Jan Paris Book Festival“Sci Fi For Tweens and Teens Who Don’t Like Sci Fi”

Dr. Karin PerryNovember 5, 2011

0403CR6 Bick, Ilsa J -- Ashes [ VO KR BL PW SL BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Egmont USA, 2011., 465p

Alex, a resourceful seventeen-year-old running from her incurable brain tumor, Tom, who has left the war in Afghanistan, and Ellie, an angry eight-year-old, join forces after an electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky and kills most of the world's population, turning some of those who remain into zombies and giving the others superhuman senses.

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29689M8 Campbell, Chelsea M -- The rise of Renegade X [ PW HB BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Egmont USA, 2010., 340p

Expecting to become a supervillain on his sixteenth birthday, Damien Locke, son of one of Golden City's most notorious supervillains, is horrified to discover that he may instead be destined to become a superhero.

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02536MX Collins, Suzanne -- Catching fire [ BL* KR* SL* NY HB PW* WS BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Scholastic Press, 2009., 391p

By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.

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14347W7 Collins, Suzanne -- The Hunger Games [ BL* WM SL* NY LM* PW* WS HB* ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Scholastic Press, 2008., 374p

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.

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29834P5 Collins, Suzanne -- Mockingjay [ BL* VO BC* WM NY HB SL PW* ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Scholastic Press, 2010., 390p

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Katniss Everdeen, having survived the Hunger Games twice, learns she and her family and friends are in danger because the Capitol holds her responsible for the unrest and races against time to protect those she cares about and the people of District 12.

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0241RQ7 Condie, Allyson Braithwaite -- Crossed [ KR* PW ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Dutton Books, c2011., 367p

Cassia, having arrived in the Outer Provinces in search of Ky, learns he has escaped from the Society and follows a series of clues he left, which result in rebellion, betrayal, and a surprise visit from Xander.

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0246EA3 Condie, Allyson Braithwaite -- Matched [ VO KR* WM BL HB SL PW* BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Dutton Books, c2010., 369p

Cassia has always had complete trust in the Society to make decisions for her, but when she is being paired with her ideal mate, a second face flashes on the screen, and Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility as she tries to decide which man she truly loves.

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0063MC0 Cusick, John (John M.) -- Girl parts [ LM KR PW HB BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Candlewick Press, 2010., 218p

The lives of David, wealthy and popular but still lonely, and Charlie, a soulful outsider, intersect when Rose, the female Companion bot David's parents buy to treat his dissociative disorder, forms a bond with Charlie.

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0159FQ1 Dashner, James, 1972- -- The death cure [ KR ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Delacorte Press, c2011., 325p

In a final effort to complete the blueprint for the cure, Thomas must rely on the Gladers, with full memories restored, but Thomas does not trust Wicked and he remembers much more than they realize.

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00172W7 Dashner, James, 1972- -- The maze runner [ VO WM BL PW HB SL WS BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Delacorte Press, c2009., 375p

Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.

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0221CA6 Dashner, James, 1972- -- The Scorch trials [ VO KR WM BL HB SL ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Delacorte Press, c2010., 361p

Thomas and the Gladers, having solved the Maze, plan on returning to their lives, but instead find the earth a wasteland with Cranks roaming the desert in search of their next meal and they are faced with the challenge of crossing the Scorch in two weeks in order to arrive at a safe haven.

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24236V3 Dobkin, Bonnie -- Neptune's children [ WM HB SL ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Walker, 2008., 262p

A group of children, stranded at an amusement park following a biological terrorist attack that has killed all the adults on Earth, work together to survive with the help of Milo, a boy whose father was an engineer at the park, but when new threats arise and suspicions grow, rebellion erupts.

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18947KX Etchemendy, Nancy -- The power of Un [ VO WC KR BL BR SL BC ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Front Street/Cricket Books, 2000., RL 6.6, 148p

When he is given a device that will allow him to "undo" what has happened in the past, Gib Finney is not sure what event from the worst day in his life he should change in order to keep his sister from being hit by a truck.

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0315TS1 Evans, Richard Paul -- Michael Vey : the prisoner of cell 25 [ VO ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Mercury Ink/Simon Pulse, 2011., 326p

Fourteen-year-old Michael discovers he has special electrical powers and, with the help of his best friends, becomes aware that there are other teens with similar powers, but something or someone is hunting them and, after Michael's mother is kidnapped, he will need to rely on his powers and his friends to rescue his mom, protect himself, and save the others.

