Science Fiction Fiction Title: A Wrinkle in Time Author: Madeleine L'Engle Summary: Meg Murry and her younger brother, Charles Wallace, encounter a mysterious group of ladies who whisk them off on an incredible journey to find their missing father and fight against evil. Title: Among the Hidden Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix Summary: 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. Title: Be More Chill Author: Ned Vizzini Summary: When Jeremy Heere, supergeek, swallows a squip, a pill-sized supercomputer, he uses the computer's instructions to quickly gain popularity with the hottest girls at school, but also finds a dark side to having a computer inside him. Title: Brave New World Author: Aldous Huxley Summary: In a world where everyone's worth is a matter of genetics, where anti-depressants are passed out like candy and movies are feelies, no one goes wanting but happiness is hard to find. Title: Citizen of the Galaxy Author: Robert A. Heinlein Summary: Ragged, starving Thorby is auctioned off to a crippled beggar who will lead him to adventures on the starship Sisu. Title: Crystal Singer Author: Anne McCaffrey Summary: When her hopes of a musical career are dashed, Killashandra recklessly joins the Heptite Guild and travels to the dangerous planet Ballybran to become a Crystal Singer. Title: Diary of Pelly D Author: L. J. Adlington Summary: On a futuristic colony world, fourteen-year-old construction worker Toni V unearths Pelly D's diary. Her story reveals that things are still not as perfect and peaceful as their leaders would like them to believe. Title: Doomsday Book Author: Connie Willis Summary: Kivrin Engles, a 21st century historian, intends to time travel to 1320, but is mistakenly sent to 1348 when the bubonic plague is starting. Between a 21st century flu virus and the Black Death of the 14th century her survival and return are uncertain. Title: Dragon and Thief Author: Timothy Zahn Summary: Fourteen-year-old fugitive Jack Morgan witnesses a spaceship battle above the planet where he's hiding out. When he goes to salvage the crashed ship, he finds Draycos. Draycos, a dragon-like K'da warrior, needs to join with a humanoid host to survive and it looks like Jack is his only option. Title: Dune Author: Frank Herbert Summary: Paul Atreides, abandoned on the desert world of Arrakis, plots with the Fremen to reclaim control of the planet and its coveted resource, Melange, the spice necessary for space travel. Title: Ender's Game Author: Orson Scott Card Summary: 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". Title: Fahrenheit 451 Author: Ray Bradbury Summary: In this futuristic society, houses that contain books are burned down. One "firefighter" decides to flee his censored society and joins an underground force keeping independent thoughts and ideas alive. Title: Far Side of Evil (sequel to Enchantress from the Stars) Author: Sylvia Louise Engdahl Summary: As a new graduate of her planet's Federation Anthropological Service, Elana leaves her highly advanced civilization to observe a "Youngling" planet whose inhabitants are headed for nuclear disaster. Title: Feed Author: M. T. Anderson Summary: Everyone is connected to the "feed," an internet connection hardwired directly into their brains, but when Titus meets Violet she encourages him to question the true purpose for his "feed." Title: Flowers for Algernon Author: Daniel Keyes Summary: Charlie Gordon, a mentally disabled janitor, has a brain operation to increase his IQ and is soon smarter than the doctors who helped him, but what about Algernon, the mouse who had the same operation and is now deteriorating? Title: Flux Author: Beth Goobie Summary: Twelve-year-old Nellie's mother has disappeared and Nellie must avoid roving gangs and agents of the Interior to survive, but she has a gift which helps her; she can manipulate the "flux" and travel between realities. Title: Giver Author: Lois Lowry Summary: Jonas is chosen as his community's next memory keeper and learns the true cost of his society's perfection. Title: Heir Apparent Author: Vivian Vande Velde Summary: When a medieval virtual reality game is damaged by protestors, fourteen-year-old Giannine must navigate the game to win it quickly, or risk permanent brain damage. Title: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Author: Douglas Adams Summary: After the Earth is destroyed to make room for an interplanetary superhighway Arthur Dent becomes a homeless galactic wanderer. Title: House of the Scorpion Author: Nancy Farmer Summary: 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. Title: Jennifer Government Author: Max Barry Summary: In a future when corporations are so important that people take their employers' names as their own, Jennifer Government is hot on the trail of a Nike employee who's agreed to do the unthinkable for shoe sales. Title: Jumper Author: Steven Gould