Science Fiction for Teens

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the Universe & Everything, So Long & Thanks for All the Fish, Mostly Harmless
Douglas Adams (YA ADAMS)
Join Arthur Dent as he travels the galaxy with his pal Ford Prefect, getting into horrible messes & generally wreaking havoc.

The Diary of Pelly D
L.J. Adlington (YA ADLINGTON)
Pelly D used to be rich, pretty & popular. Until the genetic test….

Feed
M.T. Anderson (YA ANDERSON)
“We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.”

I, Robot
Isaac Asimov (YA ASIMOV)
Is robots & humans living together a good idea? Depends on which you are….

The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood (YA ATWOOD)
In the near future, who will control women’s bodies?

Jennifer Government
Max Barry (YA BARRY)
Hack Nike signs a contract for the job of his life—and then discovers he’s to assassinate shoe buyers as part of a marketing scheme. And now Jennifer Government is on his tail.

Hyperthought
M.M. Buckner (YA BUCKNER)
In a future world full of toxins & run by .coms, humanity’s only hope is to unlock the power of the mind.

Ender series
Ender’s Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide,
Children of the Mind
Orson Scott Card (YA CARD)
Earth’s children are trained in battle to defeat invading aliens.

Timeline
Michael Crichton (YA CRICHTON)
When you step into a time machine, fax yourself through a wormhole & step out in 1357 France, be very, very afraid!

Ember series
City of Ember, People of Sparks, Prophet of Yonwood
Jeanne DuPrau (YA DUPRAU)
The world they've know all the lives -- the way their people have lived forever -- suddenly falls away when Lina & Doon make a startling discovery.

The Ear, The Eye & The Arm
Nancy Farmer (YA FARMER)
In 2194 in Zimbabwe, General Matsika's three children are kidnapped and three mutant detectives use their special powers to search for them.

Child of Earth
David Gerrold (YA GERROLD)
Wanting to relocate to Horse World seems like a really good idea...until Kaer’s family gets there! Danger, anyone?

Pucker
Melanie Gideon (YA GIDEON)
Always the outsider, Pucker’s given a chance to change that. Is it worth his home? His personality? His mother’s life?

Jumper
Steven Gould (YA GOULD)
After learning he has the power to teleport, Davy escapes his abusive father & heads for New York City to start a new life.

Shadow Children series
Among the Hidden, Among the Impostors, Among the Betrayed, Among the Barons, Among the Brave, Among the Enemy, Among the Free
Margaret P. Haddix (YA HADDIX)
In your society, families are only allowed 2 kids. Guess what? You’re #3.

Turnabout
Margaret P. Haddix (YA HADDIX)
Getting younger? Cool! But, what if you can’t stop de-aging?

Dr. Franklin’s Island
Ann Halam (YA HALAM)
When 3 teens survive a crash on an island, they think the worst is over...until they meet Dr. Franklin.

Rash
Pete Hautman (YA HAUTMAN)
Pizza factory prisons. Illegal football. Hungry bears. The USSA. It’s a whole new world for Bo. All because of one little mistake.

New World Order
Ben Jeapes (YA JEAPES)
War’s a lot different when aliens get involved!

The Xenocide Mission
Ben Jeapes (YA JEAPES)
An observation mission turns deadly when the aliens discover they are being watched.

Firestorm
David Klass (YA KLASS)
A talking dog, a ninja babe & special powers to save the world. What could be better?

Epic
Connor Kostick (YA KOSTICK)
With all violence banned on New Earth, the video game that takes it place should follow suit, right? Come see for yourself.

The Goodness Gene
Sonia Levitin (YA LEVITIN)
Are you more than your DNA?

Warchild
Karen Lowachee (YA LOWACHEE)
Which is worse, being a slave to your own kind, or a spy for the enemy?

The Giver
Lois Lowry (YA LOWRY)
How can a world with no poverty, crime or sickness be a nightmare?

Violet Eyes duet
Violet Eyes, Silver Eyes
Nicole Luiken (YA LUIKEN)
What do you do when nothing around you is what it seems, and you can’t trust anyone...including yourself?

Dragonriders of Pern series
Dragonflight, Dragonquest, White Dragon
Anne McCaffrey (YA MCCAFFREY)
Got deadly “thread” killing everything it touches? Riders & dragons to the rescue!

Shade’s Children
Garth Nix (YA NIX)
Imagine a future where your 14th birthday is your last.

Halo series
Flood, First Strike, Fall of Reach, Ghosts of Onyx
Eric Nylund (YA NYLUND)
Humankind struggles for its very survival against the fierce Covenant warriors.

The Transall Saga
Gary Paulsen (YA PAULSEN)
Mark is transported to another time and planet, where he must learn to survive while he searches for a way home.

The Sterkarm Duet
Sterkarm Handshake, Sterkarm Kiss
Andrea Price (YA PRICE)
A mega-corporation opens a time tube to the 16th century to exploit resources, but the “primitive” Sterkarms won’t give up their land without a fight.

Larklight
Philip Reeve (YA REEVE)
Art & his irritating sister live with their father in a huge, rambling house…that just happens to be traveling through outer space.

Perfect Dark: Initial Vector
Greg Rucka (YA RUCKA)
Corporations rule the world. They’re battling it out to see who’ll end on top, and ex-bounty hunter Joanna is caught in the middle.

Samaria series
Archangel, Jovah’s Angel, Alleluia Files, Angelica, Angel-Seeker
Sharon Shinn (YA SHINN)
Angels & mortals struggle to live together and to discover the origins & purpose of Jovah and his teachings.

The Dark Side of Nowhere
Neal Shusterman (YA SHUSTERMAN)
Jason discovers a terrible secret about himself & his community that could change the fate of the Earth forever.

Star Wars series
Various authors (YA SERIES STAR WARS)
Get your Star Wars fix with our great collection of SW novels!

So This Is How It Ends
Tui Sutherland (YA SUTHERLAND)
So, the world ends, & you’re flung far into the future to find out what’s left.

Missing Link trilogy
Fourth World, Only Human
Kate Thompson (YA THOMPSON)
Moms have lots of different careers. Danny & Christie’s mom conducts horrifying genetic experiments….

Heir Apparent
Vivian Vande Velde (YA VANDE VELDE)
Everybody’s played video games & died tons of times. What if you had to win a video game...or actually die...for real?

Double Helix
Nancy Werlin (YA WERLIN)
Eli has a great new job at Wyatt Transgenics. With great benefits...and lots of secrets about himself…& his family.

Midnighters series
Secret Hour, Touching Darkness, Blue Noon
Scott Westerfeld (YA WESTERFELD)
For one hour each night, the town belongs to the things of the dark. Only a very few have the power to stop them.

Pretties series
Uglies, Pretties, Specials
Scott Westerfeld (YA WESTERFELD)
Everyone in Tally’s world gets to be supermodel-gorgeous. What could be wrong with that?

Bar Code series
Bar Code Tattoo, Bar Code Rebellion
Suzanne Weyn (YA WEYN)
Individuality vs. Conformity. Identity vs. Access. Freedom vs. Control.

The Storm Thief
Chris Wooding (YA WOODING)
What’s up with the storms that change reality & is there a way to stop them?

Dragonback series
Dragon & Thief, Dragon & Soldier, Dragon & Slave
Timothy Zahn (YA ZAHN)
Talk about an odd couple!