Sci-Fi Gone Wild: Science Fiction Reads for Teens
Single stories
Oppel, Kenneth
Airborn
In a futuristic society, Matt and Kate team up to search for the existence
of mysterious winged creatures rumored to be living hundreds of feet above
the Earth's surface.
Blacker, Terence
The Angel Factory
Spurred on by his best friend, twelve-year-old Thomas uncovers two major
family secrets: that he was adopted, and that his perfect-seeming family
is part of an other-worldly organization.
Sleator, William
The Boxes
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.
Werlin, Nancy
Double Helix
Against his father's wishes, Eli takes a job with the world-renowned
scientist Dr. Wyatt. But what kind of evil lurks in Dr. Wyatt's lab?
Halam, Ann
Dr.
Franklin’s Island
Three teenagers, stranded on a tropical island after a plane crash, become
the victims of Dr. Franklin's animal mutation experiments.
Anderson, M.T.
Feed
Everyone in the future has computer chips implanted in their heads --
it makes life much easier. But what will the cost of convenience be for
Titus and his friends?
Lyon, Steve
The Gift Moves
In a futuristic United States devoid of wealth and material things, a
teenage baker befriends a talented weaver's apprentice who holds a dark
secret.
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Gifts
The gifts, or special powers, bestowed upon the people of the Uplands
at birth can be used for greatness or evil. In the fear that they will not
be able to control their powers and use them for good, two friends reject
their gifts.
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.
Hautman, Pete
Hole in the Sky
In a future world ravaged by a mutant virus, four teenagers seek to save
the Grand Canyon from being flooded, while trying to avoid capture by a
band of renegade Survivors.
Farmer, Nancy
The House of the Scorpion
In the future country of Opium, human clones are treated worse than animals.
When Matt discovers he is the clone of Opium's leader, El Patron, he makes
a dangerous attempt to dodge his cruel fate.
Philbrick, W.R.
The Last Book in the Universe
After an earthquake destroys much of the planet, a teenager nicknamed
Spaz takes on the heroic battle of bringing intelligence back to Earth.
Bell, Hilari
A Matter of Profit
Risking his own future and his sister's freedom, Viv sets out to uncover
the forces behind the plot to assassinate the Emperor.
Weaver, Will
Memory Boy
Miles and his family must flee their home and begin a new life in the
wilderness after a chain of cataclysmic volcanic explosions creates dangerous
conditions in their city.
Curley, Marianne
The Named
Ethan, one of the Named, fights the Order of Chaos and its destruction
in the present by traveling through time.
Nielsen Hayden, Patrick
New
Skies: An Anthology of Today’s Science Fiction
A collection of exciting short stories for teens by famous science fiction
writers.
Avi, et al
Second Sight: Stories for a New Millennium
A collection of short stories about the future by such authors as Avi,
Madeleine L'Engle, Richard Peck, Rita Williams-Garcia, and Nancy Springer.
McNaughton, Janet
The Secret Under My Skin
In the year 2368, after a "technocaust" eliminated virtually all
technology, Blay discovers the truth about the future of the planet.
Nix, Garth
Shade’s
Children
In a savage post nuclear world, four young fugitives attempt to overthrow
the bloodthirsty rule of the Overlords with the help of Shade, their mysterious
mentor.
Goodman, Alison
Singing the Dogstar Blues
In a future Australia, eighteen year-old Joss attends an exclusive high
school specializing in time travel. When Joss is paired with an exchange
student from another planet, she realizes that her school may be putting
her in extreme danger.
Colfer, Eoin
The Supernaturalist
Cosmo discovers he has the ability to see supernatural parasites, undetectable
to most humans, which threaten to destroy human life.
Halam, Ann
Taylor Five
Taylor, a fourteen year-old clone, must flee into the jungles of Borneo
when her island home is invaded.
Clements, Andrew
Things Not Seen
When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible, he,
his parents and his new blind friend Alicia try to find out what caused
his condition and how to reverse it.
Paulsen, Gary
The Time Hackers
Set in the future, Dorso and Frank find themselves the victims of a practical
joke gone bad and are forced to play a dangerous time travel game.
Cart, Michael (Ed.)
Tomorrowland: Ten Stories About the Future
A collection of ten stories about the future, by such authors as Lois
Lowry, Katherine Paterson, and Jon Scieszka.
Stahler, David
Truesight
In thirteen-year-old Jacob's world, blindness is considered a virtue,
but Jacob isn't so sure he wants to be blind forever. Will he choose to
buck society and reject blindness, and if so -- what will he see when he
gains sight?
Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Turnabout
Melly and Anny Beth, at age 100, took injections that reverse the aging
process. Now it's 85 years later and the two are 15 years old and getting
younger -- how will they stop the age reversal before they become babies
and are unable to take care of themselves?
Westerfeld, Scott
Uglies
In this alternate reality, all humans undergo surgery to transform themselves
from an Ugly into a Pretty at the age of 16. Tally can't wait to become
a Pretty, but her best friend Shay may ruin those plans and Tally must decide
where her loyalties lie.
Jeapes, Ben
Xenocide Mission
In a far-distant solar system, Lieutenant Joel Gilmore and his space
observation team are suddenly attacked by the very aliens they were sent
to watch.
Sequels, Trilogies & Series
Stephens, J.B.
The Big Empty series: The
Big Empty; Paradise
City; Desolation Angels
After a devastating plague wipes out most of humankind, seven teens try to
put their lives back together in a new, dangerous world.
Card, Orson Scott
Ender’s Game series: Ender’s Game; Speaker
for the Dead; Xenocide;
Children of the Mind
Ender’s Shadow series: Ender’s Shadow; Shadow
of the Hegemon; Shadow
Puppets; Shadow of the Giant
The Ender’s Game series follows Ender, the youngest commander in the
history of the International Fleet. The Ender’s Shadow books are a parallel
series following Bean, Ender’s second-in-command.
Goobie, Beth
Flux; Fixed
Nellie discovers she can travel between parallel worlds -- but is it worth
the dangerous consequences?
Lowry, Lois
The
Giver; Gathering
Blue; The Messenger
In The Giver, Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world until he is given his
life assignment as the Receiver and begins to understand the dark secrets behind
his fragile community. Gathering Blue features Kira, whose talent and skill
with embroidery has garnered the attention of the Grand Council Edifice. These
gifted young people come together in the last book of the trilogy, The Messenger.
Lassiter, Rhiannon
Hex; Shadows; Ghosts
A group of teenagers who share the Hex gene, allowing them to hack into computer
systems using their minds alone, join together to battle the government.
Reeve, Phillip
The Hungry City Chronicles: Mortal
Engines; Predator’s
Gold
Tom and Hester struggle to survive in a futuristic world where cities traverse
the land, consuming smaller cities.
Sleator, William
Interstellar
Pig; Parasite Pig
Barney’s boring summer vacation turns exciting when he meets up with
extraterrestrials to play the dangerous game of Interstellar Pig.
Armstrong, Jennifer
The
Kindling; The
Keepers of the Flame; The Kiln
In the near future, young people join 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.
Haddix, Margaret Peterson
The Shadow Children series: Among
the Hidden; Among
the Impostors; Among
the Betrayed; Among
the Barons; Among the Brave
In a society that allows families to have only two children, a group of third-borns
tries to save themselves and others like them.
Skurzynski, Gloria
Virtual
War; The Clones
Three teenagers wage a virtual reality war and must deal with the consequences
of life afterwards.