many kids are starving, but Lisa has to take care of her brother. They can't drive, no one is making or delivering food anymore, and there is no electricity.
When the adults all die of a flu that doesn't affect children under the age of 12, the children are let to fend for themselves. Nelson's The Girl Who Owned a City looks at a world without adults where kids have to grow up quickly. There might be a lot of YA out there these days, but there were some good ones out there before "the big YA boom"! O.T. While we may think the post-apocalyptic and dystopic trends in YA literature are relatively new, we seem to forget those gems like The Giver, White Mountains, and others.
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