In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.

Ostracized or incarcerated her whole life, Juliette is freed on the condition that she use her abilities in support of the dictatorship, but Adam, the only person ever to show her affection, offers hope of a better future.

Emphatically dismantles outdated notions of race by illuminating what modern genetics actually can and can't tell us about human difference.

When Moon Base Alpha's commander mysteriously vanishes, twelve-year-old Dash Gibson and his Moonies friends struggle to figure out what has happened, a situation that is complicated by Dash's secret contact with an alien.

Told through the author's own evolving understanding of the subject over the course of his life comes a bold and personal investigation into America's racial history and its contemporary echoes.

Two siblings who run a California horse ranch discover something wonderful and sinister in the skies above, and the owner of an adjacent theme park tries to profit from the mysterious, otherworldly phenomenon.

Sam, Egg, Gum and Cat, and the other members of the Franklin Middle School Science Club are on a guided tour of Greater River City Air Force Base, an aspiring science museum, and Gum is convinced that if they can sneak away from the group they will find evidence of aliens--and it is up to the reader to choose how their adventure unfolds.

Two astronauts work together to survive after an accident kills one of their crew and leaves them adrift in space.

Katniss Everdeen prepares to win the war against President Snow and the Capitol.

In the post-apocalyptic nation of Panem, Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her sister's place in the televised event in which one boy and one girl from each of the twelve districts are chosen to fight to the death until one victor remains.