Young Adult Science Fiction Book List
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Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith – YA F SMI
Sixteen-year-old Austin Szerba interweaves the story of his Polish legacy with the story of how he and his best friend, Robby, brought about the end of humanity and the rise of an army of unstoppable, six-foot-tall praying mantises in small-town Iowa. |
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Warcross by Marie Lu – YA F LU
Teenage hacker Emika Chen works as a bounty hunter, tracking down players who bet on Warcross, a game, illegally. Needing to make some quick cash, Emika takes a risk and hacks into the opening round of the international Warcross Championships—only to accidentally glitch herself into the action and become an overnight sensation. |
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Cinder by Marissa Meyer – YA F MEY
Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. A ruthless Lunar people watch from space, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl: Cinder, a gifted mechanic and a cyborg. |
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Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman – YA F KAU
The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the Academy would touch. |
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Feed by M. T. Anderson – YA F AND
For Titus and his friends, it started like any ordinary trip to the moon—a chance to party during spring break and play with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. |
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Little Brother by Cory Doctorow – YA F DOC
Marcus, aka “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. |
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Uglies by Scott Westerfeld – YA F WES
Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can’t wait. In just a few weeks, she’ll have the operation that will turn her from a repellent ugly into a stunning pretty. But Tally’s new friend Shay isn’t sure she wants to become pretty. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world—and it isn’t very pretty. |
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Pet by Akwaeke Emezi – YA F EME
There are no more monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. With doting parents and a best friend named Redemption, Jam has grown up with this lesson all her life. But when she meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colours and claws, who emerges from one of her mother’s paintings and a drop of Jam’s blood, she must reconsider what she’s been told. |
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Slay by Brittney Morris – YA F MOR
By day, seventeen-year-old Kiera Johnson is an honors student, a math tutor, and one of the only Black kids at Jefferson Academy. But at home, she joins hundreds of thousands of Black gamers who duel worldwide as Nubian personas in the secret multiplayer online role-playing card game SLAY, and no one knows Kiera is the game developer. |
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Miles Morales: Spider-Man by Jason Reynolds – YA F REY
Miles Morales is just your average teenager. Dinner every Sunday with his parents, chilling out playing old-school video games with his best friend, Ganke, crushing on brainy, beautiful poet Alicia. He’s even got a scholarship spot at the prestigious Brooklyn Visions Academy. Oh yeah, and he’s Spider-Man. |
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Rainbow in the Dark by Sean McGinty – YA F MCG
High school senior Rainbow is trapped with three other teens in a game-like world that may or may not be real. Together, they must complete quests and gain experience to access their own forgotten memories, decode what has happened to them, and find a portal home. |
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I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi – YA F RIS
When news stations start reporting that Earth has been contacted by a planet named Alma, the world is abuzz with rumors that the alien entity gives humanity only a few days to live before they hit the kill switch on civilization. |
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The Electric Kingdom by David Arnold – YA F ARN
When a deadly Fly Flu sweeps the globe, it leaves a shell of the world that once was. Among the survivors are eighteen-year-old Nico and her dog, on a voyage devised by Nico’s father to find a mythical portal; a young artist named Kit, raised in an old abandoned cinema; and the enigmatic Deliverer, who lives Life after Life in an attempt to put the world back together. |
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Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta – YA F MIK
The shadow of Godolia’s tyrannical rule is spreading, aided by their giant mechanized weapons known as Windups. War and oppression are everyday constants for the people of the Badlands, who live under the thumb of their cruel Godolia overlords. Eris Shindanai is a Gearbreaker, a brash young rebel who specializes in taking down Windups from the inside. |
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Skyward by Brandon Sanderson – YA F SAN
Defeated, crushed, and driven almost to extinction, the remnants of the human race are trapped on a planet constantly attacked by mysterious alien starfighters. Spensa, a teenage girl living among them, longs to be a pilot. When she discovers the wreckage of an ancient ship, she realizes this dream might be possible—assuming she can repair the ship, navigate flight school, and (perhaps most importantly) persuade the strange machine to help her. Because this ship, uniquely, appears to have a soul. |