IF YOU LIKE... The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an an- nual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve dis- tricts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. Series: The Hunger Games (1) Catching Fire (2) Mockingjay (3) Also by Suzanne Collins: Dystopian Classics 1984 by George Orwell Nineteen eighty-four is a classic dystopian novel of a totalitarian gov- ernment. We follow Winston Smith as he pursues a forbidden love affair in a world where information, thoughts, and memory are controlled by the government. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley First published in 1932, this is Hux- ley’s vision of a world transformed. Humans are genetically designed & drugged to remain servile, but Ber- nard is unhappy. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations may be the cure for his distress... Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury In this classic novel set in a not-too- distant future where books are burned because they are the source of all discord and unhappi- ness by a special task force of fire- men, like Guy Montag. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Offred is a Handmaid. She is allowed out once a day, she is not allowed to read, & she is only valued if her ova- ries are viable. She can remember the years before, when she had a job, a family. But all of that is gone now... Anthem by Ayn Rand In a future where there is no love, no science, and everyone is equal and of one entity, one man defies the group to be his own person. That is a serious offense. The Underland Chronicles : Gregor the Overlander (1) Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane (2) Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods (3) Gregor and the Marks of Secret (4) Gregor and the Code of Claw (5) When 11-year-old Gregor follows his little sister through a grate in the laundry room of his New York City apartment building, he hurtles into a dark Underland beneath the city. There, hu- mans live uneasily beside giant spiders, bats, cockroaches, and rats—but the fragile peace is about to fall apart. Descriptions and images courtesy of NoveList, Amazon, and the PCLD Catalog. Read-alikes are compiled by the Pinal County Library District and affiliate library staff. Find out if your local library has a copy of your next favorite book by checking out the Pinal County Library District catalog: http://catalog.pinalcountyaz.gov/polaris/
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I F YOU L IKE . . .
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an an-nual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve dis-tricts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
Series: The Hunger Games (1) Catching Fire (2) Mockingjay (3)
Also by Suzanne Collins: Dystopian Classics
1984 by George Orwell Nineteen eighty-four is a classic dystopian novel of a totalitarian gov-ernment. We follow Winston Smith as he pursues a forbidden love affair in a world where information, thoughts, and memory are controlled by the government.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley First published in 1932, this is Hux-ley’s vision of a world transformed. Humans are genetically designed & drugged to remain servile, but Ber-nard is unhappy. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations may be the cure for his distress...
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury In this classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned because they are the source of all discord and unhappi-ness by a special task force of fire-men, like Guy Montag.
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Offred is a Handmaid. She is allowed out once a day, she is not allowed to read, & she is only valued if her ova-ries are viable. She can remember the years before, when she had a job, a family. But all of that is gone now...
Anthem by Ayn Rand In a future where there is no love, no science, and everyone is equal and of one entity, one man defies the group to be his own person. That is a serious offense.
The Underland Chronicles: Gregor the Overlander (1) Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane (2) Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods (3) Gregor and the Marks of Secret (4) Gregor and the Code of Claw (5)
When 11-year-old Gregor follows his little sister through a grate in the laundry room of his New York City apartment building, he hurtles into a dark Underland beneath the city. There, hu-mans live uneasily beside giant spiders, bats, cockroaches, and rats—but the fragile peace is about to fall apart.
Descriptions and images courtesy of NoveList, Amazon, and the PCLD Catalog. Read-alikes are compiled by the Pinal
County Library District and affiliate library staff.
Find out if your local library has a copy of your next favorite book by checking out the
Pinal County Library District catalog: http://catalog.pinalcountyaz.gov/polaris/
Matched by Allyson Condie The Society dictates everything for it’s citizens: when to play, where to live, what to eat, & most importantly to Cassia, who to marry. When she is Matched with her best friend, things couldn't be more perfect, until another face appears on her screen.
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
Graceling by Kristin Cashore In a world where some people are born with extreme skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemp-tion from her own horrifying Grace, the grace of killing. She teams up with Po to save their land from a corrupt king.
Feed by M.T. Anderson For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon. But then a crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And then Titus met Violet…
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Incarceron by Catherine Fisher Finn has always been a prisoner of Incarceron, but he is sure he came from Outside. His only link to the Outside is Claudia, the warden's daughter, herself determined to escape an arranged marriage. They are up against impossible odds...
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Unwind by Neal Shusterman In a future world where those be-tween the ages of thirteen and eight-een can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to ex-treme lengths to uphold their beliefs--and, perhaps, save their own lives.
Birthmarked by Caragh O’Brien Gaia and her mother faithfully de-liver their quota of three infants every month. But when Gaia’s mother is brutally taken away by the very people she serves, Gaia must question whether the Enclave de-serves such loyalty.
Delirium by Lauren Oliver Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love, until 95 days before her 18th birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.
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The Giver by Lois Lowry Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas be-comes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his com-munity and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
