Science Fiction for the Middle School Classroom
Discover engaging science fiction books for middle school classrooms! Explore top picks that inspire young minds, foster creativity, and make learning fun with thrilling futuristic stories.
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Invitation to the Game
by Monica Hughes
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" …
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A Wind in the Door
by Madeleine L'Engle
With Meg Murry's help, the dragons her six-year-old brother saw in the vegetable garden play an important part in his struggle between life and death.
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The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster
With almost 5 million copies sold 60 years after its original publication, generations of readers have now journeyed with Milo to the Lands Beyond in …
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Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
Child-hero Ender Wiggin must fight a desperate battle against a deadly alien race if mankind is to survive.
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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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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . [and] over much too soon.”—The Washington Post Book World SOON …
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Hidden Talents
by David Lubar
When thirteen-year-old Martin arrives at an alternative school for misfits and problem students, he falls in with a group of boys with psychic powers and …
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Obernewtyn
by Isobelle Carmody
Born with enhanced mental powers, Elspeth Gordie faces persecution by her own post-holocaust world, but she must resist dark forces who hope to use her …
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Putting Up Roots
by Charles Sheffield
When Josh and his autistic cousin Dawn are sent to the planet Solferino, they join a group of kids already working for an interplanetary conglomerate …
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Eva
by Peter Dickinson
THIRTEEN-YEAR OLD EVA wakes up in the hospital unable to remember anything since the picnic on the beach. Her mother leans over the bed and …