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Strange Tales of the the Scientific Kind

Spaceships, dystopian societies and futuristic technology...even if none of these things ever happen, it is always fascinating to read the stories and imagine a whole other world.

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  • After escaping her abusive family's interstellar merchant ship, seventeen-year-old Pendt lands on a remote space station run by the Brannick twins, and together they make plans to thwart the destinies they never wanted.
    Book, 2021New York : Dutton Books, 2021. — YF JOH
  • In the isolated town of Claysoot, every male is mysteriously "Heisted" on his eighteenth birthday, and seventeen-year-old Gray Weathersby is determined to figure out why.
    Book, 2013New York : HarperTeen, c2013. — YF Bow
  • Surrounded by strangers all competing for one of the six slots to travel to Jupiter's moon, Europa, Naomi, an Iranian-American science genius, finds a friend in Leo, an Italian championship swimmer, as the training tests their limits.
    Book, 2018New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018. — YF MON
  • Michael is a skilled internet gamer in a world of advanced technology. When a cyber-terrorist begins to threaten players, Michael is called upon to seek him and his secrets out.
    eAudiobook, 2013Books on Tape, 2013
  • She is curious about everything -- especially the planet that her City is magically tethered to -- and can't stop questioning things. Sera has always longed for the day when the tether will finally break and the Cerulean can move to a new planet.…
    eAudiobook, 2019HarperCollins, 2019
  • In a near-future New York City, fourteen-year-old computer genius Sam Wilson manages to hack into the AT&T network and sets off a chain of events that have a profound effect on human activity throughout the world.
    Book, 2009New York : Random House, c2009. — YF Fal
  • Four generations ago, the Earth was rendered uninhabitable and those who remained were forced underground. In Compound Eleven, the hierarachy of floors is everything and on Eve Hamilton's floor, they fight. When she meets a boy from the top floor,…
    Book, 2020Parker, Colo. : Entangled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing, LLC, 2020. — YF CHI
  • Petty criminal Zara Cole has a painful past that's made her stronger than most, which is why she chose life in New Detroit instead of moving with her family to Mars. In her eyes, living inside a dome isn't much better than a prison cell. Still,…
    eAudiobook, 2018HarperCollins, 2018
  • This sweeping reimagining of Les Misérables tells the story of three teens from very different backgrounds who are thrown together amidst the looming threat of revolution on the French planet-colony of Laterre
    Book, 2019New York : Simon Pulse, 2019. — YF BRO
  • The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the mecha aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall. It doesn't matter that the girls often die from the mental strain. When 18-year-old…
    Book, 2021Toronto : Penguin Teen, 2021. — YF ZHA
  • In a world that is rapidly descending into chaos, Frey and Rafi are twin sisters, but few people know of Frey's existence, because she has been raised to be her sister's body double and lethal bodyguard, while Rafi has been raised to further the…
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Scholastic Press, 2018. — YF WES
  • Book, 2016New York, NY : : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2016. — YF TRE
  • Miguel and his team enter a global competition to win the virtual reality game Chimera.
    Book, 2020New York : Tor Teen, 2020. — YF PEE
  • On a planet where violence and vengeance rule, in a galaxy where some are favored by fate, everyone develops a current gift, a unique power meant to shape the future. While most benefit from their current gifts, Akos and Cyra do not; their gifts…
    eAudiobook, 2017HarperCollins, 2017
  • After receiving a distress call from a drill team on a distant planet, a skeleton crew is sent into deep space to perform a standard search-and-rescue mission. When they arrive, they find the planet littered with the remains of the project -…
    Book, 2018New York, NY : HarperTeen, 2018. — YF BOW