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<p>Teens and young adults can check out the following sci-fi reads at the Abington Community Library.</p><p>&#8226; &#8220;Atlantia&#8221; by Ally Condie</p><p>For as long as she can remember, Rio has dreamt of the sand and sky Above &#8211; of life beyond her underwater city of Atlantia. But in a single moment, all her plans for the future are thwarted when her twin sister, Bay, makes an unexpected decision, stranding Rio Below. Alone, ripped away from the last person who knew Rio&#8217;s true self &#8211; and the powerful siren voice she has long hidden &#8211; she has nothing left to lose. Guided by a dangerous and unlikely mentor, Rio formulates a plan that leads to increasingly treacherous questions about her mother&#8217;s death, her own destiny, and the complex system constructed to govern the divide between land and sea. Her life and her city depend on Rio to listen to the voices of the past and to speak long-hidden truths.</p><p>&#8226; &#8220;Attack on Titan 15&#8221; (Graphic Novel Series) by Hajime Isayama; translation, Ko Ransom; lettering, Steve Wands; editing, Ben Applegate</p><p>Hange&#8217;s interrogation of a Military Police squad has revealed that Krista (a.k.a. Historia Reiss) is the true heir to the throne. The Corps quickly moves to enthrone her as queen, but a homicidal MP leads a squad that abducts Eren and Krista and throws the Corps into disarray. With Erwin arrested and the Survey Corps on the edge of dissolution, are Levi and Hange finally out of options?</p><p>&#8226; &#8220;Calamity&#8221; by Brandon Sanderson</p><p>When Calamity lit up the sky, the Epics were born. David&#8217;s fate has been tied to their villainy ever since that historic night. Steelheart killed his father. Firefight stole his heart. And now Regalia has turned his closest ally into a dangerous enemy. Once the Reckoners&#8217; leader, Prof has struggled to control his Epic powers, but has now embraced his Epic destiny. Everyone knows there&#8217;s no turning back, but everyone is wrong. Redemption is possible for Epics. And David is just about crazy enough to face down the most powerful High Epic of all to get his friend back, or die trying.</p><p>&#8226; &#8220;Firefight&#8221; (Sequel to Steelheart) by Brandon Sanderson</p><p>David and the Reckoners continue their fight against the Epics, humans with superhuman powers, except they may have met their match in Regalia, a High Epic who resides in Babylon Restored, the city formerly known as the borough of Manhattan.</p><p>&#8226; &#8220;The Game of Lives&#8221; by James Dashner</p><p>Michael and his friends, Sarah and Bryson, must stop the Mortality Doctrine and those behind it now as the fate of humanity is in the balance.</p><p>&#8226; The Ghosts of Heaven&#8221; by Marcus Sedgwick</p><p>Four linked stories of discovery and survival begin with a Paleolithic-era girl who makes the first written signs, continue with Anna, who people call a witch, then a mad twentieth-century poet who watches the ocean knowing the horrors it hides, and concluding with an astronaut on the first spaceship from Earth sent to colonize another world.</p><p>&#8226; &#8220;The Leveller&#8221; by Julia Durango</p><p>Nixy Bauer, a sixteen-year-old self-made video-game bounty hunter, gets in over her head when she attempts to rescue a game developer&#8217;s son from a virtual trap.</p><p>&#8226; &#8220;Maximum Ride Forever&#8221; (Series, Book 9) by James Patterson</p><p>As Maximum Ride boldly navigates a post-apocalyptic world, she and her broken flock are roaming the earth, searching for answers to what happened. All will be revealed in this last spectacular &#8220;ride.&#8221;</p><p>&#8226; &#8220;No true Echo&#8221; by Gareth P. Jones</p><p>Teenaged Eddie meets a new girl who is a Senior Echo Time Agent from the future, come to his town to investigate the origin of time travel. Soon Eddie is swept up in the investigation and in time. But time travel is a dangerous business, and Eddie will learn more than he wants to know about his long-dead mother.</p><p>&#8226; &#8220;Outrage&#8221; by John Sandford and Michele Cook</p><p>Shay Remby and her gang of renegades have struck a blow to the Singular Corporation by rescuing Shay&#8217;s brother and Fenfang, a girl who literally knows too much. Can the knowledge brought by these ex-captives help Shay and her friends expose the crimes of this corrupt corporation?</p><p>&#8226; &#8220;Stars Above&#8221; a Lunar Chronicles collection by Marissa Meyer</p><p>A collection of six stories from the universe of the Lunar Chronicles answer such questions as: How did Cinder first arrive in New Beijing? How did the brooding soldier Wolf transform from young man to killer? When did Princess Winter and the palace guard Jacin realize their destinies?</p><p>&#8226; &#8220;Where Futures End&#8221; by Parker Peevyhouse</p><p>Five interconnected stories that weave a subtle science-fictional web stretching out from the present into the future, presenting eerily plausible possibilities for social media, corporate sponsorship, and humanity, as our world collides with a mysterious alternate universe.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">In &#8216;Atlantia,&#8217; by Ally Condie, Rio dreams of the sand and sky Above of life beyond her underwater city of Atlantia. Guided by a dangerous and unlikely mentor, she formulates a plan that leads to increasingly treacherous questions about her mother&#8217;s death, her own destiny, and the complex system constructed to govern the divide between land and sea. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/web1_ABJ-Library-Card-May16.jpg</photo0><caption0>In &#8216;Atlantia,&#8217; by Ally Condie, Rio dreams of the sand and sky Above of life beyond her underwater city of Atlantia. Guided by a dangerous and unlikely mentor, she formulates a plan that leads to increasingly treacherous questions about her mother&#8217;s death, her own destiny, and the complex system constructed to govern the divide between land and sea. </caption0><photoCredit0></photoCredit0></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>My Library Card</p><p>Sandy Longo</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Sandy Longo is head of public services and assistant director at the Abington Community Library. Reach the Abington Journal newsroom at 570-587-1148 or news@theabingtonjournal.com.</p></shirttailMeta></div>

My Library Card: Sci-fi reads for teens, young adults