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Recommended Reading: Science Fiction: Children & Young Adult

Children's Science Fiction Awards

Core Excellence in Children’s and Young Adult Science Fiction
Includes lists of notable books in children's and young adult science fiction: the Golden Duck Notable Picture Books List (ages 0-6), the Eleanor Cameron List (ages 7-11), and the Hal Clement List (ages 12-18) from 2018—present. Selected titles published between 1991 and 2017 can be found on Wikipedia. Recommended titles published prior to 1991 can be found on the Core Excellence Website.

Picture Books

Best Frints in the Whole Universe by Antoinette Portis
Call Number: PZ7.P8362 Bes 2016
ISBN: 9781626721364
Publication Date: 2016
Boy and Bot by Ame Dyckman; Dan Yaccarino (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ7.D9715 Bo 2012
Publication Date: 2012
Commander Toad and the Dis-Asteroid by Jane Yolen
Call Number: PZ7.Y78 Co 1996
ISBN: 0698114043
Publication Date: 1996
Available at FLC - Children's Books
Field Trip to the Moon by John Hare
Call Number: PZ7.1.H3675 Fi 2019
ISBN: 9780823442539
Publication Date: 2019
If You Decide to Go to the Moon by Faith McNulty; Steven Kellogg (Illustrator)
Call Number: TL799.M6 M34 2005
Publication Date: 2005-10-01
June 29, 1999 by David Wiesner
Call Number: PZ7.W6367 Ju 1992
ISBN: 0395597625
Publication Date: 1992
Available at SCC - Juvenile (2nd Floor)
Rabbit Moon by Jean Kim
Call Number: PZ8.3.K5592 Rab 2018
ISBN: 9781338036398
Publication Date: 2018
The Rock from the Sky by Jon Klassen
Call Number: PZ7.1.K6781446 Ro 2021
Publication Date: 2021
There's an Alien in Your Book by Tom Fletcher; Greg Abbott (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ7.F6358 The 2022
Publication Date: 2020

Short Books

The Magic School Bus: Sees Stars by Nancy White & Art Ruiz (Illustrator)
Call Number: QB801.7 .W44 1999
ISBN: 0590187325
Publication Date: 1999
The Magic School Bus and the Science Fair Expedition by Joanna Cole & Bruce Degen (Illustrator)
Call Number: Q126.4 .C65 2006
ISBN: 0590108247
Publication Date: 2006
Sadie Sprocket Builds a Rocket by Sue Fliess; Annabel Tempest (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ8.3.F642 Sad 2021
Publication Date: 2021
Science Verse by Jon Scieszka; Lane Smith (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ7.S41267 Sc 2004
Publication Date: 2004
The Smeds and the Smoos by Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ8.3.D7235 Sme 2020
Publication Date: 2020
The Space Explorers by Joanna Cole; Eva Moore; Ted Enik (Illustrator)
Call Number: QB501.3 .M65 2000
ISBN: 0439114934
Publication Date: 2000

Short Chapter Books

Akiko on the Planet Smoo by Mark Crilley
Call Number: PZ7.C869275 Ak 2001
Publication Date: 2001
ARC - Circulating (3rd Floor)
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
Call Number: PZ7.D927 Ci 2004
ISBN: 9780375822742
Publication Date: 2004
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Call Number: PZ7.L9673 Gi & eBook
ISBN: 9780395645666
Publication Date: 1993
Hilo Book 1: the Boy Who Crashed to Earth by Judd Winick
Call Number: PZ7.7.W57 Hi 2015
Publication Date: 2015
ARC - Graphic Novels (1st Floor)
The Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick
Call Number: PZ7.P52112 La 2000
ISBN: 0439087589
Publication Date: 2000
Last Gate of the Emperor by Kwame Mbalia & Prince Joel Makonnen
Call Number: PZ7.1.M395 Las 2022
ISBN: 9781338665901
Publication Date: 2022
The Last Kids on Earth by Max Brallier; Douglas Holgate (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ7.B7356 Las 2015
ISBN: 9780670016617
Publication Date: 2015
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Call Number: PZ8.S14 Li 2000
ISBN: 0152023984
Publication Date: 1943
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
Call Number: PZ7.B81668 Wi 2016
Publication Date: 2016
ARC - Easy Reading (1st Floor)
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Call Number: PZ7.L5385 Wr
ISBN: 0374386137
Publication Date: 1962

Long Chapter Books

Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Call Number: MeyerM #1
ISBN: 9780312641894
Publication Date: 2012
The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer
Call Number: PZ7.S37845 Dar 2021
ISBN: 9780062888280
Publication Date: 2021
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Call Number: PS3553.A655 E5
ISBN: 9781250773012
Publication Date: 1985
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Call Number: PS3603 .O4558 H87 2008
ISBN: 9780439023481
Publication Date: 2008
Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone by Tae Keller
Call Number: PZ7.1.K418 Je 2022
Publication Date: 2022
The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
Call Number: PZ7.1.H5468 Las 2021 & eBook
ISBN: 9781646142187
Publication Date: 2021
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
Call Number: PR9199.4.D56 M37 2017
ISBN: 9781770864863
Publication Date: 2017
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Call Number: PZ7.D2587 Maz 2010
Publication Date: 2010
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Call Number: PR6051.D3352 H5
ISBN: 9780345453747
Publication Date: 1979

Non-Fiction

Boy, Were We Wrong about the Solar System! by Kathleen V. Kudlinski; John Rocco (Illustrator)
Call Number: QB501.3 .K83 2008
ISBN: 9780525469797
Publication Date: 2008
Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars by Douglas Florian
Call Number: PZ7.F66 C56 2007
ISBN: 9780152053727
Publication Date: 2007