by Hadley, Teen Advisory Board
Titles selected by the Teen Advisory Board Readers Advisory Team.
A selection of robot-themed books to read this winter. Find a book you like? Click on the title to see availability at Pasadena Public Library (PPL) and Glendale (GDL) branches.
Clockwork Angel – Cassandra Clare
When sixteen-year-old orphan Tessa Gray’s older brother suddenly vanishes, her search for him leads her into Victorian-era London’s dangerous supernatural underworld, and when she discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother.
The Adoration of Jenna Fox – Mary E. Pearson
In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.
How to Say Goodbye in Robot – Natalie Standiford
After moving to Baltimore and enrolling in a private school, high school senior Beatrice befriends a quiet loner with a troubled family history.
Sixteen-year-old Mila discovers she is not who–or what–she thought she was, which causes her to run from both the CIA and a rogue intelligence group.
Eve & Adam – Michael Grant and Katherine Applegate
While recuperating after a car accident in Spiker Biotech’s lush San Francisco facilities, sixteen-year-old Evening Spiker meets Solo Plissken, a very attractive, if off-putting boy her age who spent his life at Spiker Biotech. Like Eve, he’s never questioned anything … until now. Solo drops hints to Eve that something isn’t right, and Eve’s mother may be behind it. Eve puts this out of her mind and begins her summer internship project: To simulate the creation of the perfect boy. With the help of Solo, Eve uncovers secrets so big they could change the world completely.
Revolution 19 – Gregg Rosenblum
Twenty years after robots designed to fight wars abandoned the battlefields and turned their weapons against humans, siblings Nick, Kevin, and Cass must risk everything when the wilderness community where they have spent their lives in hiding is discovered by the bots.
Seventeen-year-old Wren rises from the dead as a Reboot and is trained as an elite crime-fighting soldier until she is given an order she refuses to follow.
In a post-apocalyptic eastern seaboard ravaged by disease and war with a manmade race of people called Partials, the chance at a future rests in the hands of Kira Walker, a sixteen-year-old medic in training.