Looking for book I read as a child

[Dida96]

I read a book in elementary school (which was some 25 years ago) that was about children who were orphaned when their parents were killed by a plague of some sort and the book told how they formed their own societies and there was a rival group (I think).

I know this is probably very vague, but I remember being fascinated by the book as a child even though I probably didn't understand most of it and I would love to read it again. I think the title had the word "City" or "Cities" in it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Scheherazade]

I remember reading a familiar story as a child; however, it was not written in English. Just out of curiousity, was yours in English or if it wasn't in English, are you sure it was translated from English?

[Dida96]

Mine was in English (I live in South Carolina, we've barely mastered the english language, much less a foreign one! ).

I wish I could remember more details, but that's all I can recall.

[Monica]

Wasn't there some plane crush? I think I've read something like that: kids were orphaned and they were flying somewhere. On the way they were crushed on some uninhabited island and they formed two groups that fighted with one another. It was in Polsih

[Scheherazade]

Here is a summary of the book I was refering to:

Her books focus mostly on children's intervention in social issues, which she approaches from an optimistic point of view. In an event dedicated to George Orwell in 1984, her book "If Only The World Belonged to Children" was chosen to be included in a list of 300 books that give a message of hope for future generations. This tale of the aftermath of global war, in which all adults have been killed but all children have survived thanks to a vaccine, features children coming together to re-create the world as a peaceful environment.

If I remember correctly, the world was divided into two political halves by then;something like America vs Europe kind and both sides attack each other at the same time destroying the adult population.

[Monica]

I guess I was reading something different, although the motif sounds similar.

[Koa]

Wasn't there some plane crush? I think I've read something like that: kids were orphaned and they were flying somewhere. On the way they were crushed on some uninhabited island and they formed two groups that fighted with one another. It was in Polsih

That's probably Lord of the Flies which is the first thing that came to my mind reading this topic... However I think I also read about (in another forum, or maybe even this very one???) a book more like the one that Dida96 is looking for (no plane but plague, and the "city" thing) but I havent read anything of that sort...