Bloor, Edward. Tangerine.
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight. (Environmental Issues)

Dickinson, Peter. Eva.
After a terrible accident, a young girl wakes up to discover that she has been given the body of a chimpanzee. (Medical Ethics, Animal Rights)

Farmer, Nancy. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm
In 2194 in Zimbabwe, General Matsika's three children are kidnapped and put to work in a plastic mine, while three mutant detectives use their special powers to search for them. (Environmental Issues)

Goldman, E.M. The Night Room.
When a group of students uses an experimental computer program that simulates their tenth high school reunion, they get an unsettling look at their possible futures. (Manipulation of Information, Ethical Uses of Technology)

Hesse, Karen. Phoenix Rising.
Thirteen-year-old Nyle learns about relationships and death when fifteen-year-old Ezra, who was exposed to radiation leaked from a nearby nuclear plant, comes to stay at her grandmother's Vermont farmhouse. (Environmental Issues)

Hughes, Monica. The Golden Aquarians.
Walt Elliot goes with the father he hasn't seen for years to the planet Aqua, where he discovers that his father's project threatens the existence of a highly intelligent native species. (Environmental Issues, Rights of Species)

Lowry, Lois. The Giver.
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. (Individual Rights)

O'Brien, Robert. Z for Zachariah.
Seemingly the only person left alive after the holocaust of a war, a young girl is relieved to see a man arrive into her valley until she realizes that he is a tyrant and she must somehow escape. (Environmental Issues)

Sleator, William. Others See Us.
When an accidental dunking in toxic waste gives sixteen-year-old Jared the ability to read minds, he discovers horrifying secrets about family members at the summer reunion. (Individual Rights)

Stevermer, Caroline. River Rats.
Nearly twenty years after the holocaust called the Flash has destroyed modern civilization, Tomcat and a group of other orphans face danger as they steer an old steamboat over the toxic waters of the Mississippi River. (Environmental Issues)

Thompson, Kate. Switchers.
When freakish weather grips the Arctic regions and moves southward, an Irish girl and her strange companion save the world from disaster through their ability to switch into animal forms. (Environmental Issues, Individual Rights)

Ure, Jean. Plague.
Three teenagers attempt to survive on their own when a devastating plague sweeps London. (Environmental Issues)

Yolen, Jane. Children of the Wolf.
In 1920 in India two children that have been raised by wolves are discovered and brought to an orphanage to be taught human behavior again. (Individual Rights, Animal Rights)

Zindel, Paul. Loch.
Fifteen-year-old Loch and his younger sister join their father on a scientific expedition searching for enormous prehistoric creatures sighted in a Vermont lake, but it soon becomes obvious that the expedition's leaders aren't interested in preserving the creatures. (Animal Rights)

updated 1/2006