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Tagged with young-adult aliens
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Novel about aliens putting teens through tasks to live on their planet
A few years ago I read a book about a teen girl going to their high school gym and completing these tests to see if they were eligible to get into this program/spaceship. Earth was gonna be destroyed ...
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Looking for the title of a book with a boy and an alien creature
I've been trying to find out about a book I read when I was in my early teens. This would have been late 90's to very early 2000s. All I can remember is that a boy finds an alien creature that looks ...
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Collection of short sci-fi/alien stories, including a story about astronauts landing on a planet that seemed like Earth, but was slightly different
I'm trying to identify a book I read back in 2007. It was a collection of short science fiction/alien stories. From my memory, here is one story that I remember:
A group of astronauts landed on a ...
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Children's book from the 1980s about boy/girl twins, mind-reading aliens (squid, maybe?), maybe set in Australia
I read this book in late 1980s, maybe 1990s, in the UK.
I am certain it had twins, a boy and a girl, and the boy was communicating with or unwillingly having his mind read by aliens.
Things I may be ...
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80s young adult book involving mind control aliens, a male teen protagonist whose mom is controlled and a teacher; there's also a drug
I'm looking for an 80s young adult book involving mind control aliens, a male teen protagonist whose mom is controlled and a teacher; there's also a drug. The mom takes her class out to get zapped ...
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Young adult novel about a girl who has false memories of a human childhood, but was stolen from the woods to be experimented on
I read this book when I was quite young, maybe 12 years old (2013).
I remember it was about a girl who grew up in a futuristic society. This society’s government guards people from the woods/forest ...
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A post apocalyptic story about a father and daughter who survive an alien attack that wipes out humanity
A father has a job checking the bunker reserved for important government figures in the middle of nowhere. He brings his daughter along to spend some quality time with her. They stay in the lavish ...
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Book featuring humanity being updated and a boy leaving tapes because he can no longer be seen
What I remember of the plot is that the boy was doing a show or something when an update happened to humanity, and now nobody can see or hear him. So he leaves tapes explaining what happened, and in ...
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Young adult book series about aliens or hybrids with silver blood
Young adult book series about aliens or hybrids with silver blood. One gains the ability to be a martial arts master. There is a girl who joins and says her blood is like their blood, implying it was ...
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Children’s fantasy novel where a boy discovers a house in the wood sheltering otherworldly people
In the late 1980s in the U.K., I read a children's or young adults fantasy story - just one book.
It starts with a young boy as the central character (I think it is set in U.K.). The boy is staying ...
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Trying to recall old YA Sci-Fi series similar to Animorphs
I recall a young adult book series similar to Animorphs where kids had special abilities to stop an alien invasion. The main difference is instead of turning into animals, they were more normal but ...
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Title of YA novel by Gordon R. Dickson about teenagers invited to take a trip to another planet by an alien government
Sometime in or before 1968, I read a young adult science fiction novel by Gordon R. Dickson in which a few teenagers from Earth are invited by representatives of a (possibly galactic scale) alien ...
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YA/kids' book featuring a kid and an alien whose preferred pronoun is "it" rather than "he" or "she" [duplicate]
There's a book I read in the late '90s that I'm trying to remember. Here's what I remember:
An alien whose preferred pronoun is "it"
The scene I remember very vividly is one of the aliens ...
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1970s (?) young adult book about a race of noncorporeal aliens on Earth
A race of aliens from a planet so technologically advanced that they evolved beyond the use of bodies. They floated through space until they arrived on Earth. They enter a human's blood stream through ...
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Finding book about an alien pyramid and a (sort of) scavenger hunt
I've been trying to find this book (obviously unsuccessfully) for at least six or seven years. I read the book only once and sometime about 9-10 years ago; hence my memory of it might be a bit off on ...
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