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This is a new note on an old page. The Sci Fi Book Store now serves as a book list with annotations for lesson topics each book can enrich. For lessons and essays on using science fiction to teach and for comments on my favorites, please remember that I am continuously reading more! Read the comments below to get an idea of why the books in the book store are considered suitable for youth. Also, the ebook store and the video store each include lists of media and media sources that have been screened and are frequently updated. I make no effort to include books/media published as YA/rated for youth unless I have read/watched and enjoyed it. Librarians and publishers have already screened these. My purpose is to locate the works not normally listed for youth and to share the works that I would use in my classrooms. Since I teach science, the list is skewed towards science concepts, but there is plenty of ethics and sociology in the mix. Eventually, I will make a list that can be printed out. That list will be added to the sci fi essays list when it becomes available. Watch for it on News and Views and Valerie's Memos. Add your favorites to any of the lists with a message in the forum, blog, or an email. Be sure to tell us if you want to subscribe to our newsletter.
This page is a near duplicate of the correctly spelled url. Locating the page with the misspelled link seemed daunting, so I am keeping this page posted also. Also, being an older page, it is not written using xhtml and CSS as the newer pages are. Do you like the newer design? See the Sci Fi Memes and Myths essay for a comparison.
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All of the books on this list have been read by
myself or another teacher and have been judged to be appropriate for juvenile
readers. Books with the occasional mild
profanity, and/or violence (Is violence ever mild?) are marked with red
explanations so that you can decide whether to suggest the book to an older
student. The same with sex, which in all
cases is obliquely referred to, not described.
However, sometimes a romantic relationship includes sex out of
marriage. In this case, the red comment
will alert you. I have read and enjoyed
the majority of these personally. If you
have any doubts about recommending books to your students, check with your
school librarian to see if these conditions of screening the books are
adequate. None of these books are any
more explicit in profanity, sex or violence than are the movies portraying the
books written by John Griffith or Tom Clancy.
| Authors | ||
|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Moon (a bit violent, but stirring adventure and moral heros.) | ||
| Her Deed of Paksenarrion & Rules of Engagement are great. | ||
| James White, especially the Sector General Series | ||
| David Weber (some are bit violent, but stirring adventure and moral heros.) | ||
| Greg Bear | ||
| Sharon Lee and Steve, especially the ones in the Liaden Universe | ||
Isaac Asimov Robert Heinlein: Jumvenile books only-Not Methusela's Children. or The Cat thatWalks through Walls, but those written earlier are great. Paul Anderson Larry Niven James Herbert, especially Dune A.C. Crispin David Brin, especially many others to come |
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