YA/Teen

Egg & Spoon, Gregory Maguire

A fantasy set in Tsarist Russia. Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside. Her father has been dead for years. One of her brothers has been conscripted into the Tsar’s army, the other taken as a servant in the house of the local landowner. Her mother is dying, slowly, […]

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The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell

From Goodreads: “Another genre-bending novel by David Mitchell also channels Stephen King and Carlos Ruiz Zafón.” This book is new as of September 2, 2014. It’s a YA novel with some environmental themes. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads

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The Stone Gate, Mark Mann

Note: This book is a free download at Smashwords. Thanks much to Mark Mann, the author, for bringing this YA fantasy to our attention. Twins Jack and Kaya live in a small seaside town in Australia. When they see a dazzling white light shining from a giant rock in the […]

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Polly and the One and Only World, Don Bredes

Thanks to author Don Bredes for joining our community discussion group and letting us know about his upcoming YA climate novel. Don Bredes’s new young adult (YA) fantasy is called “Polly and the One and Only World.” Don’s first novel, “Hard Feelings,” was an American Library Association Best Book for […]

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Hungry, H.A. Swain

Thanks to H.A. Swain for submitting information about her new YA novel Hungry: Excerpts from reviews:  “Fans of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Lois Lowry’s The Giver will flock to this story.” –School Library Journal  “In a world where you take medication to ward off hunger and a supplement […]

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Wasteland, Susan Kim and Laurence Klavan

Welcome to the Wasteland. Where all the adults are long gone, and now no one lives past the age of nineteen. Susan Kim and Laurence Klavan’s post-apocalyptic debut is the first of a trilogy in which everyone is forced to live under the looming threat of rampant disease and brutal […]

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Maximum Ride – Series, James Patterson

This series has also been adapted as manga. The Maximum Ride novels for young adults feature 6 teenagers who are 98% human and 2% avian. Later in the series, global warming becomes an issue for the teenagers to face. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads Goodreads […]

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The Grower’s Gift, Vanna Smythe

The future is bleak in the year 2102. The planet is in chaos and the weather patterns have completely shifted, turning most of the world into an uninhabited wasteland. Sixteen-year-old Maya has a gift, a power she thinks can heal the earth and make it habitable again. Goodreads Reviews Back […]

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Watership Down, Richard Adams

“It’s about bunnies,” Sawyer from LOST A phenomenal worldwide bestseller for over thirty years, Richard Adams’s Watership Down is a timeless classic and one of the most beloved novels of all time. Set in England’s Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage and survival follows […]

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Floodlanders, Wayne Marinovich

It’s the year 2025. A teenage boy accompanies his father into the Central London Floodzone for the first time. Warren Smith is excited about travelling into this dangerous, unfamiliar world to sell their farm products at a market stall. Following a Climate Change event which resulted in a three metre […]

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The Jungle, Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle Book exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. GoodReads Reviews Back to GoodReads

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Blue into the Rip, Kev Heritage

Book One of the Into the Rip series. A Young Adult, Science Fiction, Climate Change, Time-Travel Adventure Blue didn’t want to be in the future…they didn’t want him there either. A rip in the fabric of time, a far-flung globally warmed future, a flooded Earth and the only remainder of […]

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Love in the Time of Global Warming, Francesca Lia Block

A stunning reimagining of Homer’s Odyssey set in post-Apocalyptic Los Angeles, written by A master storyteller (also in audio). Her life by the sea in ruins, Pen has lost everything in the Earth Shaker that all but destroyed the city of Los Angeles. She sets out into the wasteland to […]

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Adaptation, G.C. Huxley

Adaptation is a social philosophy adventure dedicated to a new generation of readers, where again these questions are increasingly being asked of ourselves, and of each other. It is the adventure and common goals of survival that we all share together, despite our differences. Told from the perspective of teenagers […]

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