Children's Space Books Books

I used to read this book each fall to my fifth grade classes. The wonderful twists and turns of the story as the main characters traveled back in time held my students captive. This story never missed it's mark! It is an eerie and hauntingly dangerous adventure through time.

Hillary and Heather MacDonald are excited when their brother, Don, inherits a dollhouse made to look like the family's old home in England. When their parents see four sets of dolls in a drawer with a note that says not to touch the dolls, they can't resist and put one set of dolls in the house. Read The Ghosts of Austwick Manor to find out what happens!

Ever wonder what it'd be like with your own pet monster? Well you can now with this book. It's written so well for children that they will want to keep reading if they are really into the book. You may be scared of the monster, or maybe you want to hide him from others so that it won't be an intrusion. Maybe you will get to fly on him like I did for my first ending as it shows on the cover of the book!

hello im going to tell you about thesse books b/c there real good books when you have a good book you should share it.If you want to know this book is a series and if you want to know if its a choose your own advevture look on the spine.one of the books im reading is gorga, the space monster and when you get done reading one page you choose what you want to do.i really like this book.

I really like this book! I couldn't put it down & I read it in one day.
I didn't want it to end. It was really exciting to read & I can't wait to read more of this series!

Many parents have a problem with Star Wars because of its anti-Christian message. However, many kids LOVE sci-fi! Now Robert Elmer has provided a series called Astro Kids filled with Biblical truths like forgivness while upholding the fun alien-free atmosphere of outerspace!

One of the best books ever written on Army senior-level leadership.

Parts of it a somewhat dated after nearly thirty years, but if this had been required reading for the media prior to Gulf War II, they would have started the war much better prepared.

There are only a handful of writers (Atkinson, Ricks, Simons) who show that they really "get it", and Mylander (an Army brat, I believe) is another.

Grimoire: Tracked by Terror is the second book in Brad Strickland's Grimoire series. I loved the first book; easily as much as this book, but I wanted to wait for the second in the series to write a review, just to see if the great momentum could be kept up. Well, I'm happy to report that we have ourselves a bona-fide fabulous young adult series!

The book(s) centers around Jarvey Midion: A young man of 12 on a vacation to England. In book one he learns that he's the latest in a long line of Midion sorcerers (with powers and abilities he never knew he had, and does not quite know how to use). His kindly parents are snatched away by an evil distant-relative Midion. They become imprisoned in one of the multitude worlds held within the Grimoire: A tome of different worlds/universes created by the various descendants of the Midion lineage for their own twisted purposes. The worlds are deliciously spooky and mysterious. You simply HAVE to find out what happens next. You can't help but want to explore.

After learning that his parents are somewhere inside the Grimoire, Jarvey embarks on a fantastic journey to find them. In book one he meets Betsy Dare, the fearless, clever and resourceful young heroine of the series who helps Jarvey along in his quest. But, Betsy too has a secret. In book one Jarvey and Betsy find themselves trying to escape, time and again, from the many cruel denizens and traps of the various worlds within the Grimoire. You see Jarvey did something no other Midion had ever done in the countless years the Grimoire has existed. He entered the worlds of the Grimoire WITH the Grimoire itself! This makes him extremely powerful, and extremely valuable.

In book two, Tracked by Terror, Jarvey and Betsy jump further into more lands within the volume of the Grimoire. They encounter zombie robots, evil spirits, pirates, enormous gorilla guards (which I thought was cool, because I love King Kong), hypnotizing cobras, wicked trees and a Midion patriarch that hunts humans for sport and another that writes really, really BAD theater, and makes his family act in it. Did I mention that this book is funny too?

Brad Strickland knows how to scare us, how to make us laugh and how to keep us turning pages. This book has everything a fan of the genre wants. It's well written and poses lots of delectable questions that reveal themselves in fun and entertaining ways. No pages are wasted, and we very quickly come to care for our heroes. Highly recommended!

I love the Wiley & Grampa series by Kirk Scroggs. The Hairball From Outer Space is great. It's 6thth in the series. So, be sure to check out the rest. These books are a lot of fun for boys who might be picky about what they read. If your child loves the Captain Underpants books, then turn him on to these.

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Wiley & Grampa are on the top of my 8yr old sons list of favorites. The books are quite silly and a lot of fun. It is great to see my picky reader truly enjoying a book.

This is a great book. It is about and Hannah Martin, her angels, and Alexis. Alexis is trying out for the Greek gymnastinics team. Someone is trying to sabatage her so Hannah must find out who is trying to hurt Alexis before it is 2 late. To find out more read the book it is a great book. So I would defintly recommend it!

This book is a abosolutely the BEST! This series is cool, and this book is the best. I never learnt so much about Greece. Hannah Martins is very adventurous. Even though I'm 11 I think I'll never be brave enough to fly off somewhere whithout my mom and dad. I love adventures just like these. These really are a Whirlwind. I don't want to tell you about the book because, if I do, then it won't be as exiting as you find out for your self. It's usually Hannah help or finds something. Enjoy the exiting book of whirlwind.

