dystopias

"Now that Maddie has been kidnapped, Rosie, Louisa, and the boys are paying more attention to Evelyn's theories. As the group make their way toward war-torn Chicago, they're under constant threat of capture. Danger and dark surprises lurk around every twist of the road. Evelyn knows they need a strategy to find Maddie. But what the group comes up with may be their riskiest plan yet: infiltrating the Alliance itself"--P. [4] of cover.

"In a terrifying new world, four girls must depend on one another if they want to survive. Disaster and destruction are all thirteen-year-old Louisa has ever known. But now she and her best friend Maddie are among the lucky few being sent to boarding school, far from home. Finally, a taste of freedom. Country Manor School isn't perfect: the girls' roommates are tough to get along with, and the school is hard work. Still, Louisa loves CMS--the survival skills classes, the fresh air. She doesn't even miss not having TV, or the Internet, or any contact with home. It's for their own safety, after all. Or is it?"--P. [4] of cover.

Out on the far northern border of a failed state, Makepeace--sheriff and perhaps the last citizen--patrols the city ruins, salvaging books but keeping the guns in good repair.

Baz and Ray, survivors of an apocalyptic flood, win places on X-Isle, an island where life is rumored to be better than on the devastated mainland, but they find the island to be a violent place ruled by religious fanatic Preacher John, and they decide they must come up with a weapon to protect themselves from impending danger.

In a future world, only one man dares to think, strive, and love as an individual in the midst of a paralyzing collective humanity.

In a post-apocalyptic world of endless snow, Captain Romulus Buckle and the stalwart crew of the Pneumatic Zeppelin must embark on a perilous mission to rescue their kidnapped leader, Balthazar Crankshaft, from the impenetrable City of the Founders.

Ernest Everhard, a young Revolutionary Socialist, fights against the powerful state organization known as The Iron Heel, whose goal is to crush the working class at any cost, so that he and his wife can live freely.

Adam One, the leader of a religious vegetarian group called God's Gardeners, predicted that a catastrophe would decimate Earth. When it finally happens, most human life is destroyed. Two women, Ren and Toby, are among a handful of humans that lived through the disaster. Now they must do whatever it takes to survive in a world inhabited by gene-spliced life forms, experimental humans, and corrupt ruling powers.

A simplified edition of George Orwell's "1984," which depicts life in a totalitarian regime of the future. Includes comprehension activities.