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In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue, " Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.

In a utopian world, fourteen-year-old Linus, who is approaching the test that will determine which Realm he will live, rejects the accepted way of life and ventures to change his destiny.

On an island in whose strict society only useful objects are named and the unnamed are ignored or forbidden, thirteen-year-old Medford encounters an unusual and powerful creature, half-man, half-goat, and together they attempt to bring some changes to the community.

Seventeen-year-old Lyla feels ambivalent when the charismatic leader of her isolated suburban community is told that the end of the world is near and when it arrives they must all be ready to defend themselves against the unchosen.

"Sixteen-year-old Morgan Stockhour lives in Internment, a floating city utopia.

Fictional diary entries recount the true-life efforts of Louisa May Alcott's family to establish a utopian community known as Fruitlands in Massachusetts in 1843.

Presents descriptions and stories about various religious sects and secular communal groups and cults, showing that communal living has a long history in the United States, and discussing how such group solidarity can be either beneficial, repressive, destructive, or even deadly.

Presents Edward Bellamy's utopian novel, originally published in 1888, which follows the adventures of Julian West after he falls asleep in 1887 and awakens to find Boston in the year 2000 a near-perfect society, and includes an introduction, a chronology of Bellamy's life, and other references.

Bernard Marx, a citizen in a utopian World-State where babies are born in laboratories, there is no violence, all citizens take drugs for depression, and contentment overrides the free will of the populace, embarks on a tragic search for truth after he begins to feel something is missing from life.

On the northwestern frontier of India, Conway was a passenger on a plane taken over by a native pilot and never heard of again.

Examines the history of several of the most important and typical early American communities, describing their daily life, religious or social beliefs, community constitutions or tenets, and the character and personality of the leaders and founders.

In the year 2044, Wade Watts, like the rest of humanity, chooses to escape reality and spends his waking hours in the limitless, utopian virtual world of the OASIS, but when Wade stumbles upon the first of the fiendish puzzles set up by OASIS creator James Halliday he finds he must compete with thousands of others--including those willing to commit murder--in order to claim a prize of massive fortune.

Quotes from children stating how they would like the world to be, from "If your bathing suit wouldn't fall off in the pool" to "If people never had to say goodbye.

In the near future, the conjoined Armstrong twins, under the guise of the Armstrong Fancy Gifts Corporation, plot to create their own version of utopia using nanobots, while a guerilla group known as BZRK develops a DNA-based biot that can stop bots, but at risk of the host's brain.

Noah and Sadie begin to realize they are trapped in the war and don't know how to get out, and the biots that have infested the president begin to really take hold and lead to some astonishing consequences.