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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Young adult fantasy novel where young girl was priestess-in-training in a dark sacred cave
Years ago in elementary school, I read a young adult's fantasy novel. The story was about a young girl training to be a sacred priestess of some kind with a monk (?) in a holy sacred caverns that had ...
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Short story about a young man stranded alone on Mars who runs out of air
I read this story in approximately 1979 (plus or minus a year); I found it in an anthology when I was systematically reading my way through all the SF in my library's YA section. Note that the book ...
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YA novel with a boy from Earth who gets stuck in a world supposedly without magic, but he can use magic there
This is a book I remember getting from the library in middle school, around 2008, but haven't been able to find again since. I think it was reasonably new. I read it in English, but I don't know if it ...
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Book where Earth is invaded by a future, parallel-universe Earth
I read this young-adult science-fiction book about 10 years ago, I believe I may have picked it up through an advance reader copy program. If it was an ARC, details may have been changed before ...
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Young adult short story book with one story where a woman finds a walrus suit and becomes a walrus
I’m trying to identify a book I remember reading sometime in the 2005-2006 time range. This book was in my fifth grade classroom in the US. I’ve tried searching for it a few times in the past few ...
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Novel where anti-gravity devices are attached to a submarine and it floats to the moon
I'm trying to remember a novel I read (probably in the early 70's) about an inventor that develops an anti-gravity device that looked rather like window blinds. These devices are attached to a small ...
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Looking for a mistaken identity super hero book about a woman who works in fast food
I read this book a few years ago. (Between 3-10) It is about a woman who keeps getting mistaken for a popular super hero and attacked by villains as she works at a fast food place. Nobody believes her ...
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Help me find the title of a sci-fi apocalyptic movie following a brother-sister duo, but the sister is different somehow
I need help finding the title of this movie I had to have watched sometime between 2009-2016 where the movie takes place in the middle of some kind of zombie apocalypse. The main characters are this ...
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Young adult sci-fi book where space medics treating sick individuals accidentally kill the microbe that gives them intelligence
I believe this is from the late 50s or 60s. I have been searching Anne McCaffrey and Andre Norton's titles with no luck. Possibly Heinlein juvenilia, but not quite right-wing enough.
In the future ...
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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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Trying to remember the name of a female, Canadian, children's sci-fi author from the 80s
I read a number of books when I was around 10-15 years old (roughly 1985-1990) by a female, Canadian, sci-fi author. I can't remember her name (maybe Amy something?) or the titles of any of the books ...
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A ruined USA, where protagonists are captured by a biker bandits encamped in a zoo
It was written in English. I read it around 2013-2014 in British Columbia, Canada when I was in middle school.
It could have been a short series, or one book.
The protagonists are young adults, and ...
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How to become a witch: Fiction Novel - Girl finds a how-to book about witches at the library
I read this in 90s but the book might've come out in the 80s.
A girl at her library finds a how-to book about witchcraft in the children's section, among other how-to books. She's been at this library ...
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Creepy short story: sinister alien dolls, invasion of Earth
I'm looking for a short story that creeped me out as a kid.
It involves alien dolls, which are sold to humans as souvenirs but are designed to inject a deadly virus into any nearby human, allowing the ...
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YA Novel : 'A Drop Of ? Water'
I read part of this British YA novel in the '70s or the '80s. I am almost positive it was called 'A Drop of Fresh Water' or 'A Drop of Pure Water', although I have searched the internet for both ...
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