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Sci-Fi young adult book read 1995-2001 with a not quite human boy in an egg-like space capsule on a beach
Looking for a fantasy or sci fi book about a boy found in a capsule on a beach.
I do not know the title, or the author's name. I also don't know when the book came out originally. I believe the author ...
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Mutant youth return to Earth
This was a novel from late 80s or early 90s. Type of story where space-faring humans return to explore damaged Earth. I don't remember if they were trying to revive the Earth, ran into hostile ...
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1950s-1979 young adult novel about a boy traveling through world which turns out to be a spaceship
I remember reading this book as a kid. It was a hard-cover book with a picture of an alien jumping up and down or dancing in the bottom right-hand corner of the cover. It was definitely geared toward ...
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What book is this? Pre 80s book about a captain who hijacks a military spaceship and takes school kids hostage?
I got this from my middle school library back in the 80s but the book seemed to be from the late 50s to mid 70s. This was a young adult targeted novel about a captain who hijacks a military spaceship ...
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Late 70s space fighter diagrams, cheap paper
I have little to provide other than a timeframe and some visual cues. This was a book I had in the late 70s, marketed to older kids. It was on cheap, dark paper (think of modern puzzle books) and I ...
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Novel about a girl who climbs around inside the walls of a spaceship [duplicate]
I remember reading a young adult novel in the '90s about a girl traveling on a spaceship. If I recall correctly, there's a dangerous race of aliens who can disguise themselves as humans, and she ...
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Name of children/teenager sci-fi book
About a boy (teenager) who put together an egg-shaped spaceship. A face-less person welcomed him into this “lost (and found)” world where it rained at night and you could do anything except skydive ...
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Pre-1979 hard sci-fi children's or YA book with boxy functional spaceships
I read a science fiction soft-cover book in 5th grade in 1979 or so that I was trying to track down. I have very little recollection of the story, but that it was "hard" sci-fi, and probably involved ...
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Looking For an Early 2000s Young Adult Book Involving a Human Boy Raised by Aliens
I'm looking for a book I read in the 3rd grade, back in 2004. I'm 20 now so this was about 12 years ago and my memory of the book is a little hazy.
I recall the main plot of the story concerned a ...
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Looking for a young adult book written in the 70's or 60's where a young man invents a spaceplane?
I am looking for a novel written in the 70's or 60's that had a young man who invented a space plane that had a reflective or diamond coating and used a rare and special element to break the speed of ...
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A spaceship saved by a teen who realizes destination planet is surrounded by electromagnetic field
I'm looking for an old book, more than 40 years old, almost certainly a lot older, about spaceship heading to some planet, I believe it is Venus.
The previous ships have not been heard from after ...
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Teens stranded in eco-system within alien ship, fighting for survival
Looking for the name of a book series I read in middle school, 2001-2004 roughly.
All I can remember about it was that there were a handful of teenagers who somehow ended up on an alien planet that ...
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Teenagers on a spaceship that was sentient/had AI, waking up at different times from sarcophagus-like bed [duplicate]
I remember reading in the late 80's / early 90's a trilogy (I think) about some teens in a spaceship that was sentient / had AI, and they weren't allowed in one section of the spaceship because it was ...
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YA: girl wakes up on spaceship/station where everything is sterile and automatic
I read a book when I was in I think 4th or 5th grade and I am 30 now. I do not know when it was written, but I read it around the same time that "The Giver" came out which was 1993.
A girl woke up ...
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Room is really a spaceship
When I was a kid - 80's/90's - there was a science fiction series about a kid, whose room was really a spaceship that could just take off detaching itself from the building. Can anyone help me on the ...
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