Assignment Alert-Sky Vista Middle School

Smoky Hill Library was recently contacted by Annie Olson, Teacher Librarian at Sky Vista Middle School. About 120 students from that school have been assigned to read a Utopia/ Dystopia novel over the next month or so. She sent a suggested reading list that was provided to the students which I have attached under CORE TITLES at our ALD Teen Services wiki in case students come in without their list. This is also a good list for other teen patrons seeking similar titles. Here are a few more that are not on the list that we have @ ALD that would also work:

The destiny of Linus Hoppe / Anne-Laure Bondoux ; translated from the French by Catherine Temerson.
In a utopian world, fourteen-year-old Linus, who is approaching the test that will determine which Realm he will live, rejects the accepted way of life and ventures to change his destiny.

The silenced / James DeVita.
Consigned to a prison-like Youth Training Facility because of her parents' political activities, Marena organizes a resistance movement to combat the restrictive policies of the ruling Zero Tolerance party.

The supernaturalist / Eoin Colfer.
In futuristic Satellite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill escapes from his abusive orphanage and teams up with three other people who share his unusual ability to see supernatural creatures, and together they determine the nature and purpose of the swarming blue Parasites that are invisible to most humans.

Do you have others you recommend?

~Monica