Get your children reading with an exciting sci fi adventure book curated by the review team at Stelahub.
Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke – 2011
8 – 12 years
Normal Earthling Zita is transported to a mysterious alien planet which appears to be the Star Wars cantina dialed up to eleven. Zita must rescue her friend who’s been kidnapped by an alien cult while dealing with con men, bloodthirsty robots, humanoid chickens, a friendly giant mouse, and the impending destruction of the planet she’s standing on.
Zita the Spacegirl is fun and captivating: my eight-year-old has read it many, many, many times. Strongly recommended.
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline l’Engle – 1962
11 years and up
A Wrinkle in Time was rejected by at least 26 publishers because it was, in L’Engle’s words, “too different,” and “because it deals overtly with the problem of evil, and it was difficult for children and was it a children’s or an adult’s book, anyhow?”
The book has been in print continuously since its publication in 1962, so apparently, it wasn’t too difficult for children. However, it has been too challenging for the more religious adults: it was on the American Library Association’s list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000 at number 23, due to the book’s references to witches and crystal balls, the claim that it “challenges religious beliefs,” and the listing of Jesus “with the names of great artists, philosophers, scientists, and religious leaders.”
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