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The year is not certain but the story is set in the future
where the world has become a very different one than ours. It is hot, very hot
and has been that way as long as Devin can remember. He is one of the lucky
ones as he and his grandfather live on a farm in a hidden idyllic oasis. While
they had to work hard to keep up with the chores, life was good for them. When the
grandfather suddenly dies, Devin must leave the safety of the hidden valley to
find help to keep the farm going. What he finds instead is a nightmare of a
society where children are left to their own devices and everyone has to lie,
steal and cheat to survive. After a chance encounter with an older boy named
Kit, the opportunity to escape the dark reality of the city to what sounds like
paradise is offer him and he readily accepts.
Devin soon finds out that
Paradise is not all that it was promised to be in Tania Unsworth’s, The One
Safe Place a thrilling adventure story for readers in grades 5-8.
For the past three years, Elissa's life had changed
drastically. At one time, she had been a popular and spoiled teenager living
the perfect life but now she was a sick one. Unexplainable bruises, disturbing visions
and pounding headaches kept her apart from the rest of the kids in school.
Doctors and medical tests had not solved the problem either until finally she
was scheduled to have an operation on her brain to burn out the problem. However,
before that could happen, Elissa follows one of her visions and discovers a girl
who turns out to be her twin. Because of this meeting, a government secret is
revealed forcing the two girls to have to flee for their lives and take off across
the galaxy in an exciting and suspenseful science fiction tale in Imogen
Howson's Linked.
For grades 5-8.
When Fisher was born, he wasn't an infant. And he didn't come out of his mother's womb. Nobody held him and hugged him, or welcomed him into the world. He was alone. And a teenager. And he was born in a survival pod. Fisher is the last human on Earth in a distant future from ours. His ancestors tried to preserve as many species of animal and plant as the Earth deteriorated due to climate change and other man-made issues. For Fisher, his main objective is to survive. Along his journey he meets a custodial robot and a pygmy mammoth and together they figure out what it means to survive and what it means to be the last human on Earth.
Join Fisher in this post-apocalyptic tale of survival. The Boy at the End of the World by Greg van Eekhout is perfect for lovers of science fiction and adventure in grades 5 and 6.
Can you imagine a world with no living animals? Can you imagine a world where they stop having children for thirty years? Much like Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, there exists a world controlled by a video game. In THE ROAR by Emma Clayton, Mika is lost in the dreary world that exists below the rich of society. His twin sister is supposedly dead, but Mika still feels her. In a surreal combination of space, the future, ghosts and machines, this story unfolds into a visual portrayal of an alternate society that is ultimately changed by the children who live there. This is a fantastic book for 5th grade and up.
