1) A sci-fi novel set in what seems to be a school, with various children who maybe have physical difficulties / differences and maybe superpowers? At the end, I seem to recall we discover (along with the child protagonist) that there has been a nuclear war and this is a closed community of survivors while the outside world is devastated.
2) A fantasy novel set in a watery world of islands inhabited only by women. I think they had purple skin (?) and travelled to each other’s islands by boat. At the end of the book, the men arrive and basically ruin everything by bringing war.
Could the first one be Welcome to the Ark by Stephanie Tolan?
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Thanks so much! I’m sure these books were published before 1990, and the book you suggest was published in 1996. But thanks again 🙂
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