Girls Read SciFi

California Schools Support SciFi

We recently learned from an LAUSD librarian that there’s a SciFi recommended reading list for K through 12 in California. Although the WSFBC was not consulted, it appears many of the titles mirror our own reading list.


Here’s the CDE-approved list:

  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
  • Feed, M.T. Anderson
  • Foundation, Isaac Asimov
  • I, Robot, Isaac Asimov
  • Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence, Marion Dane Bauer (editor)
  • Darwin’s Radio, Greg Bear
  • Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury
  • Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
  • The Illustrated Man, Ray Bradbury
  • The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
  • Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
  • Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
  • Ender’s Shadow, Orson Scott Card
  • Tomorrowland: Ten Stories About the Future, Michael Cart (compiler)
  • City of Gold and Lead, John Christopher
  • The White Mountains, John Christopher
  • Things Not Seen, Andrew Clements
  • King of Shadows, Susan Cooper
  • Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton
  • Bone Wars, Brett Davis
  • The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
  • Eva, Peter Dickinson
  • Lord Foul’s Bane: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Stephen R. Donaldson
  • Enchantress from the Stars, Sylvia Louise Engdahl
  • The House of the Scorpion, Nancy Farmer
  • Neuromancer, William Gibson
  • Among the Hidden, Margaret Peterson Haddix
  • Running Out of Time, Margaret Peterson Haddix
  • Dr. Franklin’s Island, Ann Halam
  • Have Space Suit - Will Travel, Robert A. Heinlein
  • Dune, Frank Herbert
  • Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
  • Star Split, Kathryn Lasky
  • The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Eden, Stanislaw Lem
  • Memoirs of a Space Traveler, Stanislaw Lem
  • A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle
  • Gathering Blue, Lois Lowry
  • The Giver, Lois Lowry
  • The Gift Moves, Steve Lyon
  • Sparks: An Urban Fairytale, Lawrence Marvit
  • Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey
  • Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
  • The Transall Saga, Gary Paulsen
  • Wump World, Bill Peet
  • The Sterkarm Handshake, Susan Price
  • Summer Reading Is Killing Me!, Jon Scieszka
  • Stinker from Space, Pamela F. Service
  • Downsiders, Neal Shusterman
  • On the Beach, Nevil Shute
  • Parasite Pig, Sleator, William
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau, H. G. Wells
  • The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells
  • Empire of the Ants, Bernard Werber
  • Doomsday Book, Connie Willis
  • Dragon’s Blood, Jane Yolen

(via California Department of Education)

Filed under: read SciFi — XBOT February 20, 2008 @ 9:04 pm

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