Help me figure out the title of a book I read as a schoolgirl?

[Kathryn]

I think it was a short novel, though perhaps it was a longer short story in an anthology. It was a utopian/dystopian piece. I want to say it was set in England in the future. I don't remember much beyond that there was a fence that divided the country and the main character was a boy who somehow ended up on the other side of the fence. I want to say that one side was agricultural and one side industrial? I do remember that the streets were paved with some sort of rubbery material so that the horses hooves wouldn't get sore (that's the one detail that's stuck in my memory). I know it's not much to go on, but does this sound vaguely familiar to anyone? I'm driving myself crazy trying to figure it out.

[Julie Smith]

Never heard of it.

But I'll bump your post for you.

[Tohru]

I don't know either, but maybe this might help your remember, or at least give you some titles to eliminate:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dystopian_literature

[Myeightkiddies]

The Guardians by John Christopher

 

I think.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Guardians-Lernmaterialien-John-Christopher/dp/312577540X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1324186871&sr=1-1

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardians_(novel)

[Kathryn]

The Guardians by John Christopher

 

I think.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Guardians-Lernmaterialien-John-Christopher/dp/312577540X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1324186871&sr=1-1

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardians_(novel)

 

That's it!! Thank you so much!