FIC ADA
Adams, Douglas.  So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish. New York: Harmony, c1985.  Further adventures of Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, and the all new voidoid gang upon returning to Earth after eight years of crazed wanderings around the galaxy in this science fiction spoof which continues the Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe.

FIC ADA
Adams, Douglas, 1952-.  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.  1st Ballantine Books trade ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 1997.  Seconds before Earth is demolished to make room for a galactic freeway, an earthman is saved by his friend.  Together they journey through the galaxy.

FIC APP
Applegate, Katherine.  The Alien. New York : Scholastic, c1997.  Ax, an Andalite warrior-cadet, is stranded on Earth when his spaceship is attacked by the evil Yeerks, and, although he has misgivings, he agrees to join forces with five humans who have been given the power to morph into animals to help him fight the Yeerks and avenge his brother's death.

FIC ASI
Asimov, Janet.  Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot. New York : Walker, c1983. Jeff Wells, a Space Academy student, and Norby, a second-hand robot with unusual abilities, find themselves involved in the sinister plans of Ing the Ingrate, who intends to take over the universe.

FIC BAR
Barron, T. A.  Heartlight.  New York : Philomel Books, 1990.  Kate and her grandfather use one of his inventions to travel faster than the speed of light on a mission to save the sun from a premature death.

FIC BEC
Bechard, Margaret.   Star Hatchling. New York : Viking, 1995.  The female-dominated culture of a distant planet encounters  human beings for the first time.

FIC BOV
Bova, Ben, 1932-.  End of Exile. 1st ed. New York : Dutton, [1975]. Born and brought up on a space ship that is slowly deteriorating, Linc discovers its secrets and the way to get the remaining occupants to their ultimate destination.

FIC CAM 
Cameron, Eleanor, 1912-. The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet. [1st ed.]. Boston, : Little, Brown, [1954]. A mystery man inspires two boys to build a space ship which takes them to the planet of Basidium to help the Mushroom people.

FIC CAR
Card, Orson Scott.  Ender's Game.  Rev. mass market ed. New York :  TOR, 1994.  Ender, who is the result of genetic experimentation, may be the military genius Earth needs in its war against an alien enemy.

FIC CHE
Chetwin, Grace.  Collidescope.  1st ed. New York : Bradbury Press, c1990. When his spaceship crashes to earth, a highly advanced alien interferes with the lives of two teenagers living on the island of Manhattan during different centuries.

FIC CHR
Christopher, John. The Pool of Fire. New York : Macmillan, [1968]. Will and a small group of free people plan to destroy the three great cities of the Tripods before the arrival of a space ship destined to doom the planet.

FIC CHR 
Christopher, John. The White Mountains. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1967. Three boys strive for freedom in a future society run by enormous metal robots called Tripods, who capture mature human beings and make them docile, obediant servants.

FIC COV 
Coville, Bruce. I Left My Sneakers in Dimension X. New York :  Pocket Books, c1994. Rod and his bratty cousin Elspeth are snatched into another dimension by the monstrous alien Smorkus Flinders.

FIC COV
Coville, Bruce.  I Was a Sixth Grade Alien.  New York : Pocket Books, c1999. When aliens come to Earth on an interplanetary trade mission, sixth-grader Tim makes friends with the ambassador's son and together they uncover a plot to sabotage the mission.

FIC COV 
Coville, Bruce. My Teacher is an Alien. Minstrel ed. New York : Pocket, 1989. After Susan sees Mr. Smith the substitute teacher peel off his face, she knows he's an alien and only Peter believes her. Together they work to save the class from Mr. Smith's horrible plans.

CIC COV 
Coville, Bruce.  The Search for Snout.  New York : Pocket Books, c1995. Rod and his alien friends stumble into danger as the search for Snout, the Master of the Mental Arts, leads them across the stars to the Mentat, the mysterious home of the Mental Masters.

FIC DAN 
Danziger, Paula, 1944-. This Place Has No Atmosphere. New York :  Delacorte Press, c1986. 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.

FIC DER
Dereske, Jo.  The Lone Sentinel.  1st ed. New York : Atheneum, 1989. At his father's untimely death, a teenager assumes control of a light tower at the bleak and lonely outpost of the universe--a job he feels capable of handling until the arrival of two teenaged girls and a group of aliens.

FIC EVA
Evans, Mary Ann.  The War of the Worlds.  New York : Random House, [1998].  As life on Mars becomes impossible, Martians and their terrifying machines invade the earth.

