(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best teen science fiction & adventure books

Book!

You should make a cannoli cake because they are delicious!

Happy Happy Joy Joy (Now I want to watch Ren & Stimpy).

Thanks for the contest and happy birthday! I hope it's great!

I can't speak for any "screamers" but I have run a successful and profitable multimillion dollar business. The conversation here is not that there is a bug in a product launch, but how you respond to the bug to make those critical first customers happy. The ones whose word of mouth will influence their friends, pro or con. You want to court early adopters, not make them feel that they are being taken for a ride.

As for the availability of a solution, they certainly CAN give away the audio book. Form the linked page "
In Stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
Gift-wrap available.
". Amazon's ownership of Audible does not come into play here.

Paints! Painting is a lot of fun, but when it comes to spending money on things, they fall pretty close to the bottom of the totem pole. I'll go with lucky number 22. :)

For the Sunday Funday raffle, I would love a used hardcover copy of the third book in the chaos Walking series, Monsters of Men, which is around $7 with shipping.

Thanks for the contest!

You should read Divergent. I just started the second book Insurgent and I really am enjoying the series! It is about a dystopian society and is a good quick read. I would like the third book in the series Allegiant if I win!

Best wishes on your book search!!

Good lord, yes! I love this series so much. I also liked Shade's Children

I've been wanting to read [Rage Within] (http://www.amazon.com/Rage-Within-Dark-Inside-Roberts/dp/1442423544/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=35J01820YVBVW&coliid=I1T5OBZC6Y6H3J) for some time now. I loved the first book in this series, and know that this must be even better!

Thanks for the contest!

Blood Red Road by Moira Young. It is NOT my style and I would never have read it if I hadn't read a million book blogs singing its praises. I am SO glad I did though. The writing style is a little unnerving and a bit difficult to get used to, but it's seriously awesome once you start cruising. At least get it at the library and give it a chance.

Here's one for you: A science fiction from Kendall and Kylie Jenner.

>In a world of the far future, the great city of Indra has two faces: a beautiful paradise floating high in the sky, and a nightmare world of poverty carved into tunnels beneath the surface of the earth. Kendall and Kylie Jenner, the youngest sisters in the Kardashian dynasty, have written a gripping tale of air, fire, and a bond of blood.

Imagine, if you would, those two young ladies sitting down for 100s of hours to write a fiction novel.

I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore

Description from the amazon page:
"Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. But we are not you. We can do things you dream of doing. We have powers you dream of having. We are stronger and faster than anything you have ever seen. We are the superheroes you worship in movies and comic books—but we are real.

Our plan was to grow, and train, and become strong, and become one, and fight them. But they found us and started hunting us first. Now all of us are running. Spending our lives in shadows, in places where no one would look, blending in. we have lived among you without you knowing.

But they know.

They caught Number One in Malaysia.
Number Two in England.
And Number Three in Kenya.
They killed them all.

I am Number Four.

I am next."

And I'm Javert!

Thank you for the contest!


I would love this book!

Justice and her Brothers by Virgina Hamilton. It's a book series (trilogy) for middle schoolers but if she loves to read she might be able to handle it!

https://www.amazon.com/Justice-Trilogy-Brothers-Dustland-Gathering-ebook/dp/B0090WS1FK

Oh sweet, they even turned it into a graphic novel!!!

Thanks for the info! :D

The wand part doesn't quite click, but the rest of it--especially the submarine--might be Shade's Children, though I guess the overall scenario might fit a lot of YA books out there.

Now I'm curious about what you're thinking of!

What's your favorite manga/anime?

I'm not sure what genres they are, but my current favorites are The Martian by Andy Weir, The Monster Hunters Series by Larry Correia, and Little Brother and Homeland by Cory Doctorow.

It's the weekend already!?

There is the most excellent library book sale this afternoon, but before that goes down, I am dogsitting Baby Puppy and must get caught up on laundry (still in a heap from Arkansas), drywall, and NaNoWriMo. I am cheating again this year by adding to an existing project, but I am forcing myself to close gaps and write alternate subplots so it's Productive. I am, of course, behind word count because of a late start, but I'm kind of getting caught up. I love word sprints. They make me work through my frustration.

