Science Fiction
In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, and to glimpse Unknown Regions.
Ender's Game* by Orson Scott Card (YA CAR)
Ender Wiggin is sent to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.
Eva by Peter Dickinson (YA DIC)
After being in a coma, a girl wakes up to discover that she is very different from what she used to be.
Arthur Dent travels the galaxy with some very unusual companions.
House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (YA FAR)
In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.
Barney's unusual neighbors teach him how to play a wild game called "Interstellar Pig".
The earth is in great danger from the white spiders and we don't even know it...
The Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick (YA PHI)
A thousand years in the future, an earthquake destroys much of the planet, and an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to Earth.
Lion Boy by Zizou Corder*(J COR)
In the near future, a boy with the ability to speak the language of cats sets out from London to seek his kidnapped parents and finds himself on a Paris-bound circus ship learning to train lions.
You can float, you can throw electricity, you can move without friction, you could die if you don't give back the book that teaches you how to do these neat tricks.
Will thought Andrew's idea to form a club in which smart kids would save the world was stupid, then he found out another smart kid was going to help his father destroy a hotel in space and he knew they were the world's only hope. The start is a little slow, but the action becomes fast and furious.
The aliens have arrived and all the humans are being sent to Arizona. Can one young girl and an alien who made a really big mistake save the world?
The Uglies* by Scott Westerfeld (YA WES)
In Tally's world everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous when they turn sixteen. What could be wrong with that? Then her friend Shay shows her another way to live besides becoming a Pretty.
A small group of teens decides to fight the aliens that zap the independent thinking of humans before they reach adulthood.
For more than a year, Ann believes she's the only person on earth to have survived an atomic blast. Then a stranger appears. Is this a good thing?
*indicates this book is part of a series
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