Filter By Subjects
Extraterrestrial beings Extraterrestrial beings Fiction Extraterrestrial beings Juvenile fiction Human-alien encounters Human-alien encounters Comic books, strips, etc Human-alien encounters Fiction Human-alien encounters Juvenile fiction Interplanetary voyages Fiction Science fiction Space warfare FictionFilter By Subjects
Extraterrestrial beings Extraterrestrial beings Fiction Extraterrestrial beings Juvenile fiction Human-alien encounters Human-alien encounters Comic books, strips, etc Human-alien encounters Fiction Human-alien encounters Juvenile fiction Interplanetary voyages Fiction Science fiction Space warfare FictionGoodhart, Pippa
Summary: Zoom off into space for an adventure where YOU CHOOSE what happens next. Which alien would you most like to be friends with? And what fantastically freaky food will you decide to munch for lunch? The possibilities are infinite in this mesmerising creative toolkit which will inspire children from 3 up to make their own stories time and again - a spectacular sequel to the bestselling You Choose -...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Gibbs, Stuart
Summary: "There's nowhere to hide on the world's first moon base. After all, it's only the size of a soccer field. So when Nina Stack, the commander of Moon Base Alpha, mysteriously vanishes, the Moonies are at a total loss. Though he may be just twelve years old, Dashiell Gibson is the best detective they've got. But this confusing mystery pushes Dash to his limits. Especially since Dash accidentally...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC GIBTaylor, Laini
Summary: "Don't you hate it when your archenemy launches your latest invention into space, accidentally creating a robot army that falls into the clutches of an evil alien emperor? Well, that's how Billie Blaster's day is going! The genius child of two famous scientists, Billie is an inventor extraordinaire and the star of the annual science fair, much to the disgust of her nemesis, Tiny Hector Glum....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Zahn, Timothy
Summary: "Nicole Hammond is a Sibyl, a special human that has the ability to communicate with a strange alien ship called the Fyrantha. However, Nicole and all other sentient creatures are caught up in a war for control between two competing factions. Now, the street-kid turned rebel leader has a plan that would restore freedom to all who have been shanghaied by the strange ship. She just has to unite...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates book 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZAHAnderson, John David
Summary: Leo Fender is no stranger to catastrophe, whether it's the intergalactic war that took his mother's life or the ongoing fight for his own. He's seen his planet plundered, his ship attacked, his father kidnapped, and his brother go missing, and found himself stranded on a ship with a bunch of mercenary space pirates. Still, nothing could have prepared him for the moment he and the crew tried to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ANDGrine, Chris
Summary: "Rachel is still reeling from the news that Earth is secretly under attack by parasitic aliens, the Yeerks. Now she and her friends are the planet's only defense -- five kids who, purely by chance, stumbled onto a downed spacecraft and were given the power to morph into any animals they touch. The team's best lead is their assistant principal, Mr. Chapman, who is the human host to a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 ANICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC ANIGibbs, Stuart
Summary: In 2041 twelve-year-old Dashiell Gibson is a resident of Moon Base Alpha, and at the moment he is faced with a number of problems: coping with the nasty Sjoberg twins, finding out how the commander of the base has managed to disappear from a facility no bigger than a soccer field, and dealing with the alien Zan who communicates with him telepathically from afar--and who is hiding a secret which...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GIBSoo, Kean
Summary: Portia is bright beyond her years, which makes it difficult to make friends in her new school, and her single mother is preoccupied, so when Portia sneaks into the woods after midnight and discovers a shy and sweet purple monster, she is delighted by her new friend--but Jellaby has secrets of his own.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone 2014
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SOOHansen, Essa
Summary: "Caiden has been on the run for ten years with his unique starship in order to keep his adversary, Threi, imprisoned. But when an old friend he'd once thought dead reappears, he is lured into a game of cat and mouse with the one person whose powers rival Threi's: Threi's sister Abriss. Now with both siblings on the hunt for Caiden and his ship, Caiden must rescue his long-lost friend from their...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANAnderson, John David
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ANDJane, Emily
Summary: When the spaceships arrive-- and then depart suddenly without a word-- it creates many forms of uncertainty on our planet. When his kids blithely ponder skinning people to see if they're aliens, Blaine begins to crack. Half a continent away, Heather watches the massive ships hover overhead and is certain that her life is finally going to start. After twenty catatonic years, Olives is suddenly...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Avenue 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JANSoo, Kean