Summary: After Davy unexpectedly teleports away from his abusive father, he tries to control his unique power while living on the streets and trying to evade the officials who want to study him. Title: Kindling Author: Jennifer Armstrong Summary: A plague kills all the adults on Earth, and seven kids form their own family in a desolate Florida town to help one another survive. Title: Last Book in the Universe Author: W. R. Philbrick Summary: In a future filled with poverty and desolation, Spaz, an epileptic teen, is one of the few people able to think for himself since he can't use the addictive mind probes. When he sets out to save his sick foster sister he may also have an opportunity to save the world. Title: Life As We Knew It Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer Summary: 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? Title: Mortal Engines Author: Philip Reeve Summary: A nuclear holocaust caused massive destruction to the planet. With few natural resources available, cities morph into huge, moving vehicles and consume one another to survive. Title: Naughts and Crosses Author: Malorie Blackman Summary: Two teens from opposing classes have a secret friendship in a society full of racism - where dark-skinned Crosses are the ruling class, and the pale-skinned Naughts are their former slaves. Title: Never Let Me Go Author: Kazuo Ishiguro Summary: As Kathy remembers her idyllic days at Hailsham, a private preparatory school, she slowly reveals the sinister reality of the schools purpose and vision. Title: New World Order Author: Ben Jeapes Summary: In the 17th century, alien invaders crash the English Civil War and attempt to colonize the island and convert the English. Title: On Basilisk Station Author: David Weber Summary: Starship Commander Honor Harrington is banished to the neglected outpost of Basilisk Station, but discovers things aren't so quiet after all when she must try to thwart a foreign invasion. Title: Parable of the Sower Author: Octavia E. Butler Summary: In an America where pollution and social woes have created a desperate underclass, empath Lauren Olamina - who feels the pain of others as if it were her own - slowly spreads her new philosophy of hope called "Earthseed." Title: Planetes (Book 1) Author: Makoto Yukimura Summary: Hachimaki dreams of owning his own spaceship but until he can afford it, he'll get into space any way he can, even if it means joining a crew of space garbage men who pick up the dangerous debris orbiting the Earth. Title: Secret Under My Skin Author: Janet Elizabeth McNaughton Summary: In 2368, teenager Blay Raytee works in the landfills, recovering useful materials until she is chosen to help the bio-indicator who tests the environment which was destroyed by the Technocaust. In this new role, she learns of the Resistance and begins to discover the truth about her world and her past. Title: Shade's Children Author: Garth Nix Summary: Fourteen-year-old Gold-Eye escapes the mandatory execution on his Sad Birthday and joins other young rebels in hiding. With the help of the mysterious Shade, they plan to defeat the monstrous Overlords who rule the Earth. Title: Singing the Dogstar Blues Author: Alison Goodman Summary: Mavkel, the first alien admitted to a human university, chooses free-spirited seventeen-year-old Joss as his roommate, but species differences, anti-alien protesters and an unexpected death complicate their growing friendship. Title: Sky So Big and Black Author: John Barnes Summary: After a planet-wide disaster on her Mars colony, 15-year-old Teri is forced to negotiate with One-True, the computer virus that possessed the minds of all humans on Earth. Title: Snow Crash Author: Neil Stephenson Summary: Hero Protagonist is a pizza delivery driver and samurai hacker, and it's up to him to save the world from a designer-drug-computer-virus. Take this trip into a cyberpunk future. Title: Supernaturalist Author: Eoin Colfer Summary: Cosmo Hill escapes his abusive orphanage and joins the Supernaturalists - a group of teens who hunt Parasites invisible to most humans - but are the Parasites really as harmful as they believe? Title: Uglies Author: Scott Westerfeld Summary: 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. Title: Warchild Author: Karin Lowachee Summary: Jos is kidnapped and enslaved by pirates until Warboy saves and adopts him. Now Warboy, the enemy of humanity, wants him to spy for the aliens. Title: White Mountains Author: John Christopher Summary: Will Parker and his friends are trying to escape from the Tripods, huge, metallic alien creatures who control and enslave humans through thought control. Title: Young Miles Author: Lois McMaster Bujold Summary: Miles Vorkosigan flunks out of military school due to "brittle bones." However, with his brains and charisma, he becomes leader of a naval fleet, foils a plot against his father, the Prime Minister.