The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 
Aliens destroy the earth to build a freeway - and that's in the first few pages! You'll never read science fiction funnier than this. (ADULT SF ADAMS)

Feed by MT Anderson 
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble. (YA SF ANDERSON)

The Kindling by Jennifer Armstrong 
In 2007, a small band of children have joined together in a Florida town, trying to survive in a world where it seems that all the adults have been killed off by a catastrophic virus. (YA FIC ARMSTRONG)

Songs of Power by Hilari Bell 
Imina hates science. She wants to live with her grandmother, an Inuit Shaman, and study the magical ways of her ancestors. But she's forced to live in an undersea habitat with her scientist parents. Then terrorist saboteurs start creating havoc under the sea. The scientists all think there is a logical explanation. Imina's magic training tells her something different. But how to you tell a bunch of disbelieving scientists that an evil sorcerer is on the loose? It's up to Imina to somehow save the day! (YA SF BELL)

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card 
A small boy is genetically engineered to become an alien killing machine. (YA SF CARD)

Beatnik Rutabagas From Beyond the Stars by Quentin Dodd 
Whisked away on space ships to serve as generals of opposing armies, best friends and sci-fi movie fans Walter Nutria and Yselle Meridian soon convince the aliens they must work together against the real menaces, Space Mice from Galaxy Four and their leader, The Boss. (YA SF DODD)

The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer 
In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States. (YA FIC FARMER)

Jumping Off the Planet by David Gerrold 
Chigger, his older brother Douglas, and his younger brother Stinky are involved in a bitter custody battle between their parents. Things really heat up after their father decides to kidnap them - and take them to the moon. (YA SF GERROLD)

The Exchange Student by Kate Gilmore 
When her mother arranges to host one of the young people coming to Earth from Chela, Daria is both pleased and intrigued by the keen interest shown by the Chelan in her work breeding endangered species. (JRHI GILMORE)

Jumper by Steven Gould 
David's father has a nasty habit of beating him up. But one day, rather than endure another beating, David finds that he's transported himself right out of the situation. He's able to "jump" anywhere at will! But this gift soon turns deadly. (YA FIC GOULD)

Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix 
In a society that allows only two children per family, Luke is the forbidden third child, forced to be a shadow. He has spent his entire life hiding in the attic. Now there is a new housing development going up next door, and he's not even allowed outside anymore. But one day he sees a girl in a window next door, in a house where he knows two children already live. Are there other shadows like him? (YA SF HADDIX)

Dr. Franklin's Island by Ann Halam 
When their plane crashes over the Pacific Ocean, three science students are left stranded on a tropical island and then imprisoned by a doctor who is performing horrifying experiments on humans involving the transfer of animal genes. (YA FIC HALAM)

Orvis by H. M. Hoover 
On an Earth that has become an inhospitable wilderness, Toby and her friend Thaddeus find themselves lost in "the empty" with Orvis, an obsolete robot who is their only hope of protection and escape. (YA SF HOOVER)

The Ark by Ben Jeapes 
Captain Michael Gilmore gets more than he bargains for when he pilots a space vessel bound for Earth's first rendezvous with an alien race. (YA SF JEAPES)

Star Split by Kathryn Lasky 
In 3038, thirteen-year-old Darci uncovers an underground movement to save the human race from genetic enhancement technology. (YA SF LASKY)

Dancing With An Alien by Mary Logue 
Tonia's new boyfriend Branko has a strange secret and an even stranger request. It turns out he's an alien from another planet. On his planet, all the females have been killed by a plague. They need females in order to survive. Branko wants Tonia to return with him. Should she trust him? Would you? (YA FIC LOGUE)

Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey 
After her father forbids her from indulging in music of any form, Menolly decides to run away. Running away is always dangerous - but on the planet Pern, being out in the open during the fall of Thread can mean instant and painful death. Is Menolly ready to lay down her life to continue doing something she loves? (JRHI MCCAFFREY)

Shade's Children by Garth Nix 
In a savage post-nuclear world, four young fugitives attempt to overthrow the bloodthirsty rule of the Overlords with the help of Shade, their mysterious mentor. (JRHI NIX)

The Sterkarm Handshake by Susan Price 
Having traveled to a sixteenth century border clan in England through a tunnel created by a twenty-first century company, Andrea must decide in which era she will live. (YA SF PRICE)

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman 
Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North. (YA FIC PULLMAN)

The Copper Elephant by Adam Rapp 
In a world where children under twelve are used as slave labor in subterranean lime mines, eleven-year-old Whensday Bluehouse struggles to survive the continuous poison rains and evade the ruthless Syndicate Soldiers. (YA SF RAPP)

The Dark Side of Nowhere by Neal Shusterman 
Jason finds out the town secret - they are all aliens left behind after a botched invasion. (YA SF SHUSTERMAN)

Virtual War by Gloria Skurzynski 
In a future world where global contamination has necessitated limited human contact, three young people with unique genetically engineered abilities are teamed up to wage a war in virtual reality. (YA SF SKUZYNSKI)

Welcome to the Ark by Stephanie S. Tolan 
When four child prodigies transfer from a center for research and rehabilitation to an experimental group home, they face another way of connecting with their world. (YA FIC TOLAN)

Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde 
While playing a total immersion virtual reality game of kings and intrigue, fourteen-year-old Giannine learns that demonstrators have damaged the equipment to which she is connected, and she must win the game quickly or be damaged herself. (YA SF VANDE)

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis 
Thinking she is being sent back to a safe period of the Middle Ages, the history /time travel department accidentally sends Kivrin back into the middle of the Black Death. (YA PAPERBACKS W)

13 April 2006