Title sums it up. I have grandnieces too old for Seuss and not old enough for Asimov, with kind of a warped sense of humor. Any YA SF literary recommendations?
How about Jon Scieszka’s Time Warp Trio series?
Nice!
I’m dating myself by suggesting Tom Corbet Space Cadet from the 1950s. I read a few of these books many many decades ago. Maybe I missed something, but even back then I hurt myself rolling my eyes. But it was my first exposure to written SF, and I wish you luck in getting them hooked too.
I’ll give it a look!
Are they too young for Asimov’s juveniles, like the Lucky Starr books?
Are they too young for Asimov’s juveniles, like the Lucky Starr books?
More to the point, they are just the right age and temperament for Goosebumps and I wonder if there is an SF analog to that.
Is Animorphs science fiction? That’s very Goosebumps-ish, I think, in that it’s a long-running series of multiple stories.
Looks like it might be!
One way of looking at this question is to see if there’s anything in the Stratemeyer Syndicate books that’s science fiction related:
The Stratemeyer Syndicate is a huge collection of children’s book series created by a man named Edward Stratemeyer. It contains such series as Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, The Bobbsey Twins, and Tom Swift. The Tom Swift series was the more or less science fiction series in this collection. When I search online for a modern series like the Tom Swift ones, one series that’s recommended is the Artemis Fowl series. I read all the Artemis Fowl books while choosing books for presents for my nieces/nephews/grandnieces/grandnieces. Also, how about the Heinlein juveniles, some of which I’ve read?:
William Sleator wrote a bunch YA SF novels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sleator
And I don’t know if Choose Your Own Adventure is still a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choose_Your_Own_Adventure
You might have to check out some used bookstores (or the Internet Archive, where you can read quite a few out-of-print books), but in the late nineties Star Wars did a tween series called Galaxy of Fear that was basically “Goosebumps meets Star Wars.”
I liked his books as a kid. Hard to find in bookstores and libraries for some reason. I was looking for my kids.
What about “A Wrinkle in Time” and the other books in the series?
I second Time Warp Trio. Bruce Coville’s books are close to what you’re looking for as well.
This thread reminded me to get some interlibrary loans and obtain Sleator books for my kiddos.
Interstellar Pig was the first book that came to my mind, but I didn’t know who wrote it. Now I do!
I know very little about this. But I recently decided to read more Pratchett. The first book to arrive was the Bromeliad Trilogy - Trucks, Diggers, Wings. I liked it, and thought it clever. But apparently it was meant for younger readers.
Not so much ‘meant for’ as ‘also appropriate for.’ This is true for most of his YA books, like Nation, Dodger, and the Tiffany Aching series. Though I’d say his Johnny Maxwell books are a bit more junior oriented.
I could be wrong, but I seem to recall @Left_Hand_of_Dorkness having some insight into books like this for kids of this age.