post-apocalyptic

The Green Book, by Jill Patton WalshHow the world ends: Not entirely clear; all we really know is that there’s a Disaster, which has something to do with the earth getting colder and bluer; and that our characters escape two days before the world falls into radio silenceTold from the point of view of a

Fire-Us: The Kindling (book one of the Fire-Us trilogy), by Jennifer Armstrong and Nancy ButcherHow the world ends: A virus kills all the grown-ups (everyone past puberty?) in the world; without the adults around, most of the kids soon die, too.Set five years after the virus (remembered by the kids as the “fire-us”) hits; a

Life As We Knew It, by Susan Beth PfefferHow the world ends: A meteor hits the moon, knocking it into an orbit closer than earth; tidal waves, earthquakes, and mass volcanic eruptions result from the moon’s increased gravitational pull.A decade back, I published a scary short story, “Drawing the Moon,” that resulted in letters from

Quick takes on the ones I’ve already read.The City of Ember and The People of Sparks, by Jeanne DuPrauHow the world ends: War, plague, and famineSet almost 250 years after the collapse. The City of Ember is told from the point of view of two kids living in an underground city created so that something

Thank you, all, for recommending your favorite children’s and YA fiction set after the end of the world. (And thanks especially to bondgwendabond for pointing folks here from her typepad blog.)I thought I’d compile a list. The ones I’ve already read are in bold. The ones that aren’t in bold are the ones I clearly

I’ve been thinking about the end of the world lately. Or about children’s and YA fiction set during and after the end of the world, anyway.Some months back I read Jeanne DuPrau’s The City of Ember books, about an underground city, completely cut off from the outside world, established so that some bit of humanity