Teens
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Science Fiction
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Adams,
Douglas
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
284 p.(Gr 9-12)
Arthur Dent barely escapes the destruction of earth to make
way for an intergalactic highway. Soon, Arthur and his friend
Ford are traversing the galaxy causing mayhem and havoc
in this hilarious story.
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Asimov,
Isaac
I,
Robot
218 p.(Gr 7-12)
Robots must follow the three laws of robotics. That makes
them predictable, right? But they just may surprise you
in this collection of stories by the ultimate name in science
fiction.
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Bujold,
Lois McMaster
Cordelia's
Honor
480 p.(Gr 7-12)
Captain Cordelia Naismith is sent deep into an enemy star
system to destroy an armada but falls victim to treachery
and must make an alliance with her chief opponent, Aral Vorkosigan,
"The Butcher of Komarr."
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Heinlein,
Robert
The
Door Into Summer
291 p.(Gr 9-12)
When engineer Dan Davis invents a robot that can do almost
anything, his greedy fiancé tricks him into a thirty year
suspended animation, where he discovers that he can travel
back in time and get revenge.
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Sleator,
William
Interstellar
Pig
197 p.(Gr 7-9)
What begins as a boring summer for Barney at his family's
rented beach house ends up as an addiction to a life and death
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Wilmar,
Shiras
Children of the Atom
216 p.(Gr 9-12)
A psychologist finds that children born after a local nuclear
accident are super geniuses. He founds a school for the "gifted"
kids- but is the world ready to accept them? Said to be the
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Contemporary
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Adlington,
L. J.
Diary of Pelly D
282 p.(Gr 8-12)
During construction work on a colony on another planet Toni
V finds a diary of a teenage girl.and begins to question everything
he's always believed.
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Banks,
Iain M.
The Algebraist
434 p.(Gr 9-12)
In 4043 AD, humanity is waiting for a wormhole connection
to the rest of galactic civilization. Fassan Taak has more
pressing concerns with a war approaching and problems with
an obscure military-religious order, forcing him to search
for a secret hidden for half a billion years.
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Bechard,
Margaret
Spacer
and Rat
183p.(Gr 7-10)
Jack is preparing his move to another space station and
has better things to do than help a Rat who should be deported
back to earth. But when she's cornered, he gets caught up
in smuggling, spying, and betrayal.
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Halam,
Anne.
Dr. Franklin's Island
272p.(Gr. 9-12)
Semi and Miranda are stranded on an island after surviving
a plane crash. Trying to survive on a deserted island is tough,
but things get even worse when they're captured by Dr. Franklin.
He's experimenting with animal genetics, and he's just found
two perfect test subjects.
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Oppel,
Kenneth
Airborn
355 p.(Gr 8-10)
Fifteen-year-old Matt Cruse, cabin boy onboard the airship
Aurora, meets wealthy Kate de Vries and together they investigate
sightings of strange flying creatures.
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Westerfeld,
Scott
Uglies
(Gr 9-12) 425p.
Everyone is ugly until their 16th birthday when an operation
transforms them into a pretty. Tally has second thoughts about
her operation, what would happen if she refused the operation
and ran away? |
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Compiled by Teen Services Librarians 2006.
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