Notes: In the third book of the Earthsea trilogy, Sparrowhawk is now the Archmage...but magic seems to be losing its power. With the help of the teenaged Prince Arren, Sparrowhawk sets out to find out what is causing disease and madness to spread across Earthsea as magic disappears.

Notes: Sparrowhawk's adventures continue in the second book of the Earthsea trilogy when he meets Arha, the priestess at the Tombs of Atuan, where the Nameless Ones have been worshipped for centuries and a priceless treasure is hidden at the center of an underground labyrinth. Sparrowhawk is looking for the lost half of the Ring of Erreth-Akbe. Arha knows where it is, but she is torn between defending her temple and the lure of learning about the world beyond Atuan.

Notes: The country of Opium, a long strip of land between the United States and Mexico, is ruled by El Patrón, a powerful drug lord whose poppy fields are tended by eejits - people who tried to flee Opium, but were captured and implanted with computer chips. Matt, a clone of El Patrón, is meant to be an organ donor when the drug lord's own organs begin to fail. As Matt realizes what fate has in store for him, he escapes, only to find a different kind of danger is waiting on the plankton farms of Mexico.

Notes: If you could have access to the Internet implanted directly into your brain, would you do it? In this novel, almost 75 percent of Americans have chosen to connect their brains to the Feednet using implanted computer chips. They can share memories...and the government and corporations can read their thoughts. Teenager Titus has been used to the Feed all his life, but while on a visit to the moon during spring break, he meets a girl named Violet who questions whether or not the Feed is worthwhile. When Violet starts to resist the Feed, the consequences are dire, and Titus must face the truth about the Feed.

Notes: In this nightmarish future America, violence rules the day, books are illegal, and firemen set fires instead of putting them out. Fireman Guy Montag has started to question the state of society, and when he accidentally catches a glimpse of a sentence in a book he is about to add to a bonfire, he decides to steal the book instead. As Montag's desire to read grows, so does the danger that he is in.

Notes: Would you give up your freedom in exchange for beauty? In this future world, everyone undergoes plastic surgery at the age of 16 to become a Pretty, receiving a standardized face so that everyone looks almost identical. Tally Youngblood, a 15-year-old Ugly who hasn't yet undergone the surgery, is recruited to track down a group of Uglies who have run away. When she finds them, she has to decide whether to turn them in and become a Pretty, or stay an Ugly herself.

Notes: When misfit teenager Meg Murry, her genius little brother Charles Wallace, and her friend Calvin meet three mysterious old women, they soon find themselves whisked away on an interplanetary adventure in search of Meg and Charles Wallace's missing father.

Notes: This book is a continuation of A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door. Now that he is a teenager, Charles Wallace is charged with a new challenge: save the world from an impending nuclear war. With the help of a winged unicorn, Charles Wallace travels through time to change the crucial moments that have led to potential disaster.

Notes: In this sequel to A Wrinkle in Time, Meg, Calvin, and Charles Wallace are back to rescue the universe from the Echthroi, the forces of evil that are able to destroy things as large as stars...or as small as the microscopic organisms in Charles Wallace's body.

Notes: In this sci-fi classic, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is chosen by the International Fleet to attend the elite Battle School, where he will learn how to defend Earth from the hostile alien Formics. Resented by the other students because of his intelligence, Ender plans to engineer his own removal from the school by using a ruthless weapon during a simulated war game that is also his final exam. Will his strategy work - or will it backfire?