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Lizard music

1976
When left to take care of himself, a young boy becomes involved with a community of intelligent lizards who tell him of a little known invasion from outer space.

Who goes home?

2003
On his thirteenth birthday, Jacob learns a secret about his birth and becomes involved in his father's work to protect other beings from the planet Ormingat who live on Earth.

Starglass

For all of her sixteen years, Terra has lived on a city within a spaceship that left Earth five hundred years ago seeking refuge, but as they finally approach the chosen planet, she is drawn into a secret rebellion that could change the fate of her people.

In the after

In a post-apocalyptic world where nothing is as it seems, seventeen-year-old Amy and Baby, a child she found while scavenging, struggle to survive while vicious, predatory creatures from another planet roam the Earth.

Half lives

Follows the lives of two unlikely teenaged heroes, mysteriously linked and living hundreds of years apart, as both struggle to survive and protect future generations from the terrible fate that awaits any who dare to climb the mountain.

Contaminated

After losing her parents during the "Contamination," which turned people into crazed psychopaths, Velvet Ellis struggled to get by and raise her younger sister. Now that the victims of the Contamination are being rehabilitated, Velvet hopes to be able to rebuild her family -- but soon learns that the worst is yet to come.

The end games

The world ended on Halloween, but it was brought back to life by The Game. Brothers Michael and Patrick play the game at the guidance of the Game Master, searching for survivors of the apocalypse by day and fighting off the zombie-like Bellows creatures at night. When they finally find other survivors, Michael is worried that they will not play by the Game Master's rules, and so threaten his beloved little brother's life.

The different girl

2013
Four identical girls and their two caretakers live alone on a desert island. They spend their days in perfect sync learning and never questioning until May, a lone survivor of a ship wreck, appears and forces the four identical girls to examine their lives.

Coda

2013
Eighteen-year-old Anthem rebels against the Corp's addictive, mind-altering music by singing in an illegal underground band, but defying the Corp comes at a deadly price when they come after Anthem's family.

The Supernaturalist

2012
In futuristic Satellite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill escapes from his abusive orphanage and teams up with three other people who share his unusual ability to see supernatural creatures, and together they determine the nature and purpose of the swarming blue Parasites that are invisible to most humans.

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