If you're looking for Young Adult Fiction Suggestions, we have some review or summaries our staff has written which might lead you to try some tales you might not know about.

• Hughes, Monica . . . Invitation to the Game (1990)
  This tale is a wonderful example of sociological science-fiction. A group of eight (eventually ten) young people graduate from school in a future earth with lots of problems.  Their cooperative efforts to learn to live together pay off when they're invited to play a complicated "Game" of virtual reality. Eventually, they find that this game has real significance, and it's their skills and talents that give them a place in trying to help humankind survive.  Hughes does a great job of fiving individual personalities to each member of a lage cast of characters, and the story is thought-provoking and involving. If you like science fiction, you should definitely enjoy Invitation to the game. [Gary Crew]

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