YA books with mazes/labyrinths in

[Kylara]

So having been outvoted (I say that, I distinctly smell intereference but heyho) I now need to find dystopian YA novels that have mazes/labyrinths in. So far I have The Maze Runner (I really don't want to do it though) and I'm struggling to think of anything else. Any ideas appreciated

 

[soulsinging]

Doesn't one of the Earthsea books take place in a maze? Also, maybe Rick Riordan. I guess both are more fantasy than dystopia though.

 

[Kylara]

The Percy Jackson are definitely fantasy and I'm not sure they'd be considered YA either. One of the novels is a labyrinth thing though I think - however, more Greek myth type thing than original use of mazes...I'm more than a little miffed about the direction the outvoting has taken -_-

There is a maze in an Earthsea, but I can't remember how plot centric it is...been way too long since I read them all!

 

[HareBrain]

The Earthsea book with the maze is The Tombs of Atuan, and the maze is integral to the plot.

 

[arlegui]

Not exactly YA, but ... The Man in the Maze, by Robert Silverberg

 

[Juliana]

The Percy Jackson are definitely fantasy and I'm not sure they'd be considered YA either.

The labyrinth (or should I say the Labyrinth since it's supposed to be the original one from Greek mythology) is in the first Percy Jackson series, which is definitely more middle grade. And fantasy, anyhow.

The third Hunger Games book has a maze of sorts, since the capital's streets are turned into a series of traps they have to navigate through. But not really integral to the plot like it is in The Maze Runner (which turned out to be a better book than I expected).

EDIT: shame you can't do movies, or you could really annoy everyone by making them watch 'Cube'.
Or break out Schwarznegger's 'Running Man'.

 

[soulsinging]

EDIT: shame you can't do movies, or you could really annoy everyone by making them watch 'Cube'.
Or break out Schwarznegger's 'Running Man'.

How about The Labyrinth, in honor of the late David Bowie?

 

[Kylara]

Plenty of films lol. Ah yes for the earthsea but it's not dystopian.

I am really unimpressed with how one person has really shoved this onto what could have been a great discussion on dystopian YA (I wanted the Cline book)

It's supposed to be fiction only but I bet the one who pushed for mazes will drag a whole bunch of films in.

They have to be YA and dystopian so really limiting once you add mazes. Knocks out Garth NI's Sir Thursday too as not YA. Also supposed to be contemporary post 2000, but a bunch of other groups have gone for very non contemporary like Roald Dahl for their week. I just can't be dealing with all the age appropriate students picking not interesting things especially when the dystopian YA fiction of the last decade and a half is very interesting. I swear at least half the people on my lit degree aren't very well read. *angry face* I should have plumped for carnage medal winners and pushed for TP's Amazing Maurice...sigh

Please do keep the maze ideas coming. It is kept as I feared, very hard!

 

[biodroid]

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire