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Animorphs. (Series) |
The story begins--five kids are walking home from the mall when they witness a space ship crashing. An alien tells them that the human race is in trouble. The alien gives them technology of his species, the Andilites. This technology gives the kids the power to absorb the DNA of any living animal and become it. From that day on they become rebel fighters against the Yerrk Empire.
Grades 4 - 6.
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| Butterworth, Oliver |
Enormous Egg. |
Nate, a twelve-year-old boy, living in New Hampshire, takes over the care of an enormous egg laid by one of the family's hens. The last thing he expects to hatch from it is a triceratops!
Grades 4-6.
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| Byars, Betsy |
Computer Nut |
Ten-year-old Kate begins a communication exchange on a computer with someone purporting to be from outer space, who says he is going to pay a visit to Earth soon.
Grades 4-6.
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| Christopher, John |
When the Tripods Came. |
Fourteen-year-old Laurie and his family attempt to flee England when the Tripods descend from outer space and begin brainwashing everyone with their hypnotic Caps.
Grades 5-9.
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White Mountains. |
Young Will Parker and his companions make a perilous journey toward an outpost of freedom where they hope to escape from the ruling Tripods, who capture mature human beings and make them docile.
Grades 4-6.
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City of Gold and Lead. |
Three boys set out on a secret mission to penetrate the City of the Tripods and learn more about these strange beings that rule the earth.
Grades 4-6.
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Pool of Fire. |
Will and a small group of free people plan to destroy the three great cities of the Tripods before the arrival of a space ship destined to doom the planet.
Grades 4-6.
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| Conly, Jane |
R-T, Margaret and the Rats of Nimh. |
The further adventures of the intelligent young rat Racso and his friends Christopher and Isabella as they try to ensure the survival of their secret community in Thorn Valley after its accidental discovery by two human children.
Grades 4-8.
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| Coville, Bruce |
My Teacher is an Alien. |
Susan Simmons can tell that her new substitute teacher is really weird. But she doesn't know how weird until she catches him peeling off his face and realizes "Mr. Smith" is really an alien.
Grades 3-6.
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Skull of Truth. |
Charlie, a sixth-grader with a compulsion to tell lies, acquires a mysterious skull that forces its owner to tell only the truth, causing some awkward moments before he understands its power.
Grades 4-6.
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| Del Rey, Lester |
Outpost of Jupiter. |
Teen-age linguistic student solves the problem of communicating with non-humans when a mysterious plague hits the colony on Ganymede, a satellite of Jupiter.
Grades 6-9.
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| Engdahl, Sylvia Louise |
Enchantress from the Stars. |
A Federation team lands on Andrecia to try to rid the planet of its invaders.
Grades 7-8.
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This Star Shall Abide. |
A young boy on a planet with three moons dares to enter the Forbidden City of the Scholars to wrest their secret of all knowledge from them.
Grades 5-9
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| Hoover, H. M. |
Children of Morrow. |
In the far distant future, long after the Great Destruction, Tia and Rabbit, who have always been different, find themselves on the run after Rabbit accidentally kills an official. Helping them escape are the voices they hear when they dream.
Grades 5-8.
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| Hughes, Monica |
Invitation to the Game. |
Unemployed after high school in the highly robotic society of 2154, Lisse and seven friends resign themselves to a boring existence in the :Designated Area" until the government invites them to play The Game.
Grades 7-9.
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| Jones, Dianna Wynne |
Eight Days of Luke. |
A teenage boy learns that his new friend possesses supernatural powers, and as they encounter a series of mysterious people, he discovers his friend's true origins.
Grades 7-9.
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| Karl, Jean |
Beloved Benjamin is Waiting. |
Hounded by a gang of kids, after her mother's disappearance leaves her on her own, Lucinda hides in the abandoned caretaker's house in the local cemetery. There she makes contact with intelligent beings from another galaxy.
Grades 4-6.
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| Key, Alexander |
Escape to Witch Mountain. |
Two strange children with uncanny powers try to find their vaguely-remembered homeland.
Grades 5-7.
