2006 NYPL Books for the Teen Age (Science Fiction)
Explore the 2006 NYPL Books for the Teen Age Science Fiction list—curated recommendations of top sci-fi novels for young adults. Discover thrilling reads for teens!
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The Diary of Pelly D
by L. J. Adlington
Toni V is a teenager working for the City Five demolition crew. While drilling through concrete he unearths a battered water can containing a parcel …
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Fledgling
by Octavia E. Butler
A young girl suffering from amnesia wakes up to find that she's actually a middle-aged vampire.
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Jimmy Coates: Assassin?
by Joe Craig
This action-packed debut thriller introduces genetically engineered superkid, Jimmy Coates. Jimmy has just found out he's no ordinary kid, but the secret police are after …
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Flux
by Beth Goobie
Several years earlier Nellie and her mother fled the Interior and its hated security police for the Outbacks, a loose-knit resistance of small cities, towns …
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New World Order
by Ben Jeapes
Only the completely original and unalloyed Jeapesian imagination could think of launching a full-scale alien invasion right into the middle of the English Civil War. …
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The Secret Under My Skin
by Janet McNaughton
In the year 2368, humanity struggles to recuperate from a technocaust that has left a generation of orphans in its wake. Strict government regulations convince …
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Only You Can Save Mankind
by Terry Pratchett
The inimitable author of the bestselling Discworld series brings to life a reality-bending tale of aliens, war, and virtual heroism, as 12-year-old Johnny Maxwell discovers …
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The Last Universe
by William Sleator
When her desperately ill older brother insists that she take him into their mysterious backyard garden, designed by their quantum physicist great uncle, fourteen-year-old Susan …
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Truesight
by David Stahler Jr.
Everyone in Jacob's colony is born blind. It has always been this way. They embrace the philosophy of Truesight: Blindness brings unity, purity, and freedom. …
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Jumpman
by James Valentine
In the future, kids don't play with Game Boys, they play with JumpMans.
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Double Helix
by Nancy Werlin
Rich and suspenseful with a hair-raising conclusion, this is Nancy Werlin's most dynamic novel yet--one that explores the ethics and amazements of genetic engineering.
