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Especially for Teens Fiction Emma S. Memorial Library

The abbreviations after the title indicate where the books can be found: YA - Young Adult Fiction TEEN - Teen Room

Please note: Books vary widely in maturity level and content. ***L denotes the Lexile level

1984 by George Orwell------TEEN ORWELL Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities. (1090L)

THE 5TH WAVE by Rick Yancey------YA & TEEN YANCE 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. (HL690L)

THE 100 by Kass Morgan------YA & TEEN MORGA When 100 juvenile delinquents are sent on a mission to recolonize Earth, they get a second chance at freedom, friendship, and love, as they fight to survive in a dangerous new world. (860L)

THE ABYSS SURROUNDS US by Emily Skrutskie------TEEN SKRUT Cassandra Leung--a seventeen-year-old trainer of Reckoners, sea beasts bred to defend ships--is kidnapped by the pirate queen Santa Elena and ordered to train a Reckoner pup to defend Santa Elena's ship. (940L)

ACROSS THE UNIVERSE by Beth Revis------YA & TEEN REVIS Teenaged Amy, a cryogenically frozen passenger on the spaceship Godspeed, wakes up to discover that someone may have tried to murder her. (HL720L)

THE ADORATION OF JENNA by Mary Pearson ------YA & TEEN PEARS In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence. (570L)

AFTER THE SNOW by S.D. Crockett ------YA CROCK Fifteen-year-old Willo Blake, born after the 2059 snows that ushered in a new ice age, encounters outlaws, halfmen and an abandoned girl as he searches for his family, who mysteriously disappeared from the freezing mountain that was their home. (700L)

AIRBORN by Kenneth Oppel ------YA OPPEL Set in the early twentieth century in a world where the airplane hasn't been invented, a young boy takes to the skies aboard an airship where he plays an important role in fierce battles that are fought high in the sky. (760L)

THE ALEX CROW by Andrew Smith------YA SMITH The story of Ariel, a Middle Eastern refugee who lives with an adoptive family in Sunday, West Virginia, is juxtaposed against those of a schizophrenic bomber, the diaries of a failed arctic expedition from the late nineteenth century, and a depressed, bionic reincarnated crow.

ALIENATED by Melissa Landers------YA LANDE High school senior Cara Sweeney gets more than she bargained for when she agrees to participate in earth's first intergalactic high school exchange program.

THE ANGEL EXPERIMENT: MAXIMUM RIDE SERIES by James Patterson ------TEEN PATTE 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. (700L) - 1 -

ASHFALL by Mike Mullin------TEEN MULLI After the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano destroys his city and its surroundings, Alex must journey from Cedar Falls, Iowa, to Illinois to find his parents and sister, trying to survive in a new society. (750L)

AVALON by Mindee Arnett------YA ARNET Seventeen-year-old Jeth, the leader of a ragtag team of teenage mercenaries, skirts the line between honor and law in an attempt to win freedom for his sister and himself in the form of their parents' spaceship, Avalon. (HL730L)

BREAKING SKY by Cori McCarthy------YA MCCAR In the year 2048 Chase Harcourt, call sign "Nyx," is one of only two pilots chosen to fly the experimental "Streaker" jets at the junior Air Force Academy, but few know the pain and loneliness of her past or the dark secret about her father, and as the world tilts toward war, Chase cracks open a military secret.

BURNING MIDNIGHT by Will McIntosh------YA MCINT 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. (670L)

CARVE THE MARK by Veronica Roth------YA ROTH On a violent planet where everyone has a power meant to shape the future, Akos and Cyra, youths from enemy nations, resent gifts that render them vulnerable to others' control before they become unlikely partners. (HL780L)

CINDER by Marissa Meyer------YA & TEEN MEYER 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. (790L)

A CONFUSION OF PRINCES by Garth Nix------TEEN NIX 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. (1020L)

CRATER: A HELIUM-3 NOVEL by Homer Hickam------YA HICKA In the 22nd century, Crater Trueblood, who mines the for Helium-3 to produce energy for Earth, undertakes a mission that could mean the difference between life and death for every inhabitant on the moon. (910L)

DARK ENERGY by Robison Wells------YA WELLS A UFO crashes in the Midwest, not far from the boarding school attended by Alice, whose father is the director of special projects at NASA.

