Bacigalupi, Paolo. Ship Breaker.
In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
Berry, Liz. The China Garden.
After high school, Clare moves with her mother from London to a rural home
where her psychic ability helps unravel the past and where she searches for
something called the Benison.
Bray, Libba. A Great and Terrible Beauty.
After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns
to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where
she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit
world.
*Read the Sequels: Rebel Angels and The Sweet Far Thing
Card, Orson Scott. Ender's Game.
A veteran of years of simulated war games, Ender believes he is engaged in
one more computer war game when in truth he is commanding the last fleet of
Earth against an alien race seeking the complete destruction of Earth.
Chabon, Michael. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.
This brilliant epic novel set in New York and Prague introduces us to two
misfit young men who make it big by creating comic-book superheroes.
Collins, Suzanne. Mockingjay.
Two-time Hunger Games survivor Katniss Everdeen is targeted by a vengeful Capitol that vows to make Katniss and all of District 12 pay for the current unrest.
Connolly, John. The Book of Lost Things.
Taking refuge in fairy tales after the loss of his mother, twelve-year-old
David finds himself violently propelled into an imaginary land in which the
boundaries of fantasy and reality are disturbingly melded.
David, Peter. Tigerheart: A Tale of the Anyplace.
In a James Barrie-inspired world of suspense, swashbuckling adventure, tenderness,
anguish, and wit and sarcasm, and appealing characters peopling anyplace.
Fforde, Jasper. The Eyre Affair.
In a world where one can literally get lost in literature, Thursday Next,
a Special Operative in literary detection tries to stop the world's Third
Most Wanted criminal from kidnapping characters, including Jane Eyre.
Gaiman, Neil. Stardust.
In the quiet English hamlet of Wall, Tristran Thorn embarks on a remarkable journey
through the world of Faerie to recover a fallen star for his lover, the hauntingly
beautiful Victoria Forester.
Hoffman, Alice. Practical Magic.
The story of two sisters, Gillian and Sally Owens, brought up by their elderly
guardian aunts in a small New England town. The aunts possess magic that they
in turn hand down to their nieces.
Irwin, Stephen. Dead Path.
After the death of his wife, Nicholas Close becomes haunted, literally, by ghosts. Torn by guilt and fearing for his sanity, he returns home to Tallong, Australia, and becomes entangled in a disturbing series of disappearances and murders--both as a suspect and as the next victim of the malignant evil lurking in the heart of the woods.
Kasischke, Laura. In a Perfect World.
Former flight attendant Jiselle Dorn's idyllic family life as the wife of pilot Mark Dorn and the mother of two soon grows wearisome, since Mark is always away and her children are hostile, but nothing can prepare her for the threat of the Phoenix Flu, which endangers the very lives they have all imagined.
McKinley, Robin. Pegasus.
Because of a thousand-year-old alliance between humans and pegasi, Princess Sylvi is ceremonially bound to Ebon, her own pegasus, on her twelfth birthday, but the closeness of their bond becomes a threat to the status quo and possibly to the safety of their two nations.
Niffenegger, Audrey. Her Fearful Symmetry.
After their English aunt dies, listless American twins Julia and Valentina travel
to London to live in their aunt's now empty flat overlooking Highgate Cemetery.
There they become embroiled in the day-to-day sagas of their eccentric neighbors.
But soon they discover that something is alive in Highgate--something unable
to move on.
Orwell, George. 1984.
Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities.
Pearson, Mary E. Adoration of Jenna Fox.
In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.
Stiefvater, Maggie. Shiver.
In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace
has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn,
has been watching her with increasing intensity.
Tinti, Hannah. The Good Thief.
Growing up in a New England orphanage unaware of his family and of how he had
lost his left hand as an infant, twelve-year-old Ren is terrified of the future
until a young man shows up claiming to be his long-lost brother.
Willis, Connie. To Say Nothing of the Dog.
Ned Henry goes back in time to 1889 to study the Coventry Cathedral for a
wealthy American who wants to build an exact replica before it is destroyed.
Wrede, Patricia C. and Caroline Stevermer. Sorcery and Cecelia,
or, The enchanted Chocolate Pot.
In 1817 in England, two young cousins, Cecilia living in the country and
Kate in London, write letters to keep each other informed of their exploits,
which
take a sinister turn when they find themselves confronted by evil wizards.
Yancey,
Richard. The Monstrumologist.
In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop,
a scientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and
attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi.
Zevin, Gabrielle. Elsewhere.
After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself
in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to
her
new status and figure out how to "live."