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Adams,
Douglas. The More than Complete
Hitchhiker's Guide: complete & unabridged Contains the unabridged texts of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe," "Life, the Universe, and Everything," "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish," and "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe" |
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Adams
Douglas. The Restaurant at the End of
the Universe Earthling Arthur Dent, Ford Perfect, and Zaphod Beeblebrox, the ex-president of the galaxy, are all aboard a space ship on a search for answers about life, the universe, and the perfect place to eat in space. |
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Anthony,
Piers. Being a Green Mother Orb, the daughter of Niobe, is chosen to become the Incarnation of Nature but finds herself drawn to a mysterious man called Natasha--who may be the embodiment of Evil |
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Anthony,
Piers. With a Tangled Skein In a world where science and magic are equally advanced, Niobe accepts an incarnation as one of the three Fates in order to discover and thwart the plans of Satan. |
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Armstrong,
Jennifer. The Keepers of the Flame
After a virus destroys most of
the world's adult population, a group of children are delighted to discover a
colony of adult survivors in a |
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After a virus destroys most of the world's adult population, a band of children travels in search of an explanation for the dark mystery that forms the heart of their existence. |
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Armstrong,
Jennifer. The Kindling 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. |
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Asimov,
Isaac. Fantastic Voyage: a novel
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 |
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A collection of short stories by a variety of authors about children with one common characteristic--they are all mutants. (Short Stories Collection) |
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Asimov,
Isaac. Young Star Travelers A group of young star travelers journeys through the uncharted reaches of space in this anthology of tales by Andre Norton, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Fred Saberhagen, and other science fiction writers. (Short Stories Collection) |
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Atwood,
Margaret. Oryx and Crake: a novel A novel of the future explores a
world that has been devastated by ecological and scientific disasters. |
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Ballantine,
Betty. The Secret Oceans Offers a cautionary tale, illustrated by twelve painters, involving undersea explorers who discover a dolphin-like species that warns them about the threat of pollution. |
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Banks,
Jacqueline Turner. Egg-Drop Blues Twelve-year-old Judge Jenkins has a low science grade because of his dyslexia, so he convinces his twin brother Jury to work with him in a science competition in order to earn extra credit. |
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Kate and her grandfather use one of his inventions to travel faster than the speed of light on a mission to save the sun from a premature death. |
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In 2040, eleven-year-old Tom follows his grandfather through the Wall and into the forbidden Wild, where they seek to find his grandfather's boyhood home. |
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Bell,
Hilari. A Matter of Profit Sick of the horrors of conquering beings on other planets, Ahvrem will end his service as a soldier and save his sister from an unhappy marriage if he can discover who is behind a rumored plot to assassinate the Emperor. |
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In the year 2100, as the island of Wing is about to be
covered by water, fifteen-year-old Mara discovers the existence of New World
sky cities that are safe from the storms and rising waters, and convinces her
people to travel to one of these cities in order to save themselves. |
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Bradbury,
Ray. The Martian Chronicles The strange and wonderful tale of man's experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonishing visions, "The Martian Chronicles" tells the story of humanity's repeated attempts to colonize the red planet. |
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Brennan,
Herbie. The Shadow Project A young English thief stumbles
on, and subsequently is recruited for, a super-secret operation that trains
teenagers in remote viewing and astral projection techniques in order to
engage in spying. |
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Brooks,
Terry. Star Wars, Episode I: the
Phantom Menace Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his young apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi aid the Queen of Naboo in an attempt to thwart the invasion of her home planet; meanwhile, they come across Anakin Skywalker, a young boy with strong Jedi powers. |
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The author recreates the original Sherlock Holmes mystery stories to explain the basic laws of physics. He works out the apparent paradoxes of special relativity and quantum theory in visual and logical terms. |
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Butler,
Susan. The Hermit Thrush Sings After a natural disaster has all but destroyed the earth, the orphaned and "defective" Leora, while searching for her sister, defies the oppressive laws of the land and joins a band of rebels trying to overthrow the government. |
