5 must-read science fiction books like Pulse Point by Colleen Nelson

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Pulse Point

By: Colleen Nelson

3.70

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Pulse Point is set in a future where the climate has made the world inhospitable to humans. In orde…

If you liked the science fiction plot in Pulse Point by Colleen Nelson , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of The City of Ember (Book of Ember, #1) by Jeanne DuPrau

1. The City of Ember (Book of Ember, #1)

By: Jeanne DuPrau

3.89

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition can be found here. Many hundreds of years ago, the city of Ember was… read more

Similar categories in Jeanne DuPrau's The City of Ember (Book of Ember, #1) book and Colleen Nelson's Pulse Point

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • young adult
"He says I'm beautiful as a red tomato"

-Jeanne DuPrau, The City of Ember (Book of Ember, #1)

"Why, if its going to be allright, do we see it getting worse every day?"

-Jeanne DuPrau, The City of Ember (Book of Ember, #1)

"The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself. Anger is."

-Jeanne DuPrau, The City of Ember (Book of Ember, #1)

"Wouldn't it be strange, she thought, to have a blue sky? But she liked the way it looked. It would be beautiful - a blue sky."

-Jeanne DuPrau, The City of Ember (Book of Ember, #1)

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2. The Poet X

By: Elizabeth Acevedo

4.38

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Acevedo's The Poet X book and Colleen Nelson's Pulse Point

  • young adult
"Pero, tú no eres fácil."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

"Just because your father's present, doesn't mean he isn't absent."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

"It's about any of the words that bring us together and how we can form a home in them."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

"I close my eyes and let myself find in music what I've always searched for: a way away."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

Cover of As Old as Time (A Twisted Tale, #3) by Liz Braswell

3. As Old as Time (A Twisted Tale, #3)

By: Liz Braswell

3.56

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

What if Belle's mother cursed the Beast? Belle is a lot of things: smart, resourceful, restless. Sh… read more

Similar categories in Liz Braswell's As Old as Time (A Twisted Tale, #3) book and Colleen Nelson's Pulse Point

  • young adult
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4. Number the Stars

By: Lois Lowry

4.00

Format: None pages,

Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war.… read more

Similar categories in Lois Lowry's Number the Stars book and Colleen Nelson's Pulse Point

  • young adult
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5. House Arrest

By: K.A. Holt

3.81

Format: 4 pages, Hardcover

Stealing is bad. Yeah. I know. But my brother Levi is always so sick, and his medicine is always so… read more

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  • young adult
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6. The Marrow Thieves

By: Cherie Dimaline

3.97

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dre… read more

Similar categories in Cherie Dimaline's The Marrow Thieves book and Colleen Nelson's Pulse Point

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • young adult
  • canada
"When we heal our land, we are healed also."

-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

"I did have the longest hair of any of the boys... I braided it myself each morning, to keep it out of the way and to remind myself of things I couldn’t quite remember but that, nevertheless, I knew t…"

-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

"We go to the schools and they leach the dreams from where our ancestors hid them, in the honeycombs of slushy marrow buried in our bones. And us? Well, we join our ancestors, hoping we left enough dr…"

-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

"And I understood that as long as there are dreamers left, there will never be want for a dream. And I understood just what we would do for each other, just what we would do for the ebb and pull of th…"

-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

7. Girl, Interrupted

By: Susanna Kaysen

3.37

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

"Searing . . . captures an exquisite range of self-awareness between madness and insight." First pu… read more

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8. The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1)

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

4.06

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Get caught up in the puzzles, games, danger, romance, and riches of this lush new chapter in the #1… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lynn Barnes's The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1) book and Colleen Nelson's Pulse Point

  • young adult
"Congratulations, by the way," he called after Nash. "On the babies."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1)

"Trying to write trick questions backfires if the person taking the test knows how to look for tricks."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1)

"Trying to write trick questions backfires if the person taking the test knows who to look for tricks."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1)

"Beside Avery, Jameson was looking at her like she was the sun and the moon and the stars and eternity, all rolled into one."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1)

Cover of The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

9. The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

3.94

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Four brothers. Two missions. One explosive read. Jennifer Lynn Barnes returns to the world of her #… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lynn Barnes's The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4) book and Colleen Nelson's Pulse Point

  • young adult
"Heiress"

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)

"Four Hawthornes, four suits. Avery wore black."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)

"Then why haven’t you noticed I’m not your only tail?"

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)

"Nash." The gleam in Jamie's eyes was downright wicked, "I dare you to eat your hat."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)

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10. No Fixed Address

By: Susin Nielsen

4.24

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A middle-grade story about family, friendship, and growing up when you're one step away from homele… read more

Similar categories in Susin Nielsen's No Fixed Address book and Colleen Nelson's Pulse Point

  • young adult
  • canada
"I get why Winnie believes in God. I get why Dylan believes in Bernard. I get why I wanted to believe in Mel. It can give a person comfort, feeling that something mysterious and otherworldly is lookin…"

-Susin Nielsen, No Fixed Address

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11. Thrive

By: Kenneth Oppel

4.15

Format: None pages, None

The. Aliens. Are. Here. The heart-pounding conclusion to The Overthrow trilogy that began with Bloo… read more

Similar categories in Kenneth Oppel's Thrive book and Colleen Nelson's Pulse Point

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • young adult
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12. Starfish

By: Lisa Fipps

4.46

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Ellie is tired of being fat-shamed and does something about it in this debut novel-in-verse. Eve… read more

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  • young adult
"I'm a starfish, taking p all the room I want."

-Lisa Fipps, Starfish

"I'm a starfish, taking up all the room I want."

-Lisa Fipps, Starfish

"DNA doesn't make you family. Love does. Actions do."

-Lisa Fipps, Starfish

"No matter what others say or do, embrace what makes you, you."

-Lisa Fipps, Starfish

Cover of Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation by Andrew Stobo Sniderman

13. Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation

By: Andrew Stobo Sniderman

4.54

Format: 384 pages, ebook

A heart-rending true story about racism and reconciliationDivided by a beautiful valley and 150 yea… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Stobo Sniderman's Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation book and Colleen Nelson's Pulse Point

  • canada
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14. Eight Days

By: Teresa Toten

3.85

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

Governor General's award-winning author Teresa Toten's story about one girl's transformative eight-… read more

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  • young adult
  • canada
Cover of Sanctuary (Sanctuary, #1) by Caryn Lix

15. Sanctuary (Sanctuary, #1)

By: Caryn Lix

3.88

Format: 480 pages, ebook

Kenzie holds one truth above all: the company is everything.As a citizen of Omnistellar Concepts, t… read more

Similar categories in Caryn Lix's Sanctuary (Sanctuary, #1) book and Colleen Nelson's Pulse Point

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • young adult
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16. Scout Is Not a Band Kid

By: Jade Armstrong

3.97

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

A young girl in middle school will do whatever it takes to meet her favorite author--even if it mea… read more

Similar categories in Jade Armstrong's Scout Is Not a Band Kid book and Colleen Nelson's Pulse Point

  • young adult
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17. Fly

By: Alison Hughes

3.84

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

A novel in free verse about a middle schooler who discovers he’s not the only one grappling with th… read more

Similar categories in Alison Hughes's Fly book and Colleen Nelson's Pulse Point

  • young adult
Cover of Ghostlight by Kenneth Oppel

18. Ghostlight

By: Kenneth Oppel

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

One teen's summer job scaring tourists with ghost stories takes a terrifying turn when he accidenta… read more

Similar categories in Kenneth Oppel's Ghostlight book and Colleen Nelson's Pulse Point

  • young adult
  • canada
Cover of Pulse Point by Colleen Nelson

19. Pulse Point

By: Colleen Nelson

3.70

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Pulse Point is set in a future where the climate has made the world inhospitable to humans. In orde… read more

Similar categories in Colleen Nelson's Pulse Point book and Colleen Nelson's Pulse Point

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • young adult
  • canada

17 Top young adult books like Pulse Point by Colleen Nelson

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The City of Ember (Book of Ember, #1)

Jeanne DuPrau

3.89

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The Poet X

Elizabeth Acevedo

4.38

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As Old as Time (A Twisted Tale, #3)

Liz Braswell

3.56

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Number the Stars

Lois Lowry

4.00

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Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

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Rage the Night

Donna Morrissey

3.97

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Téa Mutonji

3.57

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Catherine Leroux

3.32

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