| Mortal Engines |
Philip Reeve |
TEEN REEVE |
| In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, a fifteen-year-old apprentice is pushed to his supposed-death by the man he most admires. To discover why, he must seek answers in the perilous Out-Country, aided by the horribly disfigured girl who tried to kill his hero. |
| Double Helix |
Nancy Werlin |
TEEN WERLIN |
| Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering. |
| Things Not Seen |
Andrew Clements |
TEEN CLEMENTS |
| When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible, he and his parents and his new blind friend Alicia try to find out what caused his condition and how to reverse it. |
| Heir Apparent |
Vivian Vande Velde |
TEEN VANDE VELDE |
| While playing a total immersion virtual reality game of kings and intrigue, fourteen-year-old Giannine learns that demonstrators have damaged the equipment to which she is connected, and she must win the game quickly or be damaged herself. |
| Joust |
Mercedes Lackey |
TEEN PPB LACKEY |
| Vetch, an Altan serf, must learn the secret of the Tian jousters and their dragons in order to save his people. (This is the beginning of a new series for Lackey, who writes a wide range of fantasy novel types. Her Valdemar novels are particularly good.) |
| Feed |
M.T. Anderson |
TEEN ANDERSON |
| In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble. |
| The Kindling |
Jennifer Armstrong |
TEEN ARMSTRONG |
| In 2007, a small band of children have joined together in a Florida town, trying to survive in a world where it seems that all the adults have been killed off by a catastrophic virus. (The first book in the FIRE-US trilogy.) |
| The Lost Years of Merlin |
T.A. Barron |
YA/YA PPB Barron |
| Emrys doesn't know who he is or where he came from, but he's sure his name isn't really Emrys. He's sure that Branwyn, who says she is his mother, isn't really his mother. And he's sure he needs to learn who he is and how to handle the mysterious powers he seems to have. To do that, he must leave his home and therefore begin a series of adventures. (There are five books in this series.) |
| The Named |
Marianne Curley |
TEEN CURLEY |
| As the only defense against the evil Order of Chaos, the Named travel through time to prevent the Order from altering history and thereby gaining power in the present and the future. Ethan has been Named since he was four. Now he's sixteen and in charge of training the latest to be Named, who is also the sister of his former best friend. But there isn't much time for training, because the evil that has shadowed Ethan's life for twelve years is getting ready to strike again. (This is the first in a planned trilogy. The second is The Dark.) |
| The Ropemaker |
Peter Dickinson |
TEEN DICKINSON |
| When the magic that protects their Valley starts to fail, Tilja and her companions journey into the evil Empire to find the ancient magician Faheel, who originally cast those spells. |
| Enchantress from the Stars |
Sylvia Engdahl |
YA ENGDAHL |
| Elana unexpectedly winds up in the middle of an adventure involving three very different civilizations, each one centered on the third planet from the star in its own solar system, and falls into a doomed love in the process. Sequel: The Far Side of Evil. |
| The House of the Scorpion |
Nancy Farmer |
TEEN FARMER |
| In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States. |
| Singing the Dogstar Blues |
Alison Goodman |
TEEN GOODMAN |
| Joss is a 17-year-old rebel in a future Australia. She's one of the chosen few students who get to study time travel at the university. But not everyone is happy to have her there. They are even less happy when the first alien student chooses her as its partner. Mavkel ws born a hermaphrodite pair, as all Chorians are. His partner died, but for some reason, Mavkel didn't. Mavkel needs to be part of a pair. Joss needs her independence. Mavkel's life hangs in the balance. What Joss doesn't realize is that hers does, too. |
| Turnabout |
Margaret Peterson Haddix |
YA HADDIX |
| Melly and Anny Beth both lived normal lives throughout the 20th century. But in 2000, when they are old and ready to die, they are selected to participate in Project Turnabout and are given an injection to make them grow younger..." |
| Dr. Franklin's Island |
Ann Halam |
TEEN HALAM |
| When their plane crashes over the Pacific Ocean, three science students are left stranded on a tropical island and then imprisoned by a doctor who is performing horrifying experiments on humans involving the transfer of animal genes. |
| Stravaganza: City of Masks |
Mary Hoffman |
TEEN HOFFMAN |
| While sick in bed with cancer, Lucien begins making journeys to a place in a parallel world that resembles Venice, Italy, and he becomes caught up in the political intrigues surrounding the Duchessa who rules the city. Lucien learns that he is a Stravagante, capable of travelling between two worlds. But as his body begins to follow his mind to this other world, there is always the chance that he may be caught on the other side of time, unable to return. Sequel: Stravaganza: City of Stars. |
