WEEK SEVEN- NOT JUST FOR TEENS

Assignment 1- What to Read Next
    While I have not had a request for read-alikes for the Hunger Games lately, I know there will be interest generated in this title and its kind when the New Movie debuts. I found many good options from the What to Read Next link, and Scott Westerfield is just one good lead.
    I like the way the read-alikes are broken down into subgenres like, Environmental Disaster: with the selections by Terry Pratchett and Susan Beth Pfeffer,

  or Survival in a Dystopian or Post-Apocalyptic World, (but I would include Stirling's Dies the Fire in this group, which is a novel very much like the television programme Revolution. In that world electricity no longer works, and everyone is thrust into a pre-industrial lifestyle and thus forced into survival mode.

 or the wonderful world of Dystopian SF [my favorite] with the now-classic Feed by M.T. Anderson; House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer; Ender's Game by Card; and Epic by Kostick.  These are all GREAT modern SF classics. These are also wonderful "starter" SF titles to give to people who want to, or are assigned to read an SF title, but are reluctant to do so.

All of these are wonderful choices for readers who have digested the Hunger Games books and are yearning for more....