Tweens rate their favorite SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY titles!
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1 - Hate it!
2 - Like it!
3 - Love it!

 

The Book Without Words
by Avi

This is a fable of medieval magic. It is about a bad magician who, in order to be 13 (he is 80), has to steal a girl's life.
3 - Love it!
Beatriz, age 9

The Fire of Friendship
by Elizabeth Lenhard

I liked this book because the author had a good imagination. The girls are immortal and have cool powers. They can defeat bad guys in a secret world.
3 - Love it!
Emily, age 10

The Giants and the Joneses
by Julia Donaldson

This book was about giants that don't believe in little people. But once a giant named Jumbeelia fell into the little people's world and took the little people. Then she went home and played with them.
2 - Like it!
Maryam, age 9

Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane
by Suzanne Collins

This is Gregor's second book. When Boots is pulled under a rock at Central Park while they are sledding, the adventure begins. Has Gregor found another entrance to the Underland? Read the book to find out.
3 - Love it!
Benji, age 12

A Journey to the Center of the Earth
by Jules Verne

Three men journey to the center of the Earth. They go through a volcano called Mount Sneffels. They find that nothing dies there and there are extinct animals. They think they will never get out, but they do and they learn a lot!
3 - Love it!
Robert, age 12


The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by C.S. Lewis

It was an epic journey for Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. As they enter a wardrobe they go into a wood called the great Narnia.
3 - Love it!
Taylor, age 10

Midnight for Charlie Bone
by Jenny Nimmo

This was about a kid that was endowed. He had the power that when he saw a picture he saw what happened after. So he had to go to a school where talented people go. Charlie Bone had to unbreak a spell that was on a girl.
3 - Love it!
Ryan, age 12

Peter and the Starcatchers
by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson

This book is about an orphan boy named Peter. He and his friends get put on a ship to be put to work. Peter finds this special trunk on the ship containing flying power, or starstuff. He finds this out from a girl named Molly. There was a shipwreck and Peter and Molly must find the trunk on the island they landed on.
3 - Love it!
Jessica, age 11

The Power of Five
by Elizabeth Lenhard

This is a story about five girls who find out they have special powers. At the end of the book they run into their enemies and use their powers to free themselves.
3 - Love it!
Molly, age 12

The Violet Keystone
by Garth Nix

This is the final book of the series where Tal and Milla have to face the Shapeshifter Sharrakor and save the veil from destruction.
3 - Love it!
Nick, age 10

Midnight
by Erin Hunter

Midnight is a very exciting book about fighting cats. It probably wouldn't be a good idea to read this book unless you had read the first series of Warriors beforehand. This is a fantastic book about four cats on a mission to save the forest.
3 - Love it!
Alice, age 10

A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle

Meg, Charles Wallace and Calvin are on a wild journey through time and space to rescue Meg and Charles Wallace's father, and at the same time, fighting IT. Charles Wallace has gone into IT. They finally find Meg's father. Later Meg defeats IT singlehandedly.
2 - Like it!
Peter, age 10