FIC GAU 
Gauthier, Gail, 1953-. My Life Among the Aliens. New York : Putnam's Sons, c1996. Two brothers begin to wonder if it is their mother's unusual cooking that is attracting the aliens that keep showing up at their house.

FIC GIL
Gilden, Mel.  The Pumpkins of Time.  1st ed. San Diego :  Harcourt Brace, c1994.  Fourteen-year-old Myron finds that he has become very interesting to a menacing alien from outer space.

FIC GIL 
Gilden, Mel. The Return of Captain Conquer. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1986. Thirteen-year-old Watson Congruent and a group of fans dedicated to an old science fiction television series discover an alien plot to conquer the world.

FIC HAR 
Harding, Lee, 1937-. The Fallen Spaceman. 1st American ed. New York : Harper & Row, 1979, c1980. After crashing to earth, a giant spacesuit starts a wild rampage through a forest, endangering the lives of its small human-like alien and a curious boy who crawled aboard.

FIC HER
Herbert, Frank.  Dune.  Ace special 25th anniversary ed. New York : Berkley, 1990, c1965.  Forced by the Emperor of the known universe to live in exile on a barren planet, Duke Leto Atreides and his son lead the struggle against the Empire.

FIC HIL 
Hill, Douglas Arthur, 1935-. Warriors of the Wasteland. 1st American ed. New York : Atheneum, 1983. Finn Ferral the huntsman and his Bloodkin friend Baer approach the Wastelands in their relentless search for Finn's foster sister Jena, captive of the Slavers, while they are pursued in turn by the malevolent Claw.

FIC HOO 
Hoover, H. M. Another Heaven, Another Earth. 1st ed. New York : Viking Press, 1981. After being lost for several hundred years, a space colony is rediscovered by an exploratory expedition from Earth whose technology threatens to destroy the colony's painfully constructed civilization.

FIC HOO
Hoover, H. M.  Away is a Strange Place To Be.  1st ed. New York : Dutton, c1990.  When she is kidnapped from the Earth in 2349 to serve as slave labor on an artificial world under construction, twelve-year-old Abby must cooperate with her fellow prisoner Bryan, a spoiled rich boy, in order to plan an escape.

FIC HOO 
Hoover, H. M. The Lost Star. 1st ed. New York : Viking Press, 1979. While on an archaeological expedition to Balthor, a young astrophysicist stumbles upon the Lumpies--gray smiling creatures with a strange secret.

FIC HOO
Hoover, H. M.  Orvis.  New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking Kestrel, 1987. On an Earth that has become an inhospitable wilderness, Toby and her friend Thaddeus find themselves lost in "the empty" with Orvis, an obsolete robot who is their only hope of protection and escape.

FIC HOO
Hoover, H. M.  The Shepherd Moon : A Novel of the Future.  1st ed. New York : Viking Press, 1984. When a colonist from a forgotten artificial moon returns to earth, thirteen-year-old Merry and her grandfather must battle to save their culture from the visitor's strange powers.

FIC HOO
Hoover, H. M.  The Winds of Mars.  1st ed. New York : Dutton Children's Books, c1995. When rebel forces strike against her father, the all-powerful president of Mars, teenage Annalyn finds her comfortable existence turned upside-down and her life threatened from unexpected sources.

FIC HOW
Howarth, Lesley.  MapHead.  1st U.S. pbk. ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 1996, c1994. Twelve-year-old MapHead, a boy with strange powers from an alternative world, travels to England in search of his human mother.

FIC HUG
Hughes, Monica.  The Golden Aquarians.  New York : Simon & Schuster, c1995. Walt Elliot goes with the father he hasn't seen for years to the planet Aqua, where he discovers that his father's project threatens the existence of a highly intelligent native species.

FIC HUG
Hughes, Ted, 1930-.  The Iron Giant : A Story in Five Nights.  New York : A. Knopf, [1999], c1996. The fearsome iron giant becomes a hero when he challenges a huge space monster.

FIC JOH
Johnson, Annabel, 1921-.  The Danger Quotient.  1st ed. New York : Harper & Row, c1984. A super-genius in a small underground colony of survivors of nuclear war, eighteen-year-old Casey risks journeying back to the twentieth century to discover why the survivors are dying and how he can save them all.

FIC KAY
Kaye, Marilyn.  Pursuing Amy.  New York : Bantam Books, c1998.  Amy finds it difficult to hide her past and true identity from other people.

FIC KLA
Klause, Annette Curtis.  Alien Secrets.  New York, N.Y. :  Delacorte Press, 1993. On her journey to the distant planet where her parents are working, twelve-year-old Puck befriends a troubled alien and becomes involved in a dangerous mystery involving a precious artifact.

