Items Tagged with "Science Fiction"
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The Line by Teri Hall
The Line by Teri Hall
Rachel's whole life is the Property and the Line. Ever since she can remember, Rachel has lived on the Property, which is outside of Bensen, the closest town. She and her mother live in a cottage on the Property which Ms. Moore owns and where she raises orchids in a greenh
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Dr. Franklin's Island by Ann Halam
This book is about two girls that get trapped on what appears to be a deserted island and eventually get found by an evil scientist intent on experimenting on them with animal genetics!
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Unwind by Neal Shusterman
I picked up this book not expecting much from it. But from page one, I was hooked. It's about a world not too different from the one we live in now. The biggest difference is that from the time you are thirteen until eighteen you could be unwound. This is where others woul
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The Atlantis Complex by Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl, the notorious evil genius, is slowly losing his mind. Fowl has been suffering from obsessive-compulsive behavior and even hallucinations. In the midst of his mental breakdown, someone has a plot to over throw the entire LEPRecon division. Will Artem
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White Cat by Holly Black
When Cassel Sharpe wakes up teetering on the roof of his boarding school dorm room, he knows something is wrong. In his world, a new breed of humans, called workers, have special powers that can only affect you from skin contact. Cassel was born the only non-worker in his f
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The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
A hobbit by the name of Bilbo Baggins is an ordinary hobbit. He is approached by Gandalf, the powerful and wise wizard, to go on a quest; a quest along with thirteen other dwarves, to travel to the Lonely Mountain to kill the dragon, take control of the castle, and fin
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Girl in the Arena by Lise Haines
Lyn lives in a world where the biggest entertainment is watching the death match of gladiators. Unfortunately every one of her seven fathers has been a victim. Even worse than that is her seventh father's killer accidentally got a hold of Lyn's dowry bracelet. Now L
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I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
I Am Number Four is about John Smith who lives on the run from his hunters. He is from the planet Lorien that was destroyed when he was just four years old in a giant war with the Mogadorians. In the middle of the war, John and seventeen other people were snuck o
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Matched by Allie Condie
Matched by Allie Condie is a futuristic science fiction book. When a girl turns seventeen, she is matched with a guy who is also seventeen. Society matches them based on given information, such as personality, likes, dislikes and habits. Well, Cassia is matched with someone
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The Roar by Emma Clayton
Ellie’s been kidnapped! Mika will do anything to find her. This is a thrilling, realistic fiction/fantasy/adventure that will keep your eyes glued to the book and the pages turning.
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Everlost by Neal Shusterman
My book review is on the Skinjacker Series. The trilogy includes, Everlost, Everwild, and Everfound. It is basically about a boy named Nick and a girl named Allie that get caught between life and death. They are not alive but yet not dead. So they get stuc
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The Giver by Lois Lowery
The Giver is a great book! It is about two characters named Jonas and Gabe. They find themselves in a lot of trouble when they are forced to run away for various reasons. They find life very hard out on their own because they had never been by themselves befo
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Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Ender is a third (child). The world is over-populated, so people can only have two children. Ender is one day whisked to Battle School, a place where kids like him train to fight the buggers, the humans' enemy from another planet. But the thing
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Crossed (Matched Series – Book Two) by Ally Condie
I was very excited for Crossed when I first checked it out, but I actually found it a disappointment. The beginning was interesting, when Cassia and Ky are escaping the camps, but it soon becomes rather monotonous. When they escape to the
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The Dangerous Days of Daniel X by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
What if I told you that mass murder and sudden kidnapping wasn’t done by mentally unstable humans? That these things happen all the time at the hands of evil aliens that are on my kill list? When I was three
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