DEADLY DESIGN by Debra Dockter------YA DOCKT Kyle McAdams races to find out what's killing kids conceived at the Genesis Innovations Laboratory, before he becomes yet another perfect, blue-eyed corpse.

DEFY THE STARS by Claudia Gray------YA GRAY Teenaged soldier Noemi and an enemy robot, Abel, who is programmed to obey her commands, set out on an interstellar quest to save her home planet, Earth colony Genesis. (HL830L)

DELIRIUM (TRILOGY) by Lauren Oliver------YA & TEEN OLIVE 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 days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, she falls in love. (920L)

THE DIABOLIC by S. J. Kincaid------YA KINCA Nemesis is a Diabolic, a humanoid teenager and the galaxy's most deadly weapon, who masquerades as Sidonia, a senator's daughter, and becomes a hostage of the galactic court. (HL810L)

DIVERGENT (TRILOGY) by Veronica Roth ------YA & TEEN ROTH 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 anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all. (700L)

DOUBLE HELIX by Nancy Werlin ------YA & TEEN WERLI 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. (690L) - 2 -

DOVE ARISING by Karen Bao------YA BAO On a lunar colony, fifteen-year-old Phaet Theta does the unthinkable and joins the Militia when her mother is imprisoned by the Moon's oppressive government. (860L)

END OF FUN by Sean McGinty------YA MCGIN Seventeen-year-old Aaron is hooked on fun, a new augmented reality experience that is as addictive as it is fun. But when he sets off on a treasure hunt, left by his late grandfather, Aaron must navigate the real world and discover what it means to connect--after the game is over.

ENDER’S GAME by Orson Scott Card ------TEEN CARD An expert at simulated war games, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin believes that he is engaged in a computer war game when, in truth, he is commanding the last fleet against an alien race seeking Earth's complete destruction. (780L)

EPIC by Conor Kostick ------YA KOSTI On New Earth, a world based on a video role-playing game, fourteen-year-old Erik persuades 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. (880L)

EXO by Fonda Lee ------YA LEE 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. (810L)

FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury------YA & TEEN BRADB This classic novel presents a future earth civilization where the printed word is banned, censorship is the norm, and individuals must choose between safety and intellectual freedom. (890L)

FALLS THE SHADOW by Stefanie Gaither------YA GAITH When her sister Violet dies, Cate's wealthy family brings home Violet's clone who fits in perfectly until Cate uncovers something sinister about the cloning movement. (850L)

FANTASTIC VOYAGE by Isaac Asimov ------TEEN ASIMO Through the process of miniaturization, five people enter a tiny submarine and are injected into a man's circulatory system where they try to destroy a blood clot located in his brain. (770L)

FEED by M. T. Anderson ------TEEN ANDER In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, Titus meets Violet, an unusual teenage girl who is in serious trouble. (770L)

FELIX YZ by Lisa Bunker------YA BUNKE 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. (940L)

FEVER CRUMB by Philip Reeve------TEEN REEVE In a future London, England, foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer, but at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present. (1000L)

FLAWED by Cecelia Ahern------YA & TEEN AHERN In a future where “flawed” people who have committed crimes are branded with an F, a girl takes a stand. (760L)

FLYING by Carrie Jones------YA JONES Mana has always lived a normal life, albeit with an overprotective mother, until the day she comes home to find the house trashed and an alien in the garage. It turns out her mother is an alien hunter who has absconded with a piece of technology that everyone--human and alien--wants to get their hands on. When her mother's partner shows up and orders Mana to come with him, it may be up to Mana to save her mother--and the world. (600L)

FOR THE WIN by Cory Doctorow ------TEEN DOCTO In a future where poor children and teenagers work for corrupt bosses as gold farmers, finding valuable items inside massively-multiplayer online games, a small group of teenagers work to unionize and escape this near-slavery. (1070L)

- 3 - THE GIVER by Lois Lowry ------TEEN LOWRY Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community. (760L)

THE GLITCH IN SLEEP by John Hulme and Michael Wexler ------TEEN HULME When a glitch is reported in the Department of Sleep and jeopardizes The Plan that keeps the world running, twelve- year-old Becker must find out who or what is behind the problem and solve it quickly before the situation with The Seems gets totally out of control. (1060L)

GLOW by Amy Kathleen Ryan ------YA RYAN Part of the first generation to be conceived in deep space, fifteen-year-old Waverly is expected to marry young and have children to populate a new planet, but a violent betrayal by the dogmatic leader of their sister ship could have devastating consequences. (750L)

GRASSHOPPER JUNGLE: A HISTORY by Andrew Smith------YA SMITH Austin Szerba narrates the end of humanity as he and his best friend Robby accidentally unleash an army of giant, unstoppable bugs and uncover the secrets of a decades-old experiment gone terribly wrong. (910L)

HEIR APPARENT by Vivian Van Velde ------TEEN VELDE Trapped in a virtual reality game, Giannine must find treasure, solve riddles, defeat a dragon, and face other challenges in order to survive in the game and in real life. (820L)

THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams ------TEEN ADAMS Mild-mannered, out-to-lunch earthling Arthur Dent is plucked from his planet by his friend Ford Prefect seconds before it is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass. (1000L)

I AM NUMBER FOUR (SERIES) by Pittacus Lore ------YA & TEEN LORE Friendships and a beautiful girl are distracting to a teenager who is hiding on Earth while he waits to develop the powers he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight those who destroyed their planet. (700L)

ILLUMINAE by Amie Kaufman------YA & TEEN KAUFM The planet Kerenza is attacked, and Kady and Ezra find themselves on a space fleet fleeing the enemy, while their ship's artificial intelligence system and a deadly plague may be the end of them all. (HL780L)

ILLUSIVE by Emily Lloyd-Jones------YA LLOYD After a vaccine accidentally creates superpowers in a small percentage of the population, seventeen-year-old Ciere, an illusionist, teams up with a group of fellow high-class, super-powered thieves to steal the vaccine's formula while staying one step ahead of mobsters and deadly government agents. (730L)

INNOCENCE TREATMENT by Ari Goelman ------YA GOELM After 16 year-old Lauren undergoes a procedure to correct a unique cognitive disability, her perceptions of reality are challenged as she finds herself in conspiracy involving genetic engineering and government secrets. (HL700L)

INSIGNIA by S.J. Kincaid ------YA & TEEN KINCA Tom, a fourteen-year-old genius at virtual reality games, is recruited by the U.S. Military to begin training at the Pentagon Spire as a Combatant in World War III, controlling the drones that do the actual fighting off-planet. (HL750L)

INTERWORLD by Neil Gaiman ------YA & TEEN GAIMA Joey learns that he is a Walker, able to travel between dimensions, and soon joins a team of different versions of himself, each from another dimension, to fight the evil forces striving to conquer all worlds. (830L)

INVICTUS by Ryan Graudin ------YA GRAUD A group of time-traveling teens races through history to try to stop time and the multiverse from unraveling.

THE KNIFE OF NEVER LETTING GO by Patrick Ness ------YA & TEEN NESS 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 past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World. (860L)

LANDSCAPE WITH INVISIBLE HAND by M. T. Anderson ------YA ANDER When the vuvv first landed, it came as a surprise to aspiring artist Adam and the rest of planet Earth--but not necessarily an unwelcome one. With his parents' jobs replaced by alien tech and no money for food, clean water, or the vuvv's miraculous medicine, Adam and his girlfriend, Chloe, have to get creative to survive.

- 4 - THE LEVELLER by Julia Durango ------YA DURAN Nixy Bauer, a sixteen-year-old self-made video-game bounty hunter, gets in over her head when she attempts to rescue a game developer's son from a virtual trap. (840L)

LEVIATHAN by Scott Westerfeld ------YA & TEEN WESTE 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. (790L)

LIFE AS WE KNEW IT by Susan Beth Pfeffer ------YA & TEEN PFEFF Through journal entries, Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. (770L)

LITTLE BROTHER by Cory Doctorow ------YA & TEEN DOCTO After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right. (900L)

MATCHED (TRILOGY) by Allyson Brathwaite Condie------TEEN CONDI Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her, so when Xander appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows he is her ideal mate--until Ky Markham's face appears for an instant before the screen fades to black. (680L)

THE MAZE RUNNER by James Dashner ------YA & TEEN DASHN When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name. His memory is blank. But he’s not alone. When the lift’s doors open, Thomas finds himself surrounded by kids who welcome him to the Glade—a large, open expanse surrounded by stone walls. (770L)

MIDNIGHT AT THE ELECTRIC by Jodi Lynn Anderson ------YA ANDER Adri has been handpicked to live on Mars. But weeks before launch, she discovers the journal of a girl who lived in her house more than a hundred years ago and is immediately drawn into the mystery surrounding her fate. (HL810L)

MORTAL ENGINES by Philip Reeve ------YA & TEEN REEVE 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. (990L)

NO TRUE ECHO by Gareth P. Jones------YA JONES Teenaged Eddie meets a new girl who is a Senior Echo Time Agent from the future, come to his town to investigate the origin of time travel. Soon Eddie is swept up in the investigation and in time. But time travel is a dangerous business, and Eddie will learn more than he wants to know about his long-dead mother.

NOGGIN by John Corey Whaley------YA WHALE After dying at age sixteen, Travis Coates' head was removed and frozen for five years before being attached to another body, and now the old and the new must find a way to coexist while figuring out his relationships. (HL760L)

THE OBSIDIAN BLADE by Pete Hautman ------YA HAUTM After 13-year-old Tucker Feye's parents disappear, he suspects that the disks of shimmering air that appear are somehow involved, and when he steps inside one of them, he is whisked away on a time-twisting journey and trailed by a shadowy sect of priests. By the National Book Award-winning author of Godless. (740L)

ON THE EDGE OF GONE by Corinne Duyvis------YA DUYVI In Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 2034, a comet is due to hit the Earth within the hour. Denise, who's sixteen and autistic, must try to find her sister and help her neglectful, undependable mother safely aboard a spaceship. (640L)

ORIGIN by Jessica Khoury------YA & TEEN KHOUR Growing up in a secret laboratory hidden in the Amazon rain forest, Pia, a girl created by scientists to launch a new immortal race, escapes her sterile home on her 17th birthday and teams up with a boy from a nearby jungle village in a race against time to discover the truth about Pia's origins. (HL740L)

THE OVERLORD PROTOCOL by Mark Walden ------YA & TEEN WALDE Still trapped at the Higher Institute of Villainous Education, or H.I.V.E., evil-genius-in-training Otto Malpense is nearly assassinated. He must try to escape, find out who murdered his best friend, and save himself. (1010L) - 5 -

PATHFINDER by Orson Scott Card------YA & TEEN CARD Thirteen-year-old Rigg has a secret ability to see the paths of others' pasts, but revelations after his father's death set him on a dangerous quest that brings new threats from those who would either control his destiny or kill him. (920L)

PIRATE CINEMA by Cory Doctorow ------YA DOCTO In a dystopian Britain, sixteen-year-old Trent, obsessed with making movies on his computer, joins a group of artists and activists who are trying to fight a new bill that will criminalize even more harmless internet creativity. (1090L)

PLANESRUNNER by Ian McDonald ------YA MCDON When Everett Singh's scientist father is kidnapped from the streets of London, he leaves an app on Everett's computer giving him access to the Infundibulum--a map of parallel earths--which is being sought by dark powers.

THE PROGRAM by Suzanne Young------YA & TEEN YOUNG When suicide becomes a worldwide epidemic, the only known cure is The Program, a treatment in which painful memories are erased, a fate worse than death to seventeen-year-old Sloane who knows that The Program will steal memories of her dead brother and boyfriend. (660L)

PROXY by Alex London------YA LONDO Born into one of the City's wealthiest families and paired with a Proxy named Syd, who endures punishments for Knox's misdeeds, Knox discovers that he has more in common with Syd than either of them previously understood when his father's manipulations prompt a cross-country chase that forces the boys to save each other. (690L)

RAILHEAD by Philip Reeve------YA REEVE In a world of drones and androids Zen Starling is a human thief, but mostly he just likes to ride the Interstellar Express, the sentient trains that travel through the K gates from planet to planet, something only the Guardians understand-- but now the mysterious Raven wants him to steal the Pyxis, an object that could either open up a new gate, challenging the Guardians, or put the entire gate system, and the universe itself in danger. (850L)

RASH by Pete Hautman ------TEEN HAUTM In a future society that has decided it would "rather be safe than free," sixteen-year-old Bo's anger problems land him in a tundra jail where he survives with the help of his running skills and an A.I. program named Bork. (730L)

RENEGADES by Marissa Meyer------YA MEYER The Renegades are human, but with extraordinary abilities. Nova has a reason to hate the Renegades, and is on a mission for vengeance. Adrian is a Renegade boy who believes in justice-- and in Nova. But Nova's allegiance is to a villain who has the power to end them both. (860L)

REPLICA. LYRA; REPLICA. GEMMA by Lauren Oliver------YA OLIVE In a book that invites readers to start at either end or alternate between perspectives, Lyra and Gemma get the chance to escape from the protective environments in which they were raised while uncovering secrets about the bioresearch facility that connects them.

SCAN by Walter Jury------YA JURY Tate Archer outruns armed government officials as he tries to keep his now dead father's strange invention out of the wrong hands, alien hands. (830L)

SCYTHE by Neal Shusterman ------YA & TEEN SHUST 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. (830L)

THE SECRET HOUR: MIDNIGHTERS (SERIES) by Scott Westerfeld ------YA & TEEN WESTE Upon moving to Bixby, Oklahoma, fifteen-year-old Jessica Day learns that she is one of a group of people who have special abilities that help them fight ancient creatures living in an hour hidden at midnight; creatures that seem determined to destroy Jess. Book #1 (740L)

SHADOW RUN by Adrianne Strickland & Michael Miller------YA MILLE The captain of a starship and a prince are forced to revise their ideas of family and loyalty, with the fate of their worlds hanging in the balance. (870L)

- 6 - SHIP BREAKER by Paolo Bacigalupi ------TEEN BACIG A tale set in a Gulf Coast shanty town 100 years in the future finds teen Nailer dreaming of a better life on the sea before discovering a beached clipper ship and lone survivor. (690L)

THE SIX by Mark Alpert------YA ALPER Adam, crippled by muscular dystrophy, and five other terminally ill teenagers sacrifice their bodies and upload their minds into weaponized robots to battle an advanced A.I. program bent on destroying humanity. (780L)

SKINNED by Robin Wasserman ------YA & TEEN WASSE To save her from dying in a horrible accident, Lia's parents transplant her brain into a mechanical body. (HL630L)

STARTERS by Lissa Price------YA & TEEN PRICE To support herself and her younger brother in a future Beverly Hills, sixteen-year-old Callie hires her body out to seniors who want to experience being young again, and she lives a fairy-tale life until she learns that her body will commit murder, unless her mind can stop it. (HL 550L)

SUPERNATURALIST by Eoin Colfer ------TEEN COLFE In a futuristic world called Satellite City, all orphaned boys are sent to the Clarrisa Frayne Institute and are forced to perform dangerous work by the state, but Cosmo knows that this is wrong and so plans to make an escape in the hopes of finding a better life in the outside world. (650L)

THINGS NOT SEEN by Andrew Clements ------TEEN CLEME 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. Check out the sequel Things Hoped For. (690L)

THIS IS HOW IT ENDS by Jen Nadol------YA & TEEN NADOL After Riley and his friends see some disturbing visions through a mysterious pair of binoculars, they soon realize these hallucinations are coming true, especially as one of Riley's friends becomes the prime suspect of a gruesome murder.

