March 2013 young adult book releases: YA Dystopian and Post Apocalyptic

Title: “MILA 2.0” (MILA 2.0 #1)Author:  Debra DrizaRelease date: March 12, 2013Format:  HardcoverLength:  480 pagesPublisher:  Katherine Tegen BooksMila was living with her mother in a small town when she remembers her past and learns the truth about her identity - neither of which were supposed to happen.  Now, she knows too much and has to run from dangerous operatives and a mysterious group who wants to unlock her technology.  Evading enemies doesn’t help Mila cope with who she really is and everything she’s had to leave behind.  However, everything she can do is beyond anyone’s expectations, and that might just save her life.Purchase here.Title: “Fox Forever” (Jenna Fox Chronicles #3)Author: Mary E. PearsonRelease Date: March 19, 2013Format: HardcoverLength: 304 pagesPublisher:  Henry Holt and Co.After 260 years of disembodiment, Locke Jenkins has a new body.  Prior to moving on with his new life, he has to return the Favor he accepted from the Network, the resistance group.  Locke must gain the trust of Raine, a daughter to a government official.  Soon, he finds himself deep in the world of the resistance, and intertwined with Raine’s life.  Locke finds that true humanity takes more than just flesh and blood.Purchase here.Title:  "The Culling" (The Torch Keeper #1)Author:  Steven dos SantosRelease date: March 8, 2013Format: PaperbackLength: 421 pagesPublisher: FluxFor Lucky Spark, Recruitment Day means being forced to become one of five Recruits to join the ruthless task force run by the Establishment.  If he fails out at any level of violent training, he must choose one family member to die.  For Lucky, that’s his four-year-old brother, and only living relative, Cole.  As Lucky trains, he finds himself attracted to other Recruit, Digory.  Caring for another Recruit can be extremely dangerous, and Lucky learns that the consequences can be deadly.Purchase here.View the list »
One of the many YA Dystopian March 2013 releases

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These books are being released in March 2013. They fit into the YA Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic genres.

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  • Title:  "The Culling" (The Torch Keeper #1)Author:  Steven dos SantosRelease date: March 8, 2013Format: PaperbackLength: 421 pagesPublisher: FluxFor Lucky Spark, Recruitment Day means being forced to become one of five Recruits to join the ruthless task force run by the Establishment.  If he fails out at any level of violent training, he must choose one family member to die.  For Lucky, that’s his four-year-old brother, and only living relative, Cole.  As Lucky trains, he finds himself attracted to other Recruit, Digory.  Caring for another Recruit can be extremely dangerous, and Lucky learns that the consequences can be deadly.Purchase here.
  • Title: “Fox Forever” (Jenna Fox Chronicles #3)Author: Mary E. PearsonRelease Date: March 19, 2013Format: HardcoverLength: 304 pagesPublisher:  Henry Holt and Co.After 260 years of disembodiment, Locke Jenkins has a new body.  Prior to moving on with his new life, he has to return the Favor he accepted from the Network, the resistance group.  Locke must gain the trust of Raine, a daughter to a government official.  Soon, he finds himself deep in the world of the resistance, and intertwined with Raine’s life.  Locke finds that true humanity takes more than just flesh and blood.Purchase here.
  • Title: “MILA 2.0” (MILA 2.0 #1)Author:  Debra DrizaRelease date: March 12, 2013Format:  HardcoverLength:  480 pagesPublisher:  Katherine Tegen BooksMila was living with her mother in a small town when she remembers her past and learns the truth about her identity - neither of which were supposed to happen.  Now, she knows too much and has to run from dangerous operatives and a mysterious group who wants to unlock her technology.  Evading enemies doesn’t help Mila cope with who she really is and everything she’s had to leave behind.  However, everything she can do is beyond anyone’s expectations, and that might just save her life.Purchase here.
  • Title:  “Orleans”Author: Sherri L. SmithRelease date: March 7, 2013Format: HardcoverLength:  336 pagesPublisher:  Putnam JuvenileAfter the hurricanes brought about Delta Fever, the Gulf Coast was quarantined.  Years later, everyone assumes that life in the Delta is dead, but instead, it’s now a primitive society.  Fen de la Guerre is living with an O-Positive tribe when they are ambushed.  Fen is left alive with her tribe leader’s newborn.  Determined to get the baby a better life, Fen meets Daniel, a scientist from the Outer States who snuck into the Delta.  Together, they must navigate the wasteland of Orleans, as they are each other’s last hope.Purchase here.
  • Title: “Requiem” (Delirium #3)Author:  Lauren OliverRelease date: March 5, 2013Format: HardcoverLength:  400 pagesPublisher:  HarperTeenThe government can no longer deny the existence of Invalids and Regulators have been sent to the borderlands to stamp out the rebels.  Lena is now at the center of the rebellion and deep in the fight within the Wilds.  She must deal with her new love, and her first love whom she thought was dead.  Meanwhile, her old best friend, Hana, lives a loveless life in Portland, as the fiancee to the young mayor.  Told from both perspectives, the girls live in a world that divides them until their stories finally converge.   Purchase here.
  • Title:  “The Summer Prince”Author:  Alaya Dawn JohnsonRelease date: March 1, 2013Format: HardcoverLength:  304 pagesPublisher:  Arthur A. LevineJune Costa creates art in hopes of making her legendary in the lush city of Palmares Tres.  When she meets Enki, the new Summer King, her dreams of fame turn into something more.  The whole city falls for him, but to June, Enki is a fellow artist.  Together, they stage explosive projects that add fuel to the growing rebellion against the strict limitations on new tech set by the government.  June falls deeply in love with Enki, but like all Summer Kings before him, he will die.  Purchase here.
  • Title: “Wasteland”Authors:  Susan Kim and Laurence KlavanRelease date: March 29, 2013Format:  HardcoverLength: 352 pagesPublisher:  HarperTeenThe wasteland is a bleak place.  At fifteen, the citizens of Prin must marry, and at seventeen, reproduce.  They get two years to be parents before they die at nineteen.  Esther thinks there’s more to life than toiling it away on assignments.  She doesn’t care that her variant best friend is considered the enemy.  She barely worries about Levi, the controller of the Source, and the Taser boys who might come after her if she even blinks wrong.  But when she meets Caleb, Esther has to wonder, is there another way to fight for survival?Purchase here.
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