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If you liked The Giver

By Lois Lowry You might like.... The
sequels: Gathering Blue (2000): 2nd in The Giver series
Messenger (2004): 3rd in The Giver series Son (2012): 4th in
The Giver series
Other novels:
Truesight (2004 -
Trilogy) by David Stahler Jr This Begins a startling
sci-fi trilogy about a teen boy living in a community that
chooses blindness as a way of life. When he is stricken with
sight, he learns just how much beauty and terror there is to see
in a world that is blind
Among the Hidden (1998
- 7 book series) by Margaret Peterson Haddix Luke is a
third child in a family with already two boys. This is breaking
a decree established by the government. He's successfully hidden
in his parent's home without discovery for 12 years, but a stray
glimpse through an air vent reveals his prohibited existence.
Does this spell freedom from secrecy?
Delirium (2012 -
Trilogy) by Loren Oliver The story is set in
Portland, Maine, in an alternate present. Civilization is
concentrated in those cities which escaped the severe bombings
of decades past. In a totalitarian government love is considered
a disease, named amor deliria nervosa, commonly referred to as
"the deliria". A surgical cure for the deliria is mandatory for
citizens 18 years old and over. Lena has looked forward to the
procedure for years, convinced as she is by the government that
love is a horrible disease that must be destroyed from mankind's
system. Until she meets Alex.
Matched (2011 -
Trilogy) by Allyson Braithwaite Condie Cassia has
always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her:
what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's
face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows he
is her ideal mate until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an
instant before the screen fades to black. Cassia begins to doubt
the Society's infallibility and is faced with an impossible
choice: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known
and a path that no one else has dared to follow.
The Line (2010) by Teri
Hall Rachel lives with her widowed mother, who is a
housekeeper on the Property, an estate that borders the Line, a
protective barrier that runs along the U.S. border after a war.
The Line has been rigidly maintained to keep out the Others
living in the Away: people who were trapped in the bombs
fallout. Rachel finds a message from an Other pleading for help,
so Rachel jumps into action, not knowing what she will find.
The Unnameables
(2011) by Ellen Booraem Medford lives on a neat,
orderly island called Island.Medford Runyuin is different. A
foundling, he has a meaningless name that is just one of many
reminders that he’s an outsider. He also has a secret that could
get him banished from Island forever. A strange creature is
about to arrive on Island, and Medford’s secret will be out
before he can blink twice.
Birthmarked (2011 –
Trilogy) by Caragh M. O’Brien In a world baked dry by
the harsh sun, there are those who live inside the wall and
those, like sixteen-year-old midwife, Gaia Stone, who live
outside. Gaia has always believed it is her duty, with her
mother, to hand over a small quota of babies to the Enclave. But
when Gaia’s mother and father are arrested by the Enclave, Gaia
is forced to question everything she has been taught to believe.
City of Ember
(2008 – 4 book series) by Jeanne DuPrau It is only
night in the City of Ember, but no moon or stars shine in the
sky. Lights flicker on and off, and when they flicker off, they
leave the city in complete darkness. All that people have known
is disappearing and someone must head out into the Unknown
Regions to find a way to save the city and to bring it back into
the light.
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