Middle School Boys: Science Fiction
Nancy Butts. The Door In the Lake. (Front Street, 1997)
It's a classic sci-fi set up: Joey wakes up in the hospital and can't understand why everyone looks so
old. They can't understand how he could have been missing for years and hasn't aged a day. The only
thing more frightening than not knowing what happened at the lake those years ago is finding out the
truth.
Orson Scott Card. "Ender" (Series):
Ender's Game. (Tor, 1994)
Speaker for the Dead. (Tor, 1994)
Xenocide. (Tor, 1996)
Children of the Mind. (Tor, 2002)
Ender in Exile. (Tor, 2009)
Eoin Colfer. “Artemis Fowl” (Series):
Artemis Fowl. (Miramax, 2001)
The Arctic Incident. (Miramax, 2002)
The Eternity Code. (Miramax, 2003)
The Opal Deception. (Miramax, 2005)
The Lost Colony. (Miramax, 2006)
The Time Paradox. (Hyperion Books for Children, 2008)
Jeanne DuPrau. “The Books of Ember” (Series):
The City of Ember. (Random House Books for Young Readers, 2003)
The People of Sparks. (Random House Books for Young Readers, 2004)
The Prophet of Yonwood. (Random House Books for Young Readers, 2006)
The Diamond of Darkhold. (Random House Books for Young Readers, 2008)
Will Hobbs. Go Big or Go Home. (HarperCollins, 2008)
Lois Lowry. The Giver. (Laurel Leaf, 2002)
James Patterson. "Maximum Ride" (Series)
The Angel Experiment. (Little, Brown, 2005)
School’s Out – Forever. (Warner, 2006)
Saving the World, and Other Extreme Sports. (Little, Brown, 2007)
The Final Warning. (Little, Brown, 2008)
Max. (Little, Brown, 2009)
Fang. (Little, Brown, 2010)
The stakes rise for Maximum Ride when her relationship with Fang heats up. The more she has, the
more she has to lose. Max's whole flock is faced with the hard choices, and one will make a choice
that breaks the flock up for good.
James Patterson and NaRae Lee. Maxium Ride: The Manga. (Yen Press, 2009)
Maximum Ride might be the perfect book for adaptation to Manga. All the action, the visual splendor,
the wonder of kids on the wing, it all pops right off the page. This very quick read is the perfect intro to
the series for struggling readers and a fantastic addition to the series for those who already know
and love Max.
Clete Barrett Smith. Aliens on Vacation. (Disney, 2011)
What to read after Bruce Coville's Aliens Ate My Homework.
Doug TenNapel. Bad Island. (Graphix, 2011)
A sci-fi riff on Jules Verne's The Mysterious Island? In comic book form? By Doug TenNapel? With
flying robots? That's just not fair.
Scott Westerfeld. "The Leviathan Trilogy" (Series)
Leviathan. (Simon Pulse, 2009)
Behemoth. (Simon Pulse, 2010)
Goliath. (Simon Pulse, 2011)
Nancy Butts. The Door In the Lake. (Front Street, 1997)
It's a classic sci-fi set up: Joey wakes up in the hospital and can't understand why everyone looks so
old. They can't understand how he could have been missing for years and hasn't aged a day. The only
thing more frightening than not knowing what happened at the lake those years ago is finding out the
truth.
Orson Scott Card. "Ender" (Series):
Ender's Game. (Tor, 1994)
Speaker for the Dead. (Tor, 1994)
Xenocide. (Tor, 1996)
Children of the Mind. (Tor, 2002)
Ender in Exile. (Tor, 2009)
Eoin Colfer. “Artemis Fowl” (Series):
Artemis Fowl. (Miramax, 2001)
The Arctic Incident. (Miramax, 2002)
The Eternity Code. (Miramax, 2003)
The Opal Deception. (Miramax, 2005)
The Lost Colony. (Miramax, 2006)
The Time Paradox. (Hyperion Books for Children, 2008)
Jeanne DuPrau. “The Books of Ember” (Series):
The City of Ember. (Random House Books for Young Readers, 2003)
The People of Sparks. (Random House Books for Young Readers, 2004)
The Prophet of Yonwood. (Random House Books for Young Readers, 2006)
The Diamond of Darkhold. (Random House Books for Young Readers, 2008)
Will Hobbs. Go Big or Go Home. (HarperCollins, 2008)
Lois Lowry. The Giver. (Laurel Leaf, 2002)
James Patterson. "Maximum Ride" (Series)
The Angel Experiment. (Little, Brown, 2005)
School’s Out – Forever. (Warner, 2006)
Saving the World, and Other Extreme Sports. (Little, Brown, 2007)
The Final Warning. (Little, Brown, 2008)
Max. (Little, Brown, 2009)
Fang. (Little, Brown, 2010)
The stakes rise for Maximum Ride when her relationship with Fang heats up. The more she has, the
more she has to lose. Max's whole flock is faced with the hard choices, and one will make a choice
that breaks the flock up for good.
James Patterson and NaRae Lee. Maxium Ride: The Manga. (Yen Press, 2009)
Maximum Ride might be the perfect book for adaptation to Manga. All the action, the visual splendor,
the wonder of kids on the wing, it all pops right off the page. This very quick read is the perfect intro to
the series for struggling readers and a fantastic addition to the series for those who already know
and love Max.
Clete Barrett Smith. Aliens on Vacation. (Disney, 2011)
What to read after Bruce Coville's Aliens Ate My Homework.
Doug TenNapel. Bad Island. (Graphix, 2011)
A sci-fi riff on Jules Verne's The Mysterious Island? In comic book form? By Doug TenNapel? With
flying robots? That's just not fair.
Scott Westerfeld. "The Leviathan Trilogy" (Series)
Leviathan. (Simon Pulse, 2009)
Behemoth. (Simon Pulse, 2010)
Goliath. (Simon Pulse, 2011)
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