If you liked The Giver, then try…..

Thank you for all your suggestions of dystopian literature!  I added many of your suggestions to my wishlist.  Below is the handout I gave my students after we read Lois Lowry’s The Giver.

If you liked The Giver then try…..

The companion novels: Gathering Blue and The Messenger by Lois Lowry

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Candor by Pam Bachorz
• Uglies by Scott Westerfield
• The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson
• The Other Side of the Island
• Life As We Knew It (and the rest of the Moon series) by Susan Beth Pfeffer
• The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
• House of the Scorpion
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• The Healing Wars by Janice Hardy
• Bones of Faerie by Janni Lee Simner
• 1984 or Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Ear, The Eye, and The Arm by Nancy Farmer
• White Mountains by John Christopher
• The Maze Runner by James Dasher
• City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
• The Declaration by Gemma Malley
• The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
• Unwind by Neal Shusterman

After passing this list out, many of my students started highlighting the books they want to read.  It was wonderful to watch!