courage and survival

If you loved the courage and ability to survive you found in the key characters in the Hunger Games, here is a short list of dystopian books with a strong theme of courage. Click on title to see book cover and summary.

Farmer, Nancy. The house of the scorpion, New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2002.

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..animals.. can't understand hope. But humans are different. They fight against death no matter how bad things seem, and sometimes, even when everything's against them, they win.

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DuPrau, Jeanne. City of Ember, New York: Random House, 2003.

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The main thing is to pay attention. Pay close attention to everything, notice what no one else notices. Then you'll know what no one else knows, and that's always useful.

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White, Andrea. Surviving Antartica: Reality TV 2083, New York:  HarperTeen, 2006.

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"Danger is one with life on ice. It sharpens your senses, clears your mind. Let's you know that you're alive," she heard her grandfather say.

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Ness, Patrick. The knife of never letting go. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2008.

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Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world keeps changing, whether I want it to or not.

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DeVita, James. The Silenced, New York: HarperTeen,  2007.

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You have no right to be silenced.

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