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Middle Grade Space Books

Looks for some great scifi? Here is a list of chapter books that take place in space! @MenloLibrary #JuviPicks

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  • Grace is SO EXCITED to fly a freighter from her home space station (and away from her BORING mother Evelyn) to a faraway moon! Plus, she’ll get some quality time with her FUN mom Kendra—something Grace definitely needs. Finally, a real…
    Graphic NovelNew York : Random House Graphic, [2023] — J WIL
  • Galaxy Jones ventures across the universe with Prince Weston in order to save her family and friends from ruthless space pirates.
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2023] — J MCDONALD
  • Humanity has gone to the stars, and the ESS Khonsu and its crew are leading the charge to explore the galaxy. As the son of the ship’s captain, Jimmil might not always live up to his mom’s expectations… but right now he and his friends…
    Graphic NovelSan Diego, California : Top Shelf Productions, [2023] — J GRAPHIC Cosmic v.1
  • Teen astronaut Houston Williams was thrilled to win a scholarship to attend a space program at NASA. Now, after months of intense training, Houston is blasting off into space! He and his new friend and former rival, Ashley, are on their…
    Book[Victoria, British Columbia] : Orca Book Publishers, 2023. — J WALTERS
  • After stumbling upon a strange, golden pyramid that imbues him with a legendary power, Zero is recruited to take part in a dangerous, intergalactic quest to track down the infamous mask of the Shaman King.
    BookNew York : Norton Young Readers, [2022] — J-ADO
  • Built to explore Mars, Resilience, aka Res, learns new things from the NASA scientists and begins to develop human-like feelings, especially when he arrives on the planet, where he is tested in ways that go beyond space exploration.
    BookNew York : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022] — J WAR
  • Something terrible is happening in the skies! Rats are eating the MOON! There’s only ONE hero for the job, a bold and fearsome beast bioengineered in a secret lab to be the moon’s savior and Earth’s last hope! And that hero is...a cat. A…
    Graphic NovelNew York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — J-FIR v.1
  • A middle grade sci-fi, space adventure based on the Disney/Pixar film Lightyear is told from the unique perspective of one of Buzz's new friends.
    BookLos Angeles : Disney Press, [2022] — J BAP
  • Eleven-year-old Jillian hates surprises. Even fun ones make her feel all panicky inside. But, she’s always dreamed of joining her space-explorer parents on a mission. It’s Take Your Kid to Work Day, and Jillian finally has her chance to…
    BookSan Francisco : Tachyon, 2021. — J-KOR
  • To save his father, a Coalition scientist protecting a precious resource, after their ship is attacked, Leo stows away on a strange ship of mercenary space pirates and must decide who to trust— human or alien—to stay alive.
    BookNew York, NY : Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021] — J Anderson J.
  • Enduring an isolated existence in hardscrabble Addis Prime, a star underground augmented reality gamer finds his small family targeted by city-razing monsters waging a galaxy-spanning war.
    BookNew York : Scholastic Press, 2021. — J Mbalia K.
  • Bell has spent his whole life - all eleven years of it - on Mars. But he's still just a regular kid - he loves cats, any kind of cake, and is curious about the secrets the adults in the US colony are keeping. Like, why don't have contact…
    BookNew York : Random House, [2021] — J HOLM
  • Harry and Ava are two ordinary kids doing their best to survive life on a massive space station, Vantia1, after their home planet was swallowed by a mysterious black hole known as the Void. Ava is training to be a fighter pilot, while…
    BookLondon, England : Orchard, 2021. — JMF BLA
  • Stranded hours from their home on Mars with an already limited supply of food, water, and air, Michael and Lilith must risk everything if they're to get back to the colony alive.
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] — J SWI
  • When one of Pom Pom's botany experiments goes awry on the International Space Station, the CatStronauts must find a way to tame the weeds gone haywire and get back to Earth without help from Mission Control.
    Graphic NovelNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019. — J GN CATSTRONAUTS
  • Min, a thirteen-year-old girl with fox-magic, stows away on a battle cruiser and impersonates a cadet in order to solve the mystery of what happened to her older brother in the Thousand World Space Forces.
    BookLos Angeles ; New York : Disney-Hyperion, 2019. — J LEE
  • The award-winning author of the Chronicles of Egg series finds the narrator, a Mars colonist, relocating in the aftermath of Earth's mysterious demise to the planet Choom, where the mosquito-like inhabitants dislike human singing, jokes…
    BookNew York : Crown Books for Young Readers, [2019] — J RODKEY
  • Follow the space adventures of Cosmo and his Martian crew.
    Graphic Novel[New York, N.Y.] : Archie Comic Publications, [2018] — J GN COS v.1
  • Meet Cosmoe, the Earth-Boy. He's captain of the Neon Weiner, the finest flying food truck in the galaxy. Along with his bud, Big Humphree, he spends his days cruising the cosmos and staying crazy busy.
    BookNew York : Aladdin, 2016. — J BRA
  • In 2156, when Jonah awakens on the Fantastic Flying Squirrel, he is informed that he is one of 200 children being trained as The Incredible Space Raiders, whose mission is to destroy the Entirely Evil Things of the Dark Zone, but there is…
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2015.