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Butts,
Nancy. The Door in the Lake |
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Cameron,
Eleanor. The Wonderful Flight to the
Mushroom Planet A mystery man inspires two boys to build a space ship which takes them to the planet of Basidium to help the Mushroom people. |
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Card,
Orson Scott. Children of the Mind
In the conclusion of the Ender saga, Ender Wiggin confronts his ultimate challenge when his adopted world, Lusitania, is threatened by his old planet-destroying weapon, and his ally, Jane, is about to be killed off by the Starways Congress. |
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Card,
Orson Scott. Ender in Exile In this direct sequel to Ender’s Game, the thirteen-year old hero Ender and his sister Valentine
colonize one of the new worlds far away from earth. |
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Card,
Orson Scott. Ender's Game Ender Wiggin is |
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Card,
Orson Scott. Ender's Shadow
A companion volume to the Hugo
and Nebula Award-winning novel Ender's Game follows the life of Ender
Wiggin's comrade Bean, from his escape from the mean streets of |
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Card,
Orson Scott. First Meetings in the
Enderverse Collects four novellas, including the original "Ender's Game," that follow the origin and destiny of EndeWiggin. |
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Card,
Orson Scott. Shadow of the Hegemon In a novel of war between humans and aliens, a
child warrior from the |
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Card,
Orson Scott. Shadow Puppets After Ender Wiggin's triumph over the Formics, society has been altered by the destruction of unity between the nations, but Peter Wiggin, Ender's older brother, is determined to restore Earth's unity with the help of young warriors. |
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Card,
Orson Scott. Speaker for the Dead Ender Wiggin, the young military genius, discovers that a second alien war is inevitable and that he must dismiss his fears to make peace with humanity's strange new brothers. |
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Afraid that the descolada--the
deadly virus that the pequininos require to transform themselves into
adults--may escape the confines of |
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Christopher,
John. The City of Gold and Lead Three boys set out on a secret mission to penetrate the City of the Tripods and learn more about these strange beings that rule the earth. |
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Christopher,
John. The Lotus Caves Rebelling against the monotonous life of the moon colony, two boys go beyond its boundaries and discover a series of caves ruled by a super-intelligent plant-like being |
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Christopher,
John. The Pool of Fire Will and a small group of free people plan to destroy the three great cities of the Tripods before the arrival of a space ship destined to doom humanity. |
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Christopher,
John. The Prince in Waiting Thirteen-year-old Luke has no reason to suspect that anything will ever change in the primitive society of the future in which he lives. |
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Christopher,
John. The Sword of the
Spirits In the conclusion to the trilogy set in post-apocalyptic England, Luke returns a triumphant Prince from his expedition in the North, although he loses the three things he cares about most. |
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Christopher,
John. When the Tripods Came
Fourteen-year-old Laurie and his
family attempt to flee |
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Christopher,
John. The White Mountains Young Will Parker and his companions make a perilous journey toward an outpost of freedom where they hope to escape from the ruling Tripods, who capture mature human beings and make them docile, obedient servants. |
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Clarke,
Arthur Charles. 2001, a Space Odyssey
Sent to unravel the mystery of an enigmatic monolith left on the moon by an unknown alien intelligence, two astronauts aboard the spacecraft Discovery find their journey into space and their very lives jeopardized by the jealousy of an extraordinary computer named Hal. |
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Clarke,
Arthur Charles. 2010: odyssey two Haywood Floyd, director of the original Discovery mission, sets out to discover what happened to HAL 9000 and comes face to face with something claiming to be Dave Bowman |
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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. |
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Clements,
Andrew. Things Not Seen 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. |
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Colfer,
Eoin. The Supernaturalist
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Collins,
Suzanne. Catching Fire By winning the annual Hunger
Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a
life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they
won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending
rebellion. |
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Collins,
Suzanne. Hunger Games In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. |
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Conly,
Jane Leslie. The Rudest Alien on Earth
Having landed on a dairy farm in |
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Corbett,
