Book Lists: Science Fiction

Seconds before Earth is demolished to make room for a galactic freeway, an earthman is saved by his friend. Together they journey through the galaxy.

In 2029, hoping to bypass the exams and training that might lead to a comfortable life, Susan, her almost-boyfriend Derlock, and seven fellow students stow away on a ship to Mars, unaware that Derlock is a sociopath with bigger plans.

In a utopian world, fourteen-year-old Linus, who is approaching the test that will determine which Realm he will live, rejects the accepted way of life and ventures to change his destiny.

Bean must overcome his past and prove to the recruiters at the Battle School that he can help save the planet from an alien invasion.

Beaten and left for dead, fourteen-year-old Tula Bane is abandoned on a space station called Yertina Feray after traveling with the colonist group, Children of the Earth. She adapts to life on the station with the help of an alien named Heckleck, however when three humans crash land on the station, Tula takes the oppotunity to escape and get revenge on those who abandoned her.

In Victorian London, Albert Garrick, an assassin-for-hire, and his reluctant young apprentice, Riley, are transported via wormhole to modern London, where Riley teams up with a young FBI agent to stop Garrick from returning to his own time and using his newly acquired scientific knowledge and power to change the world forever.

An account of the attempt, through a hair-raising twenty-four hours on a remote jungle island, to avert a global emergency--a crisis triggered by today's rush to commercialize genetic engineering.

Four identical girls and their two caretakers live alone on a desert island. They spend their days in perfect sync learning and never questioning until May, a lone survivor of a ship wreck, appears and forces the four identical girls to examine their lives.

Martin, a genetically-engineered boy living in the perfectly ordered world of HM1, finds himself questioning the citizens' acceptance of the world around them when children begin to disappear, including Martin's little sister, and no one is willing to search for them, forcing Martin to set out on a dangerous mission to escape the suburb and explore the world outside, looking for answers.

Unlike Grumps, their old-fashioned robot, the Bell family's new robot, Eager, is programmed to not merely obey but to question, reason, and exercise free will, and when the new model robots, BDC4s, begin to takeover, Eager must step in and help.

After Evening Spiker has a terrible accident, she is rushed to her mother's billion-dollar research facility. Eve's mother gives her a special project while she heals--to design the perfect boy. Using her mother's experimental research, Eve plays God and brings to life a boy with the perfect body, brain, and personality and names him Adam. But there are others that want this ability to clone humans, and suddenly Eve and Adam are in grave danger.

Melly and Anny Beth agree to participate in Project Turnabout, a scientific experiment in which they are given a shot that will make them grow younger, until they receive a second injection that will stop the aging process, but when other participants die after receiving the second shot, Melly and Anny Beth refuse to have the shot and set out to find someone to care for them when they are too young to do it themselves.

When his father is reported murdered in Mexico, supposedly by the husband of his lover, thirteen-year-old Josh refuses to believe it and sets out to get the true story, which he believes involves UFOs and alien abduction.

When sixteen-year-old Tegan is killed in the year 2027, she is put in a frozen state from which she wakes up 100 years later. The future that Tegan wakes up to is not how she imagined it would be, and soon she discovers information that forces her to make a choice between staying quiet and living in this new world or fighting for a new one.

When Elissa's nightmarish visions and inexplicable bruises lead to the discovery of a battered twin sister on the run from government agents, Elissa enlists the help of an arrogant new graduate from the space academy.

Two star-crossed lovers must fight for survival when they crash land on a seemingly uninhabited planet.

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.

Twenty-first century fourteen-year-old Kyle was hypnotized when humanity was upgraded to 1.0 and he, incompatible with the new technology, exposes its terrifying impact in a tape-recording found by the superhumans of the future.

With energy wars flaring across the globe, oil prices gone crazy, regular power cuts, and soldiers keeping the Outsiders in check, Hunter, one of the privileged of society, is fascinated by the Outsiders, so when he meets Uma he is quickly drawn into her circle of the poor and disenfranchised.

While living a life of luxury in his wired, virtual world, Zane comes across a device that allows animals to communicate with him and he learns that they are planning a rebellion. Forced to be a part of the animals' plans, Zane finds himself needing to confront an all-new world: nature.

Teens Sully, Hunter, Dom, and Mandy team up in a race against unscrupulous billionaire CEO Alex Holliday to locate a collectible sphere, which may have a very steep price.

