Science Especially for Teens Fiction Emma S. Clark 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 FOX 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 moon 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