Science Fiction Bibliography

Bawden, Nina.  Off the Road.  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.

Belden, Wilanne Schneider.  Mind-Hold.  In the aftermath of a devastating earthquake, twelve-year-old Carson is responsible for his own survival and that of his spoiled younger sister, who despises him for partially sharing the mental powers that make her so dangerous.

Bell, Clare.  Tomorrow's Sphinx.  Two unusual black cheetahs share a mental link, one cat coming from the past to reveal scenes from his life with the young pharaoh Tutankhamen, and one struggling to survive in a future world ravaged by ecological disaster.

Blackwood, Gary L.  Dying Sun.  Set in the future during a new ice age, James and Robert leave the crime-ridden, warm South for a more primitive existence in the North as the two rejoin James' parents on their farm in Missouri and prepare for the approaching winter.

Brennan, Herbie.  Mystery Machine.  Hubert accidentally discovers that the weird woman who moved in next door is really a member of an alien race that plans to take over Earth.

Brittain, Bill.  Shape-Changer.  Two seventh-grade friends help a shape-changing policeman from the planet Rodinam as he tries to recapture an alien master criminal who can also change form.

Cameron, Eleanor.  Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet.  On their second flight to Basidium, two boys find that they
 have a would-be scientist as a stowaway.

Chetwin, Grace.  Collidescope.  When his spaceship crashes to earth, a highly advanced alien interferes with the lives of two teenagers living on the island of Manhattan during different centuries.

Christopher, John.  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. Sequel to "The White Mountains."

Christopher, John.  Dusk of Demons.  In a future world where civilization has collapsed, fourteen-year-old Ben sees his home destroyed by Demons, the hideous flying creatures that carry out the will of the Dark One, and sets out on a journey to reunite his exiled family.

Christopher, John.  Pool of Fire.  Continuing with "The White Mountains" and "The city of Gold and Lead," Will foils the Masters' plan for world domination.

Christopher, John.  White Mountains.  This science fiction tale of the 21st century describes a world where human life and thought are controlled.

Ciencin, Scott.  Dinoverse.  When thirteen-year-old Bertram and three other friends find themselves living in dinosaurs" bodies sixty-seven million years ago, they discover new ways to think about their lives.

Collier, James Lincoln.  Planet Out of the Past.  Young people search for hominids on another planet similar to Earth and experience all the dangers Earth possessed in prehistoric times.

Cooper, Clare.  Earthchange.  After a catastrophe turns Earth into an inhospitable wilderness, young Rose sets out to find help for her grandmother and a baby, warding off wolves and fierce humans, and finally reaching a group of survivors with scientific interests in restoring Earth to its original beauty.

Coville, Bruce.  I Was a Sixth Grade Alien.  When the first ambassador from another planet arrives on Earth, he insists that his son, Pleskit Meenom, be treated like another other citizen on Earth.

Coville, Bruce.  My Teacher is an Alien.   After Susan sees Mr. Smith the substitute teacher peel off his face, she knows he's an alien and only Peter believes her.  Together they work to save the class from Mr. Smith's horrible plans.

Crichton, Michael.  Jurassic Park.  The story of a modern-day scientist who brings to life a horde of prehistoric animals.

Cross, Gillian. New World. Fourteen-year-old Miriam agrees to test a new computer game in utmost secrecy but finds that it is more than she bargained for.

Curry, Jane Louise.  Me, Myself and I.  A Sixteen-year-old Progidy uses his mentor's invention to go into the past to exorcise his unreturned love for a beautiful girl, and discovers a mystery involving another of the professor's inventions.

Danziger, Paula.  This Place Has No Atmosphere.  Aurora loves her life on Earth in the twenty-first century, until she learns that her family is moving to the colony on the moon.

Dickinson, Peter.  Eva.  After a terrible accident, a young girl wakes up to discover that she has been given the body of a chimpanzee.

