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