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By Susan Beth Pfeffer. 2008
After a meteor hits the moon causing a series of horrific climate changes, seventeen-year-old Alex Morales must take care of…
his younger sisters alone in the chaos of New York City. Companion to Life as We Knew It (RC 65047, BR 18228). For junior and senior high readers. 2008By Tony Johnston, Susan Beth Pfeffer, Barry Moser. 2006
Sixteen-year-old Miranda keeps a journal describing her family's struggle to survive after an asteroid hits the Moon and causes disastrous…
climate change on Earth. She records her feelings about losing contact with friends and the outside world, locating food, and keeping hope alive. For junior and senior high readers. 2006By Liz Williams. 2002
India, 2030. Aliens arrive to integrate Earth into their empire. In exchange for a pardon and rights for the untouchable…
caste, ailing revolutionary Jaya Nihalani--a Receiver who can communicate with the visitors--acts as a liaison and discovers their true intent. Some violence and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2002By Liz Williams. 2001
Eleres is fiercely protective of his ailing sister, Mevennen--called a ghost by their people because of her disconnect from their…
world's natural energies. Seeking a cure, Eleres takes Mevennen into the wilderness, where they meet Shu, a gaian spirit whose hope for healing may come at a terrible price. 2001By Jeanne DuPrau. 2008
Lina's trade with a roamer gains Doon a battered old book that alludes to a mysterious device. Lina and Doon…
return underground to Ember to retrieve the machine, hoping it will help their new community, Sparks. Companion to The People of Sparks (DB 60098). For grades 5-8. 2008By Katy Kelly. 2009
Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. Ten-year-old Adam "Melonhead" Melon, a friend of Lucy Rose, has a talent for landing in trouble.…
But right now he and his pal Sam are dreaming up inventions to win a science contest. For grades 2-4. 2009By Philip Wylie, Edwin Balmer. 1999
Two planets, Bronson Alpha and Bronson Beta, hurtle through space on a collision course with Earth. Scientist Cole Hendron secretly…
recruits fellow scientists to construct a powerful, Noah's ark-inspired spacecraft to evacuate a select few people before the inevitable cosmic disaster. Includes sequel After Worlds Collide. 1932Responding to an interrupted message from the Reverend Shipton Cruet and his daughter, the Mumby family swiftly embarks on a…
mission to planet Georgium Sidus. They hope to rescue their friends and investigate the monstrous cloud encroaching on the known universe. Sequel to Starcross (BR 17670). For grades 6-9. 2008By Paul Auster. 2008
Recuperating at his daughter's Vermont home, insomniac widower August Brill suppresses painful memories of his wife by imagining an America…
mired in civil war. He commiserates with his granddaughter, Katya, whose boyfriend was murdered in Iraq, and eventually confronts his past. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2008By Steven Gould. 2007
Nine-year-old Griff O'Conner causes his parents' murders in San Diego when he teleports himself to avoid a bully. Griff hides…
with friends until, at sixteen, he is ready to confront the killers. Sequel to Jumper (DB 37465, BR 9548). Violence and strong language. For junior and senior high readers. 2007By Pierre Billon. 2008
"David se retrouve un beau matin dans un ascenseur en compagnie d'un vieil homme qui, soudain, brandit un revolver pour…
se suicider. L'adolescent s'interpose spontanément, sans se douter que son geste va bouleverser le cours de sa vie. Embarqué dans une intrigue aussi surprenante que périlleuse, il renouera le mystérieux lien des origines entre l'être humain et son double - cette alliance sacrée dont parlent les textes les plus anciens de l'humanité. Mine de rien, David nous raconte sa saisissante histoire sans détour, avec une franchise troublante et un humour gentiment subversif. En chemin, il nous fera rencontrer Iris, petite prostituée de quatorze ans ; Guillaume, l'ami marginal et surdoué qui se console en écoutant le chant des étoiles ; et Gwen, la trop jolie psychologue qui ne sait plus où donner de la tête : doit-elle soigner David et le guérir de ses "hallucinations" ou bien l'accompagner, à ses risques et périls, dans une aventure à nulle autre pareille ?" -- 4e de couvBy Nina Blazon. 2010
"Lhistoire se déroule en 1731, en Serbie actuelle, à lancienne frontière turco-autrichienne. Le titre original du livre, Die Totenbraut, fait…
écho à une ancienne coutume : lorsquun jeune homme mourait sans être marié, on lui choisissait une jeune fille qui lépousait sur sa tombe, afin que lâme du célibataire ne vienne pas hanter le village. La jeune Jasna, âgée de quatorze ans, vit avec ses six sœurs dans une cabane misérable, au crochet dun père alcoolique et brutal. Celui-ci la vend à un homme de passage qui cherche une épouse pour son fils Danilo. Une fois le mariage célébré et la nuit de noce passée, Danilo ne touchera plus jamais la jeune fille. Une rumeur court sur ce dernier : serait-il un vampire ? La jeune fille suit plusieurs pistes et découvrira la vérité en même temps que le lecteur. Tandis que le mystère plane, elle rencontre un jeune bûcheron, Dusan, dont elle tombe immédiatement amoureuse. Mais lui aussi cache un sombre secret..." -- 4e de couvBy Laura Ruby. 2007
In this sequel to The Wall and the Wing (BR 16650), newfound fame and fortune have estranged friends Bug and…
Gurl--now called Georgie. But Georgie and Bug join forces again when a punk, vampires, and a giant sloth attack them in a future New York City. For grades 5-8. 2007By Jonathan Lethem. 1998
When a global disaster blights the Earth's environment, fourteen-year-old Pella Marsh and her family escape to another planet where her…
father, a failed politician, hopes to restart his career. Pella assimilates into the alien society and discovers a terrible threat that could doom the Earthling colony. 1998Art Mumby, his younger sister, and their mother accept a free holiday at the Starcross Hotel in the Asteroid Belt,…
but the luxury resort is not as it seems. Soon the Mumbys are dealing with French spies, Yankee rebels, and man-eating starfish. Sequel to Larklight...(BR 17285). For grades 6-9. 2007By Lois McMaster Bujold. 2001
Born of royal lineage on Barrayar, Miles Vorkosigan tries to join the military, but he is rejected because of his…
stunted growth and brittle bones. Then a visit to his grandmother on Beta Colony changes everything. Some violence. 1986In an alternate Victorian England, young Arthur Mumby and his sister Myrtle, residents of Larklight, a floating house in one…
of Her Majesty's outer space territories, uncover a spidery plot to destroy the solar system. For grades 6-9. 2006By Lois McMaster Bujold. 2000
While attacking an outpost planet, Barrayaran lord Aral Vorkosigan captures Betan astrocartographer Cordelia Naismith and holds her prisoner. They rely…
on each other to survive a trek across dangerous terrain, sparking a relationship that shares the struggles of culture and politics between their two worlds. 1986By Howard Waldrop. 1986
Twelve short stories. In "Heirs of the Perisphere" a robot dog, duck, and rodent spontaneously animated in a long-abandoned cartoon…
automaton factory find a world much different from their own. Also includes the Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning "The Ugly Chickens" and "Horror, We Got." 1986By Lois McMaster Bujold. 1989