Scott. The Deadly Hoax Ignoring warnings about possible nearby UFOs, Morgan and Sid continue to play chess with their computer until the computer's strange noises become unmistakable indications that something weird is going on. |
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Coville,
Bruce. Oddest of All: stories A collection of nine short stories featuring ghosts, half-humans, unicorns, and other unusual creatures. (Short Stories collection) |
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Crichton,
Michael. Jurassic Park: a novel
A breakthrough in genetic engineering leads to the development of a technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA, a method that brings about the creation of Jurassic Park, a tourist attraction populated by creatures extinct for eons. |
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Crichton,
Michael. The Lost World: a novel Six years after the secret
disaster at |
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Dashner,
James. The Maze Runner 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. |
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As the students at her school become increasingly caught up in the annual game of "Elimination," Zoe grows more and more convinced that the new girl in her eighth grade class is not what she seems. |
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Diamand,
Emily. Raiders’ Ransom In 22nd-century Great Britain,
where climate change has caused vast flooding, the piratical Raiders kidnap
the Prime Minister's daughter and thirteen-year-old Lilly Melkun, an English
fisher-girl, takes her seacat on a daring rescue attempt, with a mysterious
talking jewel from a past computer age tucked in her belt as ransom. |
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Eva, 13, wakes up in hospital after a horrifying car accident, an eight-month coma, and an astounding medical experiment. She has been given a totally new kind of life. For although her mind and personality are unchanged, her brain is being kept alive in the body of a chimpanzee. |
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Dunkle,
Clare B. The Sky Inside After the disappearance of his
sister, Cassie, and other children who ask questions about their carefully
choreographed life in a domed suburb cut off from the outside world, Martin
and his intelligent dog investigate. |
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DuPrau,
Jeanne. The Prophet of Yonwood While visiting the small town of Yonwood, North Carolina,
eleven-year-old Nickie makes some decisions about how to identify both good
and evil when she witnesses the townspeople's reactions to the apocalyptic
visions of one of their neighbors. |
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Engdahl,
Sylvia L. Enchantress from the Stars
When young Elana unexpectedly joins the team leaving the spaceship to study the planet Andrecia, she becomes an integral part of an adventure involving three very different civilizations. |
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Falkner,
Brian. The Tomorrow Code 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. |
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Farmer,
Nancy. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm: a
novel In 2194 in |
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Farmer,
Nancy. The House of the Scorpion In a future where humans despise
clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrâon, the
142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between |
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Fisk,
Nicholas. A Rag, a Bone, and a Hank of
Hair A nuclear accident forces scientists to try to create life chemically and Brin is assigned the task of studying the odd behavior of three "reborns" from the 1940s |
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Having escaped extermination when ruthless invaders colonized his planet, a space traveler wanders for many years and then returns to claim his world, changing the lives of seventeen-year-old Maran and her friends. |
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Gardner,
Martin. Science Fiction Puzzle
Tales Gardner, author of the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American for 25 years, wrote the 36 stories collected here for Isaac Asimov's science fiction magazine. Most of them are about math or science, but they also delve whimsically into philosophy and literature. The story-puzzles are based on geometry, logarithms, topology, probability, weird number sequences, logic, and virtually every other aspect of math. The collection was originally published in 1981 as Science fiction puzzle tales |
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Gerrold,
David. Jumping Off the Planet
With corporations vying to control the planet, Charles wonders if his father's desire to vacation on the moon may be part of a bigger scheme to smuggle contraband synthetic intelligence to one of the major players in this battle |
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Goodman,
Allegra. The Other Side of the Island 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. |
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Greenberg,
Martin Harry. Far Frontiers A unique anthology of sci-fi writing explores the frontiers of human development, with contributions by Andre Norton, Alan Dean Foster, Robert J. Sawyer, and others. |
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Haddix,
Margaret Peterson. Among the Barons
Forced to hide for most of his life because he is a third child in a society that only permits two children per family, Luke Garner, sent to boarding school where he adopts a new identity as a Baron--a member of the elite--finds his newfound station in life short-lived by the arrival of his jealous brother. |
