ABANDONED. Everyone over a certain age is dead

[Robert]

I read this book some 15-16 years ago. I remember that everyone over a certain age (15 possibly?) was dead, killed by some medical thing or something... and a young girl was trying to protect her little brother or sister from the other kids who were the biggest and strongest. I believe it may have been written in 1st person (we hear the main characters thoughts and everything from her point of view).

[Ashley]

Sounds a little like The Girl Who Owned a City by O.T. Nelson

[Ann aka Iftcan]

Sounds like a LOT of dystopian books from that time period. Not sure why authors decided it would be a really good idea to kill off all the adults and leave the kids to fend for themselves. Some of the books have an older sister, some an older brother. Outside is one example. Sorry I can't come up with more right now, but I got up at zero dark thirty this morning to take stuff to a yard sale in the parking lot at Lowe's Food and am about to fall asleep sitting here.

[Railyn]

Commenting so that if this is found, I get a notice, as I'm looking for a similar book and all I know is that is is NOT Girl Who Owned A City or Outside, and a few others that I discovered it is not.

I do have my own thread for the book which I need to bump.....

[Serena]

Reminds me a bit about the TV series 'The Tribe'.

Robert do you remember anything about the cover? Or more about the plot? Did the kids solve what was happening or die at the end of the book?

[Holly]

The TV series Jeremiah has that sort of plot, and it was loosely based on a Belgian comic series of the same name (I think VERY loosely.) Guessing that's not what you are looking for, but it's an excellent series, I highly recommend it. :-)

[Justanotherbiblophile]

Railyn, please do bump your thread. I'd like to get a nice list of these types of books going - with ways to differentiate between them :)

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

Serena wrote: "Reminds me a bit about the TV series 'The Tribe'.

Robert do you remember anything about the cover? Or more about the plot? Did the kids solve what was happening or die at the end of the book?"

Hah. I finally found someone else in the universe who's heard of The Tribe.

This book is probably too new and the adults aren't dead but the kids are alone without adult supervision. Gone

[Minda~Quenn {Somehow I found a way to get lost in you}]

I think that it's Wither. Everyone dies in their 20's because cancer has been cured.

[Michele]

I think Wither is too new -- the original poster said she read it 15 years ago or so.

Robert, was it The Girl Who Owned a City? (I know it isn't Railyn's book, but it might be yours.)

[Ann aka Iftcan]

Oh, it could be Logan's Run. Ignore the stupid move that was made out of this book, it really is much better than that.

[Sharon]

I second the suggestion of The Girl Who Owned a City, published in 1975. Some of the memorable scenes were one in which the girl, who was not old enough to drive, drives the family car to a grocery store and finds that the junk food has been cleaned out, but the vitamins and such were still there. Another is of her and her "army" fortifying the local school, welding the metal bathroom stall doors over the windows. This book is one of my most memorable from my childhood (late 70s-early 80s) Hope this helps.

[Michele]

Sharon wrote: "I second the suggestion of The Girl Who Owned a City, published in 1975..."

Fun fact: I just discovered the other day that the author of TGWOAC was (is?) a libertarian, and that his kids' names are Todd and Lisa.

[Rachel]

Do they have to search for a scroll or something that allows them to re-discover electricity?

[Kris]

Btw, here's a general request thread about books without adults that might be helpful to scan -- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Kimber]

The Fire-Us trilogy by Jennifer Armstrong?

[Michele]

Kimber wrote: "The Fire-Us trilogy by Jennifer Armstrong?"

I think that would be too new -- original poster said they read it 15-16 years ago.

[Jordan]

Possibly Shade's Children by Garth Nix? This is a newer cover, though.

[Clay]

Sounds like the Miri episode of the original Star Trek series.

[dragongrli]

There's a listopia list of books with no adults:

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Robert, are you still looking for this or did you find it?

[Plch]

this for sure is not the book Robert was looking for (published in 2015) but it has exactly the same plot: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
(I added it to the listopia list)

[Maddy]

I know it's a bit different, but Gone is similar. All the adults above 15 disappear one day, and a giant wall goes up around the city. I'm pretty sure there are multiple points of view, though.

[Ann aka Iftcan]

Sent a PM to Robert. If no answer we can move this down to abandoned

[A.J.]

Is it Gone Series Complete Collection: Gone, Hunger, Lies, Plague, Fear, Light? The plot is that anyone over the age of fifteen disappears, and the kids left behind have supernatural abilities. They also learn they are cordoned off by an invisible dome.

[SamSpayedPI]

Did Robert even confirm it was not The Girl Who Owned a City?

[Rosa]

He never said anything at all after his first post.

[Sasha]

I'm pretty sure I found it! Was it Countdown? I've been searching for the name of this series, myself, and came across this post so I started looking again and am pretty sure this is it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count...

[Michele]

January is the first one in the series.

[Bargle]

"The Girl Who Owned a City" still seems most likely to me. Most similar on most points. Only difference is that everyone who had reached puberty is dead, not necessarily at age 15.

[Melanie]

Sounds like Gone by Michael Grant.

[SamSpayedPI]

I agree with Bargle that The Girl Who Owned a City fits more with the OP's description: female protagonist with a little brother in need of her protection; and even though it's not first person narrative, it's third person subjective/limited to Lisa's POV. And Gone was first published in 2008, and the OP said he read it about 15 years ago (in 2014).

That said, people's memories aren't always very accurate.

Anyway, unless Robert comes back and confirms, it's moot point.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Robert, are you still looking for this or did you find it?"

No response in 2 years. Moving to Abandoned.