Article 5
by Kristin Simmons
The Bill of Rights has been revoked and replaced with the Moral Statutes.
There are no more police — instead, there are soldiers. There are no more fines for bad behavior — instead, there are arrests, trials, and maybe worse. People who get arrested usually don't come back.
Seventeen-year-old Ember Miller is old enough to remember that things weren’t always this way. Living with her rebellious mother, it’s hard for her to forget that people weren’t always arrested for reading the wrong books or staying out after dark. It’s hard to forget that life in the United States used to be different. But Ember has perfected the art of keeping a low profile. She knows how to get the things she needs and how to pass the random home inspections by the military.
Ember's life is as close to peaceful as circumstances allow. That is, until her mother is arrested for noncompliance with Article 5 of the Moral Statutes. And one of the arresting officers is none other than Chase Jennings ... the only boy Ember has ever loved.
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Ever since The Hunger Games, apocalyptic and dystopian fiction has been especially hot. (Dystopia: An imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one.)
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- The Matched trilogy, by Ally Condie (Matched, Crossed, and Reached)
- The Giver, by Lois Lowry
- Divergent and Insurgent, by Veronica Roth
- When She Woke, by Hillary Jordan
- Shipbreaker and The Drowned Cities, by Paolo Bacigalupi
- The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
- 1984, by George Orwell
- The Maze Runner trilogy, by James Dashner (The Maze Runner, The Scorch Trials, and The Death Cure)
- The Uglies series, by Scott Westerfeld (Uglies, Pretties, Specials, and Extras)
- Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
- Unwind and UnWholly, by Neal Shusterman
- Feed, by M.T. Anderson
- The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
- Wither and Fever, by Lauren DeStafano
- The Last Survivors series, by Susan Beth Pfeffer (Life as We Knew It, The Dead and the Gone, and This World We Live In)