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Jumper: Griffin's story (Jumper)
Par 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. 2007Billy Pilgrim, adrift in time, randomly revisits past and present manifestations: senile widower stalked by an assassin, hopeful young newlywed,…
giraffe on the planet Tralfamadore--where time is an illusion--and, most crucially, American POW during the firebombing of Dresden in World War II. Strong language. 1969Buffalo Is the New Buffalo
Par Chelsea Vowel. 2022
Powerful stories of "Metis futurism" that envision a world without violence, capitalism, or colonization. "Education is the new buffalo" is…
a metaphor widely used among Indigenous peoples in Canada to signify the importance of education to their survival and ability to support themselves, as once Plains nations supported themselves as buffalo peoples. The assumption is that many of the pre-Contact ways of living are forever gone, so adaptation is necessary. But Chelsea Vowel asks, "Instead of accepting that the buffalo, and our ancestral ways, will never come back, what if we simply ensure that they do?" Inspired by classic and contemporary speculative fiction, Buffalo Is the New Buffalo explores science fiction tropes through a Metis lens: a Two-Spirit rougarou (shapeshifter) in the nineteenth century tries to solve a murder in her community and joins the nehiyaw-pwat (Iron Confederacy) in order to successfully stop Canadian colonial expansion into the West. A Metis man is gored by a radioactive bison, gaining super strength, but losing the ability to be remembered by anyone not related to him by blood. Nanites babble to babies in Cree, virtual reality teaches transformation, foxes take human form and wreak havoc on hearts, buffalo roam free, and beings grapple with the thorny problem of healing from colonialism. Indigenous futurisms seek to discover the impact of colonization, remove its psychological baggage, and recover ancestral traditions. These eight short stories of "Metis futurism" explore Indigenous existence and resistance through the specific lens of being Metis. Expansive and eye-opening, Buffalo Is the New Buffalo rewrites our shared history in provocative and exciting ways.The prophet of Yonwood: The Third Book of Ember (Books of Ember #Bk. 3)
Par Jeanne DuPrau. 2006
Yonwood, North Carolina. Eleven-year-old Nickie figures out how to identify both good and evil when she witnesses the townspeople's reactions…
to the apocalyptic visions of their neighbor, Althea Tower. Prequel to City of Ember (RC 59907) and People of Sparks (DB 60098). For grades 5-8. 2006Firstborn (Time Odyssey Ser. #Bk. 3)
Par Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter. 2008
2069. The Firstborn, a hostile alien race determined to annihilate humanity, send an asteroid-sized object called a Q-bomb to obliterate…
Earth. Former British soldier Bisesa Dutt, freshly awakened from hibernation, journeys to Mir--an alternate, temporally disturbed Earth--to find a solution. Sequel to Sunstorm (DB 60492). 2007Z for Zachariah
Par Robert C. O'Brien. 2009
Sixteen-year-old Ann Burden, seemingly the sole survivor of a nuclear war, is tending her family farm when she sees smoke…
from a campfire--a stranger is in the valley. She takes precautions to hide her presence, realizing there are worse things than being alone. For junior and senior high readers. 1974Surviving Antarctica: reality TV 2083
Par Andrea White. 2005
By 2083 a deteriorating American civilization is dominated by "reality" television programs. Five fourteen-year-olds reenact Scott's 1910 failed expedition to…
the South Pole as contestants on the Historical Survivor series. They overcome obstacles with the covert help of a Department of Entertainment employee. For junior and senior high readers. 2005Rash
Par Pete Hautman. 2006
United Safer States of America, 2070s. Sixteen-year-old Bo Marsten is locked up for unsociable behavior like fighting. At an Arctic…
work camp, he's recruited to play the illegal game of football until the disgruntled warden releases him into a wilderness full of polar bears. For senior high readers. National Book Award. 2006Night of the new magicians (Magic Tree House (R) Merlin Mission #35)
Par Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca. 2006
Merlin sends Jack and Annie to the 1889 World's Fair in Paris, France. Their mission is to find four new…
magicians in the crowds at the Eiffel Tower and protect them from an evil sorcerer. For grades 2-4. 2006Outbound flight (Star Wars)
Par Timothy Zahn. 2006
Jedi Master Jorus C'baoth heads an ambitious intergalactic expedition to the Unknown Regions. Fearing C'baoth's hidden agenda and the involvement…
of the Sith, the Jedi Council orders Obi-Wan Kenobi and his Padawan learner, Anakin Skywalker, to join the ill-fated mission. Companion to Survivor's Quest (RC 57972, BR 15500). Bestseller. 2006The best american science fiction and fantasy 2023 (Best American)
Par R. F Kuang. 2023
"Short stories have to accomplish a nearly impossible magic trick: to introduce a world often much stranger than our own…
