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Science Fiction
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Science Fiction
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Anderson, M.T. Feed
In a future where most people have a computer implant, or "feed," in their brain, Titus and his friends don't care that there is no more outside, no more trees, and no more clean air. They are too busy with their feeds. Then Titus meets Violet, and everything changes. (J,S)
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♥ Barry, Maxx Jennifer Government
Capitalism rules in a world where even the government is privatized and employees take their companies' names for surnames. Hack Nike's employer wants him to shoot children to improve the street credibility - and sales - of their new sneakers. Enter barcode-tattooed Jennifer Government, who will hunt down wrongdoers with a vengeance. (A/YA)
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♥ Bujold, Lois McMaster Warrior's Apprentice
Miles Vorkosigan, of royal lineage, was born with physical impairments on a planet where these are very rare. He tries to make a place for himself by going into the military, but he's defeated by his disabilities. A visit to his grandmother on Beta Colony changes everything when he finds himself the leader of a band of mercenaries. (A/YA)
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Butts, Nancy The Door in the Lake
After vanishing without a trace one night during a camping trip, twelve-year-old Joey reappears two years later, showing no signs of having aged and carrying memories of a strange light in the sky. (M)
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♥ Card, Orson Scott Ender's Game
Aliens have attacked Earth twice and almost destroyed the human species. To make sure humans win the next encounter, the world government has taken to breeding military geniuses - and then using "games" to train them in the arts of war. Ender Wiggin is a genius among geniuses; he wins all the games. He is smart enough to know that time is running out. But is he smart enough to save the planet? (J,S)
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Dickinson, Peter Eva
Following a terrible car crash, Eva, 14, awakens from a strange dream and finds herself in a hospital bed. Medical science has allowed doctors to pull her brain from her crushed body and put it into the body of a chimpanzee. With the aid of a voice synthesizer, she communicates with others and adjusts to her new body. Because her father is a scientist who has always worked among the chimps, who have been crowded by the massive human population out of their natural habitats and into iron and steel jungles, Eva is comfortable with her new self. She soon takes on the issue of animal rights, setting up an elaborate scheme to release chimps back into the last of the wild. (J,S)
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Farmer, Nancy The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm
In 2194 in Zimbabwe, General Matsika's three children are kidnapped and put to work in a plastic mine while three mutant detectives use their special powers to search for them. (M,J)
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♥ Farmer, Nancy The House of the Scorpion
Most people consider Matt a monster - except for El Patrón. El Patrón loves Matt as he loves himself, because Matt is himself - his clone. As Matt struggles to understand his existence, he is threatened by a sinister cast of characters, including El Patrón's power-hungry family, and he is surrounded by a dangerous army of bodyguards. Escape is the only chance Matt has to survive. But escape from the Alacrán Estate is no guarantee of freedom, because Matt is marked by his difference in ways he doesn't even suspect. (M,J)
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Gerrold, David Jumping Off the Planet
Charles "Chigger" Dingillian and his brothers want to divorce their squabbling parents. But their bid for freedom hits a roadblock when Chigger suspects they are targets of an interstellar manhunt. Their only hope is to jump off the planet. (A/YA)
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Goodman, Allison Singing the Dogstar Blues
The saucy eighteen-year-old daughter of a famous newscaster and a sperm donor teams up with a hermaphrodite from the planet Choria in a time travel adventure that may significantly change both of their lives. (J,S)
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Haddix, Margaret Peterson Among the Hidden
In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong. (M,J)
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Haddix, Margaret Peterson Turnabout
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. (M,J)
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♥ Heinlein, Robert A. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
The moon, 2075. Working to produce wheat for earth, lunar residents live like sharecroppers, kept prisoners of the mother planet by a tight web of control. A small group of dissidents, aided by a secretly intelligent computer, are planning a revolution that will change this relationship forever. (A/YA)
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Heinlein, Robert A. Time for the Stars
Telepathic twins Tom and Pat become involved in Project Lebensraum, in which one telepathic partner stays on Earth while the other goes on a space exploration journey, searching for habitable planets outside our solar system. (A/YA)
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Kilworth, Garry The Electric Kid
Scattered among the stinking debris live the dump kids, homeless children and teens who spend their days searching for anything that will bring fast money or cheap food. Hotwire, a young woman named for her ability to fix anything electrical, and Blindboy, whose keen sense of hearing allows him to find things for Hotwire to repair, are inseparable friends in the scary, horrifying world of 2061. When the city's underworld learns of their skills, their lives assume new value - and terror - for now their talents must save them from death and the city from destruction. (M)
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L'Engle, Madeleine An Acceptable Time
