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Career Online High School summer reading

Science Fiction for Kids

These stories of aliens, science, and possible futures are totally out of this world!

Click on the book to find out if it's available at your local County Library. If not, place it on hold, and we'll deliver it to your Library for pick up. Printable version of the list (PDF).

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Robo-Sauce
Adam Rubin
Kindergarten - Grade 2

Mars Needs Moms
Berkeley Breathed
Kindergarten - Grade 2

Zathura: A Space Adventure
Chris Van Allsburg
Kindergarten - Grade 5

How to Capture an Invisible Cat
Paul Tobin
Grades 3 - 6

Cakes in Space
Philip Reeve
Grades 2 - 5

When You Reach Me
Rebecca Stead
Grades 5 - 8

Project Alpha
D. J. MacHale
Grades 4 - 6

Mr. Wuffles
David Wiesner
Kindergarten - Grade 4

Interstellar Cinderella
Deborah Underwood
Kindergarten - Grade 2

A Mutiny in Time
James Dashner
Grades 4 - 6

The City of Ember
Jeanne DuPrau
Grades 4 - 7

The Fog Diver
Joel N. Ross
Grades 4 - 6

School for Sidekicks
Kelly McCullough
Grades 4 - 6

The Giver
Lois Lowry
Grades 6 - 9

A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle
Grades 5 - 9

H.I.V.E.: Higher Institute of Villainous Education
Mark Walden
Grades 5 - 8

Tesla's Attic
Neal Shusterman
Grades 4 - 8

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Robert C. O'Brien
Grades 3 - 7

George's Secret Key to the Universe
Stephen W. Hawking
Grades 4 - 7

Alien Escape
Geronimo Stilton
Grades 2 - 4

8/2016