SCIENCE FICTION BIBLIOGRAPHY

Airborn                                                                        Oppel, Kenneth

Summary:  Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth’s surface.

Among the Betrayed                                                     Haddix, Margaret Peterson

Summary:  Thirteen-year-old Nina is imprisoned by the Population Police, who give her the option of helping them identify illegal “third-born” children, or facing death. (Sequel to Among the Imposters, Among the Hidden)

 The Boxes                                                                    Sleator, William

            Summary:  Annie opens forbidden boxes unleashing telepathic creatures who can slow time. (Other Titles Including The Duplicate)

 The Clones                                                                   Skurzynski, Gloria

Summary:  Having won the Virtual War for the Western Hemisphere Federation, fifteen-year-old Corgan finds himself raising a clone of the young mutant genius who helped him win before dying. (Sequel to Virtual War)

 Dancing With An Alien                                     Logue, Mary

Summary:  A teenage boy from outer space travels to earth on a mission to help save his planet, and ultimately he falls in love, causing his mission to fail.

 The Dark Side of Nowhere                                           Schusterman, Neal

            Summary:  Jason finds out he’s an alien!  The adventure begins!

 Doomsday                                                                    Peel, John

            Summary:  Tristan must stop his evil clone from creating a computer virus that will end the world.  (Many Sequels)

 Dust                                                                             Slade, Arthur

Summary:  Eleven-year-old Robert is the only one who can help when a mysterious stranger arrives, performing tricks and promising to bring rain, at the same time children begin to disappear from a dust bowl farm town in Saskatchewan in the 1930s.

Ender’s Game                                                              Card, Orson Scott

Summary:  After the Earth is twice attacked by aliens, the world governments begins breeding military geniuses, one of whom is Ender Wiggin.(Several Sequels) 

The Exchange Student                                      Gilmore, Kate

            Summary:  Daria’s interest is piqued by a Chilean exchange student her family is hosting when he shows high interest in her work with endangered species.

Gathering Blue                                                  Lowry, Lois

            Summary:  Kira, lame and orphaned, is removed from squalor to use her weaving gifts for purposes of the Guardians.

 The Grave                                                                    Heneghan, James

            Summary:  Thirteen-year-old Tom, unhappy foster child in Liverpool, falls into a massive grave and is transported to the potato famine in Ireland in 1847.

 Heir Apparent                                                              VandeVelde, Vivian

Summary:  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.

 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy                                   Adams, Douglas

Summary:  The insanely funny, satiric best-seller about the end of the world and the days that follow it.—Reminds one of Vonnegut.

 Hole in the Sky                                                 Hautman, Pete

            Summary:  Ceej and three other teens fight to avoid capture by renegades in a future world, where a mutant virus rages.

 The House of the Scorpion                                           Farmer, Nancy

Summary:  In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.

The Kindling                                                                 Armstrong, Jennifer

Summary:  In 2007, a small band of children have joined together in a Florida town, trying to survive in a world where it seems that all the adults have been killed off by a catastrophic virus.  (Upcoming Sequels)

 Mortal Engines: a novel                                     Reeve, Philip

Summary:  Tom, a third class apprentice in a distant future in which technology has been lost and tiered cities move about the Earth on caterpillar tracks, often absorbing smaller locales, has many dangerous adventures after being pushed off London by Thaddeus Valentine, a historian who is trying to resurrect an ancient atomic weapon.

 Shade’s Children                                                          Nix, Garth

            Summary:  In a savage postnuclear world, four young fugitives attempt to overthrow the bloodthirsty rule of the overlords with the help of Shade, their mysterious mentor.  (Also Seventh Tower Series)

 Things Not Seen                                                           Clements, Andrew

Summary:  When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible, he and his parents and his new blind friend Alicia try to find out what caused his condition and how to reverse it.

 The Transall Saga                                                         Paulsen, Gary

            Summary:  While backpacking in the desert, thirteen-year-old Mark fall into a ube of blue light and is transported into a more primitive world, where he must use his knowledge and skills to survive.

 White Fox Chronicles Escape; Return; Breakout           Paulsen, Gary

            Summary:  Fourteen-year-old Cody (White Fox) escapes, battles and struggles to return and liberate the children he left behind.

 Revised 11/06