| Title Of Book |
Author |
Call Number |
| SHANGHAIED TO THE MOON |
Michael J. Daley |
TEEN DALEY |
| Desperate to become a space pilot like his mother, despite his father's opposition, thirteen-year-old Stewart meets an old spacer who offers him the chance to learn AstroNav during a flight to the moon in the year 2065--and reveals some family secrets along the way. |
| DIARY OF PELLY D |
L.J. Adlington |
TEEN ADLINGTON |
| When Toni V, a construction worker on a futuristic colony, finds the diary of a teenage girl whose life has been turned upside-down by holocaust-like events, he begins to question his own beliefs. (Companion novel: Cherry Heaven) |
| 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.) |
| SPACER AND RAT |
Margaret Bechard |
TEEN BECHARD |
| Jack's predictable existence on Freedom space station is transformed when Kit, the Earthie rat, enters his life and enlists him and a sensitive robot in an effort to outwit the Company. |
| ENDER IN EXILE |
Orson Scott Card |
F/TEEN CARD |
| In the wake of his victory over the alien Formics, 12-year-old military genius Ender Wiggins is hailed as a hero, but governments opposed to the International Fleet, which trained him, intend to portray him as a monster. Ender winds up as titular governor of one of the new human colonies, where he struggles to adapt to civilian life and ponders his role in the deaths of thousands of humans and an entire alien species. (See also: Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow and sequels.) |
| THE ROAR |
Emma Clayton |
TEEN CLAYTON |
| In an overpopulated world where all signs of nature have been obliterated and a wall has been erected to keep out plague-ridden animals, twelve-year-old Mika refuses to believe that his twin sister was killed after being abducted. His skills at video gaming lead him ever closer to the truth...and to great danger. |
| 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. (This was a Teen Nutmeg 2006 nominee.) |
| THE SUPERNATURALIST |
Eoin Colfer |
TEEN COLFER |
| In futuristic Satellite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill escapes from his abusive orphanage and teams up with three other people who share his unusual ability to see supernatural creatures, and together they determine the nature and purpose of the swarming blue Parasites that are invisible to most humans. |
| THE HUNGER GAMES |
Suzanne Collins |
TEEN COLLINS |
| In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. (Sequel: Catching Fire) |
| 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. (This was a 2006 Teen Nutmeg nominee, a Newbery Honor Book, won the Printz Award, and was an ALA Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults winner.) |
| 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 |
TEEN 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. (See also Halam's Siberia and Taylor Five.) |
| RASH |
Pete Hautman |
TEEN HAUTMAN |
| In a future society that has decided it would "rather be safe than free," sixteen-year-old Bo's anger control problems land him in a tundra jail where he survives with the help of his running skills and an artificial intelligence program named Bork. |
| EVIL GENIUS |
Catherine Jinks |
TEEN JINKS |
| Child prodigy Cadel Piggot, an antisocial computer hacker, discovers his true identity when he enrolls as a first-year student at an advanced crime academy. Sequel: Genius Squad |
| EPIC |
Conor Kostick |
TEEN KOSTICK |
| On New Earth, a world based on a video role-playing game, fourteen-year-old Erik pursuades his friends to aid him in some unusual gambits in order to save Erik's father from exile and safeguard the futures of each of their families. (2010 Nutmeg nominee.) (Companion novel: Saga. ) |
| CRACK IN THE LINE |
Michael Lawrence |
TEEN LAWRENCE |
| Sixteen-year-old Alaric discovers how to travel to an alternate reality, where his mother is alive and his place in the family is held by a girl named Naia. (First in the Withern Rise series.) |
| THE GOODNESS GENE |
Sonia Levitin |
TEEN LEVITIN |
| As son of the Compassionate Director of the Dominion of the Americas, Will, along with his twin brother Berk, has been groomed for leadership in a society that values genetic fitness, but he encounters information which causes him to question that society as well as his own identity. |
| 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). |
| DRAGONGRIDERS 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.) |
| SECRET UNDER MY SKIN |
Janet McNaughton |
TEEN MCNAUGHTON |
| In the year 2368, humans exist under dire environmental conditions and one young woman, rescued from a workcamp and chosen for a special duty, uses her love of learning to discover the truth about the planet's future and her own dark past. |
| KNIFE OF NEVER LETTING GO |
Patrick Ness |
TEEN NESS |
| Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World. (Sequel: The Ask and the Answer) |
