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Among the hidden (Shadow Children series; book 1) - Margaret Peterson Haddix
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/1998
ISBN-13: 9780689817007
ISBN-10: 0689817002
In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.
Epic (sequel Saga) - Conor Kostick
Publisher: Viking
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/05/2007
ISBN-13: 9780670061792
ISBN-10: 0670061794
Knowing that successfully playing the game Epic will determine the quality of one's life on New Earth, Erik decides to risk it all to avenge his parents and subvert the rules of the game, but he ends up coming face-to-face with the Committee--the tyrannical rulers of the land.
Evil genius (sequels Genius Squad and Genius Wars) - Catherine Jinks
Publisher: Harcourt
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/2007
ISBN-13: 9780152059880
ISBN-10: 0152059881
As a diligent student of criminal mastermind Dr. Phineas Darkkon, Cadel Piggott has grown into quite an intelligent thief and computer hacker, but at fourteen and with new plots on the agenda, Cadel begins to rethink his future and the evil plans his mentor has in store for the world. 100,000 first printing.
The Giver (companion novels Gathering Blue and The Messenger) - Lois Lowry
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/26/1993
ISBN-13: 9780395645666
ISBN-10: 0395645662
Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.
Gone (Gone series; book 1) - Michael Grant
Publisher: HarperTeen
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/01/2008
ISBN-13: 9780061448768
ISBN-10: 0061448761
In a small town on the coast of California, everyone over the age of fourteen suddenly disappears, setting up a battle between the remaining town residents and the students from a local private school, as well as those who have "The Power" and are able to perform supernatural feats and those who do not.
The house of the scorpion - Nancy Farmer
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2002
ISBN-13: 9780689852220
ISBN-10: 0689852223
In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.
I am number four - Pittacus Lore
Publisher: Harper
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/03/2010
ISBN-13: 9780061969553
ISBN-10: 0061969559
John Smith--one of nine aliens from the planet Lorien--struggles to outrun his past, discover his future and live a normal life in Paradise, Ohio, as one by one his fellow Loriens are being killed by evil beings. 150,000 first printing.
Incarceron (sequel Sapphique) - Catherine Fisher
Publisher: Dial Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/26/2010
ISBN-13: 9780803733961
ISBN-10: 0803733968
Believing he comes from the world outside his vast prison where inmates survive in dilapidated cities and metal forests, 17-year-old Finn dreams of escaping when he finds a crystal key that allows him to communicate with a girl who believes she can help him escape.
Little brother - Cory Doctorow
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/29/2008
ISBN-13: 9780765319852
ISBN-10: 0765319853
Having mastered the cutting-edge technologies of the networked world, seventeen-year-old Marcus and his friends cut school in search of high adventure and find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco and wrongfully incarcerated in a secret prison by a totalitarian Department of Homeland Security. 50,000 first printing.
Matched - Allyson Braithwaite Condie
Publisher: Dutton Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/30/2010
ISBN-13: 9780525423645
ISBN-10: 0525423648
Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her, so when Xander appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows he is her ideal mate--until Ky Markham's face appears for an instant before the screen fades to black.
The maze runner (sequel Scorch Trials) - James Dashner
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/06/2009
ISBN-13: 9780385737944
ISBN-10: 0385737947
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
The other side of the island - Allegra Goodman
Publisher: Razorbill
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/04/2008
ISBN-13: 9781595141958
ISBN-10: 1595141952
Living with her family on Island 365 in the Tranquil Sea, Honor is leery of the controlled, perfect surroundings in which she lives and thus quickly finds herself in great danger by the powers-that-be after attempting to uncover the truth with the help of her equally skeptic friend named Helix. 50,000 first printing.
Ship breaker - Paolo Bacigalupi
Publisher: Little, Brown
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/2010
ISBN-13: 9780316056212
ISBN-10: 0316056219
A tale set in a Gulf Coast shanty town 100 years in the future finds teen Nailer dreaming of a better life on the sea before discovering a beached clipper ship and lone survivor. By the Nebula- and Hugo-nominated author of Pump Six and Other Stories.
Uglies (series; book 1) - Scott Westerfeld
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/08/2005
ISBN-13: 9780689865381
ISBN-10: 0689865384
In Tally's world, everyone gets to be transformed from ugly to gorgeous on their sixteenth birthday, but Tally's friend Shay would rather risk life on the outside than be operated on, and when she runs away, the authorities make Tally find her friend and turn her in. Original.
Wither - Lauren DeStefano
Publisher: Simon & Schuster BFYR
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/22/2011
ISBN-13: 9781442409057
ISBN-10: 1442409053
After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world.
Z for Zachariah - Robert C. O'Brien
Publisher: Atheneum
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/01/1975
ISBN-13: 9780689304422
ISBN-10: 0689304420
Seemingly the only person left alive after the holocaust of a war, a young girl is relieved to see a man arrive into her valley until she realizes that he is a tyrant and she must somehow escape.
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