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Submitted by Lauren on Fri, 05/25/2018 - 13:00

Zeroboxer
By Fonda Lee (YA Lee)
As seventeen-year-old Carr 'the Raptor' Luka rises to fame in the weightless combat sport of zeroboxing, he learns a devastating secret that jeopardizes not only his future in the sport, but interplanetary relations.
Lexile: 870
Carve the Mark
By Veronica Roth (YA Roth)
Living on a violent planet where everyone develops a unique power meant to shape the future, Akos and Cyra, youths from enemy nations, resent gifts that render them vulnerable to others' control before they become unlikely survival partners.
Lexile: 780
Warcross
By Marie Lu (YA Lu)
After hacking into the Warcross Championships' opening game to track illegal betting, bounty hunter Emika Chen is asked by the game's creator to go undercover to investigate a security problem, and she uncovers a sinister plot.
Lexile: 810
Defy the Stars
By Claudia Gray (YA Gray)
Teenaged soldier Noemi and an enemy robot, Abel, who is programmed to obey her commands, set out on an interstellar quest to save her home planet, Earth colony Genesis.
Lexile: 830
Illuminae
By Amie Kaufman (YA Kauf)
The planet Kerenza is attacked, and Kady and Ezra find themselves on a space fleet fleeing the enemy, while their ship's artificial intelligence system and a deadly plague may be the end of them all.
Lexile: 780
Invictus
By Ryan Graudin (YA Grau)
A group of time-traveling teens races through history to try to stop time and the multiverse from unraveling.
Lexile: N/A
The Evaporation of Sofi Snow
By Mary Weber (YA Webe)
Seventeen-year-old Sofi battles behind the scenes of Earth's Fantasy Fighting arena helping her younger brother, Shilo, and when a bomb destroys part of the arena, she dreams Shilo survives on the forbidden ice-planet.
Lexile: N/A
Shadow Run
By AdriAnne Strickland (YA Stri)
The captain of a starship and a prince are forced to revise their ideas of family and loyalty, with the fate of their worlds hanging in the balance.
Lexile: 870
The Thousandth Floor
By Katharine McGee (YA McGe)
A hundred years in the future, New York is a city of innovation and dreams. But people never change: everyone here wants something…and everyone has something to lose.
Lexile: 830
Grasshopper Jungle: A History
By Andrew Smith (YA Smit)
Austin Szerba narrates the end of humanity as he and his best friend Robby accidentally unleash an army of giant, unstoppable bugs and uncover the secrets of a decades-old experiment gone terribly wrong.
Lexile: 910
Generation One
By Pittacus Lore (YA Lore)
When Taylor Cook develops incredible abilities, she finds herself at the Human Garde Academy, where the Loric are training the new generation of Garde to control her powers.
Lexile: 730
Heart of Iron
By Ashley Poston (YA Post)
Ana, an orphan found drifting through space, joins with an Ironblood boy to find the coordinates of a lost space ship which may hold clues to her identity, as they end up discovering dark secrets in a forgotten part of the universe.
Lexile: 740
That Inevitable Victorian Thing
By E.K. Johnston (YA John)
In a near-future Toronto where the British Empire never fell, Helena, August, and Margaret are caught off-guard by the discovery of a love so intense they are willing to change the course of the monarchy to keep it.
Lexile: 980
The Diabolic
By S.J. Kincaid (YA Kinc)
Nemesis is a Diabolic, a humanoid teenager and the galaxy's most deadly weapon, who masquerades as Sidonia, a senator's daughter, and becomes a hostage of the galactic court.
Lexile: 810
Honor Among Thieves
By Rachel Caine (YA Cain)
A savvy young criminal with antisocial behavior is recruited to attend the Honors space program and joins a team on a sentient spaceship destined for the far reaches of the galaxy only to discover dangerous secrets hidden among the stars.
Lexile: 720