FIC LEN
L'Engle, Madeleine. A Swiftly Tilting Planet.  New York :  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c1978.  The youngest of the Murry children must travel through time and space in a battle against an evil dictator who would destroy the entire universe.

FIC LEN 
L'Engle, Madeleine. A Wrinkle in Time. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c1962. Three extraterrestrial beings take Meg and her friends to another world.

FIC LER
Leroe, Ellen, 1949-.  Robot Raiders.  1st ed. New York : Harper & Row, c1987.  Bixby Wyler battles against all odds to reconstruct his girl humanoid for NASA's Mars Landing project.

FIC MAC
Mackel, Kathy.  Can of Worms.  New York : Avon, c1999. Bullied and unhappy at school, thirteen-year-old Mike, who has always thought that he might be an alien, sends a distress call into space asking to be rescued from the ignorance and cruelty of his life on Earth.

FIC MAH 
Mahy, Margaret. Aliens in the Family. New York : Scholastic, c1985. Jake Raven, expecting to dislike her new stepsister and stepbrother, ends up helping them protect an alien from another dimension as he flees from mysterious pursuers with the ability to alter time.

FIC MET
Metz, Melinda.  The Outsider.  New York : Pocket Books, c1998.  Max is love with Liz but he can not let her get too close or she will discover the truth about what he is.

FIC OSB
Osborne, Mary Pope. Midnight on the Moon. New York : Random House, c1996. The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to a moon base in the future where they continue to search for the fourth thing they need to free their friend Morgan from the magician's spell.

FIC PAT
Paton Walsh, Jill, 1937-.  The Green Book.  1st ed. New York :  Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1982.  As their small stock of essential supplies dwindles, a group of refugees from earth struggle to make their strange new planet provide life's necessities.

FIC PES 
Pe†sek, Lud†ek. The Earth is Near. [1st American ed.].  Scarsdale, N.Y., : Bradbury Press, [1974, c1973]. A doctor accompanying the first expedition to Mars describes the journey and the mental and physical challenges that face the nineteen astronauts.

FIC RUB
Rubinstein, Gillian.  Galax-Arena : A Novel.  1st American ed.  New York : Simon & Schuster, 1995.  Kidnapped from an Australian train station, Joella, Peter, and Liane are taken on a rocket to the Galax-Arena, where children stolen from Earth perform death-defying stunts for the amusement of the inhabitants of the planet Vexak.

FIC RUB
Rubinstein, Gillian.  Space Demons.  New York : Omnibus/Puffin Book, [1988].  Twelve-year-old Andrew, bored with life, becomes obsessed with a mysterious new computer game, which has the power to zap him and his friends into a dangerous world of menacing space warriors.

FIC SAR
Sargent, Pamela.  Earthseed.  1st ed. New York : Harper & Row, c1983. Before Zoheret and her companions can populate a new planet, they must learn to conquer those same instincts that almost destroyed their ancestors on Earth over one hundred years ago.

FIC SER
Service, Pamela F.  Stinker From Space.  New York : Scribner's, c1988.  An agent of the Sylon Confederacy, fleeing from enemy ships, crash lands on Earth, transfers his mind to the body of a skunk, and enlists the aid of two children in getting back to his home planet.

FIC SLO 
Slote, Alfred. C.O.L.A.R. : A Tale of Outer Space. 1st ed. New York : Lippincott, c1981. Stranded on an unknown planet when their spaceship runs out of fuel, the Jameson family must rely on their robot to save their lives.

FIC SLO
Slote, Alfred.  My Trip to Alpha I.  New York : Lippincott, c1978. Voya-code is the most sophisticated form of interplanetary travel, but a young boy finds out it is not without dangers.

FIC WAU
Waugh, Sylvia.  Space Race.  1st American ed. New York :  Delacorte Press, 2000.  When he learns that he and his father must soon leave Earth, eleven-year-old Thomas Derwent is upset, but a terrible accident that separates the two of them makes Thomas's situation much worse.

FIC WEL 
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946. The War of the Worlds. New York : [Epstein and Carroll Associates]; distributed by Random House, [1960].

FIC YOL 
Yolen, Jane. Dragon's Blood : A Fantasy. New York : Delacorte Press, c1982. Jakkin, a bond boy who works as a Keeper in a dragon nursery on the planet Austar IV, secretly trains a fighting pit dragon of his own in hopes of winning his freedom.

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03/31/2005