Read BEYOND Reality:
The Booklists
Aliens
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Clarke, Arthur C. Childhood's End. When the Overlords first came to Earth, they brought peace and prosperity with them, but it soon became apparent that their purpose was the elimination of the human race. (YA Fic SF & Fic SF) |
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Rex, Adam. The True Meaning of Smekday When her mother is abducted by aliens on Christmas Eve (or "Smekday" Eve since the Boov invasion), 11 year-old Tip hops in the family car and heads south to find her and meets an alien Boov mechanic who agrees to help her and save the planet from disaster. (Juv Fic SF) |
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Stern, Stephen. War of the Worlds This graphic novel updates H.G. Wells's familiar story of alien invasion and sets it in modern-day New York, adding such details as the face-like formation on Mars photographed by the Viking Orbiter. Hero Geoff Wills is a reporter with a pregnant wife who goes into labor at just the wrong moment. He and a ragged group of civilians face the deadly invading Martian tripods, fighting to survive as the military fails to protect them. (YA 741.5) |
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Black, Holly. Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale Sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been visited by faeries since childhood, discovers that she herself is a magical faerie creature with a special destiny. (YA Fic SF) |
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Stiefvater, Maggie. Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception On the day of an important music competition, talented but painfully introverted and nervous Deirdre Monaghan is helped to perform by the compelling and enigmatic Luke Dillon and finds herself inexorably drawn into the mysteries and dangers of the faerie world. (YA Fic SF) |
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Wooding, Chris. Poison When Poison leaves her home in the marshes of Gull to retrieve the infant sister who was snatched by the fairies, she and a group of unusual friends survive encounters with the inhabitants of various Realms, and Poison herself confronts a surprising destiny. (YA Fic M) |
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Glaser, Jason. Ninja Describes Ninja, including their history, weapons, and way of life. (j355.548) |
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Hoobler, Dorothy. In Darkness, Death. (Samurai mysteries, #3) In eighteenth-century Japan, young Seikei becomes involved with a ninja as he helps Judge Ooka, his foster father, investigate the murder of a samurai. (YA Fic M) |
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Ueda, Rinko. Tail of the Moon series - Book One Fifteen-year-old Usagi is the granddaughter of the leader of a prestigious ninja village, but is too klutzy to be a ninja, so she is sent to marry Lord Hanzo and have babies. Unfortunately, Lord Hanzo has no intention of marrying either Usagi or the beautiful and talented Yuri, who also wants to wed him. (YA 741.5) |
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Cadnum, Michael. Peril on the Sea In the tense summer of 1588, eighteen-year-old Sherwin Morris, after nearly perishing in a shipwreck, finds himself aboard the privateer Vixen, captained by the notorious and enigmatic Brandon Fletcher who offers him adventure and riches if Sherwin would write and disseminate a flattering account of the captain's exploits. (YA Fic) |
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Lawrence, Iain. The Buccaneers (High Seas trilogy, book 3) In the eighteenth century sixteen-year-old John Spencer sails from England in his schooner, the Dragon, to the Caribbean, where he and the crew encounter pirates, fierce storms, fever, and a strange man who some fear may be cursed. (YA Fic) |
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Rees, Celia. Pirates! In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family's Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure. (YA Fic) |
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Brooks, Kevin. Being After finding out he is part machine, sixteen-year-old Robert Smith runs from the covert government agents who are trying to pin a murder on him, and together with Eddi, a nineteen-year-old criminal, tries to uncover his true identity. (YA Fic SF) |
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Hart, Christopher. Mecha Mania: How to Draw the Battling Robots, Cool Spaceships, and Military Vehicles of Japanese Comics From the blueprints for a spaceship to advice on showing characters in action or revealing a robot's mood through its posture, this dynamic book offers a useful mix of creative inspiration and practical advice. (YA 741.5) |
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Classic Transformers - Book
Two Optimus Prime and the Autobots fight Megatron and the evil Decepticons in an attempt to protect humans and find a new home. (YA 741.5) |
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Anderson, M. T. Thirsty From the moment he knows that he is destined to be a vampire, Chris thirsts for the blood of people around him while also struggling to remain human. (YA Fic M) |
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Knight, Mary-Jane. Vampyre: The Terrifying [Lost] Found! Journal of Dr. Cornelius Van Helsing and Gustav de Wolff, His Trusted Companion Cornelius Van Helsing, the brother of monster hunter Joseph Van Helsing, travels to Transylvania to kill the vampire he believes has caused his brother to become ill. (j398.21) |
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Vande Velde, Vivian. Companions of the Night When sixteen-year-old Kerry Nowicki helps a young man escape from a group of men who claim he is a vampire, she finds herself faced with some bizarre and dangerous choices. (YA Fic M) |
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Jones, Diana Wynne. Dark Lord of Derkholm Derk, an unconventional wizard, and his magical family become involved in a plan to put a stop to the devastating tours of their world arranged by the tyrannical Mr. Chesney. Followed by Year of the Griffin. (Juv Fic SF) |
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Naifah, Ted. Courtney Crumrin
series Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things - Book One Courtney's parents have dragged her out to a high-to-do suburb to live with her creepy Great Uncle Aloysius in his spooky old house. She's not only the new kid in school, but she also discovers strange things lurking under her bed. (YA 741.5) |
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Rumstuckle, Cornelius. The Book of Wizardry: The Apprentice's Guide to the Secrets of the Wizards' Guild The twenty-two secrets for becoming a Wizard, including how to make a wand, read an oracle, and achieve member status in the Wizards' Guild. (YA 133.43) |
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Anthony, Piers. Zombie Lover. (The Magic of Xanth, no. 22.) Brianna, a beautiful young girl, unfortunately attracts the attention of King Xeth, ruler of Xanth's zombies, who wants to make her his Queen. (YA Fic SF) |
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Jay, Stacey. You Are So Undead to Me Megan Berry, a Carol, Arkansas, high school student who can communicate with the Undead, must team up with her childhood friend Ethan to save homecoming from an army of flesh-hungry zombies. (YA Fic M) |
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Sleator, William. The Boy Who Couldn't Die. When his best friend dies in a plane crash, sixteen-year-old Ken has a ritual performed that will make him invulnerable, but soon learns that he had good reason to be suspicious of the woman he paid to lock his soul away. (YA Fic M) |
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Fairies
Ninja
Pirates
Robots
Vampires
Wizards
Zombies