If you or someone you know loves space, "Heores of Space" could very well be an excellent addition to your library. Written by DC Agle, "Heroes of Space" tells the history of America's manned space program from the its earliest -Project Mercury thru the moon landings and shuttle and into the future - space station and Mars missions. Agle does an excellent job of allowing the striking 3-D popups and astronaut quotes (of which their are many) to tell little known insights of the dramatic story of manned space flight. And if you need anything else to sell you, just press the cover. It contains an electronic chip which plays President Kennedy's historic 'go to the moon speech not because it is easy but because it is hard...' as well as sounds of a countdown and blastoff.

The COOLEST space book of this type I've ever seen! The pop-out spacecraft and astronauts brings the whole subject to life! The little flip-up and take-out books make it extra fun. Lots of info and photos! It covers space history from the Mercury flights to the future of space flight.

We are using this book while studying about space and it is a nice teaching tool because it is packed with information and has really nice coloring pages.

I homeschool my son and next year planned on our science studies to revolve around space, astronomy and human history of space explorations. We are starting when mankind was first looking up at the sky in caveman days to modern day long ranging satelites sending back their data from far away. I think this nice "coloring/informational" book is going to be a big help and make it more interesting with the activities I have looked at in the book so far.

If you have been waiting for a worthy successor to the time twisting novels of Madeline L'Engle, without the religious baggage that sometimes drag L'Engle's stories into the realm of preachy, you might enjoy Maiya Williams. Her children enjoy the wonders and paradoxes of time travel without being too much occupied with theology. Does anyone remember the novels of Edward Eager from the 1950s and 1960s? Those were frivolous entertainments with a group of siblings whoi honestly cared about each other, even when they were driving each other crazy. Ms. Williams gives us all that, and more. Eaxch one of her books is like injectine a whole library of historical information directly into your blood stream. Here you get the lives and loves of thje ancient Pharaohs, complete with some chilling scenes of imperial, pre-Cairo dynasty madness, as the children who went back into time into the French revolution, in Williams' previous prizewinner, THE GOLDEN HOUR, tumble back to a few decades before the birth of Christ. Cleopatra is a stunning queen, well aware of her own power, and she forms a good role model for our heroine Xanthe Alexander, who is mistaken by the "jewel of the Nile" for the reincarnation of a goddess. What a dilemma! The story gets more and more complicated as Rowan, Xanthe, Nina and Xavier realize that they have somehow stumbled into an alternate universe, where they daily bear the risks of running into alternate versions of their own selves! Plus, they must return to the scene of the crime (Egypt) in order to right things with Octavian. Kids who have seen and enjoyed THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT with Ashton Kutcher will thrill to this heady intellectual idea, for they find out that if you disturn one aspect of the past, such as killing a butterfly, it may mean that the future brings famines and earthquakes, metaphorically speaking. Some good comedy ensues in the ancient scenes, where the boys rebel against wearing the culturally approved loincloths of ancient Rome, referring to them as "diapers." They are being trained as gladiators, having adventures that would be denied to them in present day America, where boys are not exactly encouraged to do anything exciting except go to war overseas. Maiya Williams brings us right into the center of the action, a sort of Indiana Jones paradise filled with mummy cases and man eating lions, one desperate chase after another. And yet she never neglects the emotional core of the story, one in which sisters and brothers are constantly at war with each other, a loving war in which resentment, pity, and the golden rule are constantly shifting their priorities, like barber poles set up in a desert sand dune. These kids have spunk, and if you hate spunk, you're out of luck here. The rest of us will have a blast. If Nickolodeon or the Disney Channel really cared about kids, they'd be making mini-series out of THE GOLDEN HOUR and THE HOUR OF THE COBRA. I think these books would do well overseas, appealing to the same audiences world wide who love Tintin and Snowy. Here you get all that excitement and brain stimulation, but you get family love too--the one thing Tintin lacks. In the background is Cleopatra's love and rivalry with Octavian, a neat parallel to the modern day story. Xavier impersonates the god Osiris in one comical scene.

Delightful! I purchased this book for my young teenagers and found that not only they, but I couldn't put the book down until the last page. The historical references were just enough for young readers to get a sense of ancient Egypt without being bogged down in minute and tedious details, but what impressed me the most was the relationship between the siblings in the book. For anyone who has fought with feelings of sibling rivalry, this is a must read.

Every time I had to put this wonderful book down, I couldn't wait to pick it up and find out what was going to happen next. It is exciting, fun, and interesting. You will love to read it. I enjoyed reading it to my son, He even stayed still long enough to hear the whole book. He love it too

I had this book when I was a little girl. I would read this book over and over again. I lost the book in my travels and havent been lucky enough to find it anywhere. If you can find this book. Read it, you will not be sorry.