Recommended for High School
Students
Birthmarked by Caragh O’Brien
In a future world baked dry by the sun and
divided into those who live inside the wall
and those who live outside it, sixteen-yearold midwife Gaia Stone is forced into a
difficult choice when her parents are arrested and taken into the city.
Black Hole Sun by David Macinnis Gill
On the planet Mars, sixteen-year-old Durango and his crew of mercenaries are
hired by the settlers of a mining community to protect their most valuable resource from a feral band of marauders.
Enclave by Ann Aguirre
In a post-apocalyptic future, Deuce, a loyal
Huntress, brings back meat while avoiding
the Freaks outside her enclave, but when
she is partnered with the mysterious outsider, Fade, she begins to see that the strict
ways of the elders may be wrong--and dangerous.
Girl in the Arena by Lisa Haines
Lyn, who has grown up in the public eye
as the daughter of seven gladiators, wants
nothing less than to follow her mother's
path, but her only way of avoiding marriage to the warrior who killed her last
stepfather may be to face him in the arena.
Little Brother by Cory Doctrow
After being interrogated for days by the
Department of Homeland Security in the
aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San
Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old
Marcus, released into what is now a police
state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking
to set things right.
Wither by Lauren DeStefano
After modern science turns every human
into a genetic time bomb with men dying
at age twenty-five and women dying at age
twenty, girls are kidnapped and married
off in order to repopulate the world.
Look For These Hunger Games
Related Books & Movie Tie-Ins
The Girl Who Was On Fire: Your Favorite Authors on
Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games Trilogy
edited by Leah Wilson
Presents a collection of essays about the trilogy Hunger
Games by author Suzanne Collins, discussing the major
themes, characters, and social and political commentary
contained in the works.
I f Yo u L i k e d t h e
Hunger Games...
The Hunger Games: Official Illustrated Movie
Companion by Kate Egan
Go behind the scenes of the making of The Hunger Games
with exclusive images and interviews.
The Hunger Games Tribute Guide by Emily Seife
Here is the ultimate guide to the twenty-four Tributes
participating in Panem's 74th annual Hunger Games.
The Unofficial Hunger Games Cookbook: From Lamb
Stew to “Groosling”—More Than 150 Recipes Inspired by
the Hunger Games Trilogy
by Emily Ensara Baines
Presents recipes inspired by the Hunger Games novel
trilogy, including such dishes as lamb stew, roasted
parsnips, and dark chocolate cake.
The Hunger Games Companion: The Unauthorized Guide
to the Series by Lois Gresh
The ultimate companion guide to the blockbuster Hunger
Games trilogy. For all those who adore Katniss and Peeta,
and can't get enough.
The World of the Hunger Games by Kate Egan
This is the definitive, full-color guide to Panem. Gorgeous
photographs from the movie make this a rich visual
dictionary for the incredible world that Suzanne Collins
created and that has come to life on the big screen.
And Don’t Forget…
The Hunger Games: Songs From District 12 and Beyond
Music from the Decemberists, Taylor Swift, Maroon 5,
Arcade Fire and more!
This guide prepared for the South Kingstown Public
Library by Brandi Kenyon. March 2012
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Recommended for
All Teens
Blood Red Road by Moira Young
In a distant future, Lugh is kidnapped, and while his twin sister
Saba and nine-year-old Emmi are
trailing him across bleak Sandsea
they are captured, too, and taken to
brutal Hopetown, where Saba is
forced to be a cage fighter until new friends help
plan an escape.
Divergent by Veronica Roth
In a future Chicago, Bea must choose
among five factions to define her
identity for the rest of her life, a
decision made more difficult when
she discovers that she’s an anomaly
who doesn’t fit into any one group,
and that the society she lives in is not perfect
after all.
The Eleventh Plague by Jeff Hirsch
Twenty years after the start of the
war that caused the Collapse,
Stephen, his father, and grandfather travel post-Collapse America
scavenging, but when his grandfather dies and his father decides to
risk everything to save the lives of two strangers, Stephen's life is turned upside down.
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Young Ender Wiggin may prove to
be the military genius Earth needs
to fight a desperate battle against a
deadly alien race that will determine the future of the human race.
Epic by Conor Kostick
On New Earth, a world based on a
video role-playing game, fourteenyear-old Erik pursuades his friends
to aid him in some unusual gambits
in order to save Erik's father from
exile and safeguard the futures of
each of their families.
Recommended for
All Teens
Gone by Michael Grant
In a small town on the coast of California, everyone
over the age of fourteen suddenly disappears, setting up a battle between the remaining town residents and the students from a local private school.
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa
struggles for redemption from her own horrifying
Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.
Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick
After an earthquake has destroyed much of the
planet, an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence
back to the Earth of a distant future.
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda
describes her family's struggle to survive after a
meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis,
earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.
Maze Runner by James Dashner
Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle
of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
Rash by Pete Hautman
In a future society that has decided it would "rather
be safe than free," sixteen-year-old Bo's anger control problems land him in a tundra jail where he
survives with the help of his running skills and an
artificial intelligence program named Bork.
Recommended for
All Teens
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
In the near-future, salvager Nailer
has the chance of a lifetime when a
yacht washes up after a storm.
When he finds a survivor on board,
he must decide whether to save
her life or enrich his own.
Surviving Antartica: Reality TV
2083 by Andrea White
In the year 2083, five fourteenyear-olds who were deprived by
chance of the opportunity to continue their educations reenact
Scott's 1910-1913 expedition to the South Pole
as contestants on a reality television show, secretly aided by a Department of Entertainment
employee.
Worldshaker by Richard Harland
Col Porpentine is being groomed as
the next Commander of Worldshaker, a juggernaut where elite
families live on the upper decks
while the Filthies toil below, but
when he meets Riff, a Filthy girl on
the run, he discovers how ignorant he is of his
home and its residents.
“May the odds be ever in
your favor…”