Science Fiction for Teens
compiled 5-06

The Diary of Pelly D by L.J. Adlington
YA SF/FAN ADLI
When Toni V, a construction worker on a futuristic colony, finds the diary of a teenage girl whose life has been turned upside-down by holocaust-like events, he begins to question his own beliefs.

Spacer and Rat by Margaret Bechard
YA SF/FAN BECH
Jack's predictable existence on Freedom space station is transformed when Kit enters his life and enlists him and a sensitive robot in an effort to outwit the Company.

The Best of Ray Bradbury : the graphic novel
YA GRAPHIC NOVEL BR
Over a period of four years, from 1992-1996, the world's best comic book artists adapted Grand Master Ray Bradbury's best stories in a series of different graphic novel formats.

The Princess of Neptune by Quentin Dodd
YA SF/FAN DODD
Theora Theremin and her brother Verbert find themselves whisked from the shores of hometown Lake Philodendron to an intergalactic beauty contest on Neptune.

Eager by Helen Fox
YA SF/FAN 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.

Dusk by Susan Gates
YA SF/FAN GATE
Sharing both human and hawk genes, a young girl escapes from her cage at a top secret laboratory where she was conceived by military scientists in a botched experiment designed to create stronger soldiers.

Siberia : a novel by Ann Halam
YA SF/FAN HALA
After spending two years at a prison school, thirteen-year-old Sloe sets off on a trek across frozen wastelands, tending to the secret "seeds" of wild animals her mother left in her care, trying to reach a new life for all of them.

Mercury Man by Tom Henighan
YA SF/FAN HENI
Tom discovers that a local computer company is conditioning his fellow students for what he suspects is some evil purpose. He soon finds himself up against a corrupt organization with an agenda of genetic experimentation.

The Goodness Gene by Sonia Levitin
YA SF/FAN LEVI
As son of the Compassionate Director of the Dominion of the Americas, Will, along with his twin brother Berk, has been groomed for leadership in a society that values genetic fitness, but he encounters information which causes him to question that society as well as his own identity.

Useful Idiots by Jan Mark
YA SF/FAN MARK
In an England in the not-too-distant future, the lowlands are flooded and archaeology is banned. When a storm stirs up a human skull, it starts a chain of events that forever changes the lives of those involved, particularly the Inglish, a remnant tribe on the edge of Europe.

Out of Time by John Marsden
YA SF/FAN MARS
James, a strange, silent boy, makes the acquaintance of old Mr. Woodford, a physicist who constructs a mysterious black box, but when the box comes into the boy's possession, it draws him into a magical and dangerous world, in and out of time.

The Secret Under My Skin by Janet McNaughton
YA SF/FAN MCNA
In the year 2368, humans exist under dire environmental conditions and one young woman, rescued from a workcamp and chosen for a special duty, uses her love of learning to discover the truth about the planet's future and her own dark past.

New Skies : an anthology of today's science fiction
YA SF/FAN NEW
A fine lineup of authors, including Orson Scott Card, Philip K. Dick, Steven Gould, Connie Willis, and Jane Yolen, distinguishes this collection of short stories that first appeared in science fiction magazines.

Truesight by David Stahler Jr.
YA SF/FAN STAH
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.

The Big Empty by J.B. Stephens
YA SF/FAN STEP
After half of the world's population is killed by a plague, seven teenagers seek a better life in a nightmarish future by deciphering coded messages and trying to avoid the Slashers. First in the Big Empty series.

JumpMan: Rule #1, Don't Touch Anything by James Valentine
YA SF/FAN VALE
When a defective time-jumping device strands Theodore, a teen from the distant future, in the twenty-first century, he is helped by two high schoolers--Jules, who is having time problems of his own, and Gen, an old friend Jules was about to ask out.

Double Helix by Nancy Werlin
YA FIC WERL
Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering.