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Kayla is turning seventeen soon but she doesn’t want the bar code tattoo that everybody is so eager to get. Since getting one, her father spiraled into a depression that lead to his suicide. Kayla’s mother blames the tattoo but won’t say why. The tattoo is issued by the Global-1 corporation that has ominous control over nearly everything and it becomes harder and harder to resist the tattoo.

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In Tally’s world, everyone is born an ‘Ugly’ until they turn into a ‘Pretty’ at the age of sixteen, and Tally can’t wait until she does. Shay, on the other hand, plans to join her friend David and others that live outside of the Ugly and Pretty Towns, in a place called The Smoke. Shay wants Tally to join her, but Tally sticks with her original desire to become Pretty. When Shay leaves for The

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Gem lives in a city under strict surveillance and gated from the Outside, the environment, until it restores from some horrible destructive disaster. The City is monitored by the Admin who make sure everyone scrupulously recycles, receives their rations of fresh, synthetic, and engineered food, and performs their daily quota of their assigned work. As Gem says, “there were far too many rules [but

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To settle the “Heartland War” between Pro-Life and Pro-Choice armies, authorities in this future world have made abortion illegal but have also made it possible to retroactively “abort” a child between the ages of thirteen and eighteen. These teenagers do not “technically” die though, instead they are unwound as their organs, limbs, teeth, hair and so on are donated to, and thus continue live on

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It’s the year 2305 and Will, the son of the Compassionate Director, lives in Washolina, the high-tech sanitized capital of the Dominion of the Americas. His twin, Berk, and he have been selected for leadership since birth and as part of their training they are sent to see the Outer Colonies and the Relocation Program in action. During this internship, Will sees things he probably should not know,

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Jack’s father is moving his family (Jack, younger brother Troy, Mom and Gram), to Paradise, a village owned by Mr. Eden, his employer. Strange things start to occur very shortly after they move into the mansion in the idyllic village. First, Mom is replaced by “Mom,” a woman that looks like Jack and Troy’s mother but really isn’t. Then, Troy is removed from his room at night and taken into a

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Martin lives in HM1, a suburb under a protective dome where weather is regulated and all food and other needs and wants are shipped in from the factories that are run by robots out there in the sand-swept poisonous exterior. Martin’s sister, Cassie, is different as she is one of the Wonder Babies, super smart kids that were the last from the Stork, the periodical baby shipment. The Wonder Babies

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In the city of Noveskina, people can no longer raise their voices, not in anger, nor in song, and especially not as individuals. Their benevolent leader, the Masker, must mask their voices to unite in to one song, One Voice, and keep the destruction of an evil warlord with the power to destroy with noise at bay. At fifteen, the children of Noveskina will have developed a Talent and are then

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The following novels I reviewed for a paper on anti-utopian fiction for young adults. Anti-utopian fiction is a genre on its own, separate from utopian and dystopian, because it has the specific set up of the narrative starting out in a perceived utopia but moving into dystopia as the protagonist discovers the 'child in the basement' as Ursula K LeGuin puts it. The rating system is designed for '

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As part of a new project I'm starting this blog to have a central place for all the young adult and children's books I read for Book Stop Literary Agency, for foreign publishers and for myself.

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