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Friday, June 14, 2013

Top 10 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Books for Youth

Aliens!  Shape-shifters!  Deadly diseases!  Check out the best science fiction and fantasy books for middle and high schoolers.

The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey:  This heartfelt, violent survivalist series debut is set in the aftermath of a an alien invasion in which the aliens never appear.  New Teen Fiction Yancey

The Diviners by Libba Bray:  In Prohibition-era New York, 17-year-old flapper Evie is under the wing of an uncle who runs the Museum of the Creepy Crawlies.  Business is slow until the arrival of what the papers dub the Pentacle Killer.  New Teen Fiction Bray

Every Day by David Levithan: A teenager called A wakes up in a different body every day, trying not to interfere with daily routines and to steer clear of romantic attachments.  That works until A meets Rhiannon and falls in love.  New Teen Fiction Levithan

The Future We Left Behind by Mike Lancaster: The events of Human.4 are thousands of years in the past, so distant that Kyle Straker's account of humanity being "upgraded" by alien forces is considered superstition except by true believers.  Now it's time for a teen named Peter to upload his story into the worldwide shared space of the Link.  Available through interlibrary loan

The Girl with Borrowed Wings by Rinsai Rossetti: Frenenqer--a name meaning restraint--was born inside her father's imagination and sculpted into his vision of the perfect daughter.  But when she meets a shape-shifter, the world opens up before her in this stunningly imagined paranormal romance.  New Teen Fiction Rossetti

Railsea by China Mieville:  In this inventive fantasy that draws from Moby Dick, the crew of the diesel train Medes hunts moldywarpes--enormous, man-eating, molelike creatures who burrow in the  earth beneath a tangled ocean of train tracks.  Available through interlibrary loan

Seraphina by Rachel Hartman: After 40 years of peace between human and dragon kingdoms, their much-maligned treaty is on the verge of collapse.  Serpahina's secret--that she's a human-dragon half-breed--must be protected in this richly drawn fantasy.  Teen Fiction Hartman

Starry River of the Sky by Grace Lin:  This mesmerizing companion to Newbery Honor-winning Where the Mountain Meets the Moon weaves Chinese folklore with the main narrative, as a runaway named Rendi attempts to figure out why the moon is missing from the sky.  Available through interlibrary loan

Quarantine by Lex Thomas:  A gritty, apocalyptic thriller about a sick teen who infects a Colorado high school with a disease so deadly that half the building is blown up the by the military and the rest is sealed inside a giant dome.  Available through interlibrary loan

Quintana of Charyn by Melina Marchetta: The brilliant final volume in the Lumatere Chronicles sees Froi setting out to find and protect pregnant Quintana, his strange and savage love; raise an army against an enemy; and prevent war.  Available through interlibrary loan

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