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18185W5 Grant, Michael, 1954- -- Gone [ BL* VO WM HB KL SL BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- HarperTeen, c2008., 558p

In a small town on the coast of California, everyone over the age of fourteen suddenly disappears, setting up a battle between the remaining town residents and the students from a local private school, as well as those who have "The Power" and are able to perform supernatural feats and those who do not.

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00386M1 Grant, Michael, 1954- -- Hunger : a Gone novel [ VO BL PW HB SL ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- HarperTeen, c2009., 590p

Conditions worsen for the remaining young residents of a small California coastal town isolated by supernatural events when their food supplies dwindle and the Darkness underground awakens.

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39901N7 Grant, Michael, 1954- -- Lies [ VO WM BL HB ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Katherine Tegen Books, c2010., 447p

As conditions worsen in the FAYZ, where supernatural forces have trapped children under the age of fifteen and resources are running out, it becomes tempting to heed the words of a prophet who says that only death will set them free.

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0434RH6 Grant, Michael, 1954- -- Plague : a Gone novel [ VO LM WM BL ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Katherine Tegen Books, c2011., 492p

A deadly, flu-like epidemic and a plague of flesh-eating creatures threaten the lives of the children at Perdido Beach while Sam, Astrid, Caine, and Diana each struggle with doubts and uncertainties.

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26001N0 Haddix, Margaret Peterson -- Among the Barons [ EL WM BL PW HB SL ] {IL 3-6, -Fic-} -- Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2003., RL 5.5, 182p

In a future world of false identities, government lies, and death threats, Luke feels drawn to the younger brother of the boy whose name Luke has taken.

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16165M1 Haddix, Margaret Peterson -- Among the betrayed [ VO NP EL WM BK PW SL BC ] {IL 3-6, -Fic-} -- Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2002., RL 4.5, 156p

Thirteen-year-old Nina is imprisoned by the Population Police, who give her the option of helping them identify illegal "third-born" children, or facing death.

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36192B6 Haddix, Margaret Peterson -- Among the brave [ VO EL BL SL ] {IL 3-6, -Fic-} -- Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2004., RL 5.5, 229p

In a society that allows families to have only two children, a group of third-borns tries to save themselves and others like them.

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37627N8 Haddix, Margaret Peterson -- Among the enemy [ EL LM BL HB SL ] {IL 3-6, -Fic-} -- Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2005., RL 5.9, 214p

In a society that allows families to have only two children, third child Matthias joins the Population Police to infiltrate their system.

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05059SX Haddix, Margaret Peterson -- Among the free [ WM BL HB SL ] {IL 3-6, -Fic-} -- Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2006., RL 5.7, 194p

When thirteen-year-old Luke Garner unwittingly sets off a rebellion which sweeps the country and ousts the Population Police from power, he quickly realizes that the new regime is corrupt and he may hold the only key to true freedom.

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28265G0 Haddix, Margaret Peterson -- Among the hidden [ NB VO RV EL KR WM SL BR ] {IL 3-6, -Fic-} -- Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1998., RL 4.7, 153p

In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.

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03655L7 Haddix, Margaret Peterson -- Among the impostors [ NB VO KR WM BL SL BR BC ] {IL 3-6, -Fic-} -- Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2001., RL 5.2, 172p

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In a future where the law limits a family to only two children, third-born Luke has been in hiding for the entire twelve years of his life, until he enters boarding school under an assumed name and is forced to face his fears.

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05622V7 Haddix, Margaret Peterson -- Turnabout [ VO KR WM BL PW SL BR BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Simon Pulse, 2007, c2000., 223p

Melly and Anny Beth participate in a top-secret experiment that makes them grow younger.

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29750RX Kellerman, Faye -- Prism [ VO KR BL PW HB ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Harper, 2010, c2009., 264p

Three teenagers fall through a cave in Carlsbad Caverns while on a field trip and enter a parallel dimension that brings them seven weeks into the past in a world where medicine and health care does not exist.

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27372Z1 Lloyd, Saci -- The carbon diaries 2015 [ BL* WM BK SL* PW HB WS HB* ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Holiday House, 2009, c2008., 330p

In 2015, when England becomes the first nation to introduce carbon dioxide rationing in a drastic bid to combat climate change, sixteen-year-old Laura documents the first year of rationing as her family spirals out of control.

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29846D8 Lloyd, Saci -- The carbon diaries 2017 [ VO KR* WM BL HB SL BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Holiday House, 2010, c2009., 326p

In 2017, two years after England introduces carbon dioxide rationing to combat climatic change, eighteen-year-old Laura chronicles her first year at a London university as natural disasters and political upheaval disrupt her studies.

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26368K1 Lowry, Lois -- Gathering blue [ BL* CH NP KR* WM BK SL* PW ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Houghton Mifflin, c2000., RL 5, 215p

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Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.

