Science Fiction Books for Teens
Grades 7-9
Cover of "Exo"
Exo
by Fonda Lee

For a century now, Earth has been a peaceful colony of an alien race, and Donovan Reyes is a loyal member of the security forces, while his father is the Prime Liaison--but when a routine search and seizure goes bad Donovan finds himself a captive of the human revolutionary group, Sapience, terrorists who seem to prefer war to alien rule, and killing Donovan just might be the incident they are looking for.
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Flying
by Carrie Jones

Feeling oppressed by her family's overprotectiveness, 17-year-old cheerleader Mana finds her life turned upside-down by her community's sudden manifestations of superhuman powers before discovering that her mother is actually an alien hunter who has been taken captive by beings intent on world domination. 
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Cover of "Omega City"
Omega City
by Diana Peterfreund

Determined to prove her conspiracy theorist father's beliefs about lost Cold War technology, Gillian, her skeptical brother and their friends journey to the ruins of a vast doomsday bunker before they are confronted by dangerous adversaries. 
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Cover of "Once was a Time"
Once Was a Time
by Leila Sales

In World War II England, ten-year-old Lottie is transported via a portal to present day Wisconsin, where she must find her way back to her family and her best friend, Kitty.
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Railhead
by Philip Reeve

In a world of drones and androids Zen Starling is a human thief, but mostly he just likes to ride the Interstellar Express, the sentient trains that travel through the K gates from planet to planet, something only the Guardians understand--but now the mysterious Raven wants him to steal the Pyxis, an object that could either open up a new gate, challenging the Guardians, or put the entire gate system, and the universe itself in danger.
TEEN SCI-FI REEVE PHILIP
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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.
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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
Cover of "A Wrinkle in Time"
A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle

Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
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Grades 10-12
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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 RICHARD
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Denton Little's Deathdate
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.
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Cover of "The Edge of Forever"
The Edge of Forever
by Melissa E. Hurst

In 2146, seventeen-year-old Bridger, one of a small group of people born with the ability to travel to the past, investigates why his by-the-book father traveled to 2013 to break the most important rule of time travel--to prevent someone's murder.
TEEN SCI-FI HURST MELISSA
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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 BELLEZA RHODA
Cover of "Illuminae"
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. 
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Landscape with Invisible Hand
by M. T Anderson

When the vuvv bring alien technology to Earth, lost jobs lead to poverty and the pay-per-minute dating videos Adam and his girlfriend, Chloe, provide in order to survive soon erode their relationship.
TEEN SCI-FI ANDERSON M.T.
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Learning to Swear in America
by Katie Kennedy

Called to NASA to help prevent a catastrophic event when an asteroid is discovered on a collision course with Earth, teen Russian physics prodigy Yuri struggles to convince his older, stubborn colleagues about a promising innovation while pursuing a relationship with a girl who does not know the world is in danger.
TEEN SCI-FI KENNEDY KATIE
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The Leveller
by Julia Durango

Earning money by dragging kids out of the virtual reality gaming world and returning them to their worried parents, bounty hunter Nixy faces the biggest challenge of her career when the game's billionaire developer loses track of his own son.
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Nemesis
by Brendan Reichs

Murdered every two years by the same mysterious person before waking up unhurt with all evidence erased, Min resolves to end the violent cycle before uncovering a conspiracy involving her classmates, a boy who suffers from destructive nightmares and a giant asteroid on a collision course with the Earth. By the co-author of the Virals series.
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Cover of "On the Edge of Gone"
On the Edge of Gone
by Corinne Duyvis

In 2034 Amsterdam, the Netherlands, sixteen-year-old Denise, who is autistic, must seek her missing sister and help her unreliable mother safely aboard a spaceship before a comet hits the Earth.
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Starflight
by Melissa Landers

Desperate to relocate to an off-world place where nobody cares about her humble working status or her criminal past, Solara Brooks indentures herself to a rich bully who pretends to be her servant on a starship full of eccentric crewmates after he is framed for conspiracy on Earth. 
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These Broken Stars
by Amie Kaufman

The first novel in a sweeping science fiction trilogy tells a timeless love story about hope and survival in the face of unthinkable odds as two star-crossed lovers, Lilac and Tarver, must fight for survival when they crash land on a seemingly uninhabited planet.
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Cover of "A Thousand Pieces of You"
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. 
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