YA SciFi, Post-Apocalyptic, Living in a dome, girl protagonist breaks law and goes outside

Hello everyone, I've been googling and searching and scratching my head over this one... I really hope someone knows the book!

Setting: Post-apolcalyptic, I can't remember the event (possibly nuclear), but the society in the book is living in a self-sustained Dome and different classes / occupations (I think it was occupations rather than classes...) have to wear different coloured clothes. They are forbidden to go outside, only some people who have to do something just outside (can't remember what) do go out and when they do they wear protective contaminant suits and have to go through decontamination when they come back in.

Plot: Somehow the girl protagonist ends up outside, and there is a small society living out there (very basic living though), some of whom have minor mutations like 6 toes on a foot. I think one of the characters was called Hana. The protagonist goes back into the dome, and is arrested, and there is a trial but for some reason I can't recall they end up deciding her punishment is to be exile, banishment to the outside, but they decided it partly because they knew she wanted to be there.

Publishing: I read this in maybe 2002, give or take a year. I'm pretty sure the author was Australian. The cover of the edition I read had the Dome on it. I've been googling "The Outlanders" and "The Outsiders" because I keep thinking it was something like that, but I have not been able to find it so now I have no idea!

It's driving me nuts, because a while ago I couldn't remember the name of this book and did a massive googling expedition and found it, and it was the most relieving eureka moment, and now I can't recall it AGAIN and my googling has been in vain! Oh frustration. I really hope someone who knows this book comes across this thread! Thanks!

I think you are talking about Logan's Run. They made a movie in the 70s, it was quite good too.

Another possibility is Mother Grimm by Catherine Wells.

Do you know if it was new when you read it?

Could it be The Exile Waiting by Vonda McIntyre? It's a long time since I read it, but there was definitely a domed city and some of the charcters had minor mutations.

The living-underground part of Logan's Run was added in the movie; in the novel people had free run of the Earth's surface.

lorax, the edition I read was a brand new publishing, but unfortunately I don't know whether it was a reprint. For some reason I have the impression in my mind that it was a relatively new book though, because the school library had just gotten it in. I think the author was a female Australian.

Thanks for the suggestions so far, but it's not any of these books. Trying to remember the book, I think it would have been less than 300 pages, and for a post-apocalyptic society it didn't cover very disturbing topics like some adult post-apocalyptic books do.

Don't know if this fits that well -but another possibilty and recently published is Inside Out by Maria V. Snyder

Unfortunately that's not it either, but sounds interesting! I may check that one and Mother Grimm out sometime. :)

Fleur Beale Juno of Taris?
Anna Mackenzie The sea-wreck stranger?

Both of these fit your description in part.

Possibly Devil on my back by Monica Hughes?

But the plot does not match Devil on my Back by Monica Hughes, and that author's Canadian. There's no suits or decontamination, etc.

Maybe Ring-rise, Ring-set by Monica Hughes? (Yes, I know Canadian author).

The color thing makes me wonder if it isn't The Wind Singer

Thanks for all the suggestions, but still none of these :(

I found it!! Searching for "The Outlanders" just kept turning up scores of books from a series by that name and various other books with the title, but I scoured all the covers again to try and spy one I recognise and finally found Outlanders by Margaret Beames through LibraryThing, making me love this site even more (couldn't get the touchstone to work for the book name, but it is listed on here). Whoops, the author is a New Zealander, not Australian. :P

Thanks everyone for all your suggestions!

Hooray!! My public library has the book! Thanks for letting us know!

Margaret Beames Outlanders - this touchstone ought to work.

Ooh nice, I shall try that next time. I'm still getting the hang of touchstones and all of LibraryThing's wonderful bits and pieces. :)

Yeah, I discovered that sometimes it works if you put part or all of the author's name with the title. You can even put a comma between the two and it should work, like this: Margaret Beames, Outlanders
Margaret Beames - Outlanders
A dash seems to work too. Someone on another thread mentioned using a number with the brackets, but I find this easier.

haha yes this does seem easier! Thanks! :)

I find using the works number of the book encourages recalcitrant touchstones to behave.

You can get the works number from the URL on the works page:
http://www.librarything.com/work/4083795

Then enter in the brackets like so {4083795::Outlanders} but using square brackets, obviously!

This will be joining my wish list; it sounds terrific.

Thanks Nerilka, will remember that next time I encounter a tricksy touchstone. :)

Glad you found your book. I was going to suggest The Other Side of the Island by Allegra Goodman, which has a similar plot, so it might be a good recommendation for you.

Ooh that does sound interesting! Thanks!

Another couple of suggestions for you are 296684::This Time of Darkness by H.M. Hoover with a VERY similar plot to your request, and Children of Morrow and Treasures of Morrow where they aren't in a dome, but it's a tiny insular clan of people living in a post-ap world, where two children escape into a new life.

Children's books, all of them, but still very good.

i am looking for a similar book that i read before 1986. the lady in the story was thrown? out of the dome and in the distance saw a farmhouse... its been a while... there was upper class and lower class that lived in the sewage system? expendables.. it was supposed to have a sequal which hadnt been written yet at the time. it wasnt childrens fiction though. it has been bugging me to finish the story since then. any ideas?

best to put it in a new thread Sunderbug.