Young Adult Fiction, Dystopian
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Suzy and the Magic Turnip
by S. M. Dunning
Suzy is growing up fast in troubled times. Crops are failing, the world is starving, and a shadowy global elite appears to be behind it all. But when Suzy decides to spy on her peculiar next-door neighbour, she discovers a lot more than she...
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The Lost Synapse
by Brenda St Louis
“In a future where AI is banned and the race to control human consciousness rages on, a young girl holds the key to the survival of humanity.” Ten-year-old Zephyr has a very different way of being in the world. She can feel the animals and trees...
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The Creosote Spider
by Ross A. McCoubrey
Blood-stained highways weave through the tapestry of a changing world. Water swallows entire towns while the forests take back the land. The human population of earth has diminished to levels unknown. Everything is eerily quiet, so silent that...
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The Warehouse
by Bea Oertel
In a post-COVID world a hundred years in the future, wars and drought have created food scarcity, and a tyrannical world government has taken over. Teenager Kim has been imprisoned with her family in a labour camp for ten years, but she manages...
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The Silent Spaces
by Trista Lundquist
Her whole life, Lai was told that she’d only live to see eighteen years. In the seemingly utopian community she grew up in, scientists calculated residents’ life expectancies at birth, and that number defined their place within their society....
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The Legend of the Blue Boy
The Promise by Kayla Phair
The Earth, scorched and tarnished, can no longer sustain life. Geodesic domes protect food plants and produce desperately needed oxygen, while children don breathing tanks for the ride to school. Archer Larson, a bitter, lonely teenager with the...
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The Quiet Limit
by Trista Lundquist
I had come to terms with my inability to change whatever it was at this point. It was coming whether I knew how it would happen or not. What if you knew what year you’d die? Since she could first comprehend the meaning of death Lai has known...
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The Start
by Jasenka Zivadinovic
Onekine and her best friend, Foretal, live in a rigidly controlled society where everything is planned right down to the minute, their health is closely monitored, they’re forced to take medication, and no deviance is tolerated. Any disobedience...
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In Her Shadow
by K.L. Hazlett
Twenty-one-year-old sorceress Adara has trained since childhood to be a killer. Her grandfather, as head of the Assassins’ Guild, raised her to believe in the morality of their mission: to rid the world of criminals and the suffering they cause....
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Spindrifts
by A-M Mawhiney
Racism, climate change, and violence are in the past. The new world values respect and collaboration with others. But are there secrets lurking in the shadows of the Land of Hope? What truth about the past is being covered up? When...
