Science Fiction for Kids | Downers Grove Public Library

1) The last human

Author

Series

Last Human

Description

After machines take control of Earth, following the extinction of humans, twelve-year-old robot XR 935A confronts its prejudices about humans and begins to reconsider its own existence within robot society after discovering and befriending a twelve-year-old human girl.

Author

Van Eekhout, Greg

Description

Jake Foster, a shapeshifting alien of goo disguised as a human, and his spunky friend Agnes investigate the mysterious takeover of their neighbors by "imblobsters" and uncover the reason Jake is losing control of his ability to keep his human shape.

3) Trapped in a video game

Author

Series

Trapped in a video game (Series) volume 1

Description

After getting sucked in the new game Full Blast with his friend Eric, Jesse starts to see the appeal of being in the game, but pretty soon, a mysterious figure begins following Eric and Jesse, and they discover they cannot leave the game.

4) The wild robot

Author

Brown, Peter, 1979-

Series

Wild robot (Series) volume 1
Wild Robot
Wild Robot
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Description

Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants. When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is - but she knows she needs to survive. After battling...

5) Midnight on the moon

Author

Osborne, Mary Pope

Series

Magic tree house series volume 8
First stepping stone book

Description

The Magic Tree House takes Jack 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.

6) Simon sort of says

Author

Description

"Simon O'Keeffe's biggest claim to fame should be the time his dad accidentally gave a squirrel a holy sacrament. Or maybe the alpaca disaster that went viral on YouTube. But the story the whole world wants to tell about Simon is the one he'd do anything to forget: the story in which he's the only kid in his class who survived a school shooting. Two years after the infamous event, twelve-year-old Simon and his family move to the National Quiet Zone...

7) Dragon Pearl

Author

Series

Thousand worlds novel volume 1
Thousand Worlds

Description

Min, a thirteen-year-old girl with fox-magic, stows away on a battle cruiser and impersonates a cadet in order to solve the mystery of what happened to her older brother in the Thousand World Space Forces.

8) Zita the spacegirl: 1, Far from home

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Description

When young Zita discovers a device that opens a portal to another place, and her best friend is abducted, she is compelled to set out on a strange journey from star to star in order to get back home.

9) The lion of Mars

Author

Holm, Jennifer L

Series

Thorndike Press large print striving reader collection

Description

Bell has spent his whole life -- all eleven years of it -- on Mars. But he's still just a regular kid-he loves cats, any kind of cake, and is curious about the secrets the adults in the US colony are keeping. Like, why don't they have contact with anyone on the other Mars colonies? Why are they so isolated? When a virus breaks out and the grown-ups all fall ill, Bell and the other children are the only ones who can help. It's up to Bell -- a regular...

10) The last last-day-of-summer

Author

Giles, Lamar, 1979-

Series

Legendary Alston boys adventure volume 1
Legendary Alston Boys

Description

"Otto and Sheed Alston are local sleuths in their zany Virginia town, masters of unraveling mischief using their unmatched powers of deduction. As summer winds down and the first day of school looms, the boys are craving just a little more time for fun, eve as they bicker over what kind of fun they want to have. That is, until a mysterious man named Mr. Flux appears with a camera that literally freezes time. Now, with the help of some very strange...

Author

McCulloch, Amy, 1986-

Series

Jinxed (McCulloch)
Jinxed volume 1

Description

"After fourteen-year-old Lacey Chu repairs a highly advanced smartphone/robotic pet companion, or baku, called Jinx, the baku gets her into her dream school, Profectus, where she is exposed to dangerous secrets." -- (Source of summary not specified)

12) Jedi Academy

Author

Brown, Jeffrey, 1975-

Series

Star Wars Jedi Academy volume 1

Description

"My whole life I planned on going to pilot school like the rest of my friends--then I got rejected! Along came a little green guy named Yoda who invited me to Jedi Academy. Now I'm at a school with aliens, robots, and lightsaber-wielding bullies who can lift things with their minds! How am I supposed to compete with that? As if starting middle school wasn't hard enough..." The story of Roan Novachez, Jedi Academy student, is told through comics, journal...

13) The Firefly code

Author

Blakemore, Megan Frazer

Series

Firefly Code

Description

Mori and her friends live a normal life on Firefly Lane in Old Harmonie, a utopian community where every kid knows he or she is genetically engineered to be better and smarter, but when a strangely perfect new girl named Ilana moves in, the friends begin to question the only world they have ever known.

14) The empire strikes back

Author

Series

Lego Star Wars (Dorling Kindersley Inc.)
Dorling Kindersley readers. 2 Beginning to read alone

Description

Retells the story of the iconic science fiction film through LEGO figurines as the Rebels fight against the evil Empire.

15) Not so normal Norbert

Author

Patterson, James, 1947-

Description

Having been judged Different, Norbert, Drew, and Sophie are banished from the United State of Earth to Astronuts Camp on Zorquat 3 in the Orion Nebula, interfering with Norbert's quest to find his parents.

16) Captain Underpants and the preposterous plight of the purple potty people

Author

Pilkey, Dav, 1966-

Series

Adventures of Captain Underpants (Series) volume 8
Adventures of Captain Underpants volume 8
Captain Underpants

Description

When George and Harold use their traveling purple potty to travel to another dimension where the school is nice and the principal, Mr. Krupp, thinks they're funny, they meet up with their evil twins and must face their cleverest enemies ever -- themselves.

Author

Series

Dorling Kindersley readers. 1 Beginning to read
Lego Star Wars (Dorling Kindersley Inc.)

Description

Retells the story of the iconic science fiction film through LEGO figurines as they attempt to save Princess Leia from the clutches of the Empire.

18) Masterminds

Author

Series

Masterminds volume 1

Description

"A group of kids discovers they were cloned from the DNA of some of the greatest criminal masterminds in history for a sociological experiment"-- Provided by publisher.

19) Space case: a Moon Base Alpha novel

Author

Gibbs, Stuart, 1969-

Series

Moon Base Alpha novel volume 1
Moon Base Alpha

Description

"Dashiell Gibson, who lives on Moon Base Alpha, has to solve a murder of one of the moon's most prominent doctors"-- Provided by publisher.

20) The adventures of Luke Skywalker, Jedi knight

Author

DiTerlizzi, Tony

Description

Retells Luke Skywalker's journey from a Tatooine farm boy to a Jedi Knight, as he learns how to use the Force in the battle against the Empire.