Books about teenagers in space.
- Rites of Passage by Alexei Panshin
In 2198, one hundred and fifty years after the desperate wars that destroyed an overpopulated Earth, Mia Havero’s Ship is a small closed society. It tests its children by casting them out to live or die in a month of Trial in the hostile wilds of a colony world. - Earth Girl by Janet Edwards
2788. Only the handicapped live on Earth. While everyone else portals between worlds, 18-year-old Jarra is among the one in a thousand people born with an immune system that cannot survive on other planets. - Earthseed by Pamela Sargent
Ship hurtles through space. Deep within its core, it carries the seed of humankind. Launched by the people of a dying Earth over a century ago, its mission is to find a habitable world for the children – fifteen-year-old Zoheret and her shipmates – whom it has created from its genetic banks. - The Dancing Meteorite by Anne Mason
On her space station Kira Warden is the only earthbound teenager – with the same emotions as humans had thousands of years ago. Her only friend is an alien teenager living in a sealed environment on the station whose own home planet has been destroyed. - Young Miles by Lois McMaster Bujold
When Miles Vorkorsigan washes out of the Barrayaran Military Academy for being overly fragile he thinks his life is over but then Miles’s natural (if unorthodox) leadership qualities lead to a series of adventures. - This Place Has No Atmosphere by Paula Danziger
When Aurora’s parents decide to move to the Moon she doesn’t want to say goodbye to all the places and people she loves. - Paradises Lost by Ursula Le Guin
A generation ship is half way through its voyage from Earth to a new planet. - Deepwater Black by Ken Catran
In a desperate attempt before the end, all humanity’s resources are dedicated to a crash program to produce a deep space ark, capable of seeding humanity on a new world. The ship is crewed by six clones; teenage versions of people who achieved great works during the ark project and equipped with the memories of their donors. - The Rowan by Anne McCaffrey
The story of a young orphan who is discovered to have telepathic talents when her community is wiped out in a mudslide. - Earthsearch by James Follett
Some years before the story opens, the huge Earth starship Challenger, on a mission to find Earth-like planets for colonization, encountered a meteoroid shower that killed all of the adult crew and seriously damaged the ship. The only human survivors were four babies – two boys, Telson and Darv, and two girls, Sharna and Astra. The four have been raised from childhood by androids and tutored by two disembodied voices called Angel One and Angel Two. Most of the humans believe the voices are real angels, but Darv is more suspicious and believes they are actually computers.