Kid's lit and post-apoc

So I keep hearing there's a huge trend to dystopian YA or other kid's books. Mostly recently in this thread. Either blow things up, so the kids can be protagonists without parents getting in the way, or make a fascist dystopia, so they can acceptably rebel against authority without ruffling the feathers of the moral gatekeepers.

Sometimes this sort of thing makes me come up with examples or counter-examples from my own life, which I've been advised can be annoying, but I can do whatever I want in my LJ, haha. Mind you, I didn't have a huge concept of children's books let alone YA as a kid, and was doing things like reading Mallory at 7 and Moby Dick at 8, but anyway, here's what I can remember, in order of my digging them out of memory:

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Side note: Wikipedia says of Alexander's Vesper Holly: "Vesper is young and wild; not at all the proper Victorian schoolgirl. Alexander describes her as having "the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familiar with half a dozen languages and can swear in all of them."[2]" I should go re-read it, especially since anima_mecanique liked it a lot as a kid. I remember jack-all.