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Haddix,
Margaret Peterson. Among the Betrayed
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. |
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Haddix,
Margaret Peterson. Among the Brave In a world where families are only allowed two children, third children are considered illegal and sent away to prison, but when Trey and the "Shadow Children" decide to take a stand against the system, they are aware that only one side will be victorious in this dangerous war. |
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Haddix,
Margaret Peterson. Among the
Hidden In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong. |
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Haddix,
Margaret Peterson. Among the Impostors
n a future where the law limits a family to only two children, third-born Luke has been in hiding for the entire twelve years of his life, until he enters boarding school under an assumed name and is forced to face his fears. |
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Haddix,
Margaret Peterson. Found 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. |
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Haddix,
Margaret Peterson. Sent Jonah, Katherine, Chip, and Alex
suddenly find themselves in 1483 at the Tower of London, where they discover
that Chip and Alex are Prince Edward V and Richard of Shrewsbury, imprisoned
by their uncle, King Richard III, but trying to repair history without
knowing what is supposed to happen proves challenging. Author's note includes
historical facts about the princes and king. |
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Halam,
Ann. Dr. Franklin's Island As the three survivors of a plane
crash on their way to the rain forests of |
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Hautman,
Pete. Hole in the Sky
When a deadly flu virus strikes in 2028, those that aren't affected live separately from the "Survivors", thus Ceej Kane finds herself living in isolation with her uncle and sister until the two of them disappear and she is suddenly left to find a new world that she can call home. |
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When Agent Six, a member of The Deck, a group fighting against their corrupt society, discovers that he is the product of an illegal experiment by the evil Lab, he takes dangerous steps to discover the truth about himself. |
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Cody, an eleven-year-old space traveler, tries to save a race of spiderlike aliens slated for extinction by human colonization. |
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Hoover,
H. M. This Time of Darkness
In a forbidding future, Amy and Axel are children who live underground under the omniscient eye of the Authorities and attempt a daring escape to the outside world. |
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Hoover,
H. M. The Winds of Mars When rebel forces strike against her father, the all-powerful president of Mars, teenage Annalyn finds her comfortable existence turned upside-down and her life threatened from unexpected sources. |
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Hopper,
Nancy J. What Happened in Mr. Fisher's Room Lanie has lots to deal with in eighth grade--a new friend, boys, and most of all Mr. Fisher's out-of-control science class. |
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Hughes,
Monica. What If …?: amazing stories
A collection of science fiction and fantasy stories and poems includes contributions by Alison Baird, Charles de Lint, Sarah Ellis, Robert Priest, and Tim Wynne-Jones. (Short Stories Collection) |
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Huxley,
Aldous, 1894-1963. Brave New World
Huxley´s vision of the future comes to life in his astonishing 1931 novel Brave New World--a world of tomorrow in which capitalist civilization has been reconstituted through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering. |
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Jeapes,
Ben. The Xenocide Mission
When a number of "feral
children" are found in a |
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Jenkins,
Jerry B. Attack on Petra Judd and Lionel risk becoming trapped in |
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Jenkins,
Jerry B. Bounty Hunters The new Global Community program brings Judd and Lionel face-to-face with enemies while taking great risks to return to their friends in the States. |
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Jinks,
Catherine. Genius Squad |
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Ann discovers that the wood near her village is under the control of a Bannus, a machine that manipulates reality, placed there many years ago by powerful extraterrestrial beings called Reigners. |
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Jones,
Diana Wynne. A Tale of Time City
In 1939 an eleven-year-old |
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A collection of one-act, royalty-free plays for classrooms and assemblies featuring robots, computers, and characters from outer space. (Non-fiction Collection) |
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Karl,
Jean E. But We Are Not of Earth
Four students from Meniscus F on a mission to the far-away Sector 22 delight in the habitable but uninhabited planet they discover until they realize their pod nentor has no intention of allowing them to leave. |
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Karl,
Jean E. Strange Tomorrow An extraterrestrial force suddenly destroys almost all organic matter on Earth and one family survives the immediate consequences and begins the process of building a new world. |
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Key,
Alexander, 1904. Escape to Witch
