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Unplugged

Donna Freitas · 427 pages

In the App World, Skye is a sixteen-year-old virtual girl without any glamorous downloads or fancy effects. She joined the App World for the promise of a better, virtual life, but she's looking forward to her seventeenth birthday, when she gets to unplug, see her mother and sister again, and decide which world she belongs in once and for all. Without warning, the border between worlds suddenly clo

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Under the Never Sky

Veronica Rossi · 336 pages

Since she'd been on the outside, she'd survived an Aether storm, she'd had a knife held to her throat, and she'd seen men murdered. This was worse. Exiled from her home, the enclosed city of Reverie, Aria knows her chances of surviving in the outer wasteland--known as The Death Shop--are slim. If the cannibals don't get her, the violent, electrified energy storms will. She's been taught that th

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Nirvana

J.R. Stewart · 216 pages

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Coldwire

Chloe Gong · 496 pages

An instant New York Times bestseller! “Super-charged with electrifying action, mind-blowing twists, and timely commentary.” —Xiran Jay Zhao, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Iron Widow From #1 New York Times bestselling author Chloe Gong comes the first book in the dystopian StrangeLoom trilogy, an “adrenaline-fueled mystery” (School Library Journal, starred review) in which humanity has mo

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Invitation to the Game

Monica Hughes · 187 pages

A secretive program, known only as "The Game, is devised by a controlling government for an unknown purpose. One day, a destitute youth, Lisse, and her friends are selected to take part in The Game. Their world becomes one of fascinating adventure, but as the challenges increase each time they play, The Game begins to take over their lives...

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Ready Player One

Ernest Cline · 384 pages

In the year 2044. reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts *really* feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines--puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever ca

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Doomed

Tracy Deebs · 480 pages

Pandora Walker unwittingly unleashes cyber Armageddon on her seventeenth birthday and must play a virtual reality game in order to save the world.

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The Roar

Emma Clayton

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Saga

Conor Kostick · 367 pages

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The Leveller

Julia Durango · 258 pages

Earning money by dragging kids out of the virtual reality gaming world and returning them to their worried parents, bounty hunter Nixy faces the biggest challenge of her career when the game's billionaire developer loses track of his own son.

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Winter

Rod Rees · 530 pages

The Demi-Monde is a high realism computer simulation, designed to train the military for operations in places like Iraq and Afghanistan without the risk of real life death. The simulation is peppered with computer recreated psychopaths Aleister Crowley, the pitiless Inquisitor General Torquemada, Robespierre, and Reinhard Heydrich, architect of the Holocaust, providing a powder keg mix of racial,

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Shovel Ready

Adam Sternbergh · 249 pages

Spademan used to be a garbage man. That was before the dirty bomb hit Times Square, before his wife was killed, and before the city became a blown-out shell of its former self. Now he’s a hitman. In a near-future New York City split between those who are wealthy enough to “tap in” to a sophisticated virtual reality, and those who are left to fend for themselves in the ravaged streets, Spade

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The Park Service

Ryan Winfield · 329 pages

"Aubrey Van Houten is a 15-year-old misfit who spends his time reading and dreaming about the good old days above. Believing the planet uninhabitable after a global nuclear war, Aubrey's people live deep underground, begrudgingly working assigned jobs until they can retire at 35 to a virtual reality paradise. Through a series of curious accidents, Aubrey stumbles onto the surface and discovers a r

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The Ultimate Escape

Marc Cerashi · 181 pages

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Insignia

S.J. Kincaid · 446 pages

Tom, a fourteen-year-old genius at virtual reality games, is recruited by the United States Military to begin training at the Pentagon Spire as a Combatant in World War III, controlling the mechanized drones that do the actual fighting off-planet.

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Otherworld

Jason Segel, Kirsten Miller · 368 pages

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User Unfriendly

Vivian Vande Velde · 244 pages

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Virtual Vandals

Diane Duane · 181 pages

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Replica

Jenna Black · 365 pages

Sixteen-year-old Nadia lives a privileged life in the Corporate States, formerly the United States of America, but when her betrothed is killed and then wakes up in the replication tanks, the pair sets out to find a killer while keeping the secrets of human replication technology from the dangerous people who run their world.

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Dove Arising

Karen Bao · 324 pages

"On a lunar colony, fifteen-year-old Phaet Theta does the unthinkable and joins the Militia when her mother is imprisoned by the Moon's oppressive government"--

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The Elites

Natasha Ngan · 355 pages

Hundreds of years into the future, when Neo-Babel is the only surviving city, Silver has become an Elite, a guard of the city's Council. But when her parents go missing, she is forced to confront the world beyond the walls of the city. Silver is plunged into a world of slums and dissidents, of secret splinter groups and deeply guarded secrets and dirty truths about Neo-Babel.

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The Legacy

Gemma Malley

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The Girl Who Dared to Think

Bella Forrest · 408 pages

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