New Frontier people are building a fresh, liberal society, without the...
| Author | John Joseph Adams |
| ISBN | 1442420294 |
Celebrate 100 years of John Carter of Mars with this all-new collection of original stories and art!
Readers of all ages have read and loved Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom series since the first book, A Princess of Mars, was published in 1912. Now, in time for the 100th anniversary of that seminal...
| Author | Jennifer Armstrong |
| ISBN | 0064472736 |
It is the year 2007. The world has been wiped out by a deadly plague that killed all the adults. Without them, children perished of hunger and disease. No more people, no more electricity, no more civilization—just mildewed houses, overgrown yards, and abandoned cars. Yet on a highway strip outside...
| Author | Michael Kinch |
| ISBN | 0738720674 |
In the year 2069, turning seventeen means mandatory Global Alliance work assignments that range from backbreaking drudgery to deadly canal labor. Trying to survive in a world that's been ravaged by plagues and environmental disasters, three "s'teeners" from the harshest backgrounds think they've...
| Author | Pete Hautman |
| ISBN | 0689831188 |
"In 2028, a deadly Flu virus ravages the earth. Only one in two thousand survive the virus, and these "Survivors" are rarely left unaffected. By 2038, only 38 million people remain on Earth. Most of them live in small communities, ever fearful of outsiders who might bring the deadly Flu."Ceej Kane lives...
| Author | Laura Bynum |
| ISBN | 1439123349 |
Harper Adams was six years old in 2012 when an act of viral terrorism wiped out one-half of the country's population. Out of the ashes rose a new government, the Confederation of the Willing, dedicated to maintaining order at any cost. The populace is controlled via government-sanctioned sex and drugs,...
The Fortune of Carmen Navarro
| Author | Jen Bryant |
| ISBN | 0375857591 |
Carmen Navarro rings up customers at the Quikmart, bored to tears. It’s a job, and she needs it. But Carmen’s true love is music: she dropped out of high school to sing with the Gypsy Lovers and land a recording contract, someday.
Just a few miles away, Ryan Sweeney hunches over his books,...
Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083
| Author | Andrea White |
| ISBN | 0060554568 |
The wind and snow blow so hard, you can't see your hand in front of your face. Your heating fuel is nearly gone, and so is your food. How do you survive?
Five fourteen–year–olds face this desperate situation on a deadly journey in Antarctica. It is 2083. They are contestants on a reality TV...
| Author | J.B. Stephens |
| ISBN | 1595140069 |
One year ago, a devastating plague called Strain 7 killed three quarters of the human race. Around the world, power systems failed and supply chains screeched to a halt. The surviving population of the United States has been relocated to the coasts; the heartland is now a wasteland called The Big Empty....
| Author | Steve Augarde |
| ISBN | 0385610610 |
Ever since the floods came and washed the world away, survivors have been desperate to win a place on X-Isle, the island where life is rumoured to be easier than on what's left of the mainland. Only young boys are in with a chance, the smaller and lighter the better.
Baz and Ray are two of the lucky few...
| Author | Joelle Anthony |
| ISBN | 0399252819 |
The year is 2041. Sixteen-year-old Molly McClure has lived a relatively quiet life on an isolated farming island in Canada, but when her family fears the worst may have happened to her grandparents in the US, Molly must brave the dangerous, chaotic world left after global economic collapse. One of massive...
2097 is a transformed world. Thirty years earlier, a mysterious plague wiped out 97 percent of the male population, devastating every world system from governments to sports teams, and causing both universal and unimaginable grief. In the face of such massive despair, women were forced to take over...
