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TITLE: 1984: The Graphic Novel
AUTHOR: George Orwell; Fido Nesti WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Orw - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Presents a graphic novel of George Orwell's '1984' in which Winston Smith, a worker at the Ministry of Truth in the future political entity of Oceania, puts his life on the line when he joins a covert brotherhood in rebelling against the Party that controls all human thought and action. |
TITLE: The Dreamers
AUTHOR: Karen Thompson Walker WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Wal - NOVELS SUMMARY: One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep--and doesn't wake up. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her roommate, Mei, cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, Mei finds herself thrust together with an eccentric classmate as panic takes hold of the college and spreads to the town. A young couple tries to protect their newborn baby as the once-quiet streets descend into chaos. Two sisters turn to each other for comfort as their survivalist father prepares for disaster. Those affected by the illness, doctors discover, are displaying unusual levels of brain activity, higher than has ever been recorded before. They are dreaming heightened dreams--but of what? |
TITLE: Secondborn
AUTHOR: Amy A. Bartol WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bar - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: On Transition Day, the second child in every family is taken by the government and forced into servitude. On Roselle St. Sismode’s eighteenth birthday, she’s to become a soldier for the Fate of Swords military arm of the Republic during the bloodiest rebellion in history. |
TITLE: Pure
AUTHOR: Julianna Baggott WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bag - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: In a post-apocalyptic world, Pressia, a sixteen-year-old survivor with a doll's head fused onto her left hand meets Partridge, a "Pure" dome-dweller who is searching for his mother, sure that she has survived the cataclysm. |
TITLE: Enclave
AUTHOR: Ann Aguirre WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Agu - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: The Huntress Duece is drawn to her new partner, Fade, a mysterious boy who is not afraid to break the rules of the elders, and as she learns of the elders' deceptions, she and Fade push the enclave to test their faith and protect themselves from unexpected dangers. |
TITLE: Wool
AUTHOR: Hugh Howey WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F How - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: In a future toxic landscape, a community that lives in an underground silo is rocked by the desire of Sheriff Holston, who has upheld the group's rules for years, to go outside, setting in motion events that kindle the fire of revolution. |
TITLE: The Rule of One
AUTHOR: Ashley Saunders + Leslie Saunders WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sau - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: In the near-future United States, a one-child policy is ruthlessly enforced. Everyone follows the Rule of One. But Ava Goodwin, daughter of the head of the Texas Family Planning Division, has a secret—one her mother died to keep and her father has helped to hide for her entire life. She has an identical twin sister, Mira. For eighteen years Ava and Mira have lived as one, trading places day after day, maintaining an interchangeable existence down to the most telling detail. But when their charade is exposed, their worst nightmare begins. Now they must leave behind the father they love and fight for their lives. Branded as traitors, hunted as fugitives, and pushed to discover just how far they’ll go in order to stay alive, Ava and Mira rush headlong into a terrifying unknown. |
TITLE: A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
AUTHOR: C. A. Fletcher WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Fle - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: When a beloved family dog is stolen, her owner sets out on a life-changing journey through the ruins of our world to bring her back. |
TITLE: American War
AUTHOR: Omar El Akkad WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F El - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Depicts a second American Civil War and devastating plague in the late twenty-first century that forces a family into a camp for displaced people, where a young woman is befriended by a mysterious functionary who transforms her into a living weapon. |
TITLE: Carve the Mark
AUTHOR: Veronica Roth WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Rot - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Living on a violent planet where everyone develops a unique power meant to shape the future, Akos and Cyra, youths from enemy nations, resent gifts that render them vulnerable to others' control before they become unlikely survival partners. |
TITLE: The Gender Game
AUTHOR: Bella Forrest WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F For - FANTASY SUMMARY: A toxic river divides nineteen-year-old Violet Bates's world by gender. Women rule the East. Men rule the West. Welcome to the lands of Matrus and Patrus. Ever since the disappearance of her beloved younger brother, Violet's life has been consumed by an anger she struggles to control. Already a prisoner to her own nation, now she has been sentenced to death for her crimes.But one decision could save her life: to enter the kingdom of Patrus, where men rule and women submit. Everything about the patriarchy is dangerous for a rebellious girl like Violet. She cannot break the rules if she wishes to stay alive. But abiding by rules has never been her strong suit, and when she is thrust into more danger than she could have ever predicted, Violet is forced to sacrifice many things in the forbidden kingdom ... including forbidden love. |
TITLE: Scythe
AUTHOR: Neal Shusterman WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Shu - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants. The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn't. |
TITLE: Red Rising
AUTHOR: Pierce Brown WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bro - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Darrow, a Red, which is the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future, joins a revolutionary cell and attempts to infiltrate an elite military academy after witnessing the execution of his wife. |
TITLE: The Hunger Games
AUTHOR: Suzanne Collins WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Col - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: 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. |
TITLE: Divergent
AUTHOR: Veronica Roth WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Rot - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: 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 anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all. |
TITLE: 1984
AUTHOR: George Orwell WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Orw - CLASSICS SUMMARY: Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities. |
TILE: Brave New World
AUTHOR: Aldous Huxley WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Hux - CLASSICS SUMMARY: A satirical novel about the Utopia of the future, when babies are decanted from bottles and the great Ford is worshiped. |
TILE: The Handmaid's Tale
AUTHOR: Margaret Atwood WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Atw - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Set in the near future, America has become a puritanical theocracy and Offred tells her story as a Handmaid under the new social order. |
TILE: The Handmaid's Tale: Graphic Novel
AUTHOR: Margaret Atwood WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Atw - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Presents a graphic novelization of Atwood's story, set in the near future, of Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, once the United States, an oppressive world where women are no longer allowed to read and are valued only as long as they are viable for reproduction. |
TILE: The Giver
AUTHOR: Lois Lowry WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Low - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: 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. |
TILE: The Giver: Graphic Novel
AUTHOR: Lois Lowry WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Low - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Presents a graphic novelization of Lois Lowry's novel in which Jonas, a boy from a seemingly utopian, futuristic world, is receives special training from The Giver, who alone holds the memories of the true joys and pain of life. |
TILE: Matched
AUTHOR: Ally Condie WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Con - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her, so when Xander appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows he is her ideal mate-until Ky Markham's face appears for an instant before the screen fades to black. |
TILE: Uglies
AUTHOR: Scott Westerfeld WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Wes - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: 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. |
TILE: Shatter Me
AUTHOR: Tahereh Mafi WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Maf - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Ostracized or incarcerated her whole life, Juliette is freed on the condition that she use her abilities in support of the dictatorship, but Adam, the only person ever to show her affection, offers hope of a better future. |