Also got a chance to blow through some good books instead of slogging through ones I don't like... Cinder was an android/Sailor Moon Cinderella mashup, and Tin Star (free preview) is Titan A.E. + religious cult. And the most recent Attack on Titan manga came out this week, so there's that too.

Endgame: The Calling by James Frey and Nils Johnson-Shelton.

Twelve ancient cultures were chosen millennia ago to represent humanity in Endgame, a global game that will decide the fate of humankind. Endgame has always been a possibility, but never a reality…until now. Twelve meteorites have just struck Earth, each meteorite containing a message for a Player who has been trained for this moment. At stake for the Players: saving their bloodline, as well as the fate of the world. And only one can win.

https://www.amazon.com/Endgame-Calling-James-Frey/dp/0062332597

Yay, I found it!

Erasing Time and it looks like it has a brand new sequel.

You may well like BZRK by Michael Grant. Features Nanites.

Annnnd here we go again. I'm doing this with all books, just because.

Allegiant

Berenstain Bears

Calvin and Hobbes

Dune

Edgar Allen Poe collection

Fahrenheit 451

Gulliver's Travels

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

If You Give A Mouse A Cookie

Julie of the Wolves

Kite Runner

Little House on the Prairie

Machine of Death

Neverending Story

Omnitopia Dawn (The book I'm reading now, actually!)

Pilgrim's Progress

Quarter Share (Also available free as a podiobook!)

Room

Snow Crash

[Tell-Tale Brain](http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_9?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=tell-tale brain&sprefix=tell-tale%2Cstripbooks%2C222&rh=i%3Astripbooks%2Ck%3Atell-tale brain&ajr=2)

Uglies

Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Watership Down

Xenocide

Year Zero

Zen and the Art of Knitting

I'm pretty sure this isn't your book, but there is a character in Shade's Children who can see into the very near future -- like moments away. If I recall, his name is Gold-Eye. There is also a scene in a bus, but I don't think it's moving anywhere. There are no zombies (which is why it's probably not your book), but there are weird mutant creatures.

https://www.amazon.com/Shades-Children-Garth-Nix/dp/0064471969

2: Shade's Children?

http://www.amazon.com/Shades-Children-Garth-Nix/dp/0064471969

Would it be Shade's Children by Garth Nix?

I vividly remember the part about the kids getting paired off each night. I think the goal was to repopulate the movement or something?

Wrote a book. Apparently, this book.

What?? But...they write YA science fiction!!

Allegiant is labeled highest because I NEED TO KNOW what happens. Plain and simple.

I read the book was wholly disappointed in it. The narrative was different from the other two books that I fell in love with, the characters were unfamiliar, and the ending was terrible. But rather than go on, I'll post this review of the book that I sums my thoughts up:
http://www.amazon.com/Allegiant-Divergent-Series-Veronica-Roth/product-reviews/006202406X/ref=cm_cr_dp_qt_see_all_top?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=byRankDescending

I always tell people to read The Wanting Seed. Such an amusing yet thought-provoking read.

Edit:

• The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess
  
• Matched series by Allie Condie
  
• The Barcode Tattoo series by Suzanne Weyn
  
• Violet Eyes by Nicole Luiken
  
• Shade's Children by Garth Nix
  
• The Game by Monica Hughes
  
• The Uglies series by Scott Westerfield
  
• Proxy series by Alex London
  
• The Maze Runner series by James Dashner
  
• Incarceron series by Catherine Fisher

Shade's Children
From what I remember, the plot was basically that some sort of apocalyptic 'event' had occured, leaving only those 14 and younger alive. (Four?) dictator types moved in and started harvesting the kids for their body parts to sew into creatures who fought war games for them. The book follows a group of kids that have escaped capture, and have developed unique special abilities from the 'event'.

Found it in the young adult section years ago, and needless to say it was nothing like I had read before at that age.