In 2035, Dahlia Grillo, a sixteen-year-old math whiz, joins with six other American teens traveling to England to meet with groups from around the world in hopes of stopping C8, the companies that control nearly everything for their own benefit.

When twelve-year-olds Madison and Felix kidnap him, Ethan learns that the Earth has been taken over by aliens and that all the adults in the world are under mind control.

Trapped on an alien planet with no memory of who she is or where she came from, a young girl must find a way back to Earth. In the process, she begins to uncover information pertaining to the potential release of a deadly virus that only she can stop.

After an earthquake has destroyed much of the planet, an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the Earth of a distant future.

Within the Archive, Librarians can read the Histories contained inside the bodies of the dead. As a Keeper, it is Mackenzie Bishop's job to keep violent Histories from awakening and escaping the archive. When someone begins deliberately changing Histories, however, Mackenzie must find out who is behind the plot before their actions destroy the Archive.

With a plot combining science and the supernatural, four kids are caught up in a dangerous plan concocted by the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla.

When six children are selected to man the first mission to mars, Miranda Regent is excited to be one of them. But she must face the worldwide outcry over the claim that she was only selected because she's an American. And when the public outcry threatens the mission and everyone involved in it, Miranda might be the only one who can save them all.

In a near future world of heat, greed, and hunger, Devin earns a coveted spot in a home for abandoned children that promises unlimited food and toys and the hope of finding a new family, but Devin discovers the home's horrific true mission when he investigates its intimidating Administrator and the zombie-like sickness that afflicts some children.

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.

Sixteen-year-old Fiona McClean is the world's first invisible girl, which makes her the ideal weapon for her crime-lord father. But now, she and her mother have escaped and are hiding out in a small town where they're determined to have a normal life.

In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a scientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi.

While waiting to leave Mars before it burns up just like the Earth before it, Liam and his friend Phoebe discover some facts about time and space and realize that the human race is just one of the races trying to survive in space.

On a planet where violence and vengeance rule, in a galaxy where some are favored by fate, everyone develops a currentgift, a unique power meant to shape the future. While most benefit from their currentgifts, Akos and Cyra do not--their gifts make them vulnerable to others' control. Can they reclaim their gifts, their fates, and their lives, and reset the balance of power in this world?

Seventeen-year-old criminal mastermind Ia Cocha has spent her life terrorizing the Olympus Commonwealth; but then she's captured and her identity is revealed. The Commonwealth decides to use Ia's talents and enroll her in the military academy where she continually plots her escape. But then she meets new acquaintances and begins to question her loyalty. Outside the academy, dark forces muster their strength that threaten not only the Commonwealth, but the entire universe.

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.

Rhee is the sole surviving heir to a powerful dynasty. Aly is the dashing star of a DroneVision show. When Aly is falsely accused of killing Rhee, they are forced to work together to prove Aly's innocence and confront a ruthless evil that threatens the fate of the entire galaxy.

Chronicles the early attempts by humans to colonize an inhabited Mars by transforming the Red planet into a mirror image of the world they left behind.

Taguri, one of a group of scientists and historians living in a post-apocalyptic world, views the past through a machine, TruSite II, and discovers one of the women she is studying can see her, too. The discovery sets off a debate over whether the past can be changed to save the future.

In a world where everyone has an Alt -- an identical twin -- only one of the pair is allowed to live to adulthood. West Grayer has just received a notice to kill her Alt, and must carry out this task before her Alt eliminates her first.

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.

A group of scientists, having learned how to travel through time, enter life in fourteenth-century feudal France and threaten the history of the world.

Michael is a skilled internet gamer in a world of advanced technology. When a cyber-terrorist begins to threaten players, Michael is called upon to seek him and his secrets out.

In a near-future New York City, fourteen-year-old computer genius Sam Wilson manages to hack into the AT&T network and sets off a chain of events that have a profound effect on human activity throughout the world.

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.

Born in the eighth year of Enclosure, ten-year-old Honor lives in a highly regulated colony with her defiant parents, but when they have an illegal second child and are taken away, it is up to Honor and her friend Helix, another "Unpredictable," to uncover a terrible secret about their Island and the Corporation that runs everything.

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.

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.

