Trending Young Adult Science Fiction Books
Hatchet (Released: January 1986)
Author(s): Gary Paulsen
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Rating: 3.64 (320 Ratings, 18 Reviews)
Pages: 214
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given to him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
Genre(s): Fiction, Adventure, Classics, General, Literature, Adventure stories, Middle Grade, Juvenile Fiction, Young Adult, Science fiction
Invisible Man (Released: January 1952)
Author(s): Ralph Ellison
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Rating: 3.80 (153 Ratings, 16 Reviews)
Pages: 610
Invisible Man is the story of a young black man from the South who does not fully understand racism in the world. Filled with hope about his future, he goes to college, but gets expelled for showing one of the white benefactors the real and seamy side of black existence. He moves to Harlem and becomes an orator for the Communist party, known as the Brotherhood. In his position, he is both threatened and praised, swept up in a world he does not fully understand. As he works for the organization, he encounters many people and situations that slowly force him to face the truth about racism and his own lack of identity. As racial tensions in Harlem continue to build, he gets caught up in a riot that drives him to a manhole. In the darkness and solitude of the manhole, he begins to understand himself - his invisibility and his identity. He decides to write his story down (the body of the novel) and when he is finished, he vows to enter the world again.
Genre(s): Classics, Fiction, Science fiction, African Americans, African American men, African American, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult
The Gravity of Us (Released: February 2020)
Author(s): Phil Stamper (Narrator), Michael Crouch (Narrator), Jonathan Davis (Narrator), Gabra Zackman (Narrator), January LaVoy (Narrator), Angelo Di Loreto (Narrator), Chris Andrew Ciulla (Narrator), Dorothy Dillingham Blue (Narrator), Cynthia Farrell (Narrator), Soneela Nankani (Narrator), Sullivan Jones (Narrator), Bahni Turpin (Narrator)
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Rating: 3.30 (57 Ratings, 14 Reviews)
Pages: None
Cal wants to be a journalist, and he's already well underway with almost half a million followers on his FlashFame app and an upcoming internship at Buzzfeed. But his plans are derailed when his pilot father is selected for a highly-publicized NASA mission to Mars. Within days, Cal and his parents leave Brooklyn for hot and humid Houston. With the entire nation desperate for any new information about the astronauts, Cal finds himself thrust in the middle of a media circus. Suddenly his life is more like a reality TV show, with his constantly bickering parents struggling with their roles as the "perfect American family." And then Cal meets Leon, whose mother is another astronaut on the mission, and he finds himself falling head over heels--and fast. They become an oasis for each other amid the craziness of this whole experience. As their relationship grows, so does the frenzy surrounding the Mars mission, and when secrets are revealed about ulterior motives of the program, Cal must find a way to get to the truth without hurting the people who have become most important to him.
Genre(s): Young Adult, Science fiction, LGBTQ, Space, Young Adult Fiction
Confessions of a Murder Suspect (Released: January 2012)
Author(s): Maxine Paetro, James Patterson
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Rating: 3.62 (37 Ratings, 7 Reviews)
Pages: 284
James Patterson returns to the genre that made him famous with a #1 New York Times bestselling teen detective novel about the mysterious Angel family . . . and the dark secrets they're keeping from one another. On the night Malcolm and Maud Angel are murdered, Tandy Angel knows just three things: 1) She was the last person to see her parents alive. 2) The police have no suspects besides Tandy and her three siblings. 3) She can't trust anyone-maybe not even herself. As Tandy sets out to clear the family name, she begins to recall flashes of experiences long buried in her vulnerable psyche. These memories shed light on her family's dark secrets, and digging deeper into her powerful parents' affairs proves to be a disturbing and dangerous game. Who knows what any of the Angels are truly capable of?
Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult, Adventure, Science fiction, LGBTQ, Juvenile Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult Fiction, Murder, Family
Internment (Released: March 2019)
Author(s): Samira Ahmed
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Rating: 4.09 (22 Ratings, 10 Reviews)
Pages: 386
An instant New York Times bestseller! "Internment sets itself apart...terrifying, thrilling and urgent."--Entertainment Weekly Rebellions are built on hope. Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens. With the help of newly made friends also trapped within the internment camp, her boyfriend on the outside, and an unexpected alliance, Layla begins a journey to fight for freedom, leading a revolution against the camp's Director and his guards. Heart-racing and emotional, Internment challenges readers to fight complicit silence that exists in our society today.
Genre(s): Young Adult, Science fiction, Dystopian