Guy Reads in the Terman Library

F Asi          I, Robot                                       Asimov, Isaac  

Dr. Susan Calvin, the first great practitioner of the new science of robopsychology in 2008, looks back on her career with U.S. Robotics on the occasion of her retirement fifty years later, telling stories of how the mechanical race developed.

F Ban          The Indian in the Cupboard                     Banks, Lynne    

A nine-year-old boy receives a plastic Indian, a cupboard, and a little key for his birthday and finds himself involved in adventure when the Indian comes
to life in the cupboard and befriends him.

F Bro          Star Wars: Episode 1 the Phantom Menace        Brooks, Terry

Based on the motion picture Star Wars, Episode I, the Phantom Menace. A prequel to the "Star Wars" trilogy set in the days of the Galactic Republic, in which two Jedi knights join forces with Queen Amidala and the young slave Anakin Skywalker to save the planet of Naboo from invasion by the Trade Federation.

F Car          Ender's Game                                   Card, Orson

Ender, who is the result of genetic experimentation, may be the military genius Earth needs in its war against an alien enemy.
  
F Cle          Things Not Seen                                Clements, Andrew

When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible, he and his parents and his new blind friend Alicia try to find out what caused his
condition and how to reverse it.

F Col          Artemis Fowl: the Eternity Code                Colfer, Eoin  

Discovering a way to build a super-computer using stolen fairy technology, young criminal mastermind Artemis sets out to blackmail a Chicago businessman but
runs into a trap that leaves Butler mortally injured.

F Col          Gregor the Overlander                          Collins,Suzanne

When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy.

F Cor          The Chase                                      Corder, Zizou  

After saving the lions from evil Maccomo, Charlie, a boy with the ability to speak the language of cats, goes to Venice to search for his parents and solve
the mystery of their kidnapping with help from Bulgarian King Boris.

F Cov          I Left My Sneakers in Dimension X              Coville, Bruce  

Rod and his bratty cousin Elspeth are snatched into another dimension by the monstrous alien Smorkus Flinders.

F Cra          Dead Man's Hand                                Cray, Jordan 
 
While on a brief vacation in Key West, sixteen-year-old Annie and her stepbrother Nick do an internet search that inadvertently involves them in a
dangerous murder mystery.

F Fla          The Ruins of Gorlan                            Flanagan, John
  
When fifteen-year-old Will is rejected by battleschool, he becomes the reluctant apprentice to the mysterious Ranger Halt, and winds up protecting the kingdom from danger.

F Foo          The Dirt Eaters                                Foon, Dennis 
 
After his parents and the others in Longlight are killed in a raid, fifteen-year-old Roan struggles to reconcile his feelings of rage and his old pledge to peace, soon finding that his life has a purpose he never could have guessed.

F Gra          Samurai Shortstop                              Gratz, Alan
   
While obtaining a Western education at a prestigious Japanese boarding school in 1890, sixteen-year-old Toyo also receives traditional samurai training which has profound effects on both his baseball game and his relationship with his father.

F Gut          The Million Dollar Kick                        Gutman, Dan
  
Thirteen-year-old Whisper, who hates sports, is torn when she gets a chance to win a million dollars by kicking a goal against a local soccer hero.

F Gut          Honus and Me: a Baseball Card Adventure        Gutman, Dan
   
Joey, who loves baseball but is not very good at it, finds a valuable 1909 Honus Wagner card and travels back in time to meet Honus.

F Haa          The Softwire: Virus on Orbis 1                 Haarsma, PJ  
 
After being orphaned on the seed ship "Renaissance", thirteen-year-old Johnny Turnbull and his sister, Ketheria, are forced to work on the Rings of Orbis, where Johnny learns he is the first human Softwire, with a gift to enter any computer via mind.

F Hau          Godless                                        Hautman, Pete  

When sixteen-year-old Jason Bock and his friends create their own religion to worship the town's water tower, what started out as a joke begins to take on a power of its own.

F Hor          Stormbreaker                                   Horowitz, Anthony
      
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.

