| Title Of Book |
Author |
Call Number |
| The Silenced |
James DeVita |
TEEN DE VITA |
| Consigned to a prison-like Youth Training Facility because of her parents' political activities, Marena organizes a resistance movement to combat the restrictive policies of the ruling Zero Tolerance party. (This book is in part a tribute to Sophie Scholl, founder of the White Rose resistance group in Nazi Germany.) |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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.) |
| Eager |
Helen Fox |
TEEN FOX |
| The Bell family's new robot, Eager, isn't anything like their old one. Eager not only obeys, he can question, reason, and exercise free will. Unfortunately, while Eager is eager to please, not all the robots like him are as kindly disposed towards humans. |
| 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. (See also Halam's Siberia and Taylor Five.) |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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.) |
| 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.) |
| 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. |
| 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)Sequel: Skybreaker. |
| 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? |
| 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 |
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. |
| 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. |
| 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!) |
| Jumpman: Rule #1: Don't Touch Anything |
James Valentine |
TEEN VALENTINE |
| Theo knows the Rule, just as every kid from the year fifteen billion and seventy-three does: When using your TimeMaster JumpMan for routine time travel, DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING. But Theo's latest jump isn't routine. He's using a new version of the Jumpman, and there are more than a few problems. Three of them: It jumps him to the early 21st century (like anyone would want to go THEN!), it leaves him visible, and it won't send him home! ( This is a Teen Nutmeg 2007 nominated title.) |
| 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. |
| Uglies |
Scott Westerfeld |
TEEN PPB 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. Sequel: Pretties. (Specials will be published in mid-2006.) |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Complete Guide to Middle Earth |
Robert Foster |
TEEN 823.912 TOLKIEN |
| From the Hobbit to Lord of the Rings and beyond. |
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