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Science Fiction for Teens

Science fiction books cover a huge variety of topics. Sometimes we get a glimpse far into the future with incredible advances in technology. Sometimes we experience life aboard a spaceship. Sometimes we see a dystopian society on the brink of collapse. But all of these books provide us with a thrilling escape from reality, usually at a breakneck pace.

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  • Paige Miller fears she is the only person left alive in Ohio until she meets a handful of other survivors, and together they struggle with the knowledge that their new reality is the first part of an alien invasion.
    BookNew York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] — YA FICTION CARSON
  • When outsiders threaten the administrator for the CatNet online community, a sentient AI who loves cat pictures, and a threat from her past catches up to her, Steph and her friends—both online and in real life—must save her.
    BookNew York : Tor Teen, 2019 — YA FICTION KRITZER
  • Cinder, a gifted mechanic and a cyborg with a mysterious past, is blamed by her stepmother for her stepsister's illness while a deadly plague decimates the population of New Beijing, but when Cinder's life gets intertwined with Prince…
    BookNew York : Feiwel and Friends, 2012 — YA FICTION MEYER
  • A girl who longs for adventure away from the duties of her royal family confronts unexpectedly dangerous challenges when her dying uncle organizes a competition to determine the empire’s next ruler.
    BookNew York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020] — YA FICTION COFFINDAFFER
  • Jamal's best friend, Q, doesn't know that he died, and that he's about to die again. He doesn't know that Jamal tried to save him. And that the reason they haven't been friends for two years is because Jamal blames Q for the accident that…
    BookNew York, NY Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] — YA FICTION REYNOLDS
  • In an age of 100-foot-tall mechanical deities run by a tyrannical regime, two teenaged girls on opposite sides of a war discover they are fighting for a common purpose—and falling for each other.
    BookNew York : Feiwel and Friends, 2021 — YA FICTION MIKUTA
  • After waking from cryogenic sleep much later than she was supposed to, Andra discovers a world that believes technology is magic.
    BookNew York : Razorbill, [2020] — YA FICTION JOHNSON
  • Murdered on the way to her high school graduation party, 18-year-old Nami Miyamoto finds herself in an afterlife ruled by Ophelia, a virtual assistant planning to eradicate human existence.
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, [2021] — YA FICTION BOWMAN
  • A group of time-traveling teens races through history to try to stop time and the multiverse from unraveling.
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017 — YA FICTION GRAUDIN
  • In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, 15-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
    BookNew York : Speak, 2013, c2011 — YA FICTION LU
  • In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ("gleaned") by professional reapers ("scythes"). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe—a position neither of them wants. The one…
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, [2016] — YA FICTION SHUSTERMAN
  • Two years ago, one-third of the population of Earth was wiped out after a misunderstanding between the leaders of Earth and the invading Ilori. Ellie lives in an Ilori-controlled center in New York City, where humanity's emotional…
    BookToronto, Ontario : Inkyard Press, [2020] — YA FICTION DOW
  • Tired of hiding in obscurity on Earth, Tina, the human clone of a brilliant alien tactician, pursues her destiny in space, but success is elusive until Tina and her best friend Rachel assemble a ragtag crew of humans and set out to save…
    BookNew York : Tor Teen, 2021 — YA FICTION ANDERS
  • Jason Zhou is trying to survive in Taipei, a city plagued by pollution and viruses, but when he discovers the elite are using their wealth to evade the deadly effects, he knows he must do whatever is necessary to fight the corruption and…
    BookNew York : Simon Pulse, 2017 — YA FICTION PON