dystopias

Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.

In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.

Darrow, a Red, which is the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future, joins a revolutionary cell and attempts to infiltrate an elite military academy after witnessing the execution of his wife.

Winston Smith, a worker at the Ministry of Truth in the political entity of Oceania, puts his life on the line when he joins a covert brotherhood in rebelling against the Party that controls all human thought and action.

In a future of ecological disaster, the wealthy live so long they choose when to die. On a good-bye trip with their parents, Nat and Sam learn there is more to the world--and their family--than they knew.

In harsh, factory-driven Metaltown, Ty endures the hardships of working on the factory line, while Lena is being prepared to rule her family factory ruthlessly, until both young women meet a dreamer named Colin, who changes everything.

London is a ruin, destroyed by German bombs, ravaged by the Horologia virus, and ruled by the ruthless Captain Hanz Otto Oswald Kretschmer, whose Marauders search for and seize the children who are immune to the virus in the hope that their blood will produce a cure--their latest victim is sixteen-year-old Gwen Darling's younger sister and Gwen will do anything to get her back, even join up with Pete and his gang of Lost Boys living in a city hidden underground.

When a boy named Seth drowns and awakens in an unknown location, he has no idea where he is or how he got there. As he searches for answers, he tries to uncover the truth behind his supposed death and whether he now exists in the land of the living or the dead.

Shion and Rat try to break Safu out of No. 6's correctional facility while armored vehicles are in West Block.