Grades 7-9
Article 5 by Kristen Simmons Book Cover
Article 5
by Kristen Simmons

Ember Miller has perfected the art of keeping a low profile in a future society in which Moral Statutes have replaced the Bill of Rights and offenses carry stiff penalties, but when Chase arrests her mother, Ember must take action.
TEEN DYSTOPIAN SIMMONS KRISTEN
Awaken by Katie Kacvinsky Book Cover
Awaken
by Katie Kacvinsky

In the year 2060, when people rarely leave their houses and instead do everything online, Madeline, the daughter of the man who created the national digital school, is wooed by radicals who are trying to get people to "unplug."
TEEN DYSTOPIAN KACVINSKY KATIE
Bloom by Kenneth Oppel Book Cover
Bloom
by Kenneth Oppel

When the world is overtaken by monster alien plants that emit toxic pollens and swallow up people, three kids on a remote island look for clues in their unusual allergies to understand their immunity to the invaders.
TEEN SCI-FI OPPEL KENNETH
Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee Book Cover
Dragon Pearl
by Yoon Ha Lee

Min, a thirteen-year-old girl with fox-magic, stows away on a battle cruiser and impersonates a cadet in order to solve the mystery of what happened to her older brother in the Thousand World Space Forces.
TEEN SCI-FI LEE YOON
Dream Bender by Ronald Kidd Book Cover
Dream Bender
by Ronald Kidd

In a world where dreambenders manipulate dreams in order to remove emotions both negative and positive, Jeremy, an apprentice dreambender, discovers Callie's dreams of singing and wonders if there is more to life than security at any cost.
TEEN FANTASY KIDD RONALD
The Fog Diver by Joel N. Ross Book Cover
The Fog Diver
by Joel N. Ross

Working with salvagers in a fog-covered world that has forced civilization to move to the highest mountain peaks, thirteen-year-old Chess hides a deadly secret about his ability to survive while his crew leader forges an evil plan.
TEEN ADVENTURE ROSS JOEL
Freakling by Lana Krumwiede Book Cover
Freakling
by Lana Krumwiede

Losing his powers in a traumatic accident, twelve-year-old Taemon, a boy from a world where most people have telekinetic abilities, is exiled to a colony with fellow disabled people and comes to enjoy the community's acceptance and manual labors before encountering dangerous secrets.
TEEN DYSTOPIAN KRUMWIEDE LANA
Frozen : a Taken Novel
by Erin Bowman

Escaping from his primitive town only to discover harrowing truths about his land's dictatorial ruler and the supporting army that believes his lies, young Gray Weathersby joins a team of rebels on an icy journey in search of allies.
TEEN DYSTOPIAN BOWMAN ERIN
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Glitch
by Heather Anastasiu

Set in an underground society where human emotions are blocked by computer chip implants, a "glitch" enables Zoe experiencing her real feelings. She is forced to hide the truth about her newly discovered telekinetic powers that, if discovered, would prompt her deactivation.
TEEN DYSTOPIAN ANASTASIU HEATHER
Imposters by Scott Westerfeld Book Cover
Impostors
by Scott Westerfeld

A new series set in the world of the mega-best-selling Uglies finds Frey disguised as her twin sister, Rafi, being sent as collateral in a precarious deal in order to protect Rafi from their father’s enemies, but Col, the son of a rival leader, begins to suspect that all is not what it seems, with dangerous consequences. 
TEEN SCI-FI WESTERFELD SCOTT
Jinxed by Amy McCuuloch Book Cover
Jinxed
by Amy McCulloch

After fourteen-year-old Lacey Chu repairs a highly advanced smartphone/robotic pet companion, or baku, called Jinx, the baku gets her into her dream school, Profectus, where she is exposed to dangerous secrets.
TEEN SCI-FI MCCULLOCH AMY
The Last Beekeeper by Pablo Cartaya Book Cover
The Last Beekeeper
by Pablo Cartaya

To prove that she belongs in a place where only the smartest and most useful are welcomed, 12-year-old Yolanda learns that her survival rests on the rediscovery of a long-extinct beehive that could be the answer to everything. 
TEEN DYSTOPIAN CARTAYA PABLO
The List by Patricia Forde Book Cover
The List
by Patricia Forde

Letta, charged with collecting and saving words, uncovers a sinister plan to suppress language, robbing the people of Ark of the power of speech, and realizes she must also save the culture.
TEEN DYSTOPIAN FORDE PATRICIA
The Other Life by Susanne Winnacker Book Cover
The Other Life
by Susanne Winnacker

Years after a rabies mutation drove survivors into underground bunkers, Sherry teams up with Joshua, who takes her to Safe Haven and helps rescue her family while fending off part-human, part-beast creatures known as Weepers.
TEEN DYSTOPIAN WINNACKER SUSANNE
The Selection by Kiera Cass Book Cover
The Selection
by Kiera Cass