Mountain Two children who came from a planet with two suns desperately try to return to their home with a priest's help |
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Key,
Alexander. The Forgotten Door
A boy able to talk to animals and read people's minds finds himself in danger after falling through a door to the strange planet Earth. |
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Jack finds himself embroiled in another dangerous
adventure when, after a six-month absence, he returns to the Hudson River
town where he grew up to find his girlfriend PJ only to discover that she is
missing and everyone believes him to be responsible for her disappearance and
the death of his family. |
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Klause,
Annette Curtis. Alien Secrets On her journey to the distant planet where her parents are working, twelve-year-old Puck befriends a troubled alien and becomes involved in a dangerous mystery involving a precious artifact. |
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Kotzwinkle,
William. E.T.: the Extra-Terrestrial; a
Novel A lonely boy befriends an extraterrestrial botanist who, separated from his ship, is left stranded on Earth. |
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Landy,
Derek. Playing with Fire |
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Lawrence,
Louise. Dream-weaver Using her psychic talents, an apprentice dream-weaver learns that human colonists aboard a spaceship plan to settle on her peaceful planet. |
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L'Engle,
Madeleine. A Wind in the Door An extremely intelligent six-year-old boy begins an adventure when he discovers dragons in the garden. |
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L'Engle,
Madeleine. A Wrinkle in Time A |
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Lindbergh,
Anne. Nick of Time: a novel Thirteen-year-old |
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Lloyd,
Saci. The Carbon Diaries 2015 |
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Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians. |
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Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. |
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n this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand. |
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Mahy,
Margaret. Aliens in the Family
When her father remarries, Jake feels alienated from her new family until her stepsister Dora meets an extraterrestrial visitor, who asks the children to help him complete his mission on Earth. |
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Manchel,
Frank. An Album of Great Science
Fiction Films Stills illustrate a survey of science-fiction movies over the past seventy years that highlights recurring themes and the films' relation to social conditions. |
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Marley,
Louise. The Glass Harmonica The life of Eilish Eam, an orphaned street musician in eighteenth-century London, changes forever thanks to Erin Rushton, a classical musician from Seattle in the year 2018, who has visions of a young girl from the past who desperately needs her help. |
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Marsden,
John. Tomorrow, When the War Began Seven Australian teenagers return from a camping trip in the bush to discover that their country has been invaded and they must hide to stay alive |
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Norton,
Andre. Star Ka'at World Two human orphans expand their relationship with a super race of cats and travel to their world where they soon feel more like prisoners than guests. |
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Norton,
Andre. Time Traders II Travis Fox and the other Apache agents are returned to their ancestral way of life after their spaceship crashes on Topay. |
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O'Brien,
Robert C. The Silver Crown Ellen awakens on her tenth birthday to find a jewel-studded silver crown, loses her family and home in a fire later that day, and plunges into a series of dangerous adventures that test her courage, ingenuity, and independence of spirit. |
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O'Brien,
Robert C. Z for Zachariah Seemingly the only person left alive after a nuclear war, a sixteen-year-old girl is relieved to see a man arrive into her valley until she realizes that he is a tyrant and she must somehow escape. |
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When Andrew encounters a space alien in a tiny spaceship, he thinks that Ysdran will be his own personal space pet, especially when she teaches him to move things with his mind, but Ysdran thinks she is training a new slave who will help her people mine the Earth. |
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Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities. |
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Paton
Walsh, Jill, 1937. The Green Book Pattie and her sister, Sarah, are refugees from the dying Planet Earth newly arrived on the planet Shine and must assist in assuring the survival of the remaining earthlings. |
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Patterson,
James. Maximum Ride: the Angel
Experiment After the mutant Erasers abduct
the youngest member of their group, the "bird kids," who are the
result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves
struggling to understand their own origins and purpose. |
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Paulsen,
Gary. The Schernoff Discoveries
Harold and his best friend, both hopeless geeks and societal misfits, try to survive unusual science experiments, the attacks of the football team, and other dangers of junior high school. |
