What are Some YA Books that Focus on Escape and Rescue
March 25, 2017 4:56 AM Subscribe
Other than the big dystopian books (Hunger Games, Divergent, the Maze Runner) in the YA genre, please tell me the names of some books that focus on escape and rescue stories (or the reverse -- rescue and escape). I'm specifically interested in ones that happen here on earth rather than in made up societies, though I will take a made up society if necessary. I prefer futuristic ones or contemporary ones to historical as well.
The Grounding of Group 6 by Julian F Thompson
posted by prewar lemonade at 6:03 AM on March 25, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by prewar lemonade at 6:03 AM on March 25, 2017 [1 favorite]
I knew I remembered another one! The True Confession of Charlotte Doyle
posted by CMcG at 6:17 AM on March 25, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by CMcG at 6:17 AM on March 25, 2017 [1 favorite]
The Drowned Cities by Paolo Bacigalupi
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld (part of a series)
The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan (part of a series)
Dove Arising by Karen Bao (part of a series)
The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh (retelling of Arabian Nights; has a sequel)
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (fantasy, non-earth; has a sequel)
posted by carrioncomfort at 7:38 AM on March 25, 2017
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld (part of a series)
The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan (part of a series)
Dove Arising by Karen Bao (part of a series)
The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh (retelling of Arabian Nights; has a sequel)
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (fantasy, non-earth; has a sequel)
posted by carrioncomfort at 7:38 AM on March 25, 2017
I think John Christopher's Tripod Trilogy would qualify.
posted by chinston at 7:47 AM on March 25, 2017
posted by chinston at 7:47 AM on March 25, 2017
The Choose Your Own Adventure book Escape.
It is about an agent (you) and your group escaping from a totalitarian state formed out of the southwest US after societal breakdown. You have to flee to your homeland in the north, a democracy based in Denver.
CYOA may be a little on the young side for what one normally thinks for YA, but this one is pretty serious with subject matter that is rather adult. The only real drawback for a bright young adult would be the lack of repeat readability after a few times through.
posted by Fukiyama at 8:49 AM on March 25, 2017
It is about an agent (you) and your group escaping from a totalitarian state formed out of the southwest US after societal breakdown. You have to flee to your homeland in the north, a democracy based in Denver.
CYOA may be a little on the young side for what one normally thinks for YA, but this one is pretty serious with subject matter that is rather adult. The only real drawback for a bright young adult would be the lack of repeat readability after a few times through.
posted by Fukiyama at 8:49 AM on March 25, 2017
Also a little young, by This Time of Darkness by H. M. Hoover is about children who escape from a totalitarian underground city. (It's one of those books that etched itself into my young brain, but I haven't reread it as an adult.)
posted by BrashTech at 10:43 AM on March 25, 2017
posted by BrashTech at 10:43 AM on March 25, 2017
The City of Ember series. (Don't watch the Ember movie though. It's a hatchet job.)
posted by BlueJae at 7:40 PM on March 25, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by BlueJae at 7:40 PM on March 25, 2017 [1 favorite]
I think John Christopher's Tripod Trilogy would qualify.The Tripods trilogy (as well as his Sword of the Spirits trilogy and A Dusk of Demons) are more post-apocalypse than dystopian.
The Guardians or Wild Jack are future dystopian settings recognisably derived from modern(-ish) societies, each approaching a similar story from opposite directions. They tend to the younger end of YA, though they stand up remarkably well to older and adult reading.
posted by Pinback at 8:40 PM on March 25, 2017
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