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Science Fiction: Aliens
Whales on Stilts! - by M. T. Anderson
Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books/Harcourt, Inc.
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/01/2005
ISBN-13: 9780152053406
ISBN-10: 0152053409
Racing against the clock, shy middle-school student Lily and her best friends, Katie and Jasper, must foil the plot of her father's conniving boss to conquer the world using an army of whales.
Call Number:  J ANDERSON
Space Dogs - by Justin Ball and Evan Croker
Publisher: Knopf
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/2006
ISBN-13: 9780375832567
ISBN-10: 0375832564
Commanders Belka and Strelka, of the planet Gersbach, board their dog-shaped vehicle and head for Earth, where they encounter Lucy Buckley and her family, attempt to capture two power-seeking renegades, and hope to save their own planet from destruction.
Call Number:  J BALL
Shape-Changer - by Bill Brittain
Publisher: Harper Collins
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/1995
ISBN-13: 9780064405140
ISBN-10: 0064405141
Two seventh-grade friends help a shape-changing policeman from the planet Rodinam as he tries to recapture an alien master criminal who can also change form.
Call Number:  J BRITTAIN
The Door in the Lake - by Nancy Butts
Publisher: Front Street
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/01/1998
ISBN-13: 9781886910270
ISBN-10: 1886910278
After vanishing without a trace one night during a camping trip, twelve-year-old Joey reappears two years later showing no signs of having aged and carrying memories of a strange light in the sky.
Call Number:  J BUTTS
Attack of the Frozen Woodchucks - by Dan Elish
Publisher: Laura Geringer Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/01/2008
ISBN-13: 9780061138706
ISBN-10: 0061138703
When extraterrestrial woodchucks attack, ten-year-old Jimmy, his two-and-a-half-year-old sister, friend William, and an eccentric classmate who has built a flying saucer in her Manhattan brownstone, join forces to save the universe.
Call Number:  J ELISH
Lunchbox and the Aliens - by Bryan W. Fields
Publisher: H. Holt
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2006
ISBN-13: 9780805079951
ISBN-10: 0805079955
Lunchbox is an ordinary basset hound until he is abducted by aliens, zapped by a mental enhancer, and sent back to convert Earth's garbage into food--a task that would be easier if he had opposable thumbs, or at least tentacles.
Call Number:  J FIELDS
Can of Worms - by Kathryn Mackel
Publisher: Avon Camelot
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/1999
ISBN-13: 9780380976812
ISBN-10: 0380976811
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.
Call Number:  J MACKEL
Fat Men from Space - by Daniel Manus Pinkwater
Publisher: Dodd
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/01/1989
ISBN-13: 9780440445425
ISBN-10: 0440445426
Through his radio tooth, William learns of an invasion by spacemen who are taking all of earth's supply of junk food.
Call Number:  J PINKWATE
Only You Can Save Mankind - by Terry Pratchett
Publisher: Harper Collins
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/01/2005
ISBN-13: 9780060541859
ISBN-10: 0060541857
Twelve-year-old Johnny endures tensions between his parents, watches television coverage of the Gulf War, and plays a computer game called Only You Can Save Mankind, in which he is increasingly drawn into the reality of the alien ScreeWee.  Series:  Johnny Maxwell Trilogy
Call Number:  J PRATCHET
Stinker from Space - by Pamela F. Service
Publisher: Fawcett Juniper
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/1989
ISBN-13: 9780449703304
ISBN-10: 0449703304
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.
Call Number:  J SERVICE
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