Summary: Ten-year-old Portia Bennett and her friend Jason continue to search Toronto for clues to the origin of the purple monster, Jellaby--but things turn dangerous when they are confronted with a tentacled monster with a taste for children.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SOOYancey, Richard
Summary: The enemy is Other. The enemy is us. They're down here, they're up there, they're nowhere. They want the Earth, they want us to have it. They came to wipe us out, they came to save us. But beneath these riddles lies one truth: Cassie has been betrayed. So has Ringer. Zombie. Nugget. And all 7.5 billion people who used to live on our planet. Betrayed first by the Others and now by ourselves. In...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: YA-CD FIC YANAshihara, Daisuke
Summary: "Destroy thy Neighbor! A gate to another dimension has burst open, and invincible monsters called Neighbors invade Earth. Osamu Mikumo may not be the best among the elite warriors who co-opt other-dimensional technology to fight back, but along with his Neighbor friend Yuma, he'll do whatever it takes to defend life on Earth as we know it... The B-Rank Wars continue, and Tamakoma-2 is up...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2020
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Grine, Chris
Summary: "Sometimes weird things happen to people. Ask Jake. He could tell you about the night he and his friends saw a strange light in the sky that seemed to be heading right for them. That was the night five normal kids learned that humanity is under silent attack...Now Jake, Rachel, Cassie, Tobias, and Marco can transform into some of the most dangerous creatures on Earth ey must use that power to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 ANICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 ANICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC ANIOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: "Binti, a young Himba girl with the chance of a lifetime: to attend the prestigious Oomza University. Despite her family's concerns, Binti's talent for mathematics and her aptitude with astrolabes make her a prime candidate to undertake this interstellarjourney. But everything changes when the jellyfish-like Medusae attack Binti's spaceship, leaving her the only survivor. Now, Binti must fend...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC OKOOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: "It's up to a famous rapper, a biologist, and a rogue soldier to handle humanity's first contact with an alien ambassador--and prevent mass extinction--in this novel that blends magical realism with high-stakes action. After word gets out on the Internet that aliens have landed in the waters outside of the world's fifth most populous city, chaos ensues. Soon the military, religious leaders,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OKOChen, Mike
Summary: When their brother who has been missing for fifteen years suddenly returns, changed, Evie and Kass Shao must cast aside their differences to hide him from the FBI and an entire alien army who are in fast pursuit.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF CHELore, Pittacus
Summary: Syd Chambers grew up on Earth with his human mother. He was told his alien father left on a mission when Syd was very young, but has recently learned that his father hied protecting a secret about the history between humans and Denzans. He is now faced with a choice: allow humanity to come into physical power beyond their wildest dreams and risk their revenge against the Denzans... . or destroy...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Tchaikovsky, Adrian
Summary: From the Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time, this third and final novel in an extraordinary space opera trilogy depicts humanity on the brink of extinction--and reveals how one man's discovery will save or destroy us all. Lords of Uncreation is the final high-octane installment in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Final Architecture space opera trilogy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF TchaikovskyBaoshu
Summary: "At the end of the fourth year of the Crisis Era, Yun Tianming, riddled with cancer, chose to end his life. His decision was the first step in a journey that would take him to the end of the universe and beyond. His brain was extracted from his body, flash frozen, put aboard a spacecraft, and launched on a trajectory that will intercept the Trisolarian First Fleet in a few centuries. It is a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAOMin, Dolki
Summary: "The mere act of walking on the Earth is a challenge for our most unusual protagonist -- a shapeshifting, gender-bending alien. After crashing their spacecraft in the middle of nowhere, they find themself stranded on an unfamiliar planet, where gravity is a disabling force. They'll need to practice walking in the Earth's atmosphere to survive. And what better way to practice than hunt delicious...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MINRex, Adam
Summary: "Gratuity Tucci and her alien friend, J.Lo, journey to New Boovworld, one of Saturn's moons, to clear J.Lo's name after a string of misunderstandings"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion Books 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC REXCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC REXRodkey, Geoff
Summary: After a year on Mars, a young boy and his family migrate to the planet Choom, but the inhabitants of Choom, the Zhuri, who look like giant mosquitoes, don't really like humans and it up to the boy and his family to change their minds if they hope to survive.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2019