America Singer is chosen to compete in the Selection to vie for the heart of Illea's prince, but first she must decide where her heart truly lies, then when Princess Eadlyn holds a Selection of her own, she discovers her own happily ever after.
TEEN DYSTOPIAN CASS KIERA
The Six by Mark Alpert Book Cover
The Six
by Mark Alpert

Adam, crippled by muscular dystrophy, and five other terminally ill teenagers sacrifice their bodies and upload their minds into weaponized robots to battle a dangerously advanced artificial intelligence program bent on destroying humanity.
TEEN SCI-FI ALPERT MARK
Skycircus by Peter Bunzl Book Cover
Skycircus
by Peter Bunzl

Lily and Robert cannot wait to step aboard when a traveling skycircus arrives in town, but something sinister lurks there.
TEEN SCI-FI BUNZL PETER
Space Case by Stuart Gibbs Book Cover
Space Case
by Stuart Gibbs

Living on a moon base along with his famous fellow lunarnauts, 12-year-old Dashiell Gibson investigates the suspicious death of a top scientist who was on the verge of an important new discovery.
TEEN MYSTERY GIBBS STUART 
 
Stowaway
by John David Anderson

To save his father, a Coalition scientist protecting a precious resource, after their ship is attacked, Leo stows away on a strange ship of mercenary space pirates and must decide who to trust- human or alien-to stay alive.
TEEN SCI-FI ANDERSON JOHN
Grades 10-12
The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey Book Cover
The 5th Wave
by Richard Yancey

Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them.
TEEN DYSTOPIAN YANCEY RICK
Agnes at the End of the World by Kelly McWilliams Book Cover
Agnes at the End of the World
by Kelly McWilliams

Sixteen-year-old Agnes must escape a cult and a Prophet as she attempts to save the world from a pandemic.
TEEN DYSTOPIAN MCWILLIAMS KELLY
Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman Book Cover
Aurora Rising
by Amie Kaufman

Told in separate voices, eighteen-year-old Tyler Jones, top graduate of Aurora Academy, and a group of misfits and troublemakers embark on their first mission with Auri, a stowaway from the distant past.
TEEN SCI-FI KAUFMAN AMIE
Cinder by Marissa Meyer Book Cover
Cinder
by Marissa Meyer

As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.
TEEN SCI-FI MEYER MARISSA
A Complicated Love Story Set in Space by Shaun David Hutchinson Book Cover
A Complicated Love Story Set in Space
by Shaun David Hutchinson

Sixteen-year-olds Noa, DJ, and Jenny awake on a spaceship, unaware of how they got there or what is coming, but soon Noa and DJ are falling in love
TEEN SCI0FI HUTCHINSON SHAUN
Denton Little's Death Date by Lance Rubin Book Cover
Denton Little's Death Date
by Lance Rubin

A tale set in a world where everyone knows the day on which they will die finds Denton preparing for his imminent demise and wondering about a mysterious purple rash before a stranger's warning raises suspicions about shady government characters.
TEEN SCI-FI RUBIN LANCE
Dry by Neal Shusterman Book Cover
Dry
by Neal Shusterman

A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive.
TEEN DYSTOPIAN SHUSTERMAN NEAL
An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir Book Cover
An Ember in the Ashes
by Sabaa Tahir
Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution.
TEEN FANTASY TAHIR SABAA
Empress of a Thousand Skies by Rhoda Belleza Book Cover
Empress of a Thousand Skies
by Rhoda Belleza

Determined to reclaim her crown from a corrupt government and exact revenge for the deaths of her parents, Crown Princess Rhiannon narrowly escapes an assassination attempt and finds herself on the run in outer space alongside a refugee pilot who has been framed for the attack.
TEEN SCI-FI BALLEZA RHODA
The Fever King by Victoria Lee Book Cover
The Fever King
by Victoria Lee

A sole survivor of the viral magic that killed his undocumented family and gave him telepathic abilities is recruited into the fiercely elite offices of a minister of defense whose offer to secretly train him is complicated by the actions of his dangerously cruel, alluring son.
TEEN FANTASY LEE VICTORIA
Goddess in the Machine by Lora Johnson Book Cover
Goddess in the Machine
by Lora Beth Johnson

Bound for humanity's new colony planet, seventeen-year-old Andra wakes up from a cryogenic sleep 1,000 years later than scheduled, forcing her to navigate an unfamiliar planet where technology is considered magic and its practitioners revered as deities.
TEEN SCI-FI JOHNSON LORA
The Infinity Courts by Akemi Bowman Book Cover
The Infinity Courts
by Akemi Dawn Bowman

Waking up in the afterlife after being murdered en route to her graduation party, Nami discovers that the world where consciousness goes after death has been taken over by a genocidal artificial-intelligence entity.
TEEN SCI-FI BOWMAN AKEMI
Internment by Samira Ahmed Book Cover
Internment
by Samira Ahmed

Set in a futuristic United Sates where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence.
TEEN DYSTOPIAN AHMED SAMIRA
Illuminae by Jay Kristoff Book Cover
Illuminae
by Amie Kaufman

