SURVIVING DYSTOPIA – YOUNG ADULT FICTION & POETRY
In Last Chance Live! by Helena Haywoode Henry, a teenage girl on death row competes on a reality show and must decide what forgiveness, family, and freedom mean when the stakes are literally life or death. In The L.O.V.E. Club by Lio Min, three estranged teens must survive being pulled into a video game created by their missing friend, but can they stay the course when hard truths confront them alongside the game bosses? In the genre-bending novel-in-verse, This Is The Year by Gloria Muñoz, a teen girl is enlisted to help establish humanity’s first extraterrestrial settlement and must decide if she’ll carry her losses together with her community or leave it all behind.
