Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Celebrate Teen Read Week With These Out of this World Science Fiction!

Celebrate Teen Read Week October 13-19, 2013 and explore titles that take you beyond the real world to lands far, far away.  All books are in the Teen Scene and on display for all of October along with a book list highlighting other Out of this World Science Fiction. 



Barnes, John
Losers in Space
  
In 2029,Susan and her almost-boyfriend Derlock, and seven fellow students stow away on a ship to Mars, unaware that Derlock is a sociopath with bigger plans.

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 Cross, Julie
Tempest

After his girlfriend Holly is fatally shot during a violent struggle, nineteen-year-old Jackson uses his supernatural abilities and travels back in time two years, where he falls in love with Holly all over again.  First in the Tempest trilogy.

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Grant, Michael
BZRK

In the near future, the conjoined Armstrong twins plot to create their own version of utopia using nanobots, while a guerilla group known as BZRK develops a DNA-based biot that can stop bots, but at risk of the host's brain.  First in the BZRK trilogy.


Healey, Karen
When We Wake

In 2027, sixteen-year-old Tegan is just like every other girl--playing the guitar, falling in love, and protesting the wrongs of the world with her friends. But then Tegan dies, waking up 100 years in the future as the unknowing first government guinea pig to be cryogenically frozen and successfully revived. Appalling secrets about her new world come to light, and Tegan must choose to either keep her head down or fight for a better future.

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Johnson, Alaya Dawn
The Summer Prince

In a Brazil of the distant future, June Costa falls in love with Enki, a fellow artist and rebel against the strict limits of the legendary pyramid city of Palmares Tres' matriarchal government, knowing that, like all Summer Kings before him, Enki is destined to die.



Lo, Malinda
Adaptation

In the aftermath of a series of plane crashes caused by birds, seventeen-year-old Reese and her debate-team partner, David, receive medical treatment at a secret government facility and become tangled in a conspiracy that is, according to Reese's friend, Julian, connected with aliens and UFOs.





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