Clean and Adventurous Scifi or Fantasy for Guys

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Amulet of Samarkand
By Jonathan Stroud
YA F STROUD Nathaniel, a magician's apprentice, summons up the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Lovelace.

Mister Monday
By Garth Nix
YA F NIX
Although Arthur Penhaligon is supposed to die, he is saved by a key shaped like the minute hand of a clock, and now some bizarre creatures--including Mister Monday, his avenging messengers, and an army of dog-faced Fetchers--will stop at nothing to get the key.

The Time Machine
By H.G. Wells
SCIFI WELLS
When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year a.d. 802,701, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realizes that these beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture—now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have every reason to be afraid: in deep tunnels beneath their paradise lurks another race descended from humanity—the sinister Morlocks.

Ender’s Game
By Orson Scott Card
YA F CARD
An expert at simulated war games, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin believes that he is engaged in one more computer war game, when, in truth, he is commanding the last Earth fleet against an alien race seeking Earth’s complete destruction.

Among the Hidden
By Margaret Peterson Haddix
YA F HADDIX
In a futuristic society, each family is only allowed two children. Luke is an illegal third child and has had to spend all of his 12 years in hiding. One day as he is looking out the air vent in the attic he sees a face looking back at him from a house where the family of four has already left for the day. Could it be possible that he is not the only hidden child?

The Secret Hour
By Scott Westerfeld
YA F WESTERFE
Upon moving to Bixby, Oklahoma, fifteen-year-old Jessica Day learns that she is one of a group of people who have special abilities that help them fight ancient creatures living in an hour hidden at midnight; creatures that seem determined to destroy Jess.

The Giver
By Lois Lowry
YA F LOWRY
Given his 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.

Unwind
By Neal Shusterman
YA F SHUSTERM
In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives “unwound” and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs- and, perhaps, save their own lives.

Dragon’s Blood
By Jane Yolen
YA F YOLEN
Jakkin, a bond boy who works as a Keeper in a dragon nursery on the planet Austar IV, secretly trains a fighting pit dragon of his own in hopes of winning his freedom.