F.A. Day Library: Science Fiction

A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but one of the book burners suddenly realizes their merit.

Tom, an apprentice in a distant future in which technology has been lost, has a dangerous run-in with a historian who is trying to resurrect an ancient atomic weapon.

Tally is faced with a difficult choice when her new friend Shay decides to risk life on the outside rather than submit to the forced operation that turns sixteen year old girls into gorgeous beauties, and realizes that there is a whole new side to the pretty world that she doesn't like.

Honor, living with her mom and dad on Island 365 in what's left of the United States, realizes that her nonconformist parents are putting the entire family at risk.

In the city of Ember, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.

In a future society that has decided it would "rather be safe than free," sixteen-year-old Bo's anger management problems land him in a jail where he survives with the help of his running skills and an artificial intelligence program named Bork.

When Cinder, a gifted mechanic and a cyborg who lives with her hostile stepmother, becomes intertwined with Prince Kai, she finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle.

Melly and Anny Beth agree to participate in Project Turnabout, a scientific experiment in which they are given a shot that will make them grow younger.

In a near-future New York City, fourteen-year-old computer genius Sam Wilson manages to hack into the AT&T network and sets off a chain of events that have a profound effect on human activity throughout the world.

In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the one hundred forty-two-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.

When seventeen-year-old Jenna wakes from a long coma with no memory of who she is, she embarks on a horrifying quest to learn what really happened to her.

After living alone for a year, believing herself to be the only survivor of a nuclear holocaust, sixteen-year-old Ann makes a startling discovery--a scientist named John Loomis has also survived--but this pleasant surprise very quickly turns sinister.

Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.

Barney's boring seaside vacation suddenly becomes more interesting when the cottage next door is occupied by three exotic neighbors who are addicted to a game they call "Interstellar Pig."

Seconds before Earth is demolished to make room for a galactic freeway, an earthman is saved by his friend. Together they journey through the galaxy.

Ender, who is the result of genetic experimentation, may be the military genius Earth needs in its war against an alien enemy.

In 1889 London, young women are turning up dead, and Evaline Stoker are summoned to investigate the clue of the not-so-ancient Egyptian scarabs--but where does a time traveler fit in?

In an alternate Victorian England, young Arthur and his sister Myrtle, who are residents of a floating house called Larklight, uncover a spidery plot to destroy the solar system.

In Victorian London, fourteen-year-old Modo, a shape-changing hunchback, becomes a secret agent for the Permanent Association, which strives to protect the world from the evil machinations of the Clockwork Guild.

In an alternate England of 1851, spirited fourteen-year-old Sophronia is enrolled in a finishing school where lessons include not only the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but also diversion, deceit, and espionage.

In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clankers, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who is disguised as a boy so she can learn to fly genetically-engineered beasts.

A collection of fourteen fantasy stories by well-known authors, set in an alternate universe where romance and technology reign and featuring automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never existed.

Forced by the Emperor of the known universe to live in exile on a barren planet, Duke Leto Atreides and his son lead the struggle against the Empire.

A scientist invents a machine that transports him into the future.

A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.

As life on Mars becomes impossible, Martians and their terrifying machines invade the earth.

As the Galactic Empire declines, psychohistorian Hari Seldon and his band of psychobiologists form the Foundation, designed to be the core of a new ruling corporation.

After a traumatic accident removes his telekinetic ability, welve-year-old Taemon is exiled to the "dud farm," where he is surprised to find kind, open people who enjoy using their hands and learns that life in his former colony was not always what it seemed.

When an accidental dunking in toxic waste gives sixteen-year-old Jared the ability to read minds, he discovers horrifying secrets about family members at the summer reunion.

After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "birdkids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose.

When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible, he and his parents and his new blind friend Alicia try to find out what caused his condition and how to reverse it.

Fourteen-year-old Michael discovers he has special electrical powers and becomes aware that there are other teens with similar powers, but something or someone is hunting them.

Piper McCloud's ability to fly sets her apart from the other kids, so her mother sends her to an exclusive school for children with exceptional abilities, but even there she does not fit in with the other students.

Twenty-first century fourteen-year-old Kyle was hypnotized when humanity was upgraded to 1.0 and he, incompatible with the new technology, exposes its terrifying impact in a tape-recording found by the superhumans of the future.

Twelve-year-old Gratuity "Tip" Tucci is left to fend for herself after Earth is colonized by aliens and her mother is abducted, and must try to stop another alien invasion with only the help of a cat named Pig and an alien named J. Lo.

Twenty years after military robots turned their weapons against humans, siblings Nick, Kevin, and Cass must risk everything when the wilderness community where they have spent their lives in hiding is discovered by the bots.

When she opens two strange boxes left in her care by her mysterious uncle, fifteen-year-old Annie discovers a swarm of telepathic creatures and unleashes a power capable of slowing down time.

Sixteen-year-old Gwyneth unexpectedly travels through time to the eighteenth century, and she must find out why her mother lied to her about this strange inherited ability.

Em must travel back in time to prevent a catastrophic time machine from ever being invented, while Marina battles to prevent the murder of the boy she loves.

In Victorian London, the assassin Albert Garrick and his reluctant young apprentice, Riley, are transported to modern London, where Riley teams up with a young FBI agent to stop Garrick from returning to his own time and using his newly acquired scientific knowledge to change the world forever.