Entering Grade 9
SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY
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Marrow Thieves
by Cherie Dimaline The indigenous people of North America are being hunted and harvested for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability to dream. Frenchie and his companions struggle to stay hidden from the Marrow Thieves, but one of them has the key to their survival. |
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The Hazelwood (series)
by Melissa Albert Alice and her mother Ella move from place to place never staying anywhere long, until they get a message that Ella's mother---a reclusive author of fairy tales with a cultish fan base-- has died alone on her estate, The Hazelwood. When Ella disappears on her way to the estate Alice receives only one message: Stay away from The Hazelwood. |
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Contagion
by Erin Bowman After receiving a distress call from a drill team on a distant planet, a skeleton crew is sent into deep space to perform a standard search-and-rescue mission. When they arrive, they find the planet littered with the remains of the project—including its members’ dead bodies. What could have caused it? |
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Dread Nation
by Justina Ireland Slavery comes to a halt when the dead on Civil War battlefields begin to rise and eat their compatriots. The north and south put aside their philosophical differences and join forces against the undead,but they are aided in their efforts by the passage of the Native and Negro Reeducation Act which forces African American boys and girls into combat schools. |
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Dry by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family. |
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Children of Blood and Bone
by Tomi Adeyemi Seventeen-year-old Zelie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy. |
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Naughts and Crosses
by Malorie Blackman The Naughts are second class citizens ruled by the Crosses and Sephy and Callum are struggling to maintain their relationship across these boundaries in this racially charged thriller that pushes against the societal constructs of race. |
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Norse Mythology
By Neil Gaiman A vibrant retelling of the tales of Thor, Odin, Loki et al. |
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Wool
by Hugh Howey In a post apocalyptic world, a community surviving in an underground bunker has maintained it’s existence for years because of their structured rules, until one of their own asks for the unthinkable: to go outside. |
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Dune By Frank Herbert
In this sci-fi classic the nobleman Paul Atrides is wrongfully cast out of his society and into the harsh Arrakis desert, left to die. However, he may be the last of a superhuman race, and that knowledge will rock his universe. |