Fiction
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172 Hours On the Moon
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| Author: |
Johan Hurstad |
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In 2019 NASA holds a lottery around the world to pick three teenagers to go on a mission to the moon, but even though each teen receives an ominous warning about the mission, they accompany astronauts to the moon base anyway and discover horrors beyond their imagining. |
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A Beautiful Friendship
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| Author: |
David Weber |
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When a six-legged treecat risks its life to save Stephanie Harrington from a motorized hang-glider accident and a hexapuma attack, they develop a special bond that causes Stephanie to hesitate about revealing what scientists want to know about their planet' secret sentient species. |
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| Title: |
A Confusion of Princes
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| Author: |
Garth Nix |
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Battling aliens, space pirates, and competitors, Prince Khemri meets a young woman, named Raine, and learns more than he expected about the hidden workings of a vast, intergalactic Empire, and about himself. |
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Across the Universe
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| Author: |
Beth Revis |
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Amy agrees to be frozen alive with her parents so she can travel with them on a three-hundred-year journey to a new planet, but when shes unfrozen early and nearly dies she discovers a spaceship full of robot-like people and a murderer lethally unfreezing others who must be stopped. |
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| Title: |
Among the Hidden
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| Author: |
Margaret Peterson Haddix |
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Luke, a forbidden third child, must hide from the Population Police, but when new neighbors move in next door he meets another hidden child and begins to think about freedom. |
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| Title: |
Dark Life
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| Author: |
Kat Falls |
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In an apocalyptic future, rising oceans have resulted in overcrowding around the world. As a result, a few brave pioneers have taken to the sea and started an underwater colony. |
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Divergent
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| Author: |
Veronica Roth |
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Sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all. |
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| Title: |
Ender's Game
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| Author: |
Orson Scott Card |
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Ender Wiggin leaves home to attend the Battle School, where he will learn the arts of war needed to save humanity from the alien "buggers". |
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Eve and Adam
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| Author: |
Michael Grant |
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Something isn't right at Spiker Biotech, and Evening Spikers mother may be behind it. With the help of Solo, a resident boy at Spiker Biotech, Evening uncovers secrets so big they could change the world completely. |
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| Title: |
Fever Crumb
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| Author: |
Philip Reeve |
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Fever Crumb, a fourteen-year-old girl who has been raised by engineers, sets out into a future London and attempts to learn more about her identity and the strange memories that plague her. |
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| Title: |
House of the Scorpion
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| Author: |
Nancy Farmer |
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Fourteen-year-old Matteo, whose country is ruled by a tyrant drug lord, discovers that he is actually a clone created to provide replacement parts. |
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| Title: |
Incarceron
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| Author: |
Catherine Fisher |
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Claudia, the daughter of the warden of Incarceron, a vast, living prison with metallic forests and crumbling cities, decides to help Finn, a prisoner who dreams of a crystal key for escaping to the outside. |
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| Title: |
Legend
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| Author: |
Marie Lu |
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June, a wealthy military prodigy, seeks revenge on Day, a poor rebel criminal she believes killed her brother, in a dystopian future Los Angeles. |
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| Title: |
Life As We Knew It
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| Author: |
Susan Beth Pfeffer |
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After a meteor knocks the moon closer to Earth, sixteen-year-old Miranda witnesses the chaos as climates shift, tides change and volcanoes erupt. Will she and her family survive the devastating winter that follows? |
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| Title: |
Matched
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| Author: |
Ally Condie |
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The Society dictates everything: when and how to play, where to work, where to live, what to eat, when to die, and who to marry. Cassia is Matched with her best friend Xander, but Ky's face also shows up on her match disk. |
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| Title: |
Mila 2.0
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| Author: |
Debra Driza |
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Mila accidentally stumbles on the truth about her identity as an experiment in artificial intelligence and flees both those who would terminate her and a mysterious group that wants to exploit her. |
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| Title: |
Revolution 19
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| Author: |
Gregg Rosenblum |
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Kevin, Cass, and Nick barely escape when robots attack their remote human settlement, but must infiltrate The City to rescue their parents. |
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| Title: |
Robopocalypse
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| Author: |
Daniel H. Wilson |
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Two decades into the future humans are battling for their very survival when a powerful AI computer goes rogue and all the machines on earth rebel against their human controllers. |
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| Title: |
Ship Breaker
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| Author: |
Paolo Bacigalupi |
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In a futuristic world, teen Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship or rescue the girl. |
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| Title: |
The Adoration of Jenna Fox
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| Author: |
Mary Pearson |
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In a bio-technically advanced future Jenna wakes up after a horrible accident and discovers that even though her consciousnesses survived, her memory of the past is minimal and her physical self appears greatly altered. |
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| Title: |
The Hunger Games
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| Author: |
Suzanne Collins |
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In a dystopian future America, sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen struggles to survive a cruel competition that forces young people to fight one another to the death. |
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| Title: |
The Maze Runner
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| Author: |
James Dashner |
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Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up in the middle of a maze, knowing only his first name, and soon realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape. |
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| Title: |
Uglies
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| Author: |
Scott Westerfeld |
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Although fifteen-year-old Tally is an "ugly", she soon hopes to become a "pretty" like everyone does when they turn sixteen, but before she gets her makeover a top-secret government agency asks her to spy on a rebel group or be ugly forever. |
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| Title: |
Under the Never Sky
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| Author: |
Veronica Rossi |
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When Aria is exiled from the enclosed city of Reverie, she forms an unlikely alliance with an Outsider named Perry, who could be her only chance of survival providing they can overcome their prejudices. |
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| Title: |
Wither
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| Author: |
Lauren DeStefano |
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After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world. |
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