Each of these great reads comes straight from our science fiction booklist!
by Pat McKissack
Scholastic Press, 2010. 173 p.
On the run from a bounty hunter who arrested her mother for being part of a secret society devoted to freeing clones, thirteen-year-old Leanna learns amazing truths about herself and her family as she is forced to consider the value of freedom and what it really means to be human in 2170 America.
Bounders
by Monica Tesler
Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, 2016.
366p.
Twelve-year-old Jasper and his friends are the first group of cadets, called Bounders, to be trained as astronauts who use new spaceships to teleport, but soon are forced to go up against an alien society seeking revenge for stealing this brain-sync technology.
The 7 Professors of the Far North
by John Fardell
Putnam's Sons, 2005. 217 p.
Eleven-year-old Sam finds himself involved in a dangerous adventure when he and his new friends, brother and sister Ben and Zara, set off for the Arctic to try and rescue the siblings' great-uncle and five other professors from the mad scientist holding them prisoner.
Mortal Engines
by Philip Reeve
EOS, 2003. 310 p.
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.
Bongo Fishing
by Thacher Hurd
Henry Holt and Co., 2011.
Berkeley, California, middle-schooler Jason Jameson has a close encounter of the fun kind when Sam, a bluish alien from the Pleiades, arrives in a 1960 Dodge Dart spaceship and invites Jason to go fishing.
Eye of the Storm
Kate Messner
Walker Books for Young Readers, 2012.
292 p.
Jaden's summer visit with her meteorologist father, who has just returned from spending four years in Russia conducting weather experiments not permitted in the United States, fills her with apprehension and fear as she discovers that living at her father's planned community, Placid Meadows, is anything but placid.
The Rendering
by Joel Naftali
Egmont USA, 2011. 275 p.
Thirteen-year-old Doug relates in a series of blog posts the story of how he saved the world but was falsely branded a terrorist and murderer, forced to fight the evil Dr. Roach and his armored biodroid army with an electronics-destroying superpower of his own.
Brain Jack
by Brian Falkner
Random House, c2009. 349 p.
In a near-future New York City, fourteen-year-old computer genius Sam Wilson manages to hack into the AT&T network and sets off a chain of events that have a profound effect on human activity throughout the world.
Tanglewreck
by Jeanette Winterson
Bloomsbury Children's Books : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2006.
414 p.
Eleven-year-old Silver sets out to find the Timekeeper--a clock that controls time--and to protect it from falling into the hands of two people who want to use the device for their own nefarious ends.
The Fog Diver
by Joel N. Ross
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2015.
328 p.
In this futuristic high-stakes adventure, humanity clings to cities on the highest mountain peaks above the deadly Fog, and airships transport the pirates of the skies. Daring 13-year-old tetherboy Chess and his salvage crew must face the dark plans of Lord Kodoc and work to save their beloved Mrs. E.
The Firefly Code
by Megan Frazer Blakemore
Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2016. 340p.
Mori and her friends live a normal life on Firefly Lane in Old Harmonie, a utopian community where every kid knows he or she is genetically engineered to be better and smarter, but when a strangely perfect new girl named Ilana moves in, the friends begin to question the only world they have ever known.
Spacer and Rat
by Margaret Bechard
Roaring Brook Press, 2005. 183 p.
Jack's predictable existence on Freedom space station is transformed when Kit, the Earthie rat, enters his life and enlists him and a sensitive robot in an effort to outwit the Company.
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