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Science Fiction: The Future
Off the Road - by Nina Bawden
Publisher: Clarion
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/1998
ISBN-13: 9780395913215
ISBN-10: 0395913217
In 2040, eleven-year-old Tom follows his grandfather through the Wall and into the forbidden Wild, where they seek to find his grandfather's boyhood home.
Call Number:  J BAWDEN
Green Boy - by Susan Cooper
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/2002
ISBN-13: 9780689847516
ISBN-10: 0689847513
Twelve-year-old Trey and his seven-year-old brother Lou, who does not speak, cross the barrier between two worlds, that of their island in the Bahamas, and a land called Pangaia, and play a mysterious role in restoring the natural environment in both places.
Call Number:  J COOPER
The Search for WondLa - by Tony DiTerlizzi
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/21/2010
ISBN-13: 9781416983101
ISBN-10: 1416983104
Living in isolation with her robot Muthr on what appears to be an alien world populated by bizarre life forms, a 12-year-old human girl called Eva Nine sets out on a journey to find others like herself.
Call Number:  J DITERLIZ
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm - by Nancy Farmer
Publisher: Orchard Book
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/1994
ISBN-13: 9780531068298
ISBN-10: 0531068293
In 2194 in Zimbabwe, General Matsika's three children are kidnapped and put to work in a plastic mine, while three mutant detectives use their special powers to search for them.
Call Number:  J/YA FARMER
 

 

 

The Giver - by Lois Lowry
Publisher: Dell Laurel-Leaf
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2002
ISBN-13: 9780440237686
ISBN-10: 0440237688
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
Call Number:  J/YA LOWRY
Cyberia - by Chris Lynch
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2008
ISBN-13: 9780545027939
ISBN-10: 0545027934
In a future where electronic surveillance has taken the place of love, a veterinarian is putting computer chips in animals to control them, and those creatures choose young Zane, who understands their speech, to release captives and bring them to a technology-free safety zone.  Series:  Cyberia
Call Number:  J LYNCH
The Transall Saga - by Gary Paulsen
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/01/1998
ISBN-13: 9780385321969
ISBN-10: 0385321961
While backpacking in the desert, thriteen-year-old Mark falls into a tube of blue light and is transported into a more primitive world, where he must use his knowledge and skills to survive.
Call Number:  J/YA PAULSEN
Floodland - by Marcus Sedgwick
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/2001
ISBN-13: 9780385328012
ISBN-10: 038532801X
After global warming causes the sea to rise until cities in England become islands, ten-year-old Zoe goes on a harrowing solitary boat journey to search for her parents.
Call Number:  J SEDGWICK
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