Science Fiction

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Science Fiction Fantasy

• Book of the Month due December 13/14.

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Science Fiction

• Technology, medical, or scientific capabilities
  not currently available.
• Hoverboards, light sabers, intergalactic warfare,
  memory scanners

Fantasy

• Creatures, magical powers, and other elements not
  typically associated with our world.
• Fairies, wizards, magic, witches, mythological
  creatures

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The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

• From Goodreads
• Matteo Alacran was not born he was harvested
  with the DNA from El Patron, lord of a country
  called Opium. Can a boy who was bred to guarantee
  anothers survival find his own purpose in life?
  And can he ever be free?
• Lexile 660

Science Fiction
D
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Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

• Orphaned and flawed Kira lives in a world that
  resents her existence. Her unique talent keeps
  her alive for now, but will it be enough to
  ensure her a safe future?
• Lexile 680

Science Fiction
B
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Matched by Ally Condie

• From Goodreads
• Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the
  right choices for her what to read, what to
  watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face
  appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony,
  Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is
  her ideal mate... until she sees Ky Markham's
  face flash for an instant before the screen fades
  to black.
• The Society tells her it's a glitch But Cassia
  begins to doubt the Society's infallibility and
  is faced with an impossible choice between
  Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known
  and a path that no one else has dared to follow.
• Lexile 680

Science Fiction
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The Bar Code Tattoo by Suzanne Weyn

• The tattoo makes everything so simple in your
  life. Everyone 17 and older is getting one. Kayla
  isnt sure the tattoo is just about convenience.
• What if she says no after her birthday, and
  doesnt get the code? The decision not to conform
  may prove dangerous.
• Science Fiction/Fantasy Thriller
• Lexile 720

Science Fiction
B
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Singularity by William Sleator

• From Goodreads
• Identical twins Barry and Harry Krasner are
  house-sitting at their great-uncle's Midwest
  farm.  It's peaceful at first, but soon they
  realize there's something about the farmhouse
  that makes locals stay far away.  The twins are
  sure that the locked shed out back is their
  reason why but what they find there is more
  shocking than anything they could have imagined.
• Lexile 740

Science Fiction
D
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Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

• Like most teenagers, Tally cant wait to turn 16.
  In her world, though, the rite of passage is all
  about looks, and nothing to do with driving.
  Shell finally have her operation to become
  Pretty, and move away from the other Uglies.
• Her new hover-boarding friend has some dreams of
  her own, though
• Lexile 770

Science Fiction
D
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Enders Game by Orson Scott Card

• Ender makes the cut for an elite soldier-training
  program at a young age, and starts rigorous
  training to save his world from the next vicious
  alien attack.
• Will Ender become the general Earth needs? Or
  will his devotion to his family and young age get
  in the way?
• Lexile 780

Science Fiction
B
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Fablehaven by Brandon Mull

• Seth and Kendra are sent to spend the summer with
  their eccentric grandparents they barely know.
• While getting to know their grandparents, they
  start to realize that they are no ordinary
  retirees. Their grandfather is a caretaker of a
  magical refuge for creatures misunderstood by the
  world outside.
• Lexile 700

Fantasy
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Eighth Grade Bites by Heather Brewer

• From Goodreads
• Junior high really sucks for thirteen-year-old
  Vladimir Tod. Bullies harass him, the principal
  is dogging him, and the girl he likes prefers his
  best friend. Oh, and Vlad has a secret his
  mother was human, but his father was a vampire.
  With no idea of the extent of his powers, Vlad
  struggles daily with his blood cravings and his
  enlarged fangs. When a substitute teacher begins
  to question him a little too closely, Vlad
  worries that his cover is about to be blown.
• Lexile 780

Fantasy
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Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede

• From Goodreads
• Cimorene is everything a princess is not supposed
  to be headstrong, tomboyish, smart. . . .
• And bored. So bored that she runs away to live
  with a dragon . . . and finds the family and
  excitement she's been looking for.
• Lexile 830

Fantasy
D
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Princess Academy by Shannon Hale

• From Goodreads
• Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations,
  her ancestors have quarried stone and lived a
  simple life. Then word comes that the king's
  priests have divined her small village the home
  of the future princess. In a year's time, the
  prince himself will come and choose his bride
  from among the girls of the village. The king's
  ministers set up an academy on the mountain, and
  every teenage girl must attend and learn how to
  become a princess.
• Lexile 890

Fantasy
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The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

• From Goodreads
• After the grisly murder of his entire family, a
  toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts
  and other supernatural residents agree to raise
  him as one of their own.
• Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a
  normal boy. He would be completely normal if he
  didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being
  raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary
  guardian who belongs to neither the world of the
  living nor of the dead.
• Lexile 820

Fantasy
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The Ordinary Princess by M. M. Kaye

• Fairies are welcomed to bestow blessings on a
  newborn princess, as is the custom in many fairy
  tales. The beautiful child is blessed with the
  same gifts as her six beautiful older sisters
  wit, charm, grace, health, and courage, in
  addition to one unexpected and shocking gift
  ordinariness.
• Lexile 1090

Fantasy
B
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The Giver (class book) by Lois
Lowry

• From Goodreads
• Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under
  control. There is no war or fear or pain. There
  are no choices. Every person is assigned a role
  in the Community. When Jonas turns twelve, he is
  singled out to receive special training from The
  Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the
  true pain and pleasure of life. Now, it is time
  for Jonas to receive the truth. There is no
  turning back.
• Lexile 760

Science Fiction
B
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Works Cited
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scores from Scholastic.com.