High School Boys: Science Fiction
M. T. Anderson. Feed. (Candlewick, 2004)
Martyn Bedford. Flip. (Wendy Lamb Books, 2011)
Many teens dream of living someone else's life, if they got to choose who and when of course. But if
you had to live someone else's life? What if you woke up with your mind and someone else's body,
someone else's life? What does it really mean to be "you"? Worse, what does it mean to be nobody at
all?
Nancy Butts. The Door In the Lake. (Front Street, 1997)
It's a classic sci-fi set up: Joey wakes up in the hospital and can't understand why everyone looks so
old. They can't understand how he could have been missing for years and hasn't aged a day. The only
thing more frightening than not knowing what happened at the lake those years ago is finding out the
truth.
Orson Scott Card. "Ender" (Series):
Ender's Game. (Tor, 1994)
Speaker for the Dead. (Tor, 1994)
Xenocide. (Tor, 1996)
Children of the Mind. (Tor, 2002)
Ender in Exile. (Tor, 2009)
Catherine Fisher. The Dark City. [Relic Master, Book 1] Dial, 2011)
A sci-fi/fantasy mash-up of a world in fear of ancient and misunderstood relics of incredible
technological power from a powerful lost civilization. A mystical order seekd to preserve and
understand them, while a represive power structure seeks to bury these relics of another age. Is it
more dangerous to suppress this power, or to use it?
Pete Hautman. Rash. (Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, 2006)
Christopher Moore & Ian Corson. The Griff. (William Morrow, 2011)
It is Jurassic Park, falling from the sky! In this graphic novel of alien invasion, the little green men are
huge green dragon creatures, and the ET's aren't being cuddled by a cute little six-year-old Drew
Barrymore. The heroine is The Game Goddess, and who better to fight alien invaders than the woman
who designed the video games where they, well, you know?
Kenneth Oppel. Dead Water Zone. (HarperTeen, 2007)
Kenneth Oppel. "Matt Cruise" (Series):
Airborn. (HarperTeen, 2004)
Skybreaker. (HarperTeen, 2007)
Starclimber. (HarperTeen, 2009)
James Patterson. "Maximum Ride" (Series)
The Angel Experiment. (Little, Brown, 2005)
School’s Out – Forever. (Warner, 2006)
Saving the World, and Other Extreme Sports. (Little, Brown, 2007)
The Final Warning. (Little, Brown, 2008)
Max. (Little, Brown, 2009)
Fang. (Little, Brown, 2010)
The stakes rise for Maximum Ride when her relationship with Fang heats up. The more she has, the
more she has to lose. Max's whole flock is faced with the hard choices, and one will make a choice
that breaks the flock up for good.
James Patterson and NaRae Lee. Maxium Ride: The Manga. (Yen Press, 2009)
Rodman Philbrick. The Last Book in the Universe. (Blue Sky Press, 2000)
Neal Schusterman. Unwind. (Simon & Schuster, 2007)
Rebecca Stead. First Light. (Wendy Lamb Books, 2007)
Scott Westerfeld. "The Leviathan Trilogy" (Series)
Leviathan. (Simon Pulse, 2009)
Behemoth. (Simon Pulse, 2010)
Will Weaver. Defect. (Farrar Strauss Giroux, 2007)
Daniel H. Wilson. Robopocalypse. (Doubleday, 2011)
What if your smartphone was smarter than you... and wanted you dead?
M. T. Anderson. Feed. (Candlewick, 2004)
Martyn Bedford. Flip. (Wendy Lamb Books, 2011)
Many teens dream of living someone else's life, if they got to choose who and when of course. But if
you had to live someone else's life? What if you woke up with your mind and someone else's body,
someone else's life? What does it really mean to be "you"? Worse, what does it mean to be nobody at
all?
Nancy Butts. The Door In the Lake. (Front Street, 1997)
It's a classic sci-fi set up: Joey wakes up in the hospital and can't understand why everyone looks so
old. They can't understand how he could have been missing for years and hasn't aged a day. The only
thing more frightening than not knowing what happened at the lake those years ago is finding out the
truth.
Orson Scott Card. "Ender" (Series):
Ender's Game. (Tor, 1994)
Speaker for the Dead. (Tor, 1994)
Xenocide. (Tor, 1996)
Children of the Mind. (Tor, 2002)
Ender in Exile. (Tor, 2009)
Catherine Fisher. The Dark City. [Relic Master, Book 1] Dial, 2011)
A sci-fi/fantasy mash-up of a world in fear of ancient and misunderstood relics of incredible
technological power from a powerful lost civilization. A mystical order seekd to preserve and
understand them, while a represive power structure seeks to bury these relics of another age. Is it
more dangerous to suppress this power, or to use it?
Pete Hautman. Rash. (Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, 2006)
Christopher Moore & Ian Corson. The Griff. (William Morrow, 2011)
It is Jurassic Park, falling from the sky! In this graphic novel of alien invasion, the little green men are
huge green dragon creatures, and the ET's aren't being cuddled by a cute little six-year-old Drew
Barrymore. The heroine is The Game Goddess, and who better to fight alien invaders than the woman
who designed the video games where they, well, you know?
Kenneth Oppel. Dead Water Zone. (HarperTeen, 2007)
Kenneth Oppel. "Matt Cruise" (Series):
Airborn. (HarperTeen, 2004)
Skybreaker. (HarperTeen, 2007)
Starclimber. (HarperTeen, 2009)
James Patterson. "Maximum Ride" (Series)
The Angel Experiment. (Little, Brown, 2005)
School’s Out – Forever. (Warner, 2006)
Saving the World, and Other Extreme Sports. (Little, Brown, 2007)
The Final Warning. (Little, Brown, 2008)
Max. (Little, Brown, 2009)
Fang. (Little, Brown, 2010)
The stakes rise for Maximum Ride when her relationship with Fang heats up. The more she has, the
more she has to lose. Max's whole flock is faced with the hard choices, and one will make a choice
that breaks the flock up for good.
James Patterson and NaRae Lee. Maxium Ride: The Manga. (Yen Press, 2009)
Rodman Philbrick. The Last Book in the Universe. (Blue Sky Press, 2000)
Neal Schusterman. Unwind. (Simon & Schuster, 2007)
Rebecca Stead. First Light. (Wendy Lamb Books, 2007)
Scott Westerfeld. "The Leviathan Trilogy" (Series)
Leviathan. (Simon Pulse, 2009)
Behemoth. (Simon Pulse, 2010)
Will Weaver. Defect. (Farrar Strauss Giroux, 2007)
Daniel H. Wilson. Robopocalypse. (Doubleday, 2011)
What if your smartphone was smarter than you... and wanted you dead?
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