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C.O.L.A.R.: a Tale of Outer Space (age 8-11)
by Alfred Slote
adventure ... science fiction
Catalog: Stranded on an unknown planet when their spaceship runs out of fuel, the Jameson family must rely on their robot to save their lives.
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CRI
The Akiko Series (age 8-11)
by Mark Crilley
science fiction ... action ... adventure
Akiko's always prepared for something out of this world, as she takes on one exciting intergalactic adventure after another.
title: Akiko and the Alpha Centauri 5000
title: Akiko and the Intergalactic Zoo
title: Akiko in the Castle of Alia Rellapor
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WAL
The Trouble With Miss Switch (age 8-11)
by Barbara Brooks Wallace
school ... science fiction ... magic
Rupert Brown can tell from day one that Miss Switch is no ordinary fifth-grade teacher. Her whole look is about as comfortable as a steel knitting needle! Plus, she's in some serious trouble. It seems that Miss Switch has been condemned by a crazy contraption called a computowitch, and she must come up with some original witchcraft ... or she will be doomed to sweep Witch's Mountain for l50 years. Can great scientist Rupert Brown and his friend Amelia Daley face the computowitch and the Witches' Council, and get their favorite teacher of all time out of this mess?
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KIN
Harriet's Hare (age 8-11)
by Dick King-Smith
friendship ... science fiction
A young girl's life with her father on their farm in England is changed when she befriends a talking hare that is really a shape-changing alien.
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Stinker's Return (age 8-11)
by Pamela F. Service
humor ... adventure ... science fiction
Catalog: Alien agent Tsynq Yr, still inhabiting the body of a skunk, returns to Earth and enlists Jonathan and Karen's help in finding a souvenir from Washington, D.C., for a threatening space despot.

Hoover Elementary School, Sat Aug 25 11:55:31 2012
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