Tuesday, October 9, 2018

It's Written in the Stars: A Teen Read Week Booklist

This year's Teen Read Week theme is "It's Written in the Stars" focusing on science fiction.  Here are a few of my favorite space-themed science fiction stories for teens . . . .


Survival Colony 9 by Joshua David Bellin
Querry Genn, a member of one of the last human survivor groups following global war, is targeted by the monstrous Skaldi, although Querry has no memory of why.

Stitching Snow by R.C. Lewis
A futuristic retelling of Snow White in which seventeen-year-old Essie, a master at repairing robots and drones on the frozen mining planet Thanda, is pulled into a war by handsome and mysterious Dane after his shuttle crash-lands near her home.

Tin Star by Cecil Castelluci
Beaten and left for dead, fourteen-year-old Tula Bane finds herself abandoned on a space station called Yertina Feray after traveling with the colonist group, Children of the Earth.


More Books --Across the Universe by Beth Revis
Avalon by Mindee Arnett
The Cage by Megan Shepherd
A Confusion of Princes by Garth  Nix
Contagion by Erin Bowman
Dangerous by Shannon Hale
Defy the Stars by Claudia Gray
Dove Arising by Karen Bao
Heart of Iron by Ashley Poston
Honor Among Thieves by Rachel Caine & Ann Aguirre
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
Mars One by Jonathan Maberry
Nyxia by Scott Reintgen
Railhead by Philip Reeve
Satellite by Nick Lake
Spacer & Rat by Margaret Bechard
These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner
Vanguard by Ann Aguirre
What Goes Up by Katie Kennedy
 Zero Boxer by Fonda Lee

Check these books out on display at the Arnold Branch through October 26, 2018.

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