Reading Rocks!!!

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Reading Rocks!!!

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AMAZING SCIENCE FICTION

• By K P

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What makes a book science fiction?

• Fantastic stories in which scientific
  discoveries, space travel, life on other planets,
  or environmental changes form part of the plot.

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THINGS NOT SEEN

• When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds
  himself invisible, he and his parents and his new
  friend Alicia try to find out what caused his
  condition and how to reverse it.
• By Andrew Clements

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ALIENS ATE MY HOMEWORK

• By Bruce Coville

• Rod is surprised when a miniature spaceship lands
  in his school science project and reveals five
  tiny aliens, who ask his help in apprehending an
  interstellar criminal.

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MY TEACHER FRIED MY BRAINS

• Duncan Dougall discovers that his teacher, Miss
  Karpou, is an alien, but not before she chooses
  him to participate in an experiment in which he
  dons a helmet that fries his brains.

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THIS PLACE HAS NO ATMOSPHERE

• By Paula Danziger

• 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.

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BEATNIK RUTABAGAS FROM BEYOND THE STARS

• Whisked away on space ships to serve as generals
  of opposing armies, best friends and sci-fi movie
  fans Walter Nutria and Yselle Meridian soon
  convince the aliens they must work together
  against the real menaces Space Mice from Galaxy
  Four and their leader the boss.
• By Quentin Dodd

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THE HOUSE OF THE SCORPION

• By Nancy Farmer

• In a future where humans desire clones, Matt
  enjoys special status as the young clone of El
  Patron the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug
  empire nestled between Mexico and the United
  States.

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AMONG THE HIDDEN

• A government decree allows each family only two
  children. For Luke, a third child, this has meant
  a lifetime of hiding. But could a stray glimpse
  of a child hiding in the house across the way
  lead to freedom.
• By Margaret Peterson Haddix

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TURNABOUT

• It isnt natural for you to be younger than your
  great-grandchildren. Melly and Anny Beth both
  lived normal lives throughout the 20th century.
  But in 2000, when they are old and ready to die
  they are selected to participate in Project
  Turnabout and are given an injection to make them
  grow younger.
• By Margaret Peterson Haddix

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A WRINKLE IN TIME

• Meg and Charles Wallace set out with their friend
  Calvin in a search for their father. His top
  secret job as a physicist for the government has
  taken him away and the children search through
  time and space to find him.
• By Madeleine LEngle

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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.
• By Lois Lowry

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THE LOST CITY OF FARR PENDRAGON SERIES

• When Pendragon finds himself in the war-stricken
  territory of Cloral, he and his uncle take it
  upon themselves to rid of the area of marauders
  and locate the lost land.
• By D.J. MacHale

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THE LAST BOOK IN THE UNIVERSE

• After an earthquake has destroyed much of the
  planet epileptic teen nicknamed Spaz begins the
  herioc fight to bring human intelligence back to
  the earth of a distant future.
• By W. R. Philbrick

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BRAINBOY AND THE DEATHMASTER

• When Daryl is adopted by a technology genius he
  finds himself the star of his very own life
  threatening video game.
• By Tor Seidler

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THE DUPLICATE

• Sixteen-year-old David finds a strange machine
  that creates replicas of living organisms,
  duplicates himself and suffers the horrible
  consequences when the duplicate turns against
  him.
• By William Sleator

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How to Find Science Fiction in our library.

• Step 1Log on a computer and get on OPAC.
• Step 2Type science fiction in the search box.
• Step 3Click subject
• Step 4Select a book from the list. Which may
  be a little difficult because we have over 200 to
  choose from.
• Step 5Go get your book from the shelf and check
  it out!!!

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Works Cited

• Amazon.com
• Barnes Noble.com