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The first day of seventh grade was probably the worst day of Duncan Dougal's life.

After Susan sees Mr. Smith, the substitute teacher, peel off his face, she knows he is an alien and only Peter believes her; and together they work to save the class from Mr.

Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.

Peter, a typical seventh-grader, finds himself touring the planet with his friends Susan and Duncan, and with three aliens in disguise.

When Franny Stein, self-styled mad scientist, creates a robot to show her school friends the joys of science, she ends up learning something from them instead.

A lavender rat that has escaped from a laboratory, and a lonely boy whose parents are scientists, meet on an orbiting space station, communicate by email, and ultimately find themselves in need of each other's help and friendship.

When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time.

Although he has been missing for several years and the entire town thinks her father has abandoned her family, Meg steadfastly believes the best and protects her younger brother, Charles Wallace, from the brunt of the rumors and taunting.

In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.

With his ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe takes Flip with him to find out whether Satchel Paige really was the fastest pitcher ever.

Thirteen-year-old Tash, her younger brother Zak, and their Uncle Hoole visit the planet D'vouran, where they encounter the sluglike crime lord Smada the Hutt and reports of people vanishing into thin air.

Rod is surprised when a miniature spaceship lands in his school science project and reveals five tiny aliens, who ask for his help in apprehending an interstellar criminal.

Presents an illustrated, twenty-fifth anniversary edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," the story of a young man who is rescued by an alien friend seconds before Earth is demolished to make room for a galactic freeway.

Anakin Skywalker develops a friendship with Chancellor Palpatine that threatens his pregnant wife, Padm?; the Jedi; and the entire galaxy.

While visiting Dizzyland near Los Angeles, Klatu, Lek, and Ploo, the three alien siblings from the planet Loogl, find a fuzzy little alien named Mu in the sideshow zoo of the amusement park and decide to set it free.