Life As We Knew It
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.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 132
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: natural disasters, family, diaries, family life, science fiction [X], diary fiction, teenage girls, families [X]
This World We Live In
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.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 65
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: survival skills, families [X], survival, family life, diaries, science fiction [X], survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, family, castaways, diary fiction, science fiction
A Crack In The Sky
Thirteen-year-old Eli Papadopoulos, a member of the family that founded InfiniCorp, the massive corporation that runs everything in the domed cities, becomes worried when the sky keeps shorting out, but his questions get him sent away to the Tower where he meets Tabitha, and together they make plans to escape.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, families [X], survival, family life, science fiction [X]
Delirium
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.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 56
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 920
subjects: government, resistance to, families [X], orphans, family life, maine, resistance to government, science fiction [X], love stories
Divergent
Beatrice Pryor lives in a dystopian Chicago, which is divided into five factions devoted to different virtues.
FIC
year: 2120
copies: 363
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: identity, families [X], courage, social classes, identity (psychology), science fiction [X], family, dystopias, chicago (ill.), electronic books, family life, identity (philosophical concept), science fiction, individuality, dystopian fiction
You'll Like It Here (everybody Does)
Although Meggie Blue seems to be an average sixth-grader she is abnormally frightened when residents of her small, North Carolina town become fixated on aliens, and soon she and her family are forced to flee, making it clear that all is not as it seems.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: extraterrestrial beings, family life, interplanetary voyages, science fiction [X], aliens (fictional characters), families [X], science fiction
Human.4
Twenty-first century fourteen-year-old Kyle was hypnotized when humanity was upgraded to 1.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 20
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: computer programs, technological innovations, families [X], england, computer software, family life, science fiction [X]
Insurgent
Tris and Four are now fugitives on the run, hunted by Jeanine, the leader of the power-hungry Erudite elite.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 209
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: identity (psychology), families [X], courage, social classes, identity, family life, science fiction [X], individuality, family, science fiction
Allegiant
Tris must escape with Four and go beyond the wall enclosing Chicago.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 198
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 830
subjects: identity (psychology), families [X], courage, social classes, identity, science fiction [X], love stories, loyalty, large print books, identity (philosophical concept), family life, dystopian fiction
Bubble World
After sixteen-year-old Freesia learns--and tells her friends--that their perfect life on a luxurious tropical island is not real, she is banished from her virtual world to the "mainland," where people are ugly, school is hard, and families are dysfunctional.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640
subjects: virtual reality, interpersonal relations, families [X], family life, science fiction [X], science fiction
Rats
Fourth-grader Jason and his younger brother Edward shop for school clothes, get ready for Halloween, acquire a couple of pet rats, and deal with not-birthday presents from Aunt Bea.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800
subjects: rats, science fiction [X], staten island (new york, n.y.), brothers and sisters, brothers, families [X], family life, siblings, science fiction
The Journal Of Curious Letters
Thirteen-year-old Atticus "Tick" Higginbottom begins receiving mysterious letters from around the world signed only "M.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 910
subjects: space and time, good and evil, letters, families [X], washington (state), family, science fiction [X]
Bad Island
When Reese is forced to go on a boating trip with his family, the last thing he expects is to be shipwrecked on an island--especially one teeming with weird plants and animals.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 60
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 340
subjects: family life, survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, islands, science fiction graphic novels, adventure graphic novels, shipwreck survival, adventure and adventurers, science fiction [X], cartoons and comics, adventure fiction, adventure stories, survival, comic books, strips, etc, graphic novels, family, families [X], castaways, science fiction comic books, strips, etc, adventure fiction, graphic novels, fantasy comic books, strips, etc, ocean travel, vacations, fantasy graphic novels
Shattered
Living with other "mechs" since her wealthy parents transplanted her brain into a mechanical body to prevent her from dying in a horrible accident, Lia becomes a pawn in a religious leader's movement to outlaw "mech" technology and eradicate machines such as herself.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 140
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: interpersonal relations, high school students, african americans, voyages and travels, murder, homicide, horror fiction, cyborgs, science fiction [X], science fiction, families [X], family life, theft, missing persons
For Darkness Shows The Stars
After humanity is reduced by a genetic experiment gone wrong, technology is outlawed.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770