THIS MONSTROUS THING by Mackenzi Lee------YA LEE When a talented mechanic in 1818 Geneva brings his brother back from the dead using clockwork parts, the citizens of Geneva think they may have inspired the recently published novel Frankenstein.

THE TIME MACHINE by H. G. Wells ------TEEN WELLS A classic novel of the future follows the Time Traveler as he hurtles one million years into the future and encounters a world populated by two distinct races, the childlike Eloi and the disgusting Morlocks who prey on the Eloi. (1070L)

TIMERIDERS by Alex Scarrow ------TEEN SCARR After they are rescued from imminent death, Maddy, Liam, and Sal join forces 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. (820L)

TIN STAR by Cecil Castellucci------YA CASTE Beaten and left for dead, fourteen-year-old Tula Bane finds herself abandoned on a space station called Yertina Feray after traveling with the colonist group, Children of the Earth. (HL650L)

TUNNELS by Roderick Gordon ------YA & TEEN GORDO When Will and his friend Chester embark on a quest to find Will's archaeologist father, who has disappeared, they are led to an underground world full of sinister inhabitants with evil intentions toward "Topsoilers" like Will. (990L)

TURNABOUT by Margaret Peterson Haddix ------TEEN HADDI Eighty-five years after participating in a flawed scientific experiment to reverse the aging process, Melly and Anny Beth face the fear of being unable to care for themselves as they continue to grow younger, forcing them to race against time to find a caretaker before it is too late. (690L)

UGLIES (TRILOGY) by Scott Westerfeld ------TEEN WESTE Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they 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. Book #1 (770L)

UNPLUGGED by Freitas------YA FREIT In the App World, Skye is a sixteen-year-old virtual girl without any glamorous downloads or fancy effects. She joined the App World for the promise of a better, virtual life, but she's looking forward to her seventeenth birthday, when she gets to unplug, see her mother and sister again, and decide which world she belongs in once and for all.

- 7 - UNWIND (SERIES) by Neal Shusterman ------YA & TEEN SHUST In a future world where those between the ages of 13 and 18 can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs and save their own lives. (740L)

THE WAR OF THE WORLDS by H.G. Wells ------TEEN WELLS An English astronomer, in company with an artilleryman, a country curate, and others, struggle to survive the invasion of Earth by Martians in 1894. (1170L)

WHEN WE WAKE by Karen Healey------YA HEALE In 2027, sixteen-year-old Tegan is just like every other girl, but then Tegan dies, waking up one hundred years in the future as the unknowing first government guinea pig to be cryogenically frozen and successfully revived, secrets about her new world come to light. (HL770L)

A WRINKLE IN TIME (& SEQUELS) by Madeleine L’Engle ------TEEN LENGL Thirteen-year-old Meg, her little brother Charles Wallace, and a friend are guided by unearthly strangers on a journey through space and time to find Meg's father who disappeared while testing a new form of space travel. This Newbery Award winner is the first volume of a trilogy. (740L)

ZEROBOXER by Fonda Lee------TEEN LEE As seventeen-year-old Carr 'the Raptor' Luka rises to fame in the weightless combat sport of zeroboxing, he learns a devastating secret that jeopardizes not only his future in the sport, but interplanetary relations. (870L)

ZEROES by Scott Westerfeld------YA & TEEN WESTE Told from separate viewpoints, teens Scam, Crash, Flicker, Anonymous, Bellwether, and Kelsie, all born in the year 2000 and living in Cambria, California, have superhuman abilities that give them interesting but not heroic lives until they must work as a community to respond to a high stakes crisis. (650L)

Updated January 2018 - Any questions? Contact Nanette Feder, Librarian for Teens at [email protected] Emma S. Clark Library 941-4080

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