Re: [LM_NET] TARGET:Sci Fi for 8th grade

[rshull <rshull@GREENAPPLE.COM>]

My suggestion is the the Dune series, anything by Arthur C. Clarke, has
he read both the Huxley books Brave New World and Brave New World
Revisited(not SciFi but an essay on Huxley's purpose for writing BNW),
Martian Chronicles.  How about going way back and reading Edgar Rice
Burrough's John Carter of Mars Series.  

Becky Vasilakis
District Library Media Specialist
Amanda, OH
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Subject: TARGET:Sci Fi for 8th grade


Does anyone have a really good science fiction recommendation for a
gifted 8th grader?  It has to be science fiction and not fantasy.  He
reads constantly and can't come up with a good choice for our book club.
He reads adult science fiction all the time and has suggested two titles
that I cannot condone because of sexual content.  We've already read
"House of the Scorpion", "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe", "The Eye
, the Ear and the Arm", The Ender Books.  The book can be up to 350
pages-language as long as its not too extreme is fine. 

 

 

Mrs. Betty Klein

Librarian

Avery Coonley School

Downers Grove, Illinois  60515

kleibet@averycoonley.org

 


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