Dickinson, Peter.  Heartsease.  At a future time in England when anyone knowledgeable about machines is severely punished as a witch, four children dare to aid in the escape of a "witch" left for dead.

Dickinson, Peter.  Weathermonger.  People of the future recreate the Middle Ages by destroying Machines and by subjecting anyone found with a machine or a knowledge of mechanics to severe punishment or death.

Farmer, Nancy.  Ear, the Eye, and the Arm.  In 2194 in Zimbabwe, General Matsika's three children are kidnapped and put to work in a plastic mine, while three mutant detectives use their special powers to search for them.

Fisk, Nicholas.  Rag, a Bone, and a Hank of Hair.  In the twenty-third century, when children have become scarce, an unusually, bright boy is sent to live with an experimental family of reborn 1940 Londoners.

Forman, James D.  Cry Havoc.  An Army experiment gone wrong unleashes upon a quiet village a group of large and vicious killer animals, and fifteen-year-old Cathy Cooper watches her world turn into a bloody nightmare.

Fradin, Dennis Brindell.  How I Saved the World.  After thirteen-year-old Shelley spots a UFO one summer night at a rundown resort in northern Michigan, he becomes involved in a desperate effort to stop an alien invasion.

Freeman, Gaail.  Alien Thunder.  Seventeen-year-old Walker discovers the alarming significance of the ominous thunder that his younger brother heard when their mother nearly drowned in the lake.

Haas, Dorothy.  Burton and the Giggle Machine.  When Burton invents a machine to make people laugh, it arouses curiosity and greed in the evil Professor Savvy.

Haas, Dorothy.  Secret Life of Dilly McBean.  After being orphaned at an early age and spending years in boarding schools, Dilly begins a new life in a real house in a small town, developing secret magnetic powers under the tutelage of a kindly professor, until he is kidnapped by a madman who plans to control the world with a computer.

Haddix, Margaret Peterson.  Among the Hidden.  In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.

Haddix, Margaret Peterson.  Turnabout.After secretly receiving injections at the age of 100 that are meant to reverse the aging process, Melly and Anny Beth grow younger until, as teenagers, they try to find a guardian to take care of them as they return to infancy.

Hamilton, Virginia.  Dustland.  Four children, all possessing extraordinary mental powers, are projected far into the future to a bleak region called Dustland.

Hamilton, Virginia.  The Gathering.  Justice and her brothers, the first of a new race with extraordinary powers, return to Dustland in order to destroy the force that retards the growth of their advanced civilization.

Heinlein, Robert A.  Tunnel in the Sky.  A high school senior goes through the gate to an unknown planet for a two-to-ten day final exam in Advanced Survival, and realizes, after a period of fighting the elements and wildlife, that something has gone wrong with the gate and what was a brief survival exam is an endless struggle for life.

Hoover, H.M.  Away Is a Strange Place to Be  When she is kidnapped from the Earth in 2349 to serve as slave labor on an artificial world under construction, twelve-year-old Abby must cooperate with her fellow prisoner Bryan, a spoiled rich boy, in order to plan an escape.

Hoover, H.M. The Winds of Mars. When rebel forces strike against her father, the all-powerful president of Mars, teenage Annalyn finds her comfortable existence turned upside down and her life threatened from unexpected sources.

Hughes, Monica.  Crystal Drop.  In the summer of 2011, the death of their mother sends Megan and her younger brother Ian on a dangerous journey across a Canada ravaged by drought and the collapse of civilization.

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 their "Designated Area" until the government invites them to play the Game.

Jacobs, Paul Samuel.  Born into Light.  When a number of "feral children" are found in a New England town during the Depression, only young Roger Westwood suspects they are not earthly creatures, though even he cannot guess their true nature or their mission on this planet.

Jacobs, Paul Samuel.  Sleepers, Wake.  Dody, a space pioneer of the future, wakes long before anyone else during his ship's journey and grows old while his family continues to sleep.

