Short, Clean Fantasy or Science Fiction

Try these books if you're looking for:

• Fantasy or science fiction
• Clean reads
• Books shorter than 250 pages

Downsiders
By Neal Shusterman
YA F SHUSTERM
When fourteen-year-old Lindsay meets Talon, who lives in the secret Downsider community that evolved in the subterranean passages of the subway built in New York in 1867, she and her new friend try to bridge the differences between their two cultures.

The Hedge Knight
By George R.R. Martin
SCI-FI MARTIN
When Dunk's master dies, he rides on to the next tournament in hopes of winning recognition for his knightly prowess. He acquires a squire of his own, a bald little boy who calls himself Egg, and gives himself the more elegant title of Duncan the Tall. Dunk emerges battered but wiser, as his heroes turn out to be simultaneously smaller and larger than he imagined.

Equal Rites
By Terry Pratchet
SCI-FI PRATCHETT
A dying wizard tries to pass on his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son, who is just at that moment being born. The fact that the son is actually a daughter is discovered just a little too late.

Maze Runner
By James Dashner
YA F DASHNER Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.

The Compound
By S.A. Bodeen
YA F BODEEN
After his parents, two sisters, and he have spent six years in a vast underground compound built by his wealthy father to protect them from a nuclear holocaust, fifteen-year-old Eli, whose twin brother and grandmother were left behind, discovers that his father has perpetrated a monstrous hoax on them all.

Obernewtyn
By Isobelle Carmody
YA F CARMODY
Born with enhanced mental powers, Elspeth Gordie faces persecution by her own post-holocaust world, but she must resist dark forces who hope to use her powers to resurrect the apocalypse.