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From: burton@inuxe.UUCP (Thomas Burton)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: SF for Kids
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Date: Fri, 23-Sep-83 10:14:20 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 23 10:14:20 1983
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One of my favorite 'adolescent SF' authors was John Christopher. I
read the trilogy consisting of "The White Mountains", "The City
of Gold and Lead" and "The Pool of Fire" when I was in 7th grade,
and thoroughly enjoyed them. I haven't read any of his other
works, which appear to be more fantasy and less SF (which isn't
a criticism, by the way). Highly recommended, especially since
adolescents are the heroes; I felt I could relate better to
young teens attempting to save the world than I could to adults
or even older teens.

Also, Alan Nourse wrote a novel called "The Universe Between";
it was my first introduction to higher dimensions and alternate
universes, and also had young protagonists.

A book I recently re-read, which I enjoyed in elementary school,
was "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeliene L'Engle;
its the first book in a trilogy, and the later books have a strong
religious tone (sort of like C.S. Lewis); still, they were rather
good. Again, young protagonists are featured. I believe the other
books are "The Wind in the Door" and "A Swiftly Tilting Planet".

For much younger readers, there is the Tycho Bass series (I forget
the author) and the "ZipZip and the Flying Saucer" books; I read
these in elementary school. They may be out of print now; I remember
trying to find them once a few years back, without much success.

And of course, how can anyone forget the Danny Dunn series (well,
we can try). I remember being on waiting lists at my elementary
school library for the "new Danny Dunn book". Such titles as
"Danny Dunn on the Ocean Floor" and "Danny Dunn and the Smallifying
Machine" cannot readily be forgotten. Sigh.

Doug Burton
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