Noggin

By John Corey Whaley

After dying at 16, Travis Coates’ head was removed and frozen for five years before being attached to another body.

Ready Player One

By Ernest Cline

Immersing himself in a virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world, Wade Watts joins a violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world’s creator.

Insignia

By S.J. Kincaid

Tom is recruited by the U.S. Military to begin training at the Pentagon Spire as a Combatant in World War III, controlling the mechanized drones that do the actual fighting.

A Thousand Pieces of You

By Claudia Gray

When Marguerite Caine’s father is killed, she must leap into different dimensions and versions of herself to catch the murderer

The Diabolic

By S.J. Kincaid

Nemesis is a Diabolic, a humanoid teenager and the galaxy’s most deadly weapon, who masquerades as Sidonia, a senator’s daughter, and becomes a hostage of the galactic court

Carve the Mark

By Veronica Roth

Living on a violent planet where everyone develops a unique power meant to shape the future, Akos and Cyra resent gifts that render them vulnerable to other’s control.

Little Brother

By Cory Doctorow

Computer hacker Marcus spends most of his time outwitting school surveillance, until the day that San Francisco is bombed by terrorists - and he and his friends are arrested and brutally interrogated for days.

Pulse

By Patrick Carman

In the year 2051, when most Americans live in one of two gigantic, modern States, Faith Daniels learns that she, like other misfits, has unusual abilities that could help when the inevitable war begins.

Bzrk

By Michael Grant

In the near future, the conjoined Armstrong twins, under the guise of the Armstrong Fancy Gifts Corporation, plot to create their own version of utopia using nanobots.

The Scorpion Rules

By Erin Bow

In order to keep the peace, an artificial intelligence called Talis takes the children of world leaders hostage because if any leader starts a war their child will be killed.

MORE SCIENCE FICTION RECOMMENDATIONS: Sound by Alexandra Duncan Dangerous by Shannon Hale Icons by Margaret Stohl

Feed by M.T. Anderson Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau Matched by Ally Condie

: SCIENCE FICTION

Science Fiction is a genre of fiction in which the stories often tell about science and technology of the future. It is important to note that science fiction has a relationship with the principles of science these stories involve partial-ly true - partially fictitious laws or theories of science.

SCIENCE FICTION : SPACE

Teens in Space Fiction find themselves in outer space or dealing with alien lifeforms.

Defy the Stars

By Claudia Gray

Teenaged soldier Noemi and an enemy robot, Abel, who is programmed to obey her commands, set out on an interstellar quest to save her home planet, Earth colony Genesis.

Starflight

By Melissa Landers

Desperate to relocate to an off-world place, Solara Brooks indentures herself to a rich bully who pretends to be her servant on a starship full of eccentric crewmates after he is framed for conspiracy on Earth.

Avalon

By Mindee Arnett

Jeth Seagrave, the leader of a team of teenage mercenaries, skirts the line between honor and the law in an attempt to win freedom in the form of his parents’ old spaceship.

Illuminae

By Amy Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

The planet Kerenza is attached, and Kady and Ezra find themselves on a space fleet fleeing the enemy, while their ship’s artificial intelligence system and a deadly plague may be the end of them all.

MORE SPACE RECOMMENDATIONS: Empress of a Thousand Skies by Rhoda Belleza Black Hole Sun by David Macinnis Gill Glow by Amy Kathleen Ryan

Mothership by Martin Leicht Across the Universe by Beth Revis Of Jenny and the Aliens by Ryan Gebhart The Prom Goer’s Interstellar Excursion by Chris McCoy

SCIENCE FICTION : DYSTOPIAS

Teens in Dystopian Fiction are attempting to survive in a futuristic, imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and illusion of a perfect society.

Flawed

By Cecelia Ahern

In a future society where “flawed” peo-ple who have committed crimes are branded with an F, a young girl takes a stand.

Dove Arising

By Karen Bao

Preferring a life of obscurity on a lunar colony in the years after her father’s fatal accident, greenhouse cultivator Phaet Theta is forced to join the Militia in order to protect her younger siblings and befriends fellow outsider Wes be-fore her plans are thwarted by danger-ous adversaries.

Legend

By Marie Lu

In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, 15-year-old Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.

Not a Drop to Drink

By Mindy McGinnis

Lynn will do anything to protect her valuable water source, but the arrival of new neighbors forces her to recon-sider her attitudes.

MORE DYSTOPIAN RECOMMENDATIONS: Unwind by Neal Shusterman Ashfall by Mike Mullin Proxy by Alex London

The Declaration by Gemma Malley The Maze Runner by James Dashner Gone by M ichael Grant The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee Partials by Dan Wells