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YA post apocalyptic book about children with powers who get sent to a farm
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Mar 25, 2023 05:55PM
I read a book(series I think actually) probably between 2013 and 2015. The books start out just making you feel like they're based in a different time before most technology but there are children with powers being sent away to camps to mine materials that slowly kill them(radioactive is heavily implied but I don't remember if it ever specifies). The main character is a young teen I think is discovered to have psychic abilities and gets sent to a farm in the mountains that's supposed to be the camp you never come back from. Throughout her time there she befriends many other children with powers. They begin rebelling against the way mutants are treated. She eventually gains the power to throw her mind out into the world and uses it to search the mountains around the camp and eventually they discover a modern underwater city which leads to the discovery that they don't live in the past but post apocalyptic and the children with powers are a result of the radiation. I seem to remember one of the books being named after the farm/camp she gets sent to buy I honestly have no idea. Any help would be great.
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That's honestly a lot of books. Could it be The Girl with All the Gifts? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
neither unfortunately. one of the easiest ways for me to tell is the book isn't actually written in a modern setting. I remember the mountains and the camp/farm being major focuses of the whole book/series if that's any help
I am hoping someone will remember reading about the discovery of the destroyed underwater city :/
These are a bit of a stretch, but maybe they're what you're looking for?Midnight, Water City https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
Dark Life https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...
At the End of Everything https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
Do you remember any of the cover details? Or any of the physical details of the main characters? Who else was there, guards, parents, etc.?
I cannot remember the cover and I think in part that is because I read it on a Kindle. I usually am greay with covers.
I do remember they did not have cars. only carriages drawn by horses. I also think electricity was gone.
the main character I'm 95% sure was female or I would think the chrysalids was the book per chance. but I'm pretty sure it's a more recent basically a knock off of that one.
as far as the characters I believe adults were basically non existent on the farm and I remember a very weak character who was part of the main group but not much else from everyone else.
I seem to remember one of the main characters having a face mutation, possibly like red across the face and possibly the actual main girl who the story was set from perspective.
the main things I remember about the book was adventures and her casting her mind further and further across the land and the beautiful descriptions it had of the snow capped mountains and trails. I remember there was some type of device built to help her cast her mind farther. and she referred to it as something like mind flying or something like that
I read the plot summary on Wikipedia for The Chrysalids and it sounds like the exact book you've been looking for; almost word-for-word!The Chrysalids: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8...
I'm glad you were able to remember the name!
Your descriptions sound like Isobelle Carmody's Obernewtyn series. Obernewtyn was the name of the farm they are sent to. Elspeth and her brother were mining radioactive material before she was sent there. They are all referred to as mutants. One of her friends there is Cameo, who has delicate health. The Zebkrahn is the machine used to expand the distance of their mind powers. They explore the underwater city in book 4.
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https://books.google.com/books?id=EAb... There are different cover images.
Quotes from the book:
- Like every orphan, I had heard stories about Obernewtyn. ...
An ancient institution in the wilds of the western mountains, it was ringed on all sides by Blacklands and savage peaks. ... send the worst afflicted Misfits and those who were too troublesome for use on the Councilfarms. ... Those Misfits taken there were never seen again...
- Carefully I directed my ability to manipulate thoughts into her turmoiled mind, seeking to create the chains of thought and action I needed, joining them carefully onto her own half-formed notions. I had not used my coercing ability so directly before...
- In part, this was the effect of the lingering radiation rained on the world from the skies.
- If I had dared to farseek, I would have tried to reach across the mountains, though I had never tried communicating over such a distance.
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