Caught in the crossfire of a megacorporation rivalry in 2575, Kady and Ezra, who have just broken up, flee their home planet on an evacuation ship that is quickly overwhelmed by a fast-spreading plague.
TEEN SCI-FI KAUFMAN AMIE
The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe by Allyson Braithwaite Condie Book Cover
The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe
by Allyson Braithwaite Condie

A teen captain of her Outpost's last mining ship targets a band of thieving river raiders before the activities of an unknown traitor make her question how far she is willing to go for revenge. 
TEEN FANTASY CONDIE ALLYSON
Legend by Marie Lu Book Cover
Legend
by Marie Lu

In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-old Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
TEEN DYSTOPIAN LU MARIE
The Light at the Bottom of the World by London Shah Book Cover
The Light at the Bottom of the World
by London Shah

Teenaged Leyla McQueen, who lives beneath the ruins of a submerged London in 2099, joins a prestigious submersible race in the hope of clearing her father's name before encountering government corruption and a hidden world.
TEEN FANTASY SHAH LONDON
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The Marrow Thieves
by Cherie Dimaline

In a world where most people have lost the ability to dream, a fifteen-year-old Indigenous boy who is still able to dream struggles for survival against an army of "recruiters" who seek to steal his marrow and return dreams to the rest of the world.
TEEN SCI-FI DIMALINE CHERIE
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Metaltown
by Kristen Simmons

Living day to day in an impoverished city where illness is rampant and brutal street rules are the highest law, best friends Colin and Ty work for pennies at a weapons factory before their paths intersect with that of the factory owner's daughter, who dreams of the day when she can become the family's first woman overseer.
TEEN DYSTOPIAN SIMMONS KRISTEN
Scythe by Neal Shusterman Book Cover
Scythe
by Neal Shusterman

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 who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn't.
TEEN DYSTOPIAN SHUSTERMAN NEAL
Sanctuary by Paola Mendoza and Abby Sher Book Cover
Sanctuary
by Paola Mendoza

In 2032, when sixteen-year-old Vali's mother is detained by the Deportation Forces, Vali must flee Vermont with her little brother, Ernie, hoping to reach their Tía Luna in the sanctuary state of California.
TEEN DYSTOPIAN MENDOZA PAOLA
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi Book Cover
Ship Breaker
by Paolo Bacigalupi

A tale set in a Gulf Coast shanty town 100 years in the future finds teen Nailer dreaming of a better life on the sea before discovering a beached clipper ship and lone survivor.
TEEN DYSTOPIAN BACIGALUPI PAOLO
Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything
by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

Separated from her mother in the years following a painful ICE raid, Sia drives into the desert and lights prayerful candles on every new moon before an astonishing night when her mother emerges from a blue spacecraft that crashes in front of her car.
TEEN SCI-DI GILLILAND RAQUEL
Skyward by Brandon Sanderson Book Cover
Skyward
by Brandon Sanderson

When a long-term attack against her world by the alien Krell escalates, Spensa's dream of becoming a pilot may come true, despite her deceased father being labeled a deserter.
TEEN SCI-FI SANDERSON BRANDON
They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera Book Cover
They Both Die at the End
by Adam Silvera

"Published to coincide with the fifth anniversary of its initial publication, this devastating yet uplifting novel follows two boys who meet up for one last great adventure: to live a lifetime in a single day.
TEEN DYSTOPIAN SILVERA ADAM
A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray Book Cover
A Thousand Pieces of You
by Claudia Gray

A first entry in a new trilogy by the best-selling author of the Evernight series follows the efforts of a young woman to track down her physicist father's killer in a parallel universe that reveals to her a different side of his story.
TEEN SCI-FI GRAY CLAUDIA
Waking Romeo by Kathryn Barker Book Cover
Waking Romeo
by Kathryn Barker

At the end of the world, 18-year-old Juliet, with Romeo in a coma, meets a mysterious time traveler who makes her question everything she knows about life and love and a chance to rewrite her future. 
TEEN SCI-FI BARKER KATHRYN
Warcross by Marie Lu Book Cover
Warcross
by Marie Lu

After hacking into the Warcross Championships' opening game to track illegal betting, bounty hunter Emika Chen is asked by the game's creator to go undercover to investigate a security problem, and she uncovers a sinister plot.
TEEN SCI-FI LU MARIE
We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia
We Set the Dark on Fire
by Tehlor Kay Mejia

A society wife-in-training has an uncomfortable awakening about her strictly polarized society after being recruited into a band of rebel spies and falling for her biggest rival. 
TEEN DYSTOPIAN MEJIA TEHLOR
Your Life Has Been Delayed by Michelle Mason Book Cover
Your Life has been Delayed
by Michelle I. Mason

When she takes off on a flight and lands 25 years later, Jenny Waters, now the biggest story on the internet, must adapt to a world of smartphones and social media where she must figure out how to move forward.
TEEN SCI-FI MASON MICHELLE
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