In a world dominated by an evil corporation, an organization called the Deck, in which the staff is named after suits such as Hearts and Diamonds, deals out justice while Six of Hearts, their best operative, does his work without killing anybody.

No one asked Nere if she wanted to become a science experiment--they just went right ahead and bio-engineered her lungs to be able to breath water as well as air. She and a group of other genetically modified kids find out they are part of "The Neptune Project," which aims at creating a new human society in the ocean, far away from the dangers of land. However, the dangers of the sea are just as deadly.

Ariane Tucker is the result of a genetic experiment--cross human and alien DNA, and see what happens. The only thing is, she escaped. Now she is on the run while hiding in plain sight as a teen in a small Wisconsin town. Her adoptive father, the one who helped her escape, has given her rules to follow at all costs in order not to be discovered. One of them is don't fall in love. She has just broken that rule--and it will cost her.

A group of kids discovers they were cloned from the DNA of some of the greatest criminal masterminds in history for a sociological experiment.

In a futuristic world, sixteen-year-old Ashala has been captured by those bent on destroying her tribe--the runaway illegals hiding in the Firstwood. Now injured and her Sleepwalker ability blocked, Ashala must face interrogation and try to protect the secrets about the illegals she carries in her mind.

When twelve-year-old Zeke Reynolds is chosen to join a four-person applicant team to work toward membership in the Confederation of United Planets, he stumbles across conspiracies resembling the science fiction he's loved his entire life. His sci-fi knowledge may just save himself, his friends, and the Earth.

In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.

Kris Bjornson, one of a group of slaves who was dumped on the planet Botany by the Eosi-dominated Catteni forces, has found a measure of contentment with her lover Zainal, but they both realize the time has come to gather forces to fight for liberation.

Todd, one month away from an important birthday, learns all the tough lessons of adulthood when he is forced to flee after discovering a secret near the town where he lives.

For all of her sixteen years, Terra has lived on a city within a spaceship that left Earth five hundred years ago seeking refuge, but as they finally approach the chosen planet, she is drawn into a secret rebellion that could change the fate of her people.

When someone uses futuristic technology to play pranks on twelve-year-old Dorso Clayman, he and his best friend set off on a supposedly impossible journey through space and time trying to stop the gamesters who are endangering the universe.

Twelve-year-old Johnny endures tensions between his parents, watches television coverage of the Gulf War, and plays a computer game called Only You Can Save Mankind, in which he is increasingly drawn into the reality of the alien ScreeWee.

Chase Garrety wakes up on the planet Trucon behind a fence he never should have been able to cross. He has a blaster wound on the back of his head, and his memory is completely gone, except for his name and a message he knows he has to deliver to someone: "guide the star."    

Three teens embark upon a cross-country journey in order to escape from a society that salvages body parts from children ages thirteen to eighteen.

After the formation of the United Northern Alliance--a merger of Canada, the United States, and Mexico into one nation--sixteen-year-old Alenna is sent to an desolate prison island for teenagers believed to be predisposed to violence.

In 2061, Caleb works as a thief for uncle, traveling through time to steal priceless objects. When competition among other thieves, as well as the price for failure, become more extreme, Caleb considers leaving the business but has to find a place to hide from Uncle's long reach.

Long after the Visitors split the moon and stopped Earth from turning, Megan and two friends mount their horses and set out across the Zone, where laws of nature do not apply, hoping to solve the mystery of her missing father and of the paralyzed planet itself.

High school student Kayla refuses to accept a bar code tattoo on her body, and her former friends treat her as a lonely outsider, but when frightening things begin to happen to her family, she decides to run away to protect them and her own life from further danger.

Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them.

Jamie misses his father, who is an astronaut on the International Space Station currently orbiting the Earth. One day he receives an alien signal on his phone that informs him that his father is in grave danger from a coming solar storm and that Jamie must act fast if he wants to save his dad.

For a century now, Earth has been a peaceful colony of an alien race, and Donovan Reyes is a loyal member of the security forces, while his father is the Prime Liaison--but when a routine search and seizure goes bad Donovan finds himself a captive of the human revolutionary group, Sapience, terrorists who seem to prefer war to alien rule, and killing Donovan just might be the incident they are looking for.

Nax and a handful of other space Academy washouts are the only surviving pilots after the school is hijacked by terrorists, but in order to spread the truth about the attack, Nax and his fellow failures must execute a dangerous heist.

