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World without adults

Description: Stories where all the adults die and kids have to survive without them.

Rank Title Author Added

1

Shade's Children

1,736 members

31 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Aquila, ManWithAnAgenda

2

Fire-Us: The Kindling

by Jennifer Armstrong

156 members

4 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: Aquila, ManWithAnAgenda

3

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

49,915 members

748 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Aquila
Explanations: Aquila: Not a world without adults, but an island

4

by J. M. Barrie

19,081 members

326 reviews

3.9

Member: Aquila

5

The Maze Runner

by James Dashner

16,538 members

780 reviews

3.8

Member: Aquila
Explanations: Aquila: Not quite a world without adults, but a boy wakes in a clearing full of kids

6

by Michael Grant

5,018 members

210 reviews

3.8

Member: Aquila

7

1,546 members

71 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: Aquila
Explanations: Aquila: Doesn't stay true for long even in the books, but probably counts.

8

by Charlie Higson

1,335 members

53 reviews

3.9

Member: Aquila

9

by William F. Nolan

1,232 members

35 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: Aquila

10

by Emmy Laybourne

1,030 members

77 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Aquila
Explanations: Aquila: Bunch of kids & teens surviving in a mall post-apocalypse, doesn't stay kid only.

11

The Girl Who Owned A City

by O. T. Nelson

797 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Aquila

12

The Young World

449 members

20 reviews

2.9

Member: Aquila

13

418 members

17 reviews

2.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

14

412 members

23 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Aquila

15

by John Christopher

237 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: Aquila

16

by Gregg Hurwitz

219 members

9 reviews

3.8

Member: Aquila

17

160 members

7 reviews

4.2

Member: Aquila

18

145 members

15 reviews

3.1

Member: Aquila
Explanations: Aquila: Children over ten live away from adults.

19

Trouble at Timpetill

by Henry Winterfeld

114 members

3 reviews

4.1

Member: Aquila

20

by Aaron Starmer

92 members

7 reviews

3.8

Member: Aquila

21

The Keepers of the Flame

by Jennifer Armstrong

81 members

4 reviews

3.8

Member: Aquila
Explanations: Aquila: About finding a group of adult survivors, so not child only for long?

22

JLA: World Without Grown-ups

76 members

½ 3.3

Member: Aquila

23

The Children Who Stayed Behind

by Bruce Carter

36 members

1 review

½ 3.3

Member: Aquila
Explanations: Aquila: Not an "all adults are dead" story, just kids being left behind in an evacuation.

24

The Taking of Mariasburg

by Julian F. Thompson

18 members

½ 3.4

Member: Aquila
Explanations: Aquila: A bit different, a girl inherits money and starts a town just for teenagers.

25

The Tribe: A New World

9 members

4

Member: Aquila
Explanations: Aquila: Novelisation from the NZ TV show

26

Children For Ever

by John F. MacPherson

3 members

1 review

Member: Aquila
Explanations: Aquila: Some kids get transported to a world ruled by children

27

The Outer Limits: The Innocent

3 members

Member: Aquila

About This List

Started: Aquila
February 2022
Type: Unnumbered

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