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Hunger Games read a-likes
Call #: PEA
Title: Adoration of Jenna Fox, The by Pearson, Mary E
Description:

In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.

Call #: HAD
Title: Among the Hidden by Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Series: Book 1 from Shadow Children
Description:

In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.

Call #: WAS
Title: Crashed by Wasserman, Robin
Description:

Living with other "mechs" since her wealthy parents transplanted her brain into a mechanical body to prevent her from dying in a horrible accident, Lia becomes a pawn in a religious leader's movement to outlaw "mech" technology and eradicate machines such as Lia.

Call #: PFE
Title: Dead and the gone by Pfeffer, Susan Beth
Description:

After a meteor hits the moon and sets off a series of horrific climate changes, seventeen-year-old Alex Morales must take care of his sisters alone in the chaos of New York City.

Call #: MAL
Title: Declaration, The by Malley, Gemma
Description:

In 2140 England, where drugs enable people to live forever and children are illegal, teenaged Anna, an obedient "Surplus" training to become a house servant, discovers that her birth parents are trying to find her.

Call #: FOO
Title: Dirt Eaters, The by Foon, Dennis
Description:

Living on a post-apocalyptic Earth, Roan, the sole survivor of the people of Longlight, joins a warrior sect to seek his revenge, but he begins to have doubts about his new life of violence. 

Call #: AND
Title: Feed by Anderson, M.T.
Description:

In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.

Call #: RYA
Title: Forest of hands and teeth by Ryan, Carrie
Description:

Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies beyond her fenced village and the surrounding forest that is filled with the undead.

Call #: HAI
Title: Girl in the arena by Haines, Lise
Description:

In Massachusetts, eighteen-year-old Lyn, who has grown up in the public eye as the daughter of seven gladiators, wants nothing less than to follow her mother's path, but her only way of avoiding marriage to the warrior who killed her last stepfather may be to face him in the arena.

Call #: GRA
Title: Gone by Grant, Michael
Description:

In a small town on the coast of California, everyone over the age of fourteen suddenly disappears, setting up a battle between the remaining town residents and the students from a local private school, as well as those who have "The Power" and are able to perform supernatural feats and those who do not.

Call #: FAR
Title: House of the Scorpion by Farmer, Nancy
Description:

In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.

Call #: FIS
Title: Incarceron by Fisher, Catherine
Description:

Incarceron is a prison so vast that it contains not only cells, but also metal forests, dilapidated cities, and vast wilderness. Finn, a seventeen-year-old prisoner, has no memory of his childhood and is sure that he came from Outside Incarceron. Very few prisoners believe that there is an Outside, however, which makes escape seems impossible.

Call #: NES
Title: Knife of Never Letting Go by Ness, Patrick
Description:

Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.

Call #: PHI
Title: Last Book in the Universe by Philbreck, Rodman
Description:

After an earthquake has destroyed much of the planet, an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the Earth of a distant future.

Call #: PFE
Title: Life as we knew it by Pfeffer, Susan Beth
Description:

Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.

Call #: DOC
Title: Little brother by Doctorow, Cory
Description:

After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.

Call #: DAS
Title: Maze runner by Dashner, James
Description:

Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.

Call #: HAU
Title: Rash by Hautman, Pete
Description:

In a future society that has decided it would "rather be safe than free," sixteen-year-old Bo's anger control problems land him in a tundra jail where he survives with the help of his running skills and an artificial intelligence program named Bork.

Call #: NIX
Title: Shade's Children by Nix, Garth
Description:

In a savage postnuclear world, four young fugitives attempt to overthrow the bloodthirsty rule of the overlords with the help of Shade, their mysterious mentor.

Call #: CAV
Title: Sharp north by Cave, Patrick
Description:

In a futuristic world, Great Families rule Britain through a caste system where reproduction is seriously restricted, while the families keep illegal clones or "spares" of themselves.

Call #: LOW
Title: The Giver by Lowry, Lois
Description:

Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.

Call #: PFE
Title: This world we live in by Pfeffer, Susan Beth
Description:

When the moon's gravitational pull increases, causing massive natural disasters on earth, Miranda and her family struggle to survive in a world without cities or sunlight, and wonder if anyone else in still alive.

Call #: MAR
Title: Tomorrow When the War Began by Marsden, John
Description:

Seven Australian teenagers return from a camping trip in the bush to discover that their country has been invaded and they must hide to stay alive.

Call #: WES
Title: Uglies by Westerfeld, Scott
Description:

Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will be transformed into beauties whose only job is to have a great time, Tally's best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all.

Call #: SHU
Title: Unwind by Shusterman, Neal
Description:

In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs--and, perhaps, save their own lives.

Call #: PAT
Title: Witch & wizard by Patterson, James
Description:

Torn from their parents in a society increasingly controlled by the government, 15-year-old Wisty and her older brother, Whit, are incarcerated in a totalitarian prison where they discover they have incredible supernatural powers.

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