and make you care about it in a matter of pages," writes R. F. Kuang in her introduction. "The most important part of this magic trick is just a willingness to get weird." The stories in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 are brimming with bizarre and otherworldly premises. Women can't lie or fall in love. Fathers feed their children ghost preserves. Souls chase one another through animal incarnations. Yet these stories are grounded deeply in our reality. Out of these stories' weirdness emerges the cruelty of border enforcement, the horror of legislation restricting reproductive freedom, the frightening pace of AI. The result is a stunning, immersive, intensely felt experience, showing us less of what the world is, and more of what it could be. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 includes Nathan Ballingrud KT Bryski Isabel Cañas Maria Dong Kim Fu Theodora Goss Alix E. Harrow S. L. Huang Stephen Graham Jones Shingai Njeri Kagunda Isabel J. Kim Samantha Mills MKRNYILGLD Malka Older Susan Palwick Linda Raquel Nieves Pérez Sofia Samatar Kristina Ten Catherynne M. Valente Chris WillrichReflex (Jumper #2)
Par Steven Gould. 2004
A mysterious organization kidnaps National Security Agency operative Davy Rice to use his teleportation powers. Davy's wife, Millie, searches frantically…
for him with her own newfound teleporting skills. Sequel to Jumper (DB 37465, BR 9548). Strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some violence. For senior high and older readers. 2004The plot against America: A Novel
Par Philip Roth. 2004
In this alternative history, a young man--called Philip Roth--recounts his Jewish family's fears and humiliations when aviation hero Charles Lindbergh…
is victorious in the 1940 presidential election. The New Jersey Roths struggle as America, caught up in anti-Semitic fervor, descends into fascism. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2004Crimson climb
Par E. K Johnston. 2023
New York Times bestselling author E. K. Johnston, author of the Queens series starring Padmé Amidala, brings fans an untold…
story about Qi'ra, portrayed by Emilia Clarke in Star Wars: A Solo Story. Not everyone gets to be the hero. Qi'ra listened to the dreams and promises of a boy with a reckless smile, only to be torn away from him and returned to the White Worms gang while Han made his way to freedom. Now freedom seems like a luxury she can't afford while she concentrates on survival and despairs of ever leaving Corellia. But her fortunes seem to turn when a representative of the crime syndicate Crimson Dawn plucks Qi'ra from captivity and brings her to the syndicate's leader, the mysterious and mercurial Dryden Vos. Vos offers Qi'ra an opportunity she's never had before: the chance to build something resembling a comfortable life if she can prove her worth to his organization. With failure meaning certain death, Qi'ra knows she must immerse herself in the merciless, murderous world of Crimson Dawn. What she doesn't know is just who she will be if she survivesSunstorm (Time Odyssey Ser. #Bk. 2)
Par Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter. 2005
London, 2037. UN peacekeeper Bisesa Dutt, newly returned from an alternate Earth, faces catastrophe--within five years a massive solar flare…
will annihilate earthly life. Scientists race to construct a shield but discover the sunstorm is no natural disaster. Sequel to Time's Eye (DB 58073, BR 15420). Some descriptions of sex. 2005Heat wave: Surviving the Fourth Bowl Judgment (Left Behind: The Kids #37)
Par Tim Lahaye, Jerry B. Jenkins. 2004
As the six-year mark of the Tribulation approaches, a heat wave devastates the world. Reunited in Wisconsin, Judd and Vicki…
grow closer while working together. Then Judd becomes stranded in New Babylon, far from Vicki. Sequel to Ominous Choices (DB 58481). For grades 5-8. 2004The perils of love: Breaking through the Darkness (Left Behind: The Kids #38)
Par Tim Lahaye, Jerry B. Jenkins. 2004
After the Heat Wave (DB 61768), darkness falls on New Babylon, causing suicides. Vicki and Lionel fly to Petra, where…
Judd joins them and they watch Chloe's statement of faith and televised execution. The Kids celebrate new beginnings with Judd and Vicki's marriage. For grades 5-8. 2004A Sterkarm kiss (Sequel to The Sterkarm Handshake)
Par Susan Price. 2004
Andrea Mitchell from The Sterkarm Handshake (DB 51934) returns to sixteenth-century Great Britain in the Time Tube. Her lover Per…
marries into a rival clan, rekindling a civil war. Some violence and some strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2003Alien in a bottle
Par Kathy Mackel. 2004
Eighth-grader Sean Winger feels destined to be a glassblower but his parents strongly disapprove. His stargazer classmate Olivia Ricci assists…
him. So does an odd assortment of extraterrestrials Sean came to know after discovering two of them in a glass bottle in the ocean. For grades 5-8. 2004Survivor's quest (Star Wars)
Par Timothy Zahn. 2004
Luke Skywalker and his wife, Mara, lead a diplomatic mission to inspect wreckage of the Jedi expedition destroyed fifty years…
ago by enemies. The mission, escorted by alien hosts and a mysterious New Republic impersonator, arrives at the remains and finds survivors. Follows the Corellian Trilogy (DB 41492, DB 42545, DB 42546). 2004