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02245G3 Lowry, Lois -- The giver [ ES BL* WC NM WM BK SL WS ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Houghton Mifflin, 1993., RL 6, 180p

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.

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13747Q5 Lowry, Lois -- Messenger [ BL* KR* BK NY HB SL PW* BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Houghton Mifflin, 2004., RL 5.5, 169p

In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.

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0476YS1 Mullin, Mike -- Ashfall [ KR* BL PW ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Tanglewood, c2011., 466p

After the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano destroys his city and its surroundings, fifteen-year-old Alex must journey from Cedar Falls, Iowa, to Illinois to find his parents and sister, trying to survive in a transformed landscape and a new society in which all the old rules of living have vanished.

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0425MU7 Oliver, Lauren -- Pandemonium / (Sequel to "Delirium") {IL YA, -Fic-} -- HarperCollins, c2012.

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Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on March 6, 2012.

0004GTX Oliver, Lauren, 1982- -- Delirium {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Harper, 2011., 441p

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Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.

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22823V9 Pearson, Mary (Mary E.) -- The adoration of Jenna Fox [ KR* WM BL SL* HB LM* PW* WS ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Henry Holt, 2008., 266p

In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.

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0440SQ7 Pearson, Mary (Mary E.) -- The Fox inheritance [ VO KR HB PW* BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Henry Holt, 2011., 294p

Friends Jenna, Locke, and Kara suffer a terrible accident that destroys their bodies, but their minds are preserved in a digital netherworld, allowing the friends to remain connected, until the day Jenna disappears, and then, decades later, Locke and Kara are given new bodies and discover everyone they knew and loved--except Jenna--are dead and gone.

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21073V2 Pfeffer, Susan Beth, 1948- -- The dead and the gone [ BL* WM NY HB SL PW* WS BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Harcourt, 2008., 321p

After a meteor hits the moon and sets off a series of horrific climate changes, seventeen-year-old Alex Morales must take care of his sisters alone in the chaos of New York City.

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24857S1 Pfeffer, Susan Beth, 1948- -- Life as we knew it [ BL* VO WM BK SL PW* HB* BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Harcourt, c2006., 337p

Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.

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08454S9 Pfeffer, Susan Beth, 1948- -- This world we live in [ VO KR WM BL HB SL PW* BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Harcourt, 2010., 239p

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Miranda Evans, her two brothers, and their mother struggle for survival a year after the moon's collision with a meteor altered the climate forever, and while things become more difficult with the arrival of six more people, including her father and stepmother, a new disaster threatens to derail the new lives they have been trying to build.

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0182MM1 Roth, Veronica -- Divergent [ VO KR BL SL* NY PW* BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Katherine Tegen Books, c2011., 487p

In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.

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0045JX2 Roth, Veronica -- Insurgent {IL YA} -- HarperColl, 2012., 496p

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38080T6 Shusterman, Neal -- Unwind [ WM BK BL SL* NY HB PW* WS ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2007., 335p

Three teens embark upon a cross-country journey in order to escape from a society that salvages body parts from children ages thirteen to eighteen.

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37113X7 Vande Velde, Vivian -- Heir apparent [ VO NP KR* WM BL PW HB BC ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Magic Carpet Books, 2004, c2002., RL 7.6, 315p

While playing a total immersion virtual reality game of kings and intrigue, fourteen-year-old Giannine learns that demonstrators have damaged the equipment to which she is connected, and she must win the game quickly or be damaged herself.

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0147WN2 Westerfeld, Scott -- Pretties [ VO WM BL HB SL WS HB* BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Simon Pulse, 2011, c2005., 348p

Tally's perfect life as a Pretty is disrupted when she receives a letter from herself, written when she was an Ugly, reminding her of the promise she made to take a drug developed to cure the brain lesions that keep the Pretties shallow and happy--and when she takes the pills, she becomes a target of those determined to keep Pretty society carefree.

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0426RN2 Westerfeld, Scott -- Specials {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Simon Pulse, 2011, c2006., 350p

After being captured and surgically transformed into a "special," teenaged Tally Youngblood, now a government agent programmed to protect society from outside threats, is ordered to eliminate the rebel colony New Smoke, Tally's former home.

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0426PN8 Westerfeld, Scott -- Uglies {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Simon Pulse, 2011, c2005., 406p

Tally is faced with a difficult choice when her new friend Shay decides to risk life on the outside rather than submit to the forced operation that turns sixteen year old girls into gorgeous beauties, and realizes that there is a whole new side to the pretty world that she doesn't like.

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