SOLVED. YA novel about a town of teens sent to create their own societ [s]

[Megan]

I thought this was a Lois Duncan novel--it's got to be someone like that.

This novel had a female protagonist. It was about a group of teens/tweens who are sent to what they believe to be a private school, but they end up in a town where there are no adults. They are forced to create their own rules for their society.

[Andria]

Neither of these fit, exactly, but two that come to mind are The Girl Who Owned a City by OT Nelson and The Grounding of Group Six by Julian Thompson.

[Andrea]

I don't know about the female protagonist part but it might be the Gone series or Gone by Michael Grant

[Megan]

It IS The Grounding of Group 6! And they're making a movie, apparently.

[Andria]

NO WAY!! I love Group 6. Just re-read it this weekend, after your question got me thinking about it again. Will have to research this movie situation. Very exciting!

[Kate]

I just put in a library request for the Group 6 book. Y'all enticed me to check it out.

[Andria]

Kate - it's one of the books I point to when people complain that today's YA books are SO DARK AND EDGY!

They've always been that way.

[Polly]

Maybe the book you're thinking of is "The Taking of Mariasburg" by Julian Thompson. Girl gets cash, buys town, stuff happens. It just came out in a Kindle ebook edition.