"Welcome to the Arcadia. Once a luxurious cruise ship, it became a refugee camp after being driven from Europe by an apocalyptic war. Now it floats near the coastline of the Federated States--a leftover piece of a fractured USA. For forty years, residents of the Arcadia have been prohibited from making landfall. It is a world of extreme haves and have-nots, gangs and make-shift shelters. Esther is a loyal citizen, working flat-out to have the rare...

"Gonzalo, now released from the high school quarantine, travels across a ravaged America looking for his beloved girlfriend Sasha"--

"In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward...

"Rook lives in the structured community of ArHK, where she struggles to find meaning in her appointed role as the Apprentice Keeper. Gage is part of a nomadic society and has just joined the Scouts on the frontier line, a life of constant danger. Can Gageand Rook find a way to save themselves, as well as each others' very different worlds?"--

Seventeen-year-old Nat and her hacker brother Sam have come to Hawaii for their parents' Final Week. Global warming has devastated the planet, and the disintegrating society that remains is run by "corporates" who keep the population complacent through a constant diet of "pharma." The few Americans who stil live well also live long -- so long that older adults, like Nat's parents, blow out not by natural means but by buying death contracts. While...

Jemma, Lady, and Pico all left the Holy Wood to seek answers to the End, and when they find the Old Guys-the only adults to have survived the original wipeout of everyone over the age of seventeen-they think they've found help at last. But there's a lot the Old Guys aren't telling them. In fact, some of them don't seem interested in solving the End at all and just want Jemma and her friends to leave. Meanwhile, war is brewing among the tribes of the...

After a Departure Ceremony releases the eleven oldest girls back to the Mainland, Wren becomes their new leader, and she's desperate to do a good job.So when one of the girls goes missing only a few hours into her new position, Wren makes the fateful decision to leave the Hill in search of the girl-only to encounter boys for the first time in her life. Is it a coincidence, then, that the Hill is attacked while she's gone? In order to survive and lead...

"In Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 2034, a comet is due to hit the Earth within the hour. Denise, who's sixteen years old and autistic, must try to find her missing sister and also help her neglectful, undependable mother safely aboard a spaceship"--

"The Hope Juvenile Treatment Center is ironically named: no one has hope for these delinquent teenagers. When the guards don't show up one day, the teens are shocked to learn a catastrophic pandemic has occurred outside their walls. Their new-found freedom is now a fight for survival-- and there is no one watching out for them. As supplies dwindle, the group has to decide whom among them they can trust-- and if they even want to survive in a world...

We have all heard it many times in our lives. Get off your phone! You spend too much time on your phone! But for Will Hadding and his family and friends, being on their phone is the only way to survive. Will's extraordinarily mediocre life is just fine with him. But for his parents who work so hard to give him and his sister more, life couldn't get better once they win the Purquility Lottery. Winning the coveted prize means a promise of a disease-free...