Children's Book List
Out
of this World:
Science
Fiction Selections
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Lockport Public Library's online catalog.
Aliens
Ate My Homework / Coville, Bruce. Rod is surprised
when a miniature spaceship lands in his school science project and reveals
five tiny aliens, who ask his help in apprehending an interstellar criminal.
Also by Bruce Coville: I
Was a Sixth Grade Alien; Space
Brat.
Aliens
for Dinner / Spinner, Stephanie. Aric the alien
returns to Earth to help Richard Bickerstaff save the world from an invasion
of Dwilbs, pollution-loving aliens who want to turn the planet into a toxic
theme park. Also by Stephenie Spinner: Be
First in the Universe; Expiration
Date, Never.
Alien
Game / Dexter, Catherine. As the students at her
school become increasingly caught up in the annual game of Elimination, Zoe
grows more and more convinced that the new girl in her eighth grade class
is not what she seems.
Ancient
Fire / Williams, Mark London. A twelve-year-old boy from
the twenty-first century, a girl from another medieval Alexandria, Egypt,
and a super-intelligent young saurian from an alternative Earth--each for
different reasons--join together in travels through time and space.
A
Dusk of Demons / Christopher, John. In a future world
where civilization has collapsed, fourteen-year-old Ben sets out on a journey
to disocver his birthright and meets members of a technologically advanced
remnant, who use machines to foster belief in demons among the people of
Ben's homeland.
Earth
Giant / Burgess, Melvin. When Peter and his sister
discover a giant extraterrestrial hidden beneath the earth, they become friends
and conspirators despite the tremendous risks involved
Earthborn
/ Waugh, Sylvia. Upon suddenly learning that her parents are researchers
from another planet and they must leave in seven days or risk discovery,
twelve-year-old Nesta decides to stay in their English home whether or not
her parents go. Also by Sylvia Waugh: Space
Race.
Fire
Bug Connection: An Ecological Mystery / George, Jean Craighaid.
Twelve-year-old Maggie receives European fire bugs for her birthday, but
when they fail to metamorphose and grow grossly large and explode instead,
she must determine the cause of their strange death.
Gathering
Blue / Lowry, Lois. Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira
is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial
Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do
the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
Hermit
Thrush Songs / Butler, Susan. After a natural disaster
has all but destroyed the earth, the orphaned and "defective" Leora, while
searching for her sister, defies the oppressive laws of the land and joins
a band of rebels trying to overthrow the government.
Iron
Giant: A Story in Five Nights / Hughes, Ted. The fearsome
iron giant becomes a hero when he challenges a huge space monster.
Let
Me Off This Spaceship! / Greer, Gery. Kidnapped by outer
space creatures, Tod and Billy try to make as much trouble as they can on
board ship so that the spaceship captain will take them back to Earth.
Lost
in Cyberspace / Peck, Richard. While dealing with changes
at home, sixth-grader Josh and his friend Aaron use the computer at their
New York prep school to travel through time, learning some secrets from the
school's past and improving Josh's home situation. Also by Richard Peck:
The
Great Interactive Dream Machine.
Marco's
Millions / Sleator, William. Twelve-year-old Marco's
love for travel and his younger sister Lilly, who has psychic powers, leads
him to journey to other universes, gaining the ability to go wherever he
wishes without growing old.
Midnight
on the Moon / Osborne, Mary Pope. The magic treehouse
takes Jake and Annie to a moon base in the future where they continue to
search for the fourth thing they need to free their friend Morgan from the
magician's spell.
Off
the Road / Bawden, Nina. In 2040, eleven-year-old Tom
follows his grandfather through the Wall and into the forbidden Wild, where
they seek to find his grandfather's boyhood home.
Only
Child / Hoover, H. M. Twelve-year-old Cody discovers
that the Terran Corporation, in colonizing the planet Patma, is illegally
destroying the intelligent native inhabitants, giant insect-like creatures
with their own language and religion.
Rats
/ Zindel, Paul. When mutant rats threaten to take over Staten Island,
which has become a huge landfill, fourteen-year-old Sarah and her younger
brother Mike try to figure out how to stop them.
Slaves
of Spiegel: A Magic Moscow Story / Pinkwater, Daniel.
Steve Nickelson, his assistant Norman Bleistift, and the Magic Moscow restaurant
are transported through space to compete in an intergalactic junk food eating
contest.
Star
Hatchling / Bechard, Margaret. The female-dominated culture
of a distant planet encounters human beings for the first time. Also by
Margaret Bechard: Spacer
and Rat.
Time
Bike / Langton, Jane. Eddy receives a mysterious gift
from India--an old-fashioned bike that transports its rider through time.
Virtual
War / Skurzynski, Gloria. In the future world where global
contamination has necessitated limited human contact, three young people
with unique genetically engineered abilities are teamed up to wage a war
in virtual reality.
Wanted,
UFO / Gormley, Beatrice. Fifth grader Elise is thrilled
when a UFO appears in her friend Nick's backyard but shocked when she discovers
why its occupants have come back to Earth.
Wrinkle
in Time / L'Engle, Madeleine. Meg Murray and her friends
become involved with unearthly strangers and search for Meg's father, who
has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
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