| AIRBORN |
Kevin Oppel |
J/TEEN OPPEL |
| Matt Cruse loves his job as a cabin boy on the Aurora, a huge airship that ferryies wealthy passengers from city to city. One night, Matt spots a hot air balloon. Inside is a dying balloonist who tells of having seen strange creatures flying in the air. It is only after Matt meets the balloonist's granddaughter that he realizes that the man's ravings may, in fact, have been true. Kate and Matt decide to find these creatures, but sky pirates have other plans for them. (Printz Honor Book, Best Book for Young Adults, YALSA Quick Pick)Sequels: Skybreaker, Starclimber. |
| KNIFE OF NEVER LETTING GO |
Patrick Ness |
TEEN NESS |
| Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World. (Book One in the Chaos Walking series.) |
| TRANSALL SAGA |
Gary Paulsen |
TEEN 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 |
TEEN 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. |
| THE ADORATION OF JENNA FOX |
Mary Pearson |
TEEN PEARSON |
| In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence. (For a similar novel, try Skinned by Robin Wasserman.) |
| LIFE AS WE KNEW IT |
Susan Beth Pfeffer |
TEEN/TEEN PPB/TEEN CDBK PFEFFER |
| Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. (Nutmeg 2010 nominee.)Companion novel: the dead & the gone |
| LAST BOOK IN THE UNIVERSE |
Rodman Philbrick |
TEEN 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 |
TEEN 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? |
| LARKLIGHT |
Philip Reeve |
TEEN REEVE |
| In an alternate Victorian England, young Arthur and his sister Myrtle, residents of Larklight, a floating house in one of Her Majesty's outer space territories, uncover a spidery plot to destroy the solar system. This series is science fiction told with tongue in cheek. Sequels: Starcross, Mothstorm |
| 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. This is a Teen Nutmeg 2007 nominee.) Sequels: Predator's Gold, Infernal Devices, Darkling Plain |
| DARK SIDE OF NOWHERE |
Neal Shusterman |
TEEN 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. |
| UNWIND |
Neal Shusterman |
TEEN SHUSTERMAN |
| In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, two teens fight for their right to survive while one fights for his right to fulfill his destiny. |
| AVATARS: SO THIS IS HOW IT ENDS |
Tui Sutherland |
TEEN SUTHERLAND |
| Five teenagers from around the world are transported seventy-five years into the future and discover that they hold the key to saving the world, or ending it. |
| COMET'S CURSE |
Dom Testa |
TEEN TESTA |
| Desperate to save the human race after a comet's deadly particles devastate the adult population, scientists create a ship that will carry a crew of 251 teenagers to a home in a distant solar system. |
| TOMORROWLAND |
Michael Cart (ed.) |
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!) |
| 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. |
| LEVIATHAN |
Scott Westerfeld |
TEEN WESTERFELD |
| In an alternate 1914 Europe, two fifteen-year-olds, the hunted Austrian Prince Alek and Deryn, a girl passing as a boy in order to join the British Air Service, find themselves thrown together as the Clankers (developers of mechanical weaponry) and Darwinists (developers of genetically-engineered creatures) begin the maneuverings that will begin a world war. (This is the first in a trilogy. Fans of the Bloody Jack and Mortal Engines series should take a look.) |
| UGLIES |
Scott Westerfeld |
TEEN PPB/TEEN CDBK/TEEN mp3 WESTERFELD |
| Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will will be transformed into beauties whose only job is to have a great time, Tally’s best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all. Sequels: Pretties, Specials, Extras |
| SECRET HOUR |
Scott Westerfeld |
TEEN WESTERFELD |
| Upon moving to Bixby, Oklahoma, fifteen-year-old Jessica Day learns that she is one of a group of people who have special abilities that help them fight ancient creatures living in an hour hidden at midnight; creatures that seem determined to destroy Jess. First in the Midnighters series. Sequels: Touching Darkness, Blue Noon. |
| 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. |
| BAR CODE TATTOO |
Suzanne Weyn |
TEEN PPB WEYN |
| It's the near future. When you turn seventeen, you get a barcode tattoo. It's a rite of passage. It's the be-all and end-all of identity. Everybody does it. But what if you say no? What if you don't want to become a code? For Kayla, this one choice changes everything. She becomes an outcast in high school. Dangerous things happen to her family. And eventually she finds herself on the run. |
| SURVIVING ANTARCTICA: Reality TV 2083 |
Andrea White |
TEEN WHITE |
| 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. |
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