When Polly O'Keefe visits her grandparents in Connecticut, she finds herself caught up in the lives of three mysterious strangers who lived 3,000 years ago, and travels back in time to play a crucial role in an ancient confrontation. (M,J,S)
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♥ Lowry, Lois The Giver
In a world with no poverty, no crime, no sickness and no unemployment, and where every family is happy, 12-year-old Jonas is chosen to be the community's Receiver of Memories. Under the tutelage of the Elders and an old man known as the Giver, he discovers the disturbing truth about his utopian world and struggles against the weight of its hypocrisy. (M,J)
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♥ McNaughton, Janet The Secret Under My Skin
In the year 2368, humans exist under dire environmental conditions. 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. (M,J)
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♥ Pearson, Mary the Adoration of Jenna Fox
Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering from a terrible accident in which she was involved a year ago. But what happened before that? Jenna doesn't remember her life. Or does she? And are the memories really hers? (J,S)
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♥ Pfeffer, Susan Beth Life As We Knew It
Miranda’s disbelief turns to fear in a split second when a meteor knocks the moon closer to the earth. How should her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis wipe out the coasts, earthquakes rock the continents, and volcanic ash blocks out the sun? As summer turns to Arctic winter, Miranda, her two brothers, and their mother retreat to the unexpected safe haven of their sunroom, where they subsist on stockpiled food and limited water in the warmth of a wood-burning stove. (M,J,S)
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Pournelle, Jerry Starswarm
Kit has never known any life but his existence at the protected laboratory compound known as Starswarm Station. And for all that time he has heard the Voice: an artificial intelligence chip implanted in his skull. It guides him and helps protect him from the planet's many dangers, including roaming bands of hostile centaurs and "haters." But the startling discovery of who put the chip in his head - and why - leads Kip to revelations that could threaten the safety of the entire compound. (A/YA)
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Rubinstein, Gillian Galax-Arena
When 13-year-old Joey and her siblings are kidnapped, they believe they have been abducted by aliens and removed to the planet Vexak. They are trained as acrobats to perform in the Galax-Arena for the Vexa, who thrive on vicarious danger. After failing as an acrobat, unathletic Joey becomes an isolated Vexan kid-pet, a situation that allows her to learn the truth about her captivity and acquire the courage and means to escape. (M)
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Scott, Jefferson Fatal Defect
Ethan Hamilton and FBI Agent Mike Gillette, along with an elite group of anti-cyber terrorist warriors from every security department of the government, match wits with an unholy alliance of bioengineers, Mideast terrorists, and the mysterious White Corporation. Ethan ends up trapped on a remote Pacific island, armed only with his computer savvy and faith in God's guidance. He must do everything in his power to keep biological weapons from ever leaving the island. (A/YA)
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Shusterman, Neil The Scorpion Shards
Six teenagers, each tormented by what seems to be an exaggerated adolescent affliction, come together to try to stop the "beasts" that threaten to destroy them and the world. (M,J)
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Skurzynski, Gloria Virtual War
Fourteen-year-old Corgan was genetically engineered to be the fastest player on any electronic playing field. Every second counts, too, because Corgan is preparing for the big war: a bloodless, electronic battle to be waged against other doomed worlds. Always mindful of the Council's orders, Corgan has trained his whole life for this war, but on the eve of the battle, he decides to break the rules for the first time Now everyone on the planet will be affected by his decisions. (M,J)
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Sleator, William Interstellar Pig
Barney is all set to spend two weeks doing nothing at his parents’ summer house. But then he meets the neighbors, and things start to get interesting. Zena, Manny, and Joe are not your average folks on vacation. In fact, Barney suspects they’re not from Earth at all. Not only are they physically perfect in every way, but they don’t seem to have jobs or permanent addresses, and they are addicted to a strange role-playing game called Interstellar Pig. As Barney finds himself sucked into their bizarre obsession, he begins to wonder if Interstellar Pig is just a game. (M,J,S)
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Van Vogt, A.E. Slan
The Slans, a superior race of telepaths, are isolated and persecuted by the "normal" humans. After young slan Jommy Cross's mother dies in a pogrom, he struggles to survive. (A/YA)
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Werlin, Nancy Double Helix
Eli has lucked into a job at Wyatt Transgenics - offered to him by Dr. Wyatt, the famed scientist. The salary is substantial, the work is interesting, and Dr. Wyatt seems to be paying special attention to Eli. It's almost too good to be true. (J,S)
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♥ Willis, Connie To Say Nothing of the Dog
Ned Henry, a time traveler of the 21st century, is sent to the Victorian Age for some badly needed rest. Instead he is drawn into a mission with fellow historian Verity Kindle: stop history from altering itself AND find the most hideous of all hideous Victorian monstrosities, the bishop's bird stump. (A/YA)
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Junior High (defined as grades 7-9). |
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| A/YA |
Adult-marketed book recommended for teens. |
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