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Jumper Steven Gould
YA PB Gould

17-year-old David has a special talent: he can teleport, or "jump" from place to place. After he runs away from his abusive step-father, David survives on the streets until he learns how to control his powers, then decides to use it to rob banks! Along the way, he meets a girl, searches for his estranged mother, and contemplates his own morality. Eventually, the authorities learn about David and want to capture him to study his powers.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
YA Adams

It's the cult classic favorite! Just seconds before Earth is destroyed, Ford Perfect rescues his friend Arthur Dent. You see, Ford Perfect is really an alien who has been incognito for years while working on a new edition of the book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Hitchhiking through the galaxy is just what Ford and Arthur do, and along the way they meet all kinds of strange and wonderful creatures.

Feed M.T. Anderson
YA Anderson

Main character Titus and all his friends live in the future, where everyone has the "feed" automatically connected to their brains. The feed is like having TV, the internet, and the radio downloaded into your head--all the time. Because of the Feed, no one has to learn how to read or write, since everyone communicates via IM. Then Titus meets a girl named Violet, who has been homeschooled and who also questions the feed. When someone hacks into the Feed and shuts it down, Titus and his friends must start to think for themselves. In the midst of it all, readers learn that the Earth's air is poisionous, and the United States is on the verge of global nuclear war.

Ender's Game Orson Card Scott
YA Scott

Evil aliens have attacked Earth twice and almost wiped out the entire human race. To ensure that humans win the next--and hopefully final--battle, the government begins to breed and recruit people to be military geniuses. Ender Wiggin is only a young boy, but he's great at playing all the video war games. Can he save the planet with his skills?

Eva Peter Dickinson
YA Dickinson

Eva wakes up in the hospital follwing a terrible car crash. She's alive, but she feels very strange. Eva soon learns that, although doctors could not save her body, they were able to save her brain. Her brain was then transplanted into the body of a chimpanzee. Once the shock of this wears off, Eva is faced with adjusting to her new body and the vast changes in her new life.

House of the Scorpion Nancy Farmer
YA Farmer

In this novel set in the future, human beings hate clones. Despite this fact, Matt is a clone who usually enjoys a luxurious, wealthy life, because he belongs to the corrupt druglord, El Patron. But sometimes El Patron is cruel, locking Matt in a cage and treating him like an animal. Soon Matt discovers that El Patron is really 142 years old and has lived this long because he harvests the brains on his clones--and Matt's brain is next! Matt wscapes with other rejected clones and makes plans to return to the land of Opium as its rightful ruler.

Starship Troopers Robert Heinlein
YA Heinlein

Juan Rico wasn't ready for the hard training he undertakes in the Federal Service, but he is determined to see it through and become a cap trooper. When Earth goes to interplanetary war with the "Bugs," Juan has to put his training to real use. Winner of the Hugo Award.

Dune Frank Herbert
YA Herbert

Read one of the masters of science fiction! Dune is the saga of a betrayed duke, desert worms, and the powerful "spice of spices." Main character Paul Atreides has been cast out to die in the harsh desert of Arrakis, but he meets the Fremen, a tribe of desert dwellers who help him form an army to reclaim his rightful place. Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Award.

A Crack in the Line Michael Lawrence
YA Lawrence

Alaric and Naia are both sixteen, and they both live in identical houses, with identical parents. But here is the difference: Alaric and Naia live in parallel worlds, and while Alaric's mother was killed in a train accident, Naia's mother survived. The two eventually meet through a special tree in the garden of the house, and they begin to travel between worlds to try and make sense of the whole thing.

Shade's Children Garth Nix
YA Nix

In this creepy novel by Garth Nix, evil Overlords rule the world. When human children reach the age of 14, the Overlords kill them and harvest their brains and organs to use in creating war-beasts to fight their battles. Main character Gold Eye escapes this fate and is rescued by other escapees who live in an old submarine. These refugees work for Shade, a computer-generated adult, who hates the Overlords and wants to use the escaped kids to gather intel on them.

Rewind William Sleator
YA Sleator

Not long after learning that he was adopted, eleven-year-old Peter is hit by a car. He is miraculously given a second chance at life but he must undergo certain tasks to change his destiny and fears that he is running out of time.

Uglies Scott Westerfeld
YA Westerfeld

Tally Youngblood can't wait to turn 16: that's when she will undergo a radical surgery to change her from being an ordinary "ugly" teenager to one of the beautiful people, who all live on the other side of the river and enjoy the most "bubbly" of lives. Before this happens, though, Tally meets Shay, a girl who rejects the conformity of the operation and runs away to live in the legendary Smoke, where other regular uglies like her live. Tally is forced by evil Dr. Cable to find Shay and the others in the Smoke, or she will never be given the chance to be pretty. First in the popular series.

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