In 2065, Adri Ortiz prepares to relocate to Mars in a prestigious program to colonize the planet. Orphaned and with no known family, she believes she has little to leave behind on Earth. As she prepares for her journey she finds herself immersed in a mystery more than a hundred years old involving a girl named Catherine who in 1934 was struggling to survive the Dust Bowl and the plight of Lenore Allstock, who in 1919 prepares to leave behind England in search of her childhood friend in America as she grieves the death of her brother in WWI. Though separated by generations, Adri discovers her fate is entwined with both of these young women.

Deep beneath London, five extraordinary youths, orphans who bonded over their shared sense of justice, have formed the Urban Outlaws and dedicated themselves to outsmarting criminals and performing Random Acts of Kindness (R.A.K.s), but they are in serious trouble when the face a genius super-computer, Proteus.

Ender, who is the result of genetic experimentation, may be the military genius Earth needs in its war against an alien enemy.

Twelve-year-old Fisher Bas, a science-loving bully magnet, clones himself, only to discover that his double is infinitely cooler than himself.

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.

Prez is trying to settle into his new foster family's home when an odd boy named Sputnik comes to the door. Sputnik is an alien that looks like a dog to everyone but Prez, and he can do things like read Prez's mind and manipulate space and time. As strange as Sputnik might be, Prez readily accepts his request for help--after all, Sputnik's mission is to save Earth from impending destruction.

In a barren future world, the company known as Breathe has saved humanity by manufacturing glass domes and oxygen rich air. Outside the domes there is nothing, not even oxygen. Three teens--Alina, a thief; Quinn, a teen looking for romance with the girl of his dreams, the description of which fits Alina; and Bea, the girl who had hoped Quinn would notice her--take a journey into the Outlands, with enough oxygen for two days. What they find out there is shocking, and they may not want to return to their bubble.

Sixteen-year-old Morgan Stockhour lives in Internment, a floating city utopia. But when a murder occurs, everything she knows starts to unravel.

When fifteen-year-old Ty, who has always lived on the ocean floor, joins Topside girl Gemma in the frontier's underworld to seek and stop outlaws who threaten his home, they learn that the government may pose an even greater threat.

In an alternate Australia dominated by coal power and the British empire, Clara and Tim arrive in the rebel republic of Westralia, where people are nocturnal and live underground, burrowing with machines called steam moles.

When Jim and Charlie overhear two of their teachers talking in a secret language and the two friends set out to solve the mystery, they do not expect the dire consequences of their actions.

Twelve-year-old twins Nick and Eryn investigate why their mother and new stepfather are keeping secrets, why they are forbidden to meet their stepsiblings, and, most important, why their lives are in danger.

After thirteen-year-old Tucker Feye's parents disappear, he suspects that the strange disks of shimmering air that he keeps seeing are somehow involved, and, when he steps inside one, he is whisked away on a time-twisting journey trailed by a shadowy sect of priests and haunted by ghostlike figures.

While sick in bed with cancer, Lucien begins making journeys to a place in a parallel world that resembles Venice, Italy, and he becomes caught up in the political intrigues surrounding the Duchessa who rules the city.

When twelve-year-old Becker Drane is recruited by The Seems, a parallel universe that runs everything in The World, he must fix a disastrous glitch in the Department of Sleep that threatens the ability of everyone to fall asleep.

Teenager Tom Raines, whose life consists of traveling with his father to casinos and winning enough money for a living by playing virtual games, is about to get the shock of his life. The Pentagon Spire, an elite military establishment, is recruiting him to their Intrasolar Forces, a space program operated by virtual interface from Earth. The Pentagon needs his gaming skills to defeat China's new ace pilot, but a mole in the Spire may make that goal impossible from the start.

Miranda North's most dangerous day would be remembering who she really is. She seems to possess the ability to project her emotions onto those around her, usually of panic. When she meets Peter, who seems immune to her strange power, she has little choice but to trust him. Digging into her past, they find out she is one of a number of genetically modified teens, made into weapons with the power to destroy cities. Soon, her creators are after her again, and her and her friends' only option is to run.

As she is undergoing a "tabula rasa" treatment, removing all her memories one by one until she becomes a blank slate and can start life over again, Sarah's hospital is invaded by elite soldiers who seem to want to end her totally, memories and all. With a skilled hacker for her only ally, Sarah has to figure out who she used to be and why someone would kill her for it.

In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien.

The world ended on Halloween, but it was brought back to life by The Game. Brothers Michael and Patrick play the game at the guidance of the Game Master, searching for survivors of the apocalypse by day and fighting off the zombie-like Bellows creatures at night. When they finally find other survivors, Michael is worried that they will not play by the Game Master's rules, and so threaten his beloved little brother's life.

Thirteen-year-old Doug relates in a series of blog posts the story of how he saved the world but was falsely branded a terrorist and murderer, forced to fight the evil Dr. Roach and his armored biodroid army with an electronics-destroying superpower of his own.

Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.

Seeking to prove her father is not a mad conspiracy theorist, Gillian Seagret, her brother Eric, best friend Savannah, and NASA-obsessed schoolmate Howard uncover the secret doomsday bunker of Dr. Alysius Underberg, a Cold War-era rocket scientist. Exploring the bunker, which is called Omega City, the four friends learn they are not alone, and before they know it they are in a race to find the answers to Dr. Underberg's questions, before Gillian's father's enemies get a hold of them first.

In a future Chicago, 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.

Abducted at age fourteen and trained by the F.A.T.E. Center to become a Shadow, guardian of a future leader, Ren Sharpe, now eighteen, is assigned to protect college science student Gareth Young, but with help from her secret love and fellow Shadow, Junie, she learns that F.A.T.E. itself is behind an attack on Gareth.

In 2017, human-eating aliens have kidnapped two scientists who might cure the disease that is destroying them, and twelve-year-old William Aitkin, his elderly, ailing Uncle Maynard, and the scientists' daughter, Sophie, set out to rescue them.

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.

Fourteen-year-old Grace must find a way to get her older sister out of a princess-filled virtual reality RPG (role playing game)--before it is too late.

In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.

Established in the year 2020, The Haven is home to teens who are classed as Terminals, whose education, food, rest, and behavior are strictly monitored to save them from Disease, but Shiloh and Gabriel remember a different kind of life, and are on the verge of rebellion.

Seventh-grader Casey Little is always late until he discovers a magic watch that takes him back in time fifteen minutes, a trick he uses both on and off the football field.

After an explosion destroys her city, sole survivor Camryn Kingfisher encounters a transparent boy in a lab coat and, even though she isn't sure if he is real, she places her trust in him as they become involved in a complex high-stakes plot involving time and space.

Lori Fisher hunts aliens called Feeders who prey on mankind, aided by an interdimensional creature called Handler, but when she stumbles across the Nix, a kidnapped group of mutant teens with powers, she becomes the hunted. Lori is afraid those hunting her will find her brother Ben instead, so she teams up with the Nix to strike first, but things don't go as planned.

Features six stories that are linked to one another through the life, career, and afterlife of a reverend named Tad Tadd. Set in a near future where human modification is a way of life. Explores themes around the ethics of such scientific meddling.

In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.

Mori and her friends live a normal life on Firefly Lane in Old Harmonie, a utopian community where every kid knows he or she is genetically engineered to be better and smarter, but when a strangely perfect new girl named Ilana moves in, the friends begin to question the only world they have ever known.

Thirteen-year-old Felix Yz chronicles the final month before an experimental procedure meant to separate him from the fourth-dimensional creature, Zyx, with whom he was accidentally fused as a young child.

Seven years ago Mal disappeared for three days. Everyone says he had some kind of breakdown, but he knows he was abducted by aliens. On the fringes at school, he seeks help from an abductee support group, where he meets Hooper, who has his own secrets. The truth is closer than Mal ever suspected.

In an overpopulated world where all signs of nature have been obliterated and a wall has been erected to keep out plague-ridden animals, twelve-year-old Mika refuses to believe that his twin sister was killed after being abducted, and continues to search for her in spite of the dangers he faces in doing so.

From Santa Fe, New Mexico, to Edinburgh, Scotland, thirteen-year-old Adam Adlar must elude police while being hunted by a dinosaur come-to-life from a virtual reality game invented by his father, who has gone missing.

A cloud of nanoparticles programmed as a predator and capable of self-reproduction escapes from a Nevada laboratory and makes the human population its target.

Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.

In Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 2034, a comet is due to hit the Earth within the hour. Denise, who's sixteen years old and autistic, must try to find her missing sister and also help her neglectful, undependable mother safely aboard a spaceship.

Two New Zealand teenagers receive a desperate SOS from their future selves and set out on a quest to stop an impending ecological disaster that could mean the end of humanity.

Sixteen-year-old Durango and his crew of mercenaries are hired by the settlers of a mining community on Mars to protect their most valuable resource from a feral band of marauders.

Allowing herself to be hypnotized, fifteen-year-old Kira reveals memories of another time and place that may eventually cost her and her mother their lives.

When aspiring astronaut Maisie Danger Brown, who was born without a right hand, and the other space camp students get the opportunity to do something amazing in space, Maisie must prove how dangerous she can be and how far she is willing to go to protect everything she has ever loved.

George and his neighbor friend Eric travel through a computer portal into outer space encountering black holes while trying to escape an evil scientist.

Ellie's scientist grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has turned into a teenager--which makes for complicated relationships when he moves in with Ellie and her mother, his daughter.

Chronicles the transformation of a spaceship into a living organism, as seventeen-year-old Cheney leads the hundreds of inhabitants in a fight for survival while machines turn on them, treating all humans as parasites.

On a secret mission to evaluate whether the human race should be annihilated, a space alien inhabits the body of a bullied fourteen-year-old boy.

Benny Love has been on Earth for twelve-years living off what he and his family can find in the deserted cities around them. When he's selected for a coveted trip to a Moon-based resort, he's excited to enjoy the finer things there--especially driving the super-sleek Space Runner while exploring the Moon's craters. But he quickly learns that the Moon is hiding secrets and the frightening prospect that there may be no Earth for him to return to is all too real.

Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.

Privileged and sheltered Knox has everything he could ever want including a proxy, Syd, who takes all his punishments for him; but still his life isn't his own. The boys decide to flee together in hopes of changing the system, and are pursued across the country in a chase that tests the boys' friendship and resolve.

In 2140 England, where drugs enable people to live forever and children are illegal, teenaged Anna, an obedient "Surplus" training to become a house servant, discovers that her birth parents are trying to find her.

As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.

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.

Presents two novels which can be read separately or in alternating chapters. In "Lyra," two experimental subjects escape from the Haven Institute, where human replicas are created and observed; [and] in "Gemma," a lonely, often-ill teenager discovers her father's connection to the Haven Institute and travels there, meeting the escaped replicas.

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.

Rescued from imminent death, teens Maddy, Liam, and Sal join forces in 2001 Manhattan to correct changes in history made by other time travelers, using a "time bubble" surrounding the attack on the Twin Towers to hide their journeys.

In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants. The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn't.

Tired of being sheltered from humans, seventeen-year-old Boy, son of Frankenstein's monster and the Bride of Frankenstein, runs away from home and embarks on a wild road trip that takes him across the country and deep into the heart of America.

After being shot and killed and then brought back to life 178 minutes later, Wren Connolly discovers she is a Reboot, a powerful soldier for the Human Advancement and Repopulation Corporation. Left less than human, Wren finds a connection to her lost life when she is ordered to train a new Reboot, Callum, whose lingering humanity convinces her to try and regain what she has lost.

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.

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.

A young girl named Holly Farb is kidnapped by space pirates, who are convinced that she is princess of the galaxy. Along with her teacher Mr. Mendez and a boy named Chester, Holly tries to get home, meeting strange and unusual characters along the way.

In a future where chocolate and caffeine are contraband, teenage cellphone use is illegal, and water and paper are carefully rationed, sixteen-year-old Anya Balanchine finds herself thrust unwillingly into the spotlight as heir apparent to an important New York City crime family.

Teens Leo, Orion, and Libra have been born and raised on "Moon 2," a satellite orbiting Earth. It is the only home they have ever known, and their only parents have been a team of astronauts training them to become strong enough--in mind and body--for a dangerous trip to Earth, their first trip to the planet in their lives.

Presents a re-imaging of an ancient Greek myth featuring fourteen-year-old Icarus who flies through deep space to challenge the power of black holes and to never return again. He encounters a large glass panel floating in a deep hall and discovers an "electronic repository containing all of the galaxy's information.