7th Grade Reading Circle Books: New World and Dystopia

In America’s flooded Gulf Coast region, oil is scarce, but loyalty is scarcer. Grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts by crews of young people. Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota–and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or by chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane, Nailer faces the most important decision of his life: Strip the ship for all it’s worth or rescue its lone survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl who could lead him to a better life….

The advanced technology of a house first pleases then increasingly terrifies its occupants. Accompanied by questions and exercises about the text.

Seventeen-year-old Nadia lives
in Canaan, a quiet city in an idyllic world, but every twelve years the people of
Canaan undergo a collective Forgetting after which the people are left without
any trace of memory of themselves, their families, or their lives--except for
Nadia, who does not forget. Audiobook recommended.

At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate. This far from civilization they can do anything they want. Anything. But as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems far removed from reality as the hope of being rescued...