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Science Fiction for Kids

Aliens, robots, space travel, monsters, and more!

Mid-Continent Public Library

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  • Roz is a robot stranded on an island and she'll do whatever it takes to survive. Even if that means giving up her robot ways for a more human life. Available in multiple formats.
    BookNew York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2016. — JF BROWN
  • Thirteen-year-old Felix Yz chronicles the final month before an experimental procedure meant to separate him from the fourth-dimensional creature, Zyx, with whom he was accidentally fused as a young child.
    BookNew York, New York : Viking, 2017. — JF BUNKER
  • Dinosaurs meet the Civil War in this alternate history that weaves facts with sci-fi/fantasy to tell the story of an orphan who just wants to save the world as she knows it.
    BookNew York, NY : Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2018. — JF OLDER
  • Klawde

    Evil Alien Warlord Cat

    Marciano, Johnny
    Klawde, a former ruler of planet Lyttyrboks, is a recently adopted cat determined to return to his home planet. Raj is just a kid trying to survive summer camp. Once they speak the same language, there's no stopping them.
    BookNew York, New York : Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2019] — JF MARCIANO
  • Having grown up in a world where a plague has forced all humans to live completely indoors, Cleo venture into the outside when a drone mistakenly delivers life-saving medicine to the wrong address.
    BookNew York : Feiwel and Friends, 2020. — JF BURT
  • When Max (Maxine Zealster) befriends her new robot classmate Fuzzy, she helps him navigate Vanguard Middle School and together they reveal the truth behind the Robot Integration Program.
    BookNew York : Amulet Books, 2016. — JF ANGLEBERGER
  • To Prez, Sputnik looks like a boy, but to everyone else he appears as a dog. In reality he's just a space alien on a mission to save Earth. Available in multiple formats.
    eBookHarperCollins, 2017
  • When cyborg Sven Carter learns that he is not the only Tick, he speeds across the country gathering the others to convince them to join him in saving the world.
    BookNew York : Aladdin MAX, 2018. — JF VLOCK
  • 4 experimental hybrid animals search the universe for a habitable plant for the people of Earth.
    eBookChronicle Books LLC, 2019
  • Chloe Cho is a Korean American seventh-grader who would like to get in touch with many of the aspects of her heritage, but her parents are unwilling to talk about it--then when a class assignment forces Chloe to confront them directly,…
    BookNew York : Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2016. — JF
  • His parents are geniuses, but Kelvin is pretty ordinary. Which makes the fact that it's up to save the world from an evil mad scientist pretty remarkable. Available in multiple formats.
    BookNew York : Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company, 2017. — JF SEEGERT
  • Trapped. Jesse Rigsby is trapped in the video game Full Blast. His dumb friend Eric probably has something to do with this.
    BookKansas City, Missouri : Andrews McMeel Publishing, [2018] — JF BRADY
  • Moving from Mars to planet Choom in hopes to improve the native species opinion of humans, Lan and her family may have their work cut out for them. Available in multiple formats.
    BookNew York : Crown Books for Young Readers, [2019] — JF RODKEY
  • While searching for her sister, Aster and her friend Sam begin to connect the strange things that have been happening on the island with the medical research that Aster's aunt is a part of.
    BookNew York : Chicken House/Scholastic Inc., 2020. — JF GALVIN
  • Told in their four voices, a diverse group of middle schoolers comes together to try to figure out the bus accident that gave each a bizarre, limited superpower.
    BookNew York : Amulet Books, 2016. — JF IGNATOW
  • Preparing to leave Mars before it meets the same fate as Earth years before, Liam and Phoebe learn about space travel and that they are not alone in the universe. Available in multiple formats.
    eBookHarperCollins, 2017
  • Go on a space adventure with best friends, Sanity and Tallulah, and an illegally made three headed kitten.
    Graphic NovelLos Angeles : Disney/Hyperion, 2018. — JF BROOKS
  • Robots have taken over and humans are extinct. But when a young robot finds a 12-year-old girl they are forced to rethink everything they have learned about humans. Available in multiple formats.
    BookNew York, NY : Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams, 2019. — JF BACON
  • Smartphone meets robot meets pet in this high-stakes adventure that lands Lacey at her dream tech school that just happens to be full of secrets. Available in multiple formats.
    eBookSourcebooks, 2020