Dystopian Books for Teens
The best dystopian books for teens grab your attention with a unique and compelling narrative full of intriguing and relatable characters. The Doppelgänger books, Kathleen Hocking’s series of young adult (YA) dystopian/ science fiction novels, offer all that, and more!
Book One: Collateral Minds
A treaty was signed to end a worldwide war between classes. In an effort to prevent a similar war in the future, the treaty consigned the fate of every baby born to being implanted with a doppelganger chip. Kaya, implanted with a chip as a baby, is now a working class teenager plagued with unexplained fear, pain, joy, and even love—someone else’s emotions felt through her chip.
Kaya is conscripted into a rebel, anti-doppelganger group for her computer genius. She must learn to overcome the emotions that randomly invade her mind and her ingrained distrust of the elite class to thwart a growing evil.
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Book Two: Collateral Consequences
Solo, Kaya’s younger brother, has thrown himself into the video games that keep popping up on his government provided computer since his sister’s disappearance two years ago. Unbeknownst to him he is being experimentally trained as a “Placer”; a doppelganger chip surgeon who places chips into the brains of newborns. What he discovers as he trains is shocking. The chips are intertwining with their host! The chips appear to change the very fabric of the minds in which they are implanted. Enhanced communication between doppelgangers is the governments’ assurance as to what is happening, but Solo fears more sinister consequences.
The resistance group wants to recruit him and the government is desperate to control him. Solo just wants to do what is right. What is the right thing to do when the government tells you one thing, but your heart says another?
Book Three: Collateral Conclusions
Collateral Conclusions will unravel the tangled webs of deceit and corruption to reveal the truth and the dangers of the doppelganger chips.
For readers who enjoyed The Hunger Games and similar dystopian novels.