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I read a book when I was in elementary school (circa 1995) that to my recollection was about a child/pre-teen who is living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland (maybe it's a girl searching for her brother?), but then we find out at the end that it was all just some sort of simulation or video game.

For a long time I thought the book I was remembering was Z for Zachariah, but having read that recently I discovered it's not, so now I'm at a total loss.

I have an image in my mind of the book being somewhat thick and the size of a paperback, but with a hardcover, like how they used to make books that you would find in school libraries.

Would love to hear anyone's thoughts on what this title could be!

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    How do they discover that it's a simulation? What is the "real world" like?
    – DavidW
    Commented May 6 at 3:46
  • @DavidW I don't recall unfortunately. In my memory, the whole book is set in the game/simulation environment and it's not until the very end that you find out it's not the real world. I can't remember what the "real world" was like, though.
    – user3054531
    Commented May 7 at 17:55

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