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Chronicles the journeys, notions, and acquaintances of reluctant galactic traveler Arthur Dent.
Lexile Level: 1000
Guided Reading Level: NR

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.
Lexile Level: 770
Guided Reading Level: X

A band of psychologists, under the leadership of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, plant a colony to encourage art, science, and technology in the declining Galactic Empire and to preserve the accumulated knowledge of humankind.
Lexile Level: 830
Guided Reading Level: NR

Spurred on by his best friend, twelve-year-old Thomas uncovers two major family secrets: that he was adopted, and that his perfect-seeming family is part of an other-worldly organization.
Lexile Level: 700
Guided Reading Level: U

An expert at simulated war games, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin believes that he is engaged in one more computer war game when, in truth, he is commanding the last Earth fleet against an alien race seeking Earth’s complete destruction.
Lexile Level: 780
Guided Reading Level: NR

From humor to drama to fiction, a cutting-edge collection of stories from such authors as Rodman Philbrick, Lois Lowry, and Tor Seidler explores the future with such diverse themes as love, hate, the environment, disease, and the fate of the human race.
Lexile Level: 840
Guided Reading Level: NR

Young Will Parker and his companions make a perilous journey toward an outpost of freedom where they hope to escape from the ruling Tripods, who capture mature human beings and make them docile, obedient servants.
Lexile Level: 920
Guided Reading Level: V

When young Elana unexpectedly joins the team leaving the spaceship to study the planet Andrecia, she becomes an integral part of an adventure involving three very different civilizations, each one centered on the third planet from the star in its own solar system.
Lexile Level: 910
Guided Reading Level: NR

In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.
Lexile Level: 660
Guided Reading Level: W

Due to government restrictions on family size, Luke is born an illegal third child who must hide from sight for his own safety, yet when he secretly encounters another “shadow child” on the connecting farm, Luke is willing to take big risks to develop the friendship.
Lexile Level: 800
Guided Reading Level: W

Eighty-five years after participating in a flawed scientific experiment to reverse the aging process, Melly and Anny Beth face the fear of being unable to care for themselves as they continue to grow younger.
Lexile Level: 690
Guided Reading Level: X

In a future world ravaged by a mutant virus, sixteen-year-old Ceej and three other teenagers seek to save the Grand Canyon from being flooded, while trying to avoid capture by a band of renegade Survivors.
Lexile Level: 700
Guided Reading Level: NR

In order to prevent his mother’s murder at the hands of his father, Jack travels back in time fifty-five years through a magic door in his grandfather’s house and grows up from that time on.
Lexile Level: 840
Guided Reading Level: NR

In a future society that has decided it would “rather be safe than free,” sixteen-year-old Bo’s anger control problems land him in a tundra jail where he survives with the help of his running skills and an artificial intelligence program named Bork.
Lexile Level: 730
Guided Reading Level: T

Follows the adventures of Paul Atreides, the son of a betrayed duke given up for dead on a treacherous desert planet and adopted by its fierce, nomadic people, who help him unravel his most unexpected destiny.
Lexile Level: 800
Guided Reading Level: NR

Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
Lexile Level: 760
Guided Reading Level: Y

When a plague sweeps over the earth killing everyone except children under twelve, ten-year-old Lisa organizes a group to rebuild a new way of life.
Lexile Level: 660
Guided Reading Level: X

In a savage postnuclear world, four young fugitives attempt to overthrow the bloodthirsty rule of the Overlords with the help of Shade, their mysterious mentor.
Lexile Level: 980
Guided Reading Level: NR

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.
Lexile Level: 820
Guided Reading Level: W

The first modern-day science-fiction story about the possibilities of intelligent life on distant planets follows an English astronomer, an artilleryman, a country curate, and others, as they struggle to survive and stop the invasion of Earth by Martians.
Lexile Level: 1170
Guided Reading Level: Z

Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will will be transformed into beauties whose only job is to have a great time, Tally’s best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all.
Lexile Level: 770
Guided Reading Level: NR