Jordan, Sherryl.  Time of Darkness.  A teenage boy with unusual powers faces the challenge of his life when he's transported to a primitive society.

Klause, Annette Curtis.  Alien Secrets.  On her journey to the distant planet where her parents are working, 12-year-old Puck befriends a troubled alien and becomes involved in a dangerous mystery involving a precious artifact.

Lawrence, Louise.  Children of the Dust.   After a nuclear war devastates the earth, a small band of people struggles for survival in a new world where children are born with strange mutations.

Lawrence, Louise. Dream-Weaver. Using her psychic talents, an apprentice dream-weaver learns that human colonists aboard a spaceship plan to settle on her peaceful planet.

L'Engle, Madeleine.  A Wrinkle in Time.  Three extra-terrestrial beings take Meg and her friends to another world.

Leroe, Ellen W.  Robot Raiders.  Bixby Wyler battles against all odds to reconstruct his girl humanoid for NASA's Mars Landing project.

Leroe, Ellen W.  Robot Romance.  Pandemonium results when creative genius Bixby Wyler enrolls in SilCo High to learn all about computers.

Lowry, Lois.  Gathering Blue. 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.

Lowry, Lois.  The 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.

Mackel, Kathy.  Eggs in One Basket.  With the help of two middle school classmates and a bear-like talking "dog" from the planet Sirius, seventh-grader Scott Schreiber discovers that he can be a hero in other ways than on the football field.

MacCloud, Malcolm.  A Gift of Mirrorvax.  Owned by the planet Vax's largest corporation, Michael is sent on a secret mission to a shadow world, where he is totally unprepared for the adventures awaiting him.

MacDonald, Caroline.  Lake at the End of the World. In 2025, in the wake of global environmental devastation, the members of one surviving family encounter a teenaged boy from a mysterious clandestine community.

Maguire, Gregory.  I Feel Like the Morning Star.  Three teenagers in a post-holocaust survival colony find that their shelter has become a prison and decide to break out.

Mahy, Margaret.  Aliens in the Family.  Jake Raven, expecting to dislike her new stepsister and stepbrother, ends up helping them protect an alien from another dimension as he flees from mysterious pursuers with the ability to alter time.

O'Brien, Robert C.  Z for Zachariah.  Seemingly the only person left alive after the holocaust of a war, a young girl is relieved to see a man arrive into her valley until she realizes that he is a tyrant and she must somehow escape.

Oppel, Kenneth.  Dead Water Zone.  Muscular sixteen-year-old Paul tries to find his genetically stunted younger brother Sam in the polluted ruins of Watertown, where Sam is trying to cure himself with toxic "dead water" that alters the metabolism of those who drink it.

Paulsen, Gar.  Escape. Return. Breakout:  The White Fox Chronicles.Having been imprisoned when the Confederation of Consolidated Republics, a foreign power, conquered Los Angeles in 2056, fourteen-year-old Cody escapes and endures hardship to become the underground hero the White Fox.

Paulsen, Gary.   Transall Saga.  While backpacking in the desert, thirteen-year-old Mark falls into a tube of blue light and is transported into a more primitive world, where he must use his knowledge and skills to survive.

Pfeffer, Susan Beth.  Rewind to Yesterday.  After eleven-year-old Kelly discovers how to set her family's new VCR so that it sends her back in time, she and her twin brother Scott argue over how the secret should be used.

Philbrick, Rodman.  The Last Book in the Universe.After an earthquake has destroyed much of the planet, an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the Earth of a distant future.

Pinkwater, Daniel.  Slaves of Spiegel.   Steve Nickelson, his assistant Norman Bleistift, and the Magic Moscow restaurant are transported through space to compete in an intergalactic junk food cooking contest.

Pinkwater, Daniel.  Snarkout Boys & the Avocado of Death.  Walter and Winston set out to rescue the inventor of the Alligatron, a computer developed from an avocado which is the world's last defense against the space-realtors.

