SCIENCE FICTION Grades 4-6
Bawden, Nina. Off the Road. J Fic Bawden
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.
Bransford, Nathan. Jacob Wonderbar for President of the
Universe. J FIC Bransford
When seventh-grader Jacob Wonderbar is nominated for President of
the Universe, he and his best friends Sarah Daisy and Dexter take
off for outer space to campaign, and in the process suffer
kidnappings, space monkeys, dirty politics, and threats to blowup
the Earth.
Carman, Patrick. Atherton : the house of power.
J Fic Carman
Edgar, an eleven-year-old orphan, finds a book that reveals
significant secrets about Atherton, the strictly divided world on
which he lives, even as geological changes threaten to shift the
power structure that allows an elite few to live off the labor of
others.
Collier, James Lincoln. Planet Out of the Past. J
Fic Collier
Young people search for hominids on another planet similar to
Earth and experience all the dangers Earth possessed in
prehistoric times.
Evarts, Hal George. Jay-Jay and the Peking Monster.
J FIC Evarts
A Southern California boy finds a box of bones that may be the
remains of prehistoric Peking Man which have been missing from a
museum since World War II.
Feig, Paul. Ignatius MacFarland : Frequenaut!
J FIC Feig
Bullied in school and called "Piggy MacFartland," twelve-year-old
Iggy longs to travel to another planet and live among
extraterrestrials, until an explosion transports him to a scary
alternate reality.
Fields, Bryan W. Lunchbox
and the Aliens. J FIC Fields
Lunchbox is an ordinary basset hound until he is abducted by
aliens, zapped by a mental enhancer, and sent back to convert
Earth's garbage into food--a task that would be easier if he had
opposable thumbs, or at least tentacles.
Gauthier, Gail. My Life Among the Aliens. J
Fic Johnston
Two brothers begin to wonder if it is their mother's unusual
cooking that is attracting the aliens that keep showing up at
their house.
Goldberger, Judith M. The Looking Glass Factor. J
FIC Goldberger
A young girl and two feline friends continue the research of a
famous scientist who experimented with a mental process known as
merging.
Hess, Debra. Too Many Spies. JPB H
Zeke, an alien boy stranded on Earth, continues to pose as a human
with the aid of eleven-year-old Super Spy Cassie Williams, while
trying to discover the identity of the man in black who is
following him. Sequel to "Alien Alert."
Hoover, H. M. Orvis. J Fic Hoover
On an Earth that has become an inhospitable wilderness, Toby and
her friend Thaddeus find themselves lost in "the empty" with
Orvis, an obsolete robot who is their only hope of protection and
escape.
Jennings, Patrick. Invasion of the Dognappers. J
FIC Jennings
When nine-year-old Logan discovers that aliens are abducting pet
dogs, he and his friends form the Intergalactic Canine Rescue
Unit, and Logan stows away on a spaceship in hopes of saving man's
best friend.
Key, Alexander. The Magic Meadow. J FIC Key
As five crippled children play games of imagining themselves in
another beautiful world, one of the boys finds he can help the
rest of them escape to a strange new place.
Nixon, Joan Lowery. Kidnapped on Astarr. J FIC
Nixon
With a robot's help two children search for a relative who has
been kidnapped by the king on the planet Astarr and accused of
making secret war weapons.
Lyga, Barry. Archvillain.
J FIC Lyga
Twelve-year-old Kyle Camden develops greater mental agility and
superpowers during a plasma storm that also brings Mighty Mike, an
alien, to the town of Bouring, but while each does what he thinks
is best, Kyle is labeled a villain and Mike a hero.
Norton, Andre. The Day of the Ness. J FIC Norton
Nine-year-old Hal traces a frantic S.O.S. to a group of friendly
space aliens held captive inside a mountain by the evil Ness who
plan to take over the world.
Oppel, Kenneth. Colin's Fantastic Video Adventure.
J FIC Oppel
Eleven-year-old Colin discovers that the spaceships in his
favorite video game are actually controlled by tiny men, who
promise to help him in an upcoming contest.
Rex, Adam. The
True
Meanng
of Smekday. J FIC Rex
In the chaotic turmoil that follows the Boov invasion of Earth,
eleven-year-old Gratuity Tucci finds herself driving her mother's
car to Florida, where all of
the humans are being relocated, with her cat and a renegade
extraterrestiral named J. Lo as her copilots.
Roberts, Willo Davis. The Girl With the Silver Eyes.
J Fic Roberts
A 10-year-old girl, who has always looked different from other
children, discovers that she not only has unusual powers but that
there are others like her.
Sterman, Betsy. Too Much Magic. J FIC Sterman
Two brothers have a grand time wishing for all sorts of things
with the help of a magic cube the younger brother finds in the
playground.
Van Eekhout, Greg. The
Boy at the End of the World. J FIC Van Eekhout
Born half-grown in a world that is being destroyed, Fisher has
instinctive knowledge of many things, including that he must avoid
the robot that knows his name.
Waugh, Sylvia. Who goes home? J Fic Waugh
On his thirteenth birthday, Jacob learns a secret about his birth
and becomes involved in his father's work to protect other beings
from the planet Ormingat who live on Earth.
White, Ruth. You'll
Like it Here (Everybody Does). J FIC White
Although Meggie Blue seems to be an average sixth-grader she is
abnormally frightened when residents of her small, North Carolina
town become fixated on aliens, and soon she and her family are
forced to flee, making it clear that all is not as it seems.
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