Marcus is seventeen years old, but he knows how the system works and how to work the system. Skipping one day of school changes his entire world. He and his friends are caught in the aftermath of a terrorist attack. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his friends are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and taken away to a secret prison, where they are mercilessly interrogated for days. After the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers his city has become a police state. He knows no one will believe his story. He is left with only one option: take down the DHS himself. Can one teenage hacker take down the government? Maybe, but only if he is careful and very, very smart.

Find this book in the Young Adult Fiction section under Doctorow.

When the warnings about a meteor on a collusion course with the moon start to appear, at worst it seems like an excuse for more homework to Miranda. Then Miranda and the entire world witnesses a lunar impact that knocks the moon closer in orbit, and catastrophically altering the earth’s climate. No one’s life will ever be the same. Supermarkets have no food. Gas is more that ten dollars a gallon. School is closed indefinitely. What Miranda doesn’t know is that the worst is yet to come. This is a heartbreaking story of one family’s struggle for survival told through Miranda’s diary entries.

You can find this book in the Young Adult Fiction section under Pfeffer. If you like this one, check out the companion novel The Dead and the Gone also in the Young Adult Fiction section under Pfeffer.

Not everything is as it appears when dragons and magic is involved. Twelve-year-old Eon has been training for years. He hopes to be chosen as a Dragoneye — an apprentice to an energy dragon of good fortune. But Eon has a deadly secret. Eon is actually Eona, a sixteen-year-old girl, pretending to be a boy. Girls are forbidden from using Dragon Magic. If anyone learns her secret she, and everyone who helped her, will be killed. When her secret is threatened she is plunged into grave danger and a deadly struggle for the Imperial throne.

You can find this book in the Young Adult Fiction section under Goodman.