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Summer Adventure: Reading Through the Eras
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The Future Reading through the eras doesn't mean you have to be stuck in the past. Try a futuristic picture book or a science fiction novel or graphic novel set in the future.
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I Will Survive
by Freddie Perren
Kaitlyn Shea O'Connor's imaginative illustrations set the words of the popular song "I Will Survive" in a futuristic alien landscape where our heroine demonstrates her strength and resilience by striking out on her own to a boundless future.
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The Me I Choose To Be
by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
This joyful ode to the power of potential is an immersive call for self-love and highlights the inherent beauty of all Black and Brown children.
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Jo Bright and the Seven Bots
by Deborah Underwood
In this entertaining and empowering futuristic spin on Snow White, a bot-building princess, using wit, courage and some spare circuit boards, defeats the queen, befriends a dragon and builds a happy ending all her own.
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Stowaway
by John David Anderson
To save his father (a Coalition scientist protecting a precious resource) after their ship is attacked, Leo stows away on a strange ship of mercenary space pirates and must decide who to trust--human or alien--to stay alive.
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The Last Beekeeper
by Pablo Cartaya
To prove that she belongs in a place where only the smartest and most useful are welcomed, 12-year-old Yolanda learns that her survival rests on the rediscovery of a long-extinct beehive that could be the answer to everything.
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Project F
by Jeanne DuPrau
In a world where cars, planes, TVs and smart phones are things of the past, 13-year-old Keith uncovers a mysterious mission known only as Project F and must choose between doing the right thing for his community and pursuing his dreams of adventure.
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Fake
by Ele Fountain
Imagine a world where your only friends are virtual, and big tech companies control access to food, healthcare and leisure. This is Jess's world. But when she turns fourteen, Jess can go to school with other children for the first time. Most of them hate the 'real' world, but Jess begins to question whether the digital world is 'perfect' after all. Back home, her sister Chloe's life-saving medication is getting ever more expensive. Determined to help, Jess risks everything by using skills forbidden in the cyber-world, only to stumble on something explosive. Something that will turn her whole world upside down. It's up to Jess to figure out exactly what is real, and what is fake - Chloe's survival depends on it.
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The Last Cuentista
by Donna Barba Higuera
A girl named Petra Pena, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth. A sinister Collective has taken over the ship during its journey, bent on erasing the sins of humanity's past. They have systematically purged the memories of all aboard - or purged them altogether. Petra alone now carries the stories of our past, and with them, any hope for our future. Can she make them live again?
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The Lion of Mars
by Jennifer L. Holm
Bell has spent his whole life - all eleven years of it - on Mars. But he's still just a regular kid - he loves cats, any kind of cake, and is curious about the secrets the adults in the US colony are keeping. Like, why they don't have contact with anyone on the other Mars colonies? Why are they so isolated? When a virus breaks out and the grown-ups all fall ill, Bell and the other children are the only ones who can help. It's up to Bell to uncover the truth and save his family ... and possibly unite an entire planet.
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The Ruby Code
by Jessica Khoury
While playing an old fantasy videogame, Ash encounters Ruby, who seems far more than a pre-programmed side character, and together they discover she's a sentient AI originally designed as a weapon, trapping them both in deadly game that blurs the lines between real and virtual.
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Dragon Pearl
by Yoon Ha Lee
Longing for adventure in the Thousand Worlds, away from the strict rules that force her to hide her descendancy from fox spirits, 13-year-old Min embarks on a quest to find her brother, who has been accused of abandoning his post to search for a mystical object of power.
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Hana Hsu and the Ghost Crab Nation
by Sylvia Liu
Determined to be meshed to the multiweb through a neural implant from Start-Up, just like her mom and sister, 12-year-old Hana Hsu soon realizes something isn't right at Start-Up when she uncovers a conspiracy that threatens everything—and everyone—she knows.
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Glitch
by Laura Martin
Training to become time travelers who prevent others from altering important historical events, rival Glitchers Regan and Elliot are forced to set aside their animosity when a dire prediction from the future requires them to work together and break every rule they have ever been taught.
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Time Chasers
by James S. Murray
Viv and her friends use one of Area 51's finicky time machines to bring back her long-lost father, but when their mission takes a dangerous turn, her dad's life and their own histories are put in jeopardy.
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The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne
by Jonathan Stroud
On the run from her latest bank robbery, Scarlett McCain comes to the rescue of Albert Browne, the sole survivor of a horrific accident, and soon learns he may be the most dangerous threat of all.
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One Trick Pony
by Nathan Hale
When electricity-stealing aliens arrive on an Earth of the future, Strata, a girl from a family of digital rescuers, teams up with her brother and a beautiful rare robot pony to outmaneuver the invaders and humans who would take advantage of the chaos to become outlaws.
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Mega-dogs of New Kansas
by Dan Jolley
When an official threatens the mega-dog program, Sienna Barlow sneaks away with her dog, Gus, and begins an adventure across New Kansas.
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Space Boy Omnibus
by Stephen McCranie
Amy lives on a colony in deep space, but when her father loses his job the family moves back to Earth, where she has to adapt to heavier gravity, a new school, and a strange boy... while solving a murder mystery.
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The Infinite Adventures of Supernova: Pepper Page Saves the Universe!
by Landry Q. Walker
The year is 2421. Awkward and shy, Pepper buries herself in the universe of the classic fictional superhero Supernova to avoid dealing with the perils of the 9th grade. But then fate intervenes when Pepper encounters a strange cat named Mister McKittens and stumbles into a volatile science experiment run by a sinister substitute teacher named Doctor Killian.
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City Under the City
by Dan Yaccarino
In a world monitored by giant eyeballs, fiercely independent Bix, running from an Eye, discovers the City Under the City, a hidden world of books and knowledge that empowers her to defeat the Eyes and show her people how to think for themselves.
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