| Secret Sacrament |
Sherryl Jordan |
TEEN JORDAN |
| A disturbing incident when he is only seven years old foreshadows the role Gabriel will play in the relations between his Navorran people and the Shinali, a role which is solidified when he becomes an Elected One and trains to be a Healer. |
| Gathering Blue |
Lois Lowry |
YA/YA PPB LOWRY |
| Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians. (This is a companion novel to The Giver. The third book in the series is Messenger). |
| Dragonriders of Pern |
Anne McCaffrey |
YA McCAFFREY |
| The first three books in McCaffrey's PERN series bound together. When Earth colonizes Pern, the colonists realize too late that the planet isn't as safe as originally thought. A mysterious substance they call "Thread" falls from the sky, burning through all living matter, including flesh. To combat Thread, they genetically engineer dragons, which can flame it out of the sky. These are the stories of the first settlers and the first dragonriders. (Other McCaffrey books can be found in the Teen Room and in Adult fiction/paperbacks. Try also the Acorna series and The Ship That Sang and its companions.) |
| Wind Singer |
William Nicholson |
TEEN NICHOLSON |
| After Kestrel Hath rebels against the stifling rules of Amaranth society and is forced to flee, she, along with her twin brother and a tagalong classmate, follow an ancient map in quest of the legendary silver voice of the wind singer, in an attempt to heal Amaranth and its people. (The sequel is Slaves of the Mastery.) |
| Lirael |
Garth Nix |
TEEN/TEEN PPB NIX |
| When a dangerous necromancer threatens to unleash a long-buried evil, Lirael and Prince Sameth are drawn into a battle to save the Old Kingdom and reveal their true destinies. (Sequel: Abhorsen. Prequel: Sabriel) |
| Transall Saga |
Gary Paulsen |
YA PAULSEN |
| While backpacking in the desert, thirteen-year-old Mark falls into a tube of blue light and is transported into a more primitive world, where he must use his knowledge and skills to survive. |
| White Fox Chronicles |
Gary Paulsen |
YA PAULSEN |
| Having been imprisoned when the Confederation of Consolidated Republics, a foreign power, conquered Los Angeles in 2056, fourteen-year-old Cody escapes and endures hardship to become the underground hero the White Fox. |
| Last Book in the Universe |
Rodman Philbrick |
YA PHILBRICK |
| A thousand years in the future, an earthquake has destroyed much of the planet and the civilization. An epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz and an old man named Ryter struggle to reach Spaz's sister before she dies and in the process plants some seeds that may lead to the world's rebirth. |
| Sterkarm Handshake |
Susan Price |
YA PRICE |
| Having traveled to a sixteenth century border clan in England through a tunnel created by a twenty-first century company, Andrea must decide in which era she will live. Who is right in the conflict between a 21st century corporation and a primitive 16th century clan? |
| The Golden Compass |
Philip Pullman |
YA PULLMAN |
| Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North. (Sequels are The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass.) |
| Dark Side Of Nowhere |
Neal Shusterman |
YA SHUSTERMAN |
| Fourteen-year-old Jason faces an identity crisis after discovering that he is the son of aliens who stayed on earth following a botched invasion mission. |
| Complete Guide to Middle Earth |
Robert Foster |
TEEN 823.912 TOLKIEN |
| From the Hobbit to Lord of the Rings and beyond. |
| Tomorrowland |
Michael Cart |
YA TOMORROWLAND |
| A collection of short stories by famous authors who explore the idea of the future. (Sometimes from unusual angles, such as the story about the caveman!) |
| Eragon |
Christopher Paolini |
TEEN PAOLINI |
| In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters. (The author wrote this novel when he was fifteen.) |
| Wolf Tower |
Tanith Lee |
TEEN LEE |
| When a stranger is captured by the Guards of the House and Garden where she has worked all her life as a slave and maid, sixteen-year-old Claidi helps him escape and sets out with him to journey to his home city through the dangerous Waste. (First in a series.) |
| Merchant of Death |
D.J. MacHale |
TEEN PPB MacHALE |
| Bobby Pendragon is a seemingly normal fourteen-year-old boy. He has a family, a home, and even Marley, his beloved dog. But there is something very special about Bobby. He is going to save the world. ...Before he can object, he is swept off to an alternate dimension known as Denduron, a territory inhabited by strange beings, ruled by a magical tyrant, and plagued by dangerous revolution. (First in a series.) |
| Mister Monday |
Garth Nix |
TEEN PPB NIX |
| Arthur Penhaligon is supposed to die at a young age, but is saved by a key that is shaped like the minute hand of a clock.A man named Mister Monday will stop at nothing to get the key back. Arthur goes to a mysterious house that only he can see, so that he can learn the truth about himself and the key. (First in a series.) |
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