Riding, Julia.  Space Traders Unlimited.  Eking out a desperate existence as a renegade with the other Portkids who hide in the old tunnels under a spaceport on Mars, the teenager known as Streak stumbles on clues to the sabotage plaguing the entire solar system.

Rubinstein, Gillian.  Space Demons.  Twelve-year-old Andrew, bored with life, becomes obsessed with a mysterious new computer game, which has the power to zap him and his friends into a dangerous world of menacing space warriors.

Scott, Michael.  Gemini Game.  When players of their virtual reality computer game fall into a coma, Liz and BJ O'Connor, teenage owners of a computer games company, flee from the police in an attempt to locate a copy of their game and correct the programming.

Service, Pamela. F.  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.

Service, Pamela. F.  Stinker's Return.  Alien agent Tsynq Yr, still inhabiting the body of a skunk, returns to Earth and enlists Jonathan and Karen's help in finding a souvenir from Washington, D.C., for a threatening space despot. Sequel to "Stinker from Space."

Service, Pamela. F.  Under Alien Stars.  Jason resents his mother's friendliness toward the military commander of the alien forces that have subjugated Earth.

Silverberg, Robert.  Letters from Atlantis.  While his body remains in deep sleep, Roy transfers his mind into the mind of a royal prince living in Atlantis 180 years ago.

Sleater, William.  The Boxes.When she opens two strange boxes left in her care by her mysterious uncle, fifteen-year-old Annie discovers a swarm of telepathic creatures and unleashes a power capable of slowing down time.

Sleater, William.  Boy Who Reversed Himself.  When Laura discovers that the unpopular boy living next door to her has the ability to go into the fourth dimension, she makes the dangerous decision to accompany him on his journeys there.

Sleater, William.  The Duplicate.  Sixteen-year-old David, finding a strange machine that creates replicas of living organisms, duplicates himself and suffers the horrible consequences when the duplicate turns against him.

Sleater, William.  Green Futures of Tycho.  When he finds an ancient, egg-shaped object with which he travels back and forth in time, eleven-year-old Tycho grapples with several terrible futures he sees for himself and his family.

Sleater, William.  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."

Sleater, William.  Into the Dream.   When two youngsters realize they are having the same frightening dream, they begin searching for an explanation for this mysterious coincidence.

Sleator, William. The Night the Heads Came. When aliens abduct both Leo and his artist friend Tim, Leo tries to determine why these creatures from outer space want particularly to use his friend's talent.

Sleator, William.  Others See Us.  When an accidental dunking in toxic waste gives sixteen-year-old Jared the ability to read minds, he discovers horrifying secrets about family members at the annual summer reunion.

Slote, Alfred.  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.

Slote, Alfred.  Trouble on Janus.  Jack and his robot buddy, Danny One, set off for the planet Janus to rescue the young King Paul from his conniving uncle.

Spinner, Stephanie.  Aliens for Dinner.  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.

Vardeman, Robert E.  Road to the Stars.  Accompanying his scientist parents on an exploratory voyage to another star system, seventeen-year-old Cliff Macklin discovers the ruins of an alien culture.

Vinge, Joan D.  Psion.  A sixteen-year-old delinquent who has spent his life lying and stealing becomes involved in a research project which unleashes his extraordinary telepathic powers.

Wells, H.G.  Time Machine.  A scientist invents a time machine and uses it to travel into the future, where he discovers the childlike Eloi and the hideous underground Morlocks.

Westwood, Chris. Virtual World. Fourteen-year-old Jack North finds himself literally drawn into the frightening world of what he thinks is a new virtual reality game.

Wilkes, Marilyn.  C.L.U.T.Z.  Eleven-year-old Rodney makes a new friend when a broken-down robot with an almost human personality comes to work for his family.

Zindel, Paul.  Raptor. Zack and his Ute Indian friend find themselves trapped in a cave with a living dinosaur--the deadly Utahraptor.

Zindel, Paul.  Rats.   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.

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