Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
EOS, 2005
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.
PB YA FICTION OPP
Crossfire by Nancy Kress
Tor, 2003
The story of a human colony formed by Jake Holman – a man trying to escape a dark past. But as this diverse group of thousands comes to terms with their new lives on a distant new world, they make a startling discovery: primitive humanoid aliens.
SCI_FI FANTASY KRE
Dancing with an Alien by Mary Logue
HarperCollins, 2000
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.
YA FICTION LOG
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Tom Doherty Books, 1991
Andrew 'Ender' Wiggin isn't just playing games at Battle School: he and the other children are being tested and trained in Earth's attempt to find the military genius that the planet needs in its all-out war with an alien enemy.
SCI_FI FANTASY CAR
Eva by Peter Dickinson
Delacorte, 1988
After a terrible accident, a young girl wakes up to discover that she has been given the body of a chimpanzee.
YA SCI_FI FANTASY DIC
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Simon & Schuster, 1993
Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. Then he meets a seventeen-year old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who tells him of a future where people can think. And Guy Montag knows what he has to do....
SCI_FI FANTASY BRA
Feed by M.T. Anderson
Candlewick Press, 2002
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
YA SCI_FI FANTASY AND
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Harmony Books, 1979
Arthur Dent, mild-mannered, out-to-lunch earthling, is plucked from his planet by his friend, Ford Prefect, just seconds before it was demolished to make way for a hyper-space bypass. Ford, posing as an out-of-work actor, is a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Together the gruesome twosome begin their now-famous inter-galactic journey through time and space.
SCI_FI FANTASY ADA
Hole in the Sky by Pete Hautman
Simon & Schuster, 2001
In a future world ravaged by a mutant virus, sixteen-year-old Ceej and three other teenagers seek to save the Grand Canyon from being flooded, while trying to avoid capture by a band of renegade Survivors.
YA FICTION HAU
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Atheneum Books, 2002
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.
YT SCI_FI FANTASY FAR
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Bantam Books, 1950
Asimov chronicles the development of the robot through a series of interlinked stories: from its primitive origins in the present to its ultimate perfection in the not-so-distant future--a future in which humanity itself may be rendered obsolete.
PB SCI_FI FANTASY ASI
The Kindling by Jennifer Armstrong
HarperCollins, 2002
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.
YA SCI_FI FANTASY ARM
The Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick
Scholastic Signature, 2002
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.
PB YT SCI_FI FANTASY PHI
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
HarperCollins, 2004
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.
PB YA SCI_FI FANTASY REE
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Bantam Books, 2003
In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's CosaNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he's a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that's striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about Infocalypse.
FICTION STE
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Fawcett, 1986
When a Victorian scientist thrusts himself into the year a.d. 802,701, he is delighted to find the end of all suffering, which has been replaced by beauty, contentment, and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realizes that these beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture – now weak and childishly afraid of the dark.
PB CLASSIC WEL
Truesight by David Strahler, Jr.
EOS, 2005
In a distant frontier world, thirteen-year-old Jacob is uncertain of his future in a community that considers blindness a virtue and "Seers" as aberrations.
PB YA SCI_FI FANTASY STR
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1962
Meg Murray and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
YT SCI_FI FANTASY LEN
The Xenocide Mission by Ben Jeapes
Laurel-Leaf Books, 2004
Lieutenant Joel Gilmore is part of a space observation team that is attacked by the very aliens they are watching. As their fellow soldiers rescue them, they inadvertently unlock the secrets of the solar system.
PB YA SCI_FI FANTASY JEA
Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien
Atheneum, 1974
A nuclear holocaust has destroyed civilization. Ann Burden believes she is the last person alive until she finds another survivor. She discovers there are worse things than being alone.
PB YA FICTION OBR
