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Middle Grade Science Fiction
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The last last-day-of-summer
by L. R. Giles
When two adventurous cousins accidentally extend the last day of summer by freezing time, they discover that the secrets they find hidden between the unmoving seconds, minutes and hours are not as much fun as expected.
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See you in the cosmos
by Jack Cheng
Aspiring to send his golden iPod into space the way Carl Sagan launched his Golden Record on Voyager, Alex documents a road trip to New Mexico as a record of what life is like on Earth, an endeavor that reveals unknown truths about his late father.
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Dragon Pearl
by Yoon Ha Lee
Min, a thirteen-year-old girl with fox-magic, stows away on a battle cruiser and impersonates a cadet in order to solve the mystery of what happened to her older brother in the Thousand World Space Forces.
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The wild robot escapes
by Peter Brown
A sequel to The Wild Robot finds a shipwrecked Robot Roz struggling to survive the challenges of the civilized world and find her way home to Brightbill and the island.
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When you reach me
by Rebecca Stead
As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1970s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
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SCI-FU : Kick It Off Book 1, Kick it off
by Yehudi Mercado
Teenage DJ Wax is transported to the robot-filled world of Discopia where he has to compete against the Five Deadly Dangers in a sound-bending martial arts contest that will determine the fate of the Earth.
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Frank Einstein and the antimatter motor
by Jon Scieszka
In his Grandpa Al's garage workshop, child genius Frank Einstein tries to invent a robot that can learn on its own, and after an accident brings wisecracking Klink and overly expressive Klank to life, they set about helping Frank perfect his Antimatter Motor until his archnemesis, T. Edison, steals the robots for his doomsday plan.
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Hilo : the boy who crashed to Earth
by Judd Winick
When a mysterious boy from outer space crash lands on the Earth with no memory of his identity, D.J. and his friend Gina help the boy try to unlock the secrets of his past. By the award-winning cartoonist and head writer of "The Awesomes".
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Sal & Gabi break the universe
by Carlos Alberto Pablo Hernandez
In order to heal after his mother's death, thirteen-year-old Sal learns to reach into time and space to retrieve things--and people--from other universes.
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The fourteenth goldfish
by Jennifer L. Holm
Hating change and missing both her best friend and her dead goldfish, 11-year-old Ellie encounters a boy who strongly resembles her immortality-obsessed grandfather, in a story that introduces the work of famous historical scientists. By the three-time Newbery Honor-winning author of Turtle in Paradise.
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The flooded earth
by Mardi McConnochie
Decades after the Earth is devastated by massive flooding, four children flee corrupt authorities on a small sailboat and must overcome the dangers of the sea that drowned their world. By the award-winning author of the Quest of the Sunfish series.
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Fuzzy mud
by Louis Sachar
Two middle-grade kids take a shortcut home from school and discover what looks like fuzzy mud but is actually a substance with the potential to wreak havoc on the entire world.
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