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Paulsen,
Gary. The Time Hackers 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. |
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Paulsen,
Gary. The Transall Saga While backpacking in the desert, thirteen-year-old Mark falls into a tube of blue light and is transported into a more primitive world, where he must use his knowledge and skills to survive. |
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Pearson,
Mary. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 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. |
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Pepper,
Dennis. The Young Oxford Book of Aliens
Offers a collection of stories about meetings between humans and the inhabitants of other planets, both on Earth and in space, by Arthur C. Clark, Philip K. Dick, Barbara Paul, Harry Harrison, and others. (Short Stories Collection) |
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Philbrick,
W. R. The Last Book in the Universe 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. |
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Pinkwater,
Daniel Manus. Lizard Music Home alone Victor stays up late, visits the zoo, enjoys pizza with anchovies, and finally becomes one of the few people who know about a community of intelligent lizards which appears to have arrived from another planet. |
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Foundling Fever Crumb has been
raised as an engineer although females in the future London, England, are not
believed capable of rational thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her
sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while
facing danger in the present. |
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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. |
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Rex, Adam. The True Meaning of Smekday Twelve-year-old Gratuity Tucci
has a hard time writing an essay on "The True Meaning of Smekday"
due to her complex life after Earth was overtaken by aliens and her mother
was kidnapped and taken to Happy Mouse Kingdom in Florida. |
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Before Zoheret and her companions can populate a new planet, they must learn to conquer those same instincts that almost destroyed their ancestors on Earth over one hundred years ago. |
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Schoell,
William. Remarkable Journeys: the story
of Jules Verne A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman whose childhood love of literature, science, and adventure, along with his vivid imagination, led him to become a highly successful science fiction author. |
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When players of their virtual reality computer game fall into a coma, Liz and BJ O'Connor, teenage owners of a computer games company, flee from the police in an attempt to locate a copy of their game and correct the programming. |
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Shelley,
Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator. |
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Sherman,
Josepha. Once Upon a Galaxy Includes fifty folktales from around the world, relating them to contemporary fantasy, science fiction, and cartoon themes. |
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In this choose-your-own adventure graphic novel, a boy
stumbles on the laboratory of a mad scientist who asks him to choose between
testing a mind-reading device, a time machine, and a doomsday machine.
(Graphic Novel, X 741.5 Sh6). |
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Created out of frozen embryonic tissue, Jenna Starborn grows up unloved and unwanted, until she journeys to the planet Fieldstarto take a job at Thorrastone, an estate owned by an enigmatic and reclusive aristocrat. |
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Shusterman,
Neal. The Dark Side of Nowhere Fourteen-year-old Jason faces an identity crisis after discovering that he is the son of aliens who stayed on Earth following a botched invasion mission. |
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Silverberg,
Robert. Far Horizons: all new tales
from the greatest worlds of science fiction In an anthology of science fiction stories, outstanding writers revisit the extraordinary worlds that they created in previous works, in tales by David Brin, Orson Scott Card, Joe Haldeman, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Anne McCaffrey. |
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Skurzynski,
Gloria. The Clones 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. |
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Skurzynski,
Gloria. The Virtual War In a future world where global contamination has necessitated limited human contact, three young people with unique genetically engineered abilities are teamed up to wage a war in virtual reality. |
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When she opens two strange boxes left in her care by her mysterious uncle, fifteen-year-old Annie discovers a swarm of telepathic creatures and unleashes a power capable of slowing down time. |
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Sleator, William. The Boy Who Reversed Himself When Laura discovers that the unpopular boy living next door to her has the ability to go into the fourth dimension, she makes the dangerous decision to accompany him on his journeys there. |
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Sleator,
William. The Duplicate Sixteen-year-old David, finding a strange machine that creates replicas of living organisms, duplicates himself and suffers the horrible consequences when the duplicate turns against him.
