Dystopia: An imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is extremely bad, as from deprivation, oppression, or terror. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition |
These books are great choices for middle school readers who enjoy dark, sometimes scary visions of disfunctional societies, environmental disasters, and tyrannical governments. Unwind, by Neil Shustermann Gone, by Michael Grant The Other Side of the Island, by Allegra Goodman The Maze Runner, by James Dashner The Sky Inside, by Clare B. Dunkle The Dead and the Gone, by Susan Beth Pfeffer Life as We Knew It, by Susan Beth Pfeffer Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins The City of Ember, by Jeanne DuPrau Winter's End, by Jean-Claude Mourlevat Lockdown: Escape from Furnace, by Alexander Gordon Smith Truancy, by Isamu Fukui The Adoration of Jenna Fox, by Mary Pearson The Carbon Diaries 2015, by Saci Lloyd The Compound, by S.A. Bodeen Candor, by Pam Bachorz Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083, by Andrea White The Roar, by Emma Clayton
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