Our #MGCarousel reading challenge this month is all about SCIENCE FICTION. If you’re ready to explore, CJ and Elza have gathered 20 Middle Grade books that feature space travel, mechanical minds, futuristic settings, alien encounters, ingenious inventors, and plenty of scientific discoveries!


Weird Kid
Greg Van Eekhout


Stowaway
John David Anderson


Zita the Spacegirl
Ben Hatke


The Wild Robot
Peter Brown


Molly and the Machine
Erik Jon Slangerup


Young Captain Nemo
Jason Henderson


The Maloneys’ Magical Weatherbox
Nigel Quinlan


5Worlds: The Sand Warrior
Mark Siegel, Alexis Siegel, Xanthe Bouma, Matt Rockefeller, & Boya Sun


The Truth About Martians
Melissa Savage


Frances and the Monster
Refe Tuma


Amari and the Night Brothers
B. B. Alston


Dragon Pearl
Yoon Ha Lee


The Homework Machine
Dan Gutman


Lost and Found
Orson Scott Card


Mars Evacuees
Sophia McDougall


The Mutant Mushroom Takeover
Summer Rachel Short


A Time Traveler’s Theory of Relativity
Nicole Valentine


Tin
Pádraig Kenny


Brightstorm
Vashti Hardy


Space Case
Stuart Gibbs
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