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Sleator,
William. The Green Futures of Tycho
When he finds an ancient, egg-shaped object with which he travels back and forth in time, eleven-year-old Tycho grapples with several terrible futures he sees for himself and his family. |
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Sleator,
William. House of Stairs |
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Sleator,
William. Interstellar Pig Barney's new next-door neighbors are unlike anyone he's ever met - utterly charming, slightly odd, and completely obsessed with a board game. When they invite Barney to join them in a game of Interstellar Pig, he's delighted, until things start to get a little strange. |
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Sleator,
William. Marco's Millions
Twelve-year-old Marco's love for travel and for his younger sister Lilly, who has psychic powers, leads him to journey to other universes, gaining the ability to go wherever he wishes without growing old. |
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Sleator,
William. The Night the Heads Came
When sixteen-year-old Leo Kasden and his best friend, Tim, an aspiring artist, are abducted and interrogated by aliens, the two teenagers find themselves caught in the middle of an intergalactic feud between the alien Heads and the Others, shape-changers masquerading as humans. |
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Sleator,
William. Others See Us
When an accidental dunking in toxic waste gives sixteen-year-old Jared the ability to read minds, he discovers horrifying secrets about family members at the summer reunion. |
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Sleator,
William. Parasite Pig
Sixteen-year-old Barney, infected by an alien parasite and his friend Katie are taken to the planet J'koot by extraterrestrials intent on playing the dangerous game known as Interstellar Pig. |
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Sixteen-year-old twins Harry and Barry stumble across a gateway to another universe, where a distortion in time and space causes a dramatic change in their competitive relationship. |
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In the security-obsessed, elitist United States of the near future, where a standardized test determines each person's entire life, a powerful man runs
a corrupt empire until seventeen-year-old Ann and other students take the
lead in boycotting the test. |
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Jack Jameson tours a robot factory with his parents and
comes home with a new friend, Danny One. |
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Slote,
Alfred. My Trip to Alpha I In a future world where space travel is fast and simple, Jack visits his aunt on Alpha I, where he discovers that the sneaky Arbos are plotting something sinister |
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In this space-age adventure the derring-do of Jack Jameson, aided by his robot double Danny One, thwarts the wicked Dr. Drago in his attempt to annihilate the universe |
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Snyder,
Laurel. Any Which Wall In the middle of an Iowa cornfield, four children find a
magic wall that enables them to travel through time and space. |
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Spinner,
Stephanie. Be First in the Universe While staying with their hippie grandparents, ten-year-old twins, Tod and Tessa, discover an unusual shop at the nearby mall, where they find a lie-detecting electronic pet, a Do-Right machine, and other alien gadgets which help them foil their nemeses, the evil Gneiss twins. |
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Heroic Jedi warrior Luke Skywalker takes on the training of a young X-Wing pilot, Corran Horn, who is facing the challenge of coming to terms with his Jedi heritage and learning to use the force, without succumbing to the temptation of the dark side.
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Stead,
Rebecca. When You Reach Me As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s
television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New
York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received
from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space. |
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Stewart,
Trenton Lee. The Mysterious Benedict
Society After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four
children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go
undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only
rule is that there are no rules. |
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Teague,
Mark. The Doom Machine When a spaceship lands in the small town of Vern Hollow in
1956, juvenile delinquent Jack Creedle and prim, studious Isadora Shumway
form an unexpected alliance as they try to keep a group of extraterrestrials
from stealing eccentric Uncle Bud's space travel machine. |
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Vande
Velde, Vivian. Heir Apparent 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.
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Verne,
Jules, 1828-1905. The Omnibus Jules
Verne |
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Verne,
Jules, 1828-1905. Twenty Thousand Leagues
Under the Sea |
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Upon suddenly learning that her parents are researchers from another planet and they must leave in seven days or risk discovery, twelve-year-old Nesta decides to stay in their York, England, home whether or not her parents go.
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Wells,
H. G. (Herbert George). The War of the Worlds
An English astronomer, in company with an artilleryman, a country curate, and others, struggle to survive the invasion of Earth by Martians in 1894. |
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Wells,
H. G. (Herbert George). The War of the Worlds;
the time machine, and selected short stories |
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Aware that his father is unhappy with him taking the job with Dr. Wyatt at Wyatt Transgenics, Eli takes on his new work with enthusiasm until he begins to uncover the connection between his employer, his family, and his mother's Huntington's disease. |
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Westerfeld,
Scott. Specials |
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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. |
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