Armstrong, J. The Fire-Us Trilogy. YA/ ARM
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.
Asimov, I. (ed.) Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales. YA/ FIF
Collection of fifty short science fiction stories by a variety of authors, written between 1941 and 1962.
Bradbury, R. Fahrenheit 451. YA/ BRA
Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. Then he meets a girl who tells him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who tells him of a future where people can think.
Card, O.S. Ender’s Game. YA/ CAR
After being sent to Battle School, Ender quickly becomes Earth's best hope to defeat the alien invaders who nearly destroyed the planet. But can Ender withstand the pressures of training to be the world's hero?
Dickinson, P. Eva. YA/ DIC
After a terrible accident, a young girl wakes up to discover that she has been given the body of a chimpanzee.
Ferman, E. (ed.) The Best From Fantasy and
Science Fiction. YA/ BES
Contains twenty-one short stories published between 1993 and 1998 in "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction."
Fox, H. Eager. YA/ FOX
Unlike Grumps, their old-fashioned robot, the Bell family's new robot, Eager, is programmed to not merely obey but to question, reason, and exercise free will.
Halam, A. Dr. Franklin’s Island. YA/ HAL
When their plane crashes over the Pacific Ocean, three science students are left stranded on a tropical island and then imprisoned by a doctor who is performing horrifying experiments on humans involving the transfer of animal genes.
Hautman, P. Hole in the Sky. YA/ HAU
In 2028 a deadly flu virus ravages the earth. Ceej must find out what happened to his uncle and save his sister from a half-mad band of Survivors if he is to join Bella, a Hopi girl, in her quest to find a mysterious portal to a safe world.
Lowry, L. The Giver. YA/ LOW
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.
Malley, Gemma. The Declaration. YA/ MAL
In 2140 England, where drugs enable people to live
forever and children are illegal, teenaged Anna, an
obedient “surplus” training to become a house servant, discovers that her birth parents are trying to find her.
Mark, J. Useful Idiots. YA/ MAR
In 2255, a graduate student named Merrick unwittingly finds himself thrown into an extraordinary adventure in the Reserve where the Aboriginals live after a violent storm across the North Sea reveals a human skull.
Martin, S. R. The Swampland Trilogy. YA/ MAR
It all started with Marvin's innocent crush on the girl next door...but it ends with a battle. What's going on in the swamp will change everything and everyone.
Mieville, C. Un Lun Dun. YA/ MEL
Part ALICE IN WONDERLAND and part PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH, this novel takes readers into the life of a 12-year-old London girl, Deeba, who finds her way into a funhouse version of her home city--a place of animated umbrellas, milk cartons, and trash monsters, as well as killer giraffes, ghost children, talking books, and flying double-decker buses.
O’Brien, R. Z for Zachariah. YA/ OBR
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.
Patterson, J. Maximum Ride Series. YA/ PAT
This sci-fi fantasy series from master of suspense Patterson follows the adventures and trials of a remarkable group of young people who are 98% human and 2% bird.
Paulsen, G. The Transall Saga. YA/PAU
On his first solo backpacking trip, Mark Harrison discovers a mysterious blue light. He falls through it and lands in a strange land where he must learn to survive with little more than a pocketknife and a few broken matches.
Pfeffer, S. Life As We Knew It. YA/ PFE
Through journal entries, 16-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.
Philbrick, R. The Last Book in the Universe. YA/ PHI
Because his epilepsy prevents him from using mind probes, which are rotting everyone else's minds, Spaz still has his memory. He doesn't realize what a gift this is until he meets a man who is writing down his own memories in a book.
Pullman, P. His Dark Materials Trilogy. YA/ PUL
Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subjects of gruesome experiments in the Far North.
Reeve, P. The Hungry City Chronicles. YA/ REE
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.
Shusterman, N. The Dark Side of Nowhere. YA/ SHU
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.
Sleator, W. The Last Universe. YA/ SLE
When her desperately ill older brother insists that she take him into their mysterious backyard garden, designed by their quantum physicist great uncle, fourteen-year-old Susan discovers that things are not always what they seem.
Thompson, K. Switchers. YA/ THO
Kate can switch to any animal form she chooses. She joins Kevin, another Switcher, to save the Northern Hemisphere.
Weaver, W. Memory Boy. YA/ WEA
When worldwide disaster strikes early in the new millenium, Miles and his family must flee their home in Minneapolis before the disaster affects them. They leave behind all they've ever known and flee to the wilderness.
Westerfield, S. Midnighters Series. YA/ WES
Upon moving to Bixby, Oklahoma, fifteen-year-old Jessica Day learns that she is one of a group of people who have special abilities. These abilities help the group fight ancient creatures living in an hour hidden at midnight.
Weyn, Suzanne. The Bar Code Tattoo. YA/ WEY
It's the near future. When you turn seventeen, you get a barcode tattoo. It's a rite of passage. It's the be-all and end-all of identity. Everybody does it. But what if you say no? What if you don't want to become a code?
