Lists and Suggestions for Kids
List: Science Fiction
Archvillain
Lyga, Barry.
Twelve-year-old Kyle Camden develops greater mental agility and superpowers during a plasma storm th...
Boom! (or 70,000 Light Years)
Haddon, Mark.
When Jim and Charlie overhear two of their teachers talking in a secret language and the two friends...
Children of Exile
Haddix, Margaret Peterson, author.
A twelve-year-old girl raised in a foster village is returned to her biological parents, and discove...
Dark Life
Falls, Kat.
When fifteen-year-old Ty, who has always lived on the ocean floor, joins Topside girl Gemma in the f...
Found
Haddix, Margaret Peterson.
When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane ...
The Fourteenth Goldfish
Holm, Jennifer L., author.
Ellie's scientist grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has turne...
Gabby Duran and The Unsittables
Allen, Elise, author.
Twelve-year-old Gabby is recruited by a secret agency to take care of extraterrestrial children....
Project Alpha
MacHale, D. J., author.
Eight boys and girls compete for a spot on the space voyage that will search for a source to solve E...
Invasion of The Dognappers
Jennings, Patrick.
When nine-year-old Logan discovers that aliens are abducting pet dogs, he and his friends form the I...
Last Day on Mars
Emerson, Kevin, author.
While waiting to leave Mars before it burns up just like the Earth before it, Liam and his friend Ph...
Mars Evacuees
McDougall, Sophia, author.
Twelve-year-old Alice Dare is one of 300 seven- to sixteen-year-olds evacuated to Mars to attend sch...
No Passengers Beyond This Point
Choldenko, Gennifer, 1957-
With their house in foreclosure, sisters India and Mouse and brother Finn are sent to stay with an u...
The Princess, The Scoundrel, and The Farm Boy : an Original Retelling of Star Wars: a New Hope
Bracken, Alexandra, author.
Presents an illustrated retelling of the first Star Wars film in which the galaxy's fate lies i...
Saving Lucas Biggs
De los Santos, Marisa, 1966-
"When thirteen-year-old Margaret's father is sentenced to death for a crime he didn't...
What We Found In the Sofa and How It Saved the World
Clark, Henry, 1952- author.
Finding a rare zucchini-colored crayon leads twelve-year-old River Monroe and his friends on an adve...
Spaceheadz
Scieszka, Jon.
On his first day at Brooklyn's P.S. 858, fifth-grader Michael K. is teamed with two very strang...
The True Meaning of Smekday
Rex, Adam.
When her mother is abducted by aliens on Christmas Eve (or "Smekday" Eve since the Boov in...
Virus on Orbis 1
Haarsma, PJ.
When twelve-year-old Johnny and his sister arrive on Orbits in a space ship of orphans, he finds he ...
You'll Like It Here (Everybody Does)
White, Ruth,
Forced to flee a small North Carolina town when the neighbors suspect they are aliens, sixth-grader ...