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| Here's where to find our list of recommended books for those who need some space ships and robots. If you would like to help make new lists or add on to an existing list call Heather @ 262-0626 or email at haronson@biblio.org. |
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| Adlington, L.J. |
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Cherry Heaven 2008 |
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Kat and Tanka J leave the war-torn city, move with their adoptive parents to the New Frontier, and are soon settled into a home called Cherry Heaven, but Luka, an escaped factory worker, confirms their suspicion that New Frontier is not the utopia it seems to be. |
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| Bechard, Margaret |
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Spacer and Rat 2005 |
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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. |
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| Bertagna, Julie |
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Exodus 2008 |
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In the year 2100, as the island of Wing is about to be covered by water, fifteen-year-old Mara discovers the existence of New World sky cities that are safe from the storms and rising waters, and convinces her people to travel to one of these cities in order to save themselves.
Sequels include Zenith |
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| Bradbury, Ray |
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Fahrenheit 451 1953 |
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In Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires but start them--to burn books. It's a time when trivial information is valued and true knowledge perceived as dangerous and subversive. |
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| Carroll, Michael |
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Quantum Prophecy : The Awakening 2006 |
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Ten years after the disappearance of superhumans--both heroes and villains--thirteen-year-olds Danny and Colin begin to develop super powers, making them the object of much unwanted attention.
Sequels include The Gathering, and The Reckoning
Companion series include Super Human |
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| Collins, Suzanne |
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The Hunger Games 2008 |
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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.
Sequels include Catching Fire and Mockingjay |
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| Farmer, Nancy |
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The House of the Scorpion 2002 |
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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. |
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| Haddix, Margaret Peterson |
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Among the Hidden 1998 |
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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.
Sequels include Among the Imposters, Among the Betrayed, Among the Barons, Among the Brave, Among the Enemy, Among the Free |
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| Haddix, Margaret Peterson |
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Found 2008 |
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When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time.
Sequels include Sent and Sabotaged |
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| Huxley, Aldous |
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Brave New World 1932 |
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Huxley's "Brave New World" is the story of a futuristic World State where all emotion, love, art, and human individuality have been replaced by social stability. |
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| Iwahara, Yuji |
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King of Thorn (Graphic Novel) 2007 |
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Kasumi and her sister, Shizuku, are infected with the Medusa virus, which slowly eats away at the body. There is no cure, but of the two only Kasumi is selected to be cryogenically frozen with 159 others until a cure is found. At some point in the future, Kasumi awakens to find herself in an unfamiliar world with violent monsters. Older teens. |
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| Klass, David |
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Firestorm 2006 |
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After learning that he has been sent from the future for a special purpose, eighteen-year-old Jack receives help from an unusual dog and a shape-shifting female fighter. His mother is not his mother. His father is not his father. But if Jack hadn't broken the high school rushing record that night, he never would have known and nothing would have changed.
Sequels include Whirlwind and Timelock |
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| Kostick, Conor |
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Epic 2007 |
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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.
Sequels include Saga |
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| Lawrence, Michael |
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A Crack in the Line 2004 |
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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.
Sequels include Small Eternities and The Underwood See |
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| Ness, Patrick |
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The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008 |
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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.
Sequels include The Ask and the Answer and Monsters of Men |
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| Nightow, Yasuhiro |
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Trigun (Graphic Novel) 2003 |
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Somehow, the past has placed a sixty billion double dollar bounty on Vash's head, and the gunslinging pacifist can't seem to get away from money grubbing citizens with itchy fingers. |
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| Patterson, James |
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Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment 2005 |
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After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "birdkids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose.
Sequels include School's Out - Forever, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, The Final Warning, Max, Fang, and Angel |
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| Paulsen, Gary |
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The Transall Saga 1998 |
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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. |
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| Pfeffer, Susan Beth |
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Life as We Knew It 2006 |
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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.
Sequels include The Dead and the Gone and This World We Live In |
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| Reeve, Philip |
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Mortal Engines 2003 |
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In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, a fifteen-year-old apprentice is pushed out of London by the man he most admires and must seek answers in the perilous Out-Country, aided by one girl and the memory of another.
Sequels include Predator's Gold, Infernal Devices, A Darkling Plain |
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| Walden, Mark |
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H.I.V.E. Higher-Institute-of-Villainous-Education 2007 |
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H.I.V.E. is operated on a volcanic island in a distant ocean by G.L.O.V.E., a shadowy organization of worldwide wickedness. And, as 13-year-old master of mischief Otto Malpense soon discovers, here the slickest of young tricksters, thieves, and hackers have been brought against their will to be trained as the next generation of supervillains. Otto and his friends refuse to be held prisoner at the institution and develop a scheme to escape from the island, but they must defeat the all-seeing computer system, a seemingly undefeatable assassin in black, and a giant carnivorous plant to succeed.
Sequels include The Overlord Protocol |
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| Well, H.G. |
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The War of the Worlds 1898 |
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An unnamed protagonist, whose suburban London home is in the path of Martian invaders, provides a fast-paced, exceptionally realistic narrative of the invaders' fantastic appearances, sophisticated technology, and increasingly bloodthirsty advances. Science fiction buffs will welcome this large print edition of a great classic that pioneered the genre. |
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| Werlin, Nancy |
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Double Helix 2004 |
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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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| Westerfeld, Scott |
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Uglies 2005 |
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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 include Pretties and Specials |
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| Wooding, Chris |
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Storm Thief 2006 |
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With the help of a golem, two teenaged thieves try to survive on the city island of Orokos, where unpredictable probability storms continually change both the landscape and the inhabitants. |
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