F How          The Adventures of Blue Avenger                 Howe, Norma
  
On his sixteenth birthday, still trying to cope with the unexpected death of his father, David Schumacher decides to change his name to Blue Avenger, hoping to find a way to make a difference in his Oakland neighborhood and in the world.

F Lub          Flip                                           Lubar, David

Eighth-grade twins Taylor and Ryan are complete opposites and seem to have nothing in common, until they find a set of mysterious disks that magically allow them to transform into legendary figures from the past.

F Mye          Hoops: a Novel                                 Myers, Walter

A teenage basketball player from Harlem is befriended by a former professional player who, after being forced to quit because of a point shaving scandal, hopes to prevent other young athletes from repeating his mistake.

F Opp          Silverwing                                     Oppel, Kenneth

When a newborn bat named Shade but sometimes called "Runt" becomes separated from his colony during migration, he grows in ways that prepare him for even greater journeys.

F Pau         Hatchet                                         Paulsen, Gary
 
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness and learns to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother. He also learns to survive his parents' divorce.

F Pau          The Transall Saga                              Paulsen, Gary

While backpacking in the desert, thirteen-year-old Mark falls into a tube of blue light and is transported into a more primitive world, where he must use his knowledge and skills to survive.

F Pec          Cowboy Ghost                                   Peck, Robert 
  
Growing up without a mother and with an aloof father on a cattle ranch in Florida in the first part of the 1900s has made Titus very close to his older
brother, Micah. Titus is determined to make Micah proud of him when the two go on their first cattle drive together.

F Sha          Cirque du Freak                                Shan, Darren

Two boys who are best friends visit an illegal freak show, where an encounter with a vampire and a deadly spider forces them to make life-changing choices.

F Sku          Virtual War                                    Skurzynski, Gloria

In a future world where global contamination has necessitated limited human contact, three young people with unique genetically engineered abilities are teamed up to wage a war in virtual reality.

F Sle          Rewind                                         Sleator, William

Not long after learning that he was adopted, eleven-year-old Peter is hit by a car and then given several chances to alter events that could lead to his death.

F Smi          Peak                                           Smith, Roland

A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.

F Sni          Sleeper Code                                   Sniegoski, Tom

Just when he has met a beautiful girl and his outlook is improving, sixteen-year-old narcoleptic Tom Lovett begins to suspect that his dreams and hallucinations of killing people may be something more real and terrifying.

F Swe          Players                                        Sweeney, Joyce

Eighteen-year-old Corey sees a threat to his dream of winning the basketball championship when he discovers that the new player on his team is a girl-stealing, friend-framing, team-destroying force of evil.

F Upd          Montmorency on the Rocks: Doctor, Aristocrat, Murderer?  Updale, Eleanor

In Victorian London, when Montmorency and his alter ego, Scarper, reunite with Dr. Farcett, the two cooperate to capture a bomber and become involved in   solving the mystery of the poisoning of a village of Scottish children.

F Upd          Montmorency and the Assassins                  Updale, Eleanor  

After twenty years as a gentleman, Montmorency is glad to be free of Scarper, his wretched alter-ego, but when a young friend is caught in the middle of a murderous political plot, Montmorency may have no choice but to call upon Scarper for help.

F Wea          Memory Boy: a Novel                            Weaver, Will

Sixteen-year-old Miles and his family must flee their Minneapolis home and begin a new life in the wilderness after a chain of cataclysmic volcanic explosions
creates dangerous conditions in their city.

F Wil          Dragon Sword                                   Williams, Mark  

Twelve-year-old time traveler Eli Sands continues his search for his missing mom, encountering new characters and trying to save the free world from   tyrannical rule.

F Zah          Heir to the Empire                             Zahn, Timothy

The last of the Emperor's warlords has made two vital discoveries that could destroy the fragile new Republic.

F Zin          The Gadget                                     Zindel, Paul

In 1945, having joined his father at Los Alamos, where he and other scientists are working on a secret project to end World War II, thirteen-year-old Stephen becomes caught in a web of secrecy and intrigue.