Questions tagged [young-adult]
For questions looking to identify young-adult novels or asking about their presence in Science Fiction and Fantasy. If looking to identify a story, include the [story-identification] tag, if asking about the history of the genre use in conjunction with the [history-of] tag.
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Looking for a YA urban fantasy-ish novel with homeless teens and elves or faeries
And that's pretty much all I can remember about it, unfortunately. There was, I'm fairly certain, a human protagonist, and s/he stumbles upon a group of faeries/elves/something similar masquerading as ...
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Looking for trilogy of kids' books about geniuses living on an island
I remember a trilogy of YA books I read as a kid, but I can't remember the name. Here are a few details, maybe they'll strike a chord with someone here.
They were written sometime in the 90s.
It was ...
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Novel About a Girl Who Realizes She is a Clone [duplicate]
So I remember reading this book in the early 2000's, and I'm pretty sure it was placed in my classroom, so it was obviously geared toward young adults.
It was about a girl who wakes up one day with a ...
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YA book involving a planet with dragons and double-K in people's names [duplicate]
I remember reading, in the 80s, an English-language teen-SF novel involving two teen protagonists (1 male, 1 female) on a planet (not Earth) that might have had some history of slavery (or inter-caste ...
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What is the name of this young-adult book series from the '90s featuring miniature aliens? [duplicate]
This was a book series I read when I was younger.
It featured a boy in his early teens who was contacted by aliens in a miniature space ship. He is soon shrunk down to their size and becomes a ...
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Generation starship with kids raised by robots
There's a book I remember reading sometime around 1981 or 1982 about a colony/generation starship where kids were raised by robots who gave them something in their food that kept the kids from ...
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Pre-1996 YA fantasy - female cat burglar [duplicate]
I have been trying to remember the title/find this book for over a decade. The main character is an orphan. I think she is slightly psychic? She becomes a thief but hates stealing; at one point she ...
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70s era YA Fantasy involving evil elves
I'm looking for a Young Adult Fantasy book I read in grade school in the mid 1970s that told the story of a modern girl who discovers a cave or tunnel that brings her to a medieval-like place. A ...
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A collection of stories about young monsters and vampires
There are a couple of books I have been trying to find for years. I found and read them in my school library when I was in either intermediate or middle school; somewhere around the late 1980's. I'm ...
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Looking for '70s era Time Traveling Young Adult Novel
I vividly recall this book I read when I was a kid in the '70s.
I thought it was called Saturday the 14th, but I am having no luck with that title.
It's about an adolescent girl having a really bad ...
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Children's book about child on failing generation starship saved by Cygnus The Swan?
In the late 1970s I bought a book at a school book fair (likely published by Scholastic) about a young boy who lived on a generational starship. The ship was failing. I remember some bit about an ...
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Name of a series of children's science fiction books from the 1970s - not set in same universe / not sequels
In a public school in Mississippi around 1977 I came across a series of science fiction juvenile books. When I say "series", I mean that they were by the same publisher and had the same binding...but ...
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What novel was set in a dystopian future and featured a boy searching for his missing father?
I'm hoping someone can identify this young-adult/children's sci-fi book. I read it in 1996-1997, but I remember thinking it was written in the 1980s.
The main character was a boy (maybe in his early ...
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Novel about a dragon lord who has to wear gloves at all times
I read this novel when I was young. It is probably a children's or young adult novel. I think I read it in 1997 or earlier. I remember very much enjoying it, but the title and most of the details are ...
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Story Identification: Young adult novel, horror, teens play a D&D variant, but things start to turn real
To the best of my recollection, they went to a house of some sort for the evening to enhance the role-play aspects of some D&D clone/adaptation, and there was even a stuffed octopus or some such ...
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