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Younger Readers
ASQUITH,
Ros
Letters from an Alien Schoolboy
Piccadilly Press 9781848120945
Flowkwee is an alien who is helping
his dad study Earthlings by disguising himself as a schoolboy. Can he keep his
true identity secret? And can he save the Earth from disaster?
BARTRAM,
Simon
Clone Chaos
Templar 9781848770324
Bob is in for a surprise, and a
challenge, when he runs into... himself! A cloning machine's been invented to
duplicate the best spaceman in the galaxy so Bob has to prove he is the real one
in the midst of 99 other Bob lookalikes! The fourth title in the
Bob and Barry's
Lunar Adventures Series.
BASS,
Guy
Alien Escape
Scholastic 9781407111223
Alien Hex gives up space invading
(not that he was any good at it!) to find his long-lost father who he believes
is living on Earth. However, to reach planet Earth he must fly a spaceship,
which he can’t do! Can he make it there safely and what will he come across on
the way?
Older Readers
FROST,
Adam
Danny Danger and the Cosmic Remote
Nosy Crow 9780857630179
Danny is given a special remote
control for his birthday which can rewind and fast forward time. Imagine being
able to get into trouble, then press rewind so you can't get told off?
BRILLIANT! But a villain, the Night Scientist, wants it and will do anything.
Can Danny fast forward himself out of this one? This is the first title in the
series.
HAWKING,
Stephen & Lucy
George's Secret Key to the Universe
Corgi 9780552559584
A boy finds a secret key and
travels into space, join him on his journey with his new friends next door - the
scientist Eric and his daughter, Annie - and a super-intelligent computer called
Cosmos, which can take them to the edge of a black hole and back again. A fun
adventure through space with factual information too!
JOHNSON,
Pete
The TV Time Travellers
Corgi Yearling 9781405664707
Five children are catapulted back in
time when they take part in a reality TV show where they have to live as in
1939. All are in it to win it and when the final arrives, the contestants and
the audience will all be stunned by what occurs. A time travelling novel that
takes the reader back to World War II.
KERR,
P.B.
One Small Step
Simon and Schuster 9781847383006
It's 1969 and 13-year-old Scott
is a normal boy, except that he flies planes with his father, an Air Force
flight instructor. After successfully crash landing a training plane, NASA call
on him to take part in a secret mission, with two chimps on a test flight before
the first moon landing.
NORRIS,
Andrew
Aquila
Puffin 9780141328577
Tom and Geoff find Aquila, a
time-travelling space ship while bunking off a school field trip. The ship has
been underground for 1700 years and the two boys are soon zooming through time.
What, or when, are they heading for?
NORRIS,
Andrew
The Portal
Puffin 9780141321585
When their parents mysteriously
vanish William and Daniel discover an intergalactic portal. Does this hold the
secret to their parent’s disappearance?
ROSE,
Malcolm
Cyber Terror (Jordan Stryker Series)
Usborne 9781409509776
Jordan Stryker has unbelievable
powers after Unit Red save his life with cutting-edge science. He is now a Unit
Red Agent and targeted by a cyber-terrorist who's causing havoc all over the
globe. Can the technology that saved him the first time save him now? This
is the second title in the Jordan
Stryker Series.
Teenage Fiction
REVIS,
Beth
Across the Universe
Razorbill 9780141333663
Amy she is awoken early from her
cryogenic sleep while on her way to a new planet above a colony ship called
Godspeed. She is awoken suddenly when someone attempts to murder her but
someone out there wants to protect her but she is all alone in space. What are
the sinister secrets within Godspeed?
FALKNER,
Brian
Tomorrow Code
Walker 9781406325874
Teenagers Tane and Rebecca are
receiving messages from the future; messages that predict the end of the world.
They have only days to decode them before the mysterious Chimera Project will
wipe out the entire human race. Can they change the past and save the future?