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| Klause, Annette Curtis |
Alien Secrets. |
On her journey to the distant planet where her parents are working, twelve-year-old Puck befriends a troubled alien and becomes involved in a dangerous mystery about a precious artifact.
Grades 5-8.
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| Lowry, Lois |
Giver. |
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
Grades 6-9.
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| L'Engle, Madeline |
Wrinkle in Time. |
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a
search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
Grades 6-9.
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Wind in the Door. |
Meg Murry, concerned for her brother, travels to the outer reaches of space and into a single cell to battle evil forces.
Grades 6-9.
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Swiftly Tilting Planet. |
Fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace, the youngest of the Murry children, must travel through time and space in a battle against an evil dictator who would destroy the entire universe.
Grades 6-9.
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| Maguire, Gregory |
Seven Spiders Spinning. |
Seven prehistoric spiders that had been trapped in ice for thousands of years bring excitement to rural Vermont and briefly unite two rival clubs at a local elementary school.
Grades 3-6.
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| Mason, Anne |
Stolen Law. |
While on a special assignment in space, Kira uncovers a fiendish plot to destroy law and order and various life forms of her space sector.
Grades 6-9.
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| McCaffrey, Anne |
Dragonsong. |
Forbidden by her father to indulge in music in any way, a girl on the planet Pern runs away, taking shelter with the planet's fire lizards who, along with her music, open a new life for her.
Grades 5 and up.
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Dragonsinger. |
Pursuing her dream to be a Harper of Pern, Menolly studies under the Masterharper learning that more is required than a facility with music and a clever way with words.
Grades 5 and up.
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Dragondrums. |
When his boy soprano voice begins to change, Piemur is drafted by Masterharper Robinton to help with political work and is sent on missions that lead him into unusual and sometimes dangerous adventures.
Grades 5 and up.
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| O'Brien, Robert |
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. |
A mouse seeks help from a colony of extremely intelligent rats.
Grades 5-7.
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Z for Zachariah. |
Seemingly the only person left alive after a nuclear war, a sixteen-year-old girl is relieved to see a man arrive into her valley until she realizes that he is a tyrant and she must somehow escape.
Grades 6 and up.
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| Payne, Bernal C. |
Experiment in Terror. |
As his friends mysteriously disappear one by one in the middle of the night, Steve finds himself developing strange and terrifying powers.
Grades 5-9.
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| Park, Ruth |
My Sister Sif. |
Fourteen-year-old Riko manages to get her delicate older sister Sif and herself to their remote Pacific island home. There an American scientist falls in love with Sif, and discovers her connection with an underwater race creating complications in Riko's life.
Grades 5-8.
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| Roberts, Willo Davis |
Girl with the Silver Eyes. |
A ten-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.
Grades 5-7.
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| Service, Pamela |
Being of Two Minds. |
Connie's ability to share "mental visits" with the prince of Thulgaria proves useful when he is mysteriously kidnaped.
Grades 5-8.
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Stinker from Space. |
An agent of the Sylon Confederacy, fleeing from enemy ships, crash lands on Earth, transfers his mind to the body of a skunk, and enlists the aid of two children in getting back to his home planet.
Grades 3-6.
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| Shusterman, Neal |
Dark Side of Nowhere. |
Fourteen-year-old Jason faces an identity crisis after discovering that he is the son of aliens who stayed on earth following a botched invasion mission.
Grades 4-6.
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| Sleator, William |
House of Stairs. |
Five fifteen-year-old orphans of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in a house of endless stairs as subjects for a psychological experiment on conditioned human response.
Grades 7 and up.
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Interstellar Pig. |
Barney's boring seaside vacation suddenly becomes more interesting when the cottage next door is occupied by three exotic neighbors who are addicted to a game they call "Interstellar Pig."
Grades 7 and up.
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| Slote, Alfred |
My Robot Buddy. |
For his tenth birthday, Jack wants a robot so he will have someone to play with.
Grades 3-5.
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My Trip to Alpha I. |
Voya-code is the most sophisticated form of interplanetary travel, but a young boy finds out it is not without dangers.
Grades 3-5.
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