Science Fiction for Third and Fourth Graders

FICTION ARDAGH, P.	The Rise of the House of McNally, or, About Time Too by Philip Ardagh. In their third and final adventure, the McNally children meet Lionel Lyons, who asks their help to fix problems that were created by time travelers.
FICTION AUCH, M.	I Was a Third Grade Science Project by Mary Jane Auch. While trying to hypnotize his dog for the third grade science fair, Brian accidentally makes his best friend Josh think he's a cat.
FICTION BECKER, B.	My Brother, the Robot by Bonny Becker. When his father buys a SIMON Robot, advertised as “the perfect son”, Chip decides that he can’t compete with his new brother, but in the end, the whole family learns that perfection may not be so great after all.
FICTION BENTON, J.	The Fran that Time Forgot by Jim Benton. When her embarrassing middle name is revealed at school, mad scientist Franny K. Stein experiments with time in order to return to the past and give herself a more dignified name.
FICTION BROWN, J.	Stanley in Space by Jeff Brown. When the residents of a far-distant planet send a message to Earth asking for someone to meet with them, the President of the United States asks Stanley Lambchop, an all-American boy, to be his ambassador.
FICTION CERASINI, M.	Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius by Marc Cerasini. When the adults of Retroville are abducted by aliens from the Planet Yolkus, Jimmy Neutron and his friends set out to rescue them.
FICTION COVILLE, B.	My Teacher Glows in the Dark by Bruce Coville. Before Peter discovers his newest teacher glows in the dark, he is flying away from Earth in a spaceship full of aliens.
FICTION COX, J.	That Crazy Eddie and the Science Project of Doom by Judy Cox. Best friends Matt and Eddie have a falling out that threatens to ruin their science fair project. Includes instructions for making a model of an erupting volcano.
FICTION CRILLEY, M.	Akiko and the Journey to Toog by Mark Crilley. Akiko, Mr. Beeba, Spuckler, and Gax journey to Toog to help their friend Poog save his planet from destruction, whether he likes it or not.
FICTION DALEY, M.	Space Station Rat by Michael J. Daley. A lavender rat that has escaped from a laboratory, and a lonely boy whose parents are scientists, meet on an orbiting space station, communicate by email, and ultimately find themselves in need of each other’s help and friendship.
FICTION DISNEY	Disney’s Pirates Attack! adapted by Dennis Shealy; illustrated by the Disney Storyboard. In a space version of the classic Treasure Island, the boy Jim and cyborg cook, John Silver, travel the galaxy in search of Captain Flint’s treasure.
FICTION ETRA, J.	Aliens for Breakfast by Jonathan Etra. One morning when Richard sits down to breakfast, Aric the alien climbs out of his cereal bowl. A tiny, wisecracking, freeze-dried creature, Aric has been sent to battle a deadly alien in disguise, the cool new kid in Richard's class.
FICTION FINE, A.	The Chicken Gave It to Me by Anne Fine. Andrew and Gemma find a story written by a chicken, describing how she has seen little green men come down from space with a plan to roast and eat the people of Earth.
FICTION FOX, H.	Eager by Helen Fox. Unlike Grumps, their old-fashioned robot, the Bell family’s new robot, Eager, is programmed to not merely obey but to question, reason, and exercise free will.
FICTION GREENBURG, D.	Dude, Where’s My Spaceship? by Dan Greenburg. When their spaceship crash lands on Earth, Ploo is captured by the army and taken to the mysterious Area 51. While her brothers, Lek and Klatu, try to rescue her, Ploo uses her ESP to make a new friend.
FICTION GREENBURG D.	Lost in Las Vegas by Dan Greenburg. After crashing their spaceship in the Nevada desert, Klatu, Lek, and their sister Ploo go to Las Vegas in search of the one mechanic who can fix it.
FICTION GREENBURG, J.	With the Bats by J.C. Greenburg. When Andrew and Judy, still the size of beetles, are carried into a cave, they learn more than they ever wanted to know about the bats and bugs that live there from Thudd the Robot and their personal experience.
FICTION GREER, G.	Jason and the Escape from Bat Planet by Gery Greer. Jason, Cooper Vor, and Lootna grapple with General Batso and his evil Demon Bats in the future adventures of the Intragalactic Troubleshooting Team.
FICTION HOWE, J.	Invasion of the Mind Swappers from Asteroid 6 by James Howe. In his new book, Howie, the wire-haired dachshund, writes all about how the Mind Swappers from Asteroid 6 invade Earth and how he and his friend Delilah save the day.
FICTION HUGHES, T.	The Iron Giant: a Story in Five Nights by Ted Hughes. The misunderstood iron giant becomes a champion when he battles the enormous space bat and saves earth.
FICTION MAGUIRE, G.	Five Alien Elves by Gregory Maguire. The town of Hamlet has a very unusual Christmas when aliens crash land in their space ship, escalating the competition between rival clubs, the Copycats and the Tattletales.
FICTION MEACHAM, M.	Quiet! You’re Invisible by Margaret Meacham. With his mother expecting a baby and a bully living next door, fifth-grader Hoby Hobson has enough to worry about even before Zirc, a time-traveling boy who can sometimes be invisible, shows up in his backyard.
FICTION MORRISSEY, D.	The Winter King by Dean Morrisey. When Sarah sneaks aboard Old Man Winter’s wagon and travels with him through the magic door to the Great Kettles, she must help him stop his power-hungry assistant from taking over the weather-making for his own purposes.
FICTION OMALLEY, K.	Captain Raptor and the Moon Mystery by Kevin O’Malley. When something lands on one of the moons of the planet Jurassica, Captain Raptor and his spaceship crew go to investigate.
FICTION OSTERWEIL, A.	The Comic Book Kid by Adam Osterweil. When they are given an unusual comic book that allows them to travel in time, twelve-year-old Brian hopes that he and his friend will be able to replace his father’s valuable Superman comic that Brian had ruined years before.
FICTION PILKEY, D.	Ricky Ricotta’s Mighty Robot vs. the Uranium Unicorns from Uranus: the Seventh Robot Adventure Novel by Dav Pilkey. Evil Uncle Unicorn attempts to dominate Earth by using a Ladybot to trick Mighty Robot.
FICTION PORTO, T.	Blue Aliens!: an Adventure in Color by Tony Porto. After staying up late to watch a scary movie, a boy awakens to find that blue things are missing, from his favorite jeans to his blue-lined notebook paper, and he is certain that aliens are the reason.
FICTION RECTOR, R.	Tria and the Great Star Rescue by Rebecca Kraft Rector. On the planet Chiron, a girl who has been afraid to venture outside must face germs and other frights when her mother and her holographic best friend, Star, are kidnapped.
FICTION SADLER, M.	Zenon, Bobo Crazy by Marilyn Sadler. Zenon, who lives on a space station in 2049, is mortified when her father buys her an embarrassing Bobo robotic dog instead of the cool Tobo Dog, but Bobo comes in handy when the Tobo Dogs go crazy and turn on their owners.
FICTION SPINNER, S.	Expiration Date, Never by Stephanie Spinner. Their alien friend Gemini Jack tries to help twins Tod and Tessa but his actions backfire when he turns the evil Gneiss twins super-nice and removes drummer Nigel Throbber’s celebrity by spraying him with permanent Fame Ban.
FICTION STANDIFORD, N.	Space Dog and Roy by Natalie Standiford. When a spaceship crashes in his backyard, Roy gets what he's always wanted, a dog of his own. But Space Dog sets Roy straight; he's not a dog, he's an explorer from Queekrg and he won't be a pet.
FICTION WAUGH, S.	Space Race by Sylvia Waugh. 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.