[aisle] Dystopian book, no violence

Wed Feb 12 11:24:38 CST 2020

You can look up titles at Common Sense Media.  To get specifics for categories like violence, click on the category.
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews/life-as-we-knew-it
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This is one terrifying book, more so because it's largely concerned with the mundane -- food, water, heat. The author is very clever here, though: She has chosen a possible but very unlikely event (disruption of the moon's orbit) as the catalyst for the story, providing a little distance for those who need it, but the results of the moon's change are all too similar to much more likely ...
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Subject: Re: [aisle] Dystopian book, no violence

I would be careful about recommending  Life As We Knew It  to an "ultra-conservative" student. Although there may not be violence, I recall a rather creepy relationship that the protagonist's best friend, a teen girl, develops with an older man.

Memory Boy by Will Weaver is another title that comes to my mind-- if it's ok that the survival angle follows a natural disaster (as in Life As We Knew It) rather than a governmental situation.

On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 10:32 AM Christine Wilson via AISLE <aisle at list.railslibraries.info<mailto:aisle at list.railslibraries.info>> wrote:
Life as we Knew It by Susan Pfeffer? #2 and 3 in the series have some violence, but #1 is more philosophical.

On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 10:24 AM Timmons, Heather via AISLE <aisle at list.railslibraries.info<mailto:aisle at list.railslibraries.info>> wrote:
Hi there..

I have an ultra conservative student.  Her 8th grade class is ready Dystopian.  Her parents have requested she read a book in this genre but with NO violence.  Any ideas?

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