Recommended Read- Ella

Ella takes place in the future, after a horrible plague has wiped out most of the human race, leaving thousands of orphans. The girls were sent to "School," where they are taught to fear and hate men, and the boys were sent to labor camps. Ella is a six-teen year-old girl who has been at school since she was orphaned at two. She is valedictorian and has never misbehaved. Then, the night before graduation she runs away for fear of a life in a hospital bed, due to an attempt to repopulate North America. On the run with another member of School, she meets Caleb. Deeply fearful, she and her friend go with him to a hideout for runaways and escapees. Ella plans to leave as soon as she can, but begins to fall in love with Caleb. After a fight with him she runs away again, headed to Califia, another hideout. She runs into trouble along the way, but is saved by Caleb. He escorts her to Califia, but must leave when they get there. Promising to return, Caleb has to run from the girls there, because no men are allowed in Califia.