18 books like Who Runs the World?

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Among the enemy Margaret Peterson Haddix · 2005 · ★ 4.2 · 214p · ≈ 7h · Moderate this book is part of the shadow children sequel. a few shadow children decide to work for the population police and save all the shadow children they can. Shares: Dystopian, Young Adult, Children's fiction

The Complication Suzanne Young · 2018 · 464p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Tatum and Weston seek revenge against The Program in this heart-pounding final installment in Suzanne Young’s New York Times bestselling Program series—now with a reimagined look.Every cure has a cost.Tatum Masterson learned this after years of being monitored by The Program. She witnessed it when her boyfriend, Weston, came back changed, erased. The Adjustment came into Tatum’s life just when… Shares: Dystopian, Young Adult, Children's fiction

Among the Imposters (Shadow Children #2) Margaret Peterson Haddix · 2001 · ★ 4.1 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Luke Garner is terrified. Out of hiding for the first time, he knows that any minute one of his new classmates could discover his secret: that he's a third child passing as the recently deceased Lee Grant. And in a society where it's illegal for families to have more than two children, being a third child means certain death at the hands of the dreaded Population Police. His first experience… Shares: Dystopian, Young Adult, Children's fiction

Among the Barons Margaret Peterson Haddix · 1998 · ★ 4.1 · 182p · ≈ 6h · Moderate In a future world of false identities, government lies, and death threats, Luke feels drawn to the younger brother of the boy whose name Luke has taken. Its a hell of a mystery. Shares: Dystopian, Young Adult, Children's fiction

The Reappearance of Rachel Price Holly Jackson · 2024 · ★ 4.1 · 443p · ≈ 14h · Moderate 18-year-old Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mom’s mysterious disappearance. Sixteen years ago, Rachel Price vanished and young Bel was the only witness. Rachel is gone, presumed dead. The case is dragged up from the past when the Price family agree to a true crime documentary. Bel can’t wait for filming to end, for life to go back to normal. But then Rachel Price reappears, and… Shares: Young Adult, Children's fiction

Inbetween Tara Fuller · 2012 · ★ 3.7 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Since the car crash that took her father’s life three years ago, Emma’s life has been a freaky—and unending—lesson in caution. Surviving “accidents” has taken priority over being a normal seventeen-year-old, so Emma spends her days taking pictures of life instead of living it. Falling in love with a boy was never part of the plan. Falling for a reaper who makes her chest ache and her head spin?… Shares: Teenage Girls, Children's fiction

Ashes Ilsa J. Bick · 2011 · ★ 3.2 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Alex, a resourceful seventeen-year-old running from her incurable brain tumor, Tom, who has left the war in Afghanistan, and Ellie, an angry eight-year-old, join forces after an electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky and kills most of the world's population, turning some of those who remain into zombies and giving the others superhuman senses. Shares: Dystopian, Young Adult, Children's fiction

Children of Refuge Margaret Peterson Haddix · 2017 · ★ 3.6 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Many surprises await twelve-year-old Edwy Watanaboneset when the Freds return him to Cursed Town, including that he has siblings in Refuge City who he will join in boarding school. Shares: Dystopian, Young Adult, Children's fiction

Black Moon Lee Weatherly · 2017 · 658p · ≈ 21h · Moderate 650 pages ; 20 cm Shares: Dystopian, Young Adult, Children's fiction

Midnight over Sanctaphrax Paul Stewart · 2001 · ★ 4.4 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Twig has the caterbird tethered to his ship, the edgedancer, and is being led into a storm never seen before, on his way to find his father. Twig soon learns that this storm is the mother storm, and that the mythical place, called riverisse is real. And is torn between a simple yet complicated choice. Cut the anchor chain of sanctaphrax, and all of the edges knowledge, to save riverisse, or have… Shares: Young Adult, Children's fiction

Among the Free Margaret Peterson Haddix · 2006 · ★ 4.2 · 201p · ≈ 6h · Moderate When thirteen-year-old Luke Garner unwittingly sets off a rebellion which sweeps the country and ousts the Population Police from power, he quickly realizes that the new regime is corrupt and he may hold the only key to true freedom. Shares: Dystopian, Young Adult, Children's fiction

Stars Above Marissa Meyer · 2001 · ★ 4.1 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate The enchantment continues. . . . The universe of the Lunar Chronicles holds stories - and secrets - that are wondrous, vicious, and romantic. The Keeper: A prequel to the Lunar Chronicles, showing a young Scarlet and how Princess Selene came into the care of Michelle Benoit. Glitches: In this prequel to Cinder, we see the results of the plague play out, and the emotional toll it takes on… Shares: Teenage Girls, Young Adult, Children's fiction

The Program Suzanne Young · 2013 · ★ 4.0 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate In this “gripping tale for lovers of dystopian romance” (Kirkus Reviews), true feelings are forbidden, teen suicide is an epidemic, and the only solution is The Program. Sloane knows better than to cry in front of anyone. With suicide now an international epidemic, one outburst could land her in The Program, the only proven course of treatment. Sloane’s parents have already lost one child;… Shares: Dystopian, Young Adult, Children's fiction

Pretties Scott Westerfeld · 2005 · ★ 3.8 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Finally surgically transformed into a "pretty," sixteen-year-old Tally, now gorgeous and programmed to think only happy thoughts, is plagued by tangled memories of living in the Smoke, a rebel colony of "ugly" runaways hiding from the Special Circumstances authorities. Shares: Teenage Girls, Young Adult, Children's fiction

Divergent Veronica Roth · 2010 · ★ 4.4 · 475p · ≈ 15h · Moderate ‘Divergent’ is the first in a trilogy of dystopian, YA novels by Veronica Roth. The book is written from Beatrice Prior’s (Tris), point of view and is written in short chapters making it easy to put down and pick up again. The story is fast paced with full on action throughout. It contains elements of humour and romance, alongside some seriously brutal scenes, especially during Tris’s… Shares: Dystopian, Young Adult, Children's fiction

True North (True Born Book 2) L.E. Sterling · 2017 · ★ 4.5 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "Confession: I love X-Men and the idea of people developing different kinds of powers, be they psychic or shapeshifting or elemental control. This is exactly what I got in True Born, and it was so cool." –Dani, Dani Reviews ThingsWelcome to Dominion City.After the great Plague descended, the world population was decimated...and their genetics damaged beyond repair.The Lasters wait hopelessly for… Shares: Dystopian, Young Adult, Children's fiction

Unbelievable Sara Shepard · 2008 · ★ 4.0 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Four pretty little liars' charmed lives have turned into living nightmares. Emily's been shipped off to Iowa to live with her überconservative cousins. Aria's boyfriend is behind bars—because of her. Spencer's afraid she was involved in Ali's murder. But Hanna's fate is far worse: She's clinging to life in the hospital because she knew too much. If these girls don't start listening to me,… Shares: Teenage Girls, Young Adult, Children's fiction

The One (The Selection #3) Kiera Cass · 2012 · ★ 4.1 · 292p · ≈ 9h · Moderate THE SELECTION changed the lives of thirty-five girls forever. Now, only one will claim Prince Maxon’s heart… It’s swoon meets the Hunger Games in the final instalment of THE SELECTION trilogy! For the four girls who remain at the palace, the friendships they’ve formed, rivalries they’ve struggled with and dangers they’ve faced have bound them to each other for the rest of their lives. Now, the… Shares: Dystopian, Young Adult, Children's fiction

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