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Here are our favorite teen science fiction novels. These titles are classified as Teen Middle School (TM) and can be found in the Teen section of the library.
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Children of the Flying City
by Jason Sheehan
Brought to the flying city of Highgate when he was only five years old, orphan Milo Quick has never known another home. A massive armada has surrounded Highgate's crumbling armaments. Because behind locked doors the once-great flying city protects a powerful secret, hidden away for centuries. One small airship, the Halcyon, has slipped through the ominous blockade on a mission to collect Milo--and the rich bounty on his head--before the fighting begins.
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Hana Hsu and the Ghost Crab Nation
by Sylvia Liu
Determined to be meshed to the multi-web through a neural implant from Start-Up, just like her mom and sister, 12-year-old Hana Hsu soon realizes something isn't right at Start-Up when she uncovers a conspiracy that threatens everything and everyone she knows.
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Sneaks
by Catherine Egan
When Ben Harp sees his teacher's watch crawling across the hallway, he thinks he must be dreaming. But no, he's just seen his first Sneak--an interdimensional mischief-maker that can borrow the form of any ordinary object. He figured this school year would be bad...and he's stuck doing a group project with two similarly friendless girls, Charlotte and Akemi. Now Ben, Charlotte, and Akemi are trying to understand a book that seems to contain a coded map while being pursued by violent clothes hangers, fire-spitting squirrels, and more.
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Alien Summer
by James S. Murray
An intern at the most interesting place on Earth, Viv Harlow finds her summer overrun by aliens when they escape Area 51, causing her and her best friends to gear up with gadgets to save a baby alien and the day.
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Nothing Interesting Ever Happens to Ethan Fairmont
by Nick Brooks
Stumbling on his ex-best friend Kareem, new-kid Juan Carlos, and an extraterrestrial visitor named Cheese, self-proclaimed genius inventor Ethan Fairmont must join the three to pull off the ultimate intergalactic rescue with mysterious agents on their trail and their families and friends in danger.
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Eighth Grade vs. The Machines
by Joshua Levy
The entire population of Earth's solar system has been kidnapped by aliens. It's up to Jack and his classmates and teachers aboard the PSS 118 to rescue the rest of humanity.
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Cloud Town
by Daniel McCloskey
Best friends Pen and Olive live in Cloud Town, an impoverished community on Floating Island, a mysterious landmass that drifts above the earth and happens to sit dangerously close to the Rip--a tear in the fabric of the universe. While Pen is brash and brave, Olive is quiet, kind, and also fearful of bullies at school...until the day they are nearly squashed by a Care Corp Storm Catcher, a giant android built to protect Cloud Town. Care Corp recruits Olive to train as a pilot, so that she can protect Floating Island when the next attack comes. It's a role reversal, for which neither of the girls are prepared.
This title is located in our Teen Graphic Novel collection.
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Mission Multiverse
by Rebecca Caprara
The fate of the planet lands on the shoulders of five middle school band misfits who are accidentally transported to an alternate world, where an intergalactic planning committee has scheduled the students’ universe for destruction.
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Jadie in Five Dimensions
by Dianne K. Salerni
Performing missions for the Seers, 4th dimensional beings who rescued her when she was an infant, Jadie Martin discovers that her origin story of being abandoned is fake and will do anything to discover the truth.
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Last Gate of the Emperor
by Kwame Mbalia
Enduring an isolated existence in hardscrabble Addis Prime, a star underground augmented reality gamer finds his small family targeted by city-razing monsters waging a galaxy-spanning war.
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The Losers at the Center of the Galaxy
by Mary Winn Heider
Two years after their father disappeared, Winston and Louise wrestle with their grief while investigating mysterious teachers, innovative science, and a captive bear.
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The Last Lie
by
Patricia Forde
Wordsmith Letta and her fellow rebels rise up against an evil new ruler who would eliminate language from the human race, rendering it impossible for anyone to express themselves.
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Glitch
by Laura Martin
Training to become time travelers who prevent others from altering important historical events, rival Glitchers Regan and Elliot are forced to set aside their animosity when a dire prediction from the future requires them to work together and break every rule they have ever been taught.
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Shuri: A Black Panther Novel
by
Nic Stone
T’Challa’s younger sister, Shuri, details her treacherous journey from Wakanda to discover what is killing the plants her people depend on for their survival.
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Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
by
Kwame Mbalia
Haunted by the bus accident that ended his best friend’s life, seventh grader Tristan Strong dreads a visit to his grandparents’ Alabama farm before a bizarre living doll snatches away his friend’s notebook and draws him into a world of burning seas, iron monsters, and exhausted black folk heroes.
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The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge
by M. T. Anderson
Uptight elfin historian Brangwain Spurge is on a mission - survive being catapulted across the mountains into goblin territory, deliver a priceless peace offering to their mysterious dark lord, and spy on the goblin kingdom.
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Diego and the Rangers of the Vastlantic
by Armand Baltazar
A 13-year-old boy discovers he has a secret destiny in a world where a space-time cataclysm has torn apart time and space, reshaping the Earth into a place where people from all historical eras and cultures coexist.
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Dragonwatch
by Brandon Mull
A debut entry in a spin-off sequel to the Fablehaven series follows the broken alliance between humans and dragons that have come to regard dragon sanctuaries as prisons.
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Children of Exile
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Raised along with the other kids in her town by a group of adults who tell them that it is too dangerous to stay with their parents, eldest child Rosi prepares to be sent back to her family only to discover that home is nothing like she expected.
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School for Sidekicks
by Kelly McCullough
Superhero geek Evan is sent to the Academy for Metahuman Operatives, where, despite being blacklisted and on the wrong side of the school's director, he takes it upon himself to help depressed, has-been Foxman become a hero again.
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