A story targeted at children or youth. Written for those with basic levels of reading comprehension & vocabulary.
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Children's or young adult novel about three kids who travel to a fantasy land, maybe from 70's or 80's
I've been trying to remember the title of a children's or young adult book I read as a child about thirty years ago. I don't remember many of the details. There were three main protagonists; I want ...
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What are the SciFi children's books from the 80s about a professor who used his smoking pipe to teleport himself, a girl and a boy to other worlds?
I cant remember the name of these books but they are old SciFi children's books from the 80s about a professor who used his smoking pipe to teleport himself, a girl (I think his niece or grand ...
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book about 2 children who traveled through time using a circle of stones
This book is about 2 children who traveled trough time using a circle of stones similar to Stonehenge. It was read to me in 5th grade... Around 1985... I am having trouble remembering more details. ...
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What is the name of…sci/fi trilogy…aliens invade earth and kids destroy their domes
I hope someone can help; I read this trilogy in 1970(!) about aliens that invaded earth. Because they couldn't breathe our air, they contained their cities under large domes. In the end, the main ...
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1980's children's novel about present-day post-nuclear USA?
I'm looking for the title to a book I read in the 80's about a family set in the present day surviving after a nuclear holocaust. The whole family survives for a time. The little girl hides under a ...
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Old kids book about boy who builds a spaceship to travel to mars
I can't remember when I read it - but likely the 70s. The young boy was so enamoured with travelling to the Mars that he built his own ship (which I think was box shaped) and flew there and came back.
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Early 90's children's book about a girl who travelled back in time
I remember this book I loved in the early-mid 90's about a girl who was able to travel back in time to the 70's and meet her mum (I think). I can't remember the whole story, but I feel like maybe her ...
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Identify Story: Dystopian Children's Novel About Subterranean Class System
This is a book that haunted me for years.
A girl lives on a very low level of an ant-hill-like society where most people live underground (supposedly due to a polluted surface). Most of the people ...
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1980's or early 90's children's book about a girl who was a clone of a scientist
I'm looking for the title of a book I read in the mid 90's, but it may have been older. It was about a girl who was a clone of a female scientist who had died before her research was completed.
She ...
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Are there any awards for children's science fiction literature?
I know there are many awards for science fiction works in general, such as the Hugo and Nebula. Are there any awards specifically for children's science fiction literature?
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Forgotten fantasy childrens book about 3 races, little, big and aqua people
The big people don't know the little people exist, and the little people can do a sort of magic if they know somethings true name. the plot is that theres friction between the the little people and ...
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Boy abducted by aliens
I'm trying to remember the name of a book that I read in the 90's. It was a YA novel about a nerdy kid who was abducted by aliens and ends up travelling with them for awhile. There were a couple of ...
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A member of a village of little people paints her door green and is exiled
..along with a couple of other misfits whom the council or somesuch feels are simply not appropriate people to be members of their village. Of course the group of exiles spot invaders and are ...
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What are the little green men in The Secret World of Og?
In The Secret World of Og by Pierre Burton, a world populated by little green men that only say "Og" is found by Penny, Pamela, Peter, Patsy, and baby Paul (AKA “The Pollywog") through a hole in the ...
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What else did Robert C O'brien write? [closed]
When I was thirteen, Z for Zachariah is the book that got me hooked on science fiction. Was wondering if anyone knows of any other literature that he wrote? Wikipedia says that he is "best known for ...
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Story identification: Boy writes story, interacts with his alter ego
Publishing language: Unknown.
I read this book in school many years ago, then in my native language: swedish. Likely it was originally in some other language.
What I remember:
The protagonist is ...
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Remembering a 90's childrens book about disease, female protagonist with a mutant sheep?
During the year 2001 I read a children's horror novel, whose title I have forgotten. I would really like to read it again as an adult, I think about this book all the time! Unfortunately it has been ...
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Looking for a collection of scary stories for children
I am looking for at least two books. Each book contained a collection of scary stories. I used to borrow them from the library where they were in the children section (up to age 12, but I'm unsure ...
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Please identify this children's fantasy series?
I have this book series which keeps nagging at the back of my brain, but which I can't identify, and it's annoying me! I read it as a kid back in the late 1970s, so it's an old series - and my ...
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A trilogy, the first of which was about a girl (fairy?) hiding a flute in a tree stump?
I've been looking for years, trying to figure out if a book I think I read as a kid existed or not. It was a girl (I think a fairy) in a green dress and a blue cape, with dirty blonde hair in thick ...
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Children's book about the dangers of pollution
I read this book around the 3rd or 4th grade and I thought that it was written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg, but looking at his bibliography, I can't find the title.
The plot, if I remember ...
