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Science Fiction
Feed by M.T. Anderson.
In a future where
most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment,
a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.4
Mortal engines
: a novel by Philip
Reeve.
Tom, a third
class apprentice in a distant future in which technology has been lost and
tiered cities move about the Earth on caterpillar tracks, often absorbing
smaller locales, has many dangerous adventures after being pushed off London by
Thaddeus Valentine, a historian who is trying to resurrect an ancient atomic
weapon.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.6
The
supernaturalist by Eoin
Colfer.
In futuristic
Satellite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill escapes from an abusive orphanage
and teams up with three other people who share his unusual ability to see
supernatural creatures, and together they determine the nature and purpose of
the swarming blue Parasites that are invisible to most humans.
Accelerated Reader
Reading Level - 4.8
Double helix by Nancy Werlin.
Eighteen-year-old
Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for
a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.0
Rats by Paul Zindel.
When mutant rats
threaten to take over Staten Island, which has become a huge landfill,
fourteen-year-old Sarah and her younger brother Mike try to figure out how to
stop them.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.4
The secret
hour by Scott Westerfeld.
Upon moving to
Bixby, Oklahoma, fifteen-year-old Jessica Day learns that she is one in a
special group born at the stroke of midnight who can roam the town at a secret
hour while others sleep--and that she must fight the evil creatures who share
her power.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.8
The white fox
chronicles by Gary
Paulsen.
Having been
imprisoned when the Confederation of Consolidated Republics, a foreign power,
conquered Los Angeles in 2056, fourteen-year-old Cody escapes and endures
hardship to become the underground hero the White Fox.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.8
Dragon and
thief by Timothy Zahn.
After his first
host is killed in battle, Draycos, a warrior from a dragon-like, symbiotic
race, is forced to latch onto teenager Jack Morgan to survive, whereupon the
two join forces--literally--to find those who have wronged them.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.4
The Big Empty by J.B. Stephens.
After half of the
world's population is killed by a plague, seven teenagers seek a better life in
a nightmarish future by deciphering coded messages and trying to avoid the
Slashers.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.2
Firebirds : an
anthology of original fantasy and science fiction edited by Sharyn November.
Presents
award-winning science fiction and fantasy stories, including a comic-book-style
adaptation of a traditional ballad, all by authors connected with Firebird
Books including Lloyd Alexander, Meredith Ann Pierce, Emma Bull, and thirteen
others.
The hammer of
God by Arthur C. Clarke.
In the year 2110,
an amateur astronomer discovers a chunk of rock hurtling through space that
could mean the end of Earth's civilization.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 8.6
3001 : the
final odyssey by Arthur
C. Clarke.
The body of Frank
Poole, murdered by mad computer HAL a thousand years earlier, is found and
revived to a world of peace and plenty, but in his attempts to understand the
entity composed of his former deputy Dave Bowman and a copy of the now-sane
HAL, Frank learns that Earth is slated for destruction.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 8.3
A crack in the
line by Michael Lawrence.
Sixteen-year-old
Alaric discovers how to travel to an alternate reality, where his mother is
alive and his place in the family is held by a girl named Naia.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.5
Singing the
Dogstar blues by Alison
Goodman.
In a future Australia,
the saucy eighteen-year-old daughter of a famous newscaster and a sperm donor
teams up with a hermaphrodite from the planet Choria in a time travel adventure
that may significantly change both of their lives.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.3
The ship who
sang by Anne McCaffrey.
Helva, a
shell-person whose encapsulated brain is implanted in the body of an
intergalactic ship, is gifted with the voice of an angel, making for an
interesting relationship between her and her chosen human partner.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 7.5
Spock's world by Diane Duane.
A crisis on the
planet brings the U.S.S. Enterprise and Mr. Spock to Vulcan in its time of
need. The entire history of Vulcan and its innermost secrets are laid bare in
the struggle to save the Federation and Vulcan.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 7.5
War dragons by
James T. Kirk and Hikaru Sulu as recorded by L.A. Graf
Captain James T.
Kirk joins forces with Captain Hikaru Sulu to resolve a simmering political
situation between Nykkus and Anjiri before it erupts into a full-scale
interstllar war.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 7.9
Memory prime by Gar and Judith Reeves-Stevens.
Captain Kirk
uncovers more than just a murder plot when he tries to discover the identity of
the assassin stalking one of the Federation's greatest scientists.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 7.8
Pathways : a
novel by Jeri Taylor.
Crew members of
the Voyager, separated from the ship and slowly starving to death in an alien
prison camp, keep their spirits high by sharing the stories of how they came to
the U.S.S. Voyager and the Delta Quadrant.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 7.6
The keepers of
the flame by Jennifer
Armstrong, Nancy Butcher.
After a virus
destroys most of the world's adult population, a group of children are
delighted to discover a colony of adult survivors in a Florida shopping mall
but soon find that they are not as friendly as they appear.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.1
The
hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams.
The insanely
funny, satiric best-seller about the end of the world and the days that follow
it.
Accelerated
Reader--Level 6.6
A wrinkle in
time by Madeleine
L'Engle.
When a physicist
father disappears while engaged in secret work for the government on the
tesseract problem, his three children traverse space in the 5th dimension to
seek him on the planet Camazotz, which is dominated by the Powers of Darkness.
Accelerated
Reader--Level 4.7
A swiftly
tilting planet by
Madeleine L'Engle.
The youngest of
the Murry children must travel through time and space in a battle against an
evil dictator who would destroy the entire universe.
Accelerated
Reader--Level 5.7
Ender's game by Orson Scott Card.
After the Earth
is twice attacked by aliens, the world government begins breeding military
geniuses, one of whom is Ender Wiggin.
Accelerated
Reader--Level 5.5
Xenocide by Orson Scott Card.
Ender Wiggin and
his family search for a miracle that will preserve the existence of three
intelligent and vastly different alien species.
Accelerated
Reader--Level 6.3
Children of
the mind by Orson Scott
Card.
Ender's adopted
world, Lusitania, is threatened by the same planet-destroying weapon that he
used so many thousands of years before.
Accelerated
Reader--Level 6.2
Evan's voice by Sallie Lowenstein.
In a plague
decimated future world, Jake must take care of his plague-stricken brother Evan
after their mother abandons them. A strange storyteller who comes on television
and tells tales of amazing alien worlds is the only ray of hope in this bleak
world.
Accelerated
Reader--Level 4.4
The war of the
worlds by H.G. Wells
Masterful fantasy
by the earliest and still best science fiction writer.
Accelerated
Reader--Level 9.1
The Martian
chronicles by Ray
Bradbury.
A collection of
stories describing repeated attempts by humans to colonize1 Mars.
I, robot by Isaac Asimov.
Science fiction
classic in which a Robot, accused of murder, has his day in court.
Accelerated
Reader--Level 6.1
A journey to
the centre of the earth
by Jules Verne.
A team of
explorers makes an expedition into a crater in Iceland which leads to the
center of the earth and to incredible and horrifying discoveries.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 9.9
Things not
seen by Andrew Clements.
When
fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible, he and his
parents, along with his new blind friend, Alicia, try to find out what caused
his condition and how to reverse it.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.5
1984 : a novel
by George Orwell
Eternal warfare,
the price of bleak prosperity in satire of totalitarian barbarism.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 8.9