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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorStarclimber
Kenneth Oppel · 395 pages
"Mr. Cruse, how high would you like to fly?"A smile soared across my face."As high as I possibly can."Pilot-in-training Matt Cruse and Kate de Vries, expert on high-altitude life-forms, are invited aboard the Starclimber, a vessel that literally climbs its way into the cosmos. Before they even set foot aboard the ship, catastrophe strikes:Kate announces she is engaged — and not to Matt.Despite thi
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
Roald Dahl · 176 pages
Taking up where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory leaves off, Charlie, his family, and Mr. Wonka find themselves launched into space in the great glass elevator.
Goliath
Scott Westerfeld · 576 pages
The tension thickens as the Leviathan steams toward New York City with a homicidal lunatic on board: secrets suddenly unravel, characters reappear, and nothing is as it seems in this thunderous conclusion to Scott Westerfeld's brilliant trilogy.
Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon
Mark Hodder · 640 pages
The Andalite Chronicles
Katherine Applegate · 326 pages
His name is Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul. An Andalite war-prince. The one who gave five young humans the ability to morph into any animal they touch. They are still out there, fighting an evil so powerful there isn't a moment that goes by when they can actually feel safe. Their story continues. But *this* is how it all began.
Space Explorers
Eva Moore · 76 pages
Hi, my name is Carlos. I am one of the kids in Ms. Frizzle's class. Maybe you've heard of Ms. Frizzle. (Sometimes we just call her the Friz.) She is a terrific teacher — but a little strange. One of her favorite subjects is science, and she knows everything about it.
Infernal Devices
K.W. Jeter · 283 pages
Steampunk. Fresh and inventive, darkly humorous, and with wild characters who never take a backseat to the mechanical creations.
Space Case
Stuart Gibbs · 352 pages
Dashiell Gibson, who lives on Moon Base Alpha, has to solve a murder of one of the moon's most prominent doctors.
The Diamond Conspiracy
Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris, Philippa Ballantine · 368 pages
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne · 352 pages
A nineteenth-century science fiction tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and undersea world, which anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century.
My Teacher Glows in the Dark
Bruce Coville · 144 pages
While living with aliens Peter has learned of their plans for the Earth and only he, Susan and Duncan can stop them.When Peter Thompson discovers that his newest teacher glows in the dark he's flying away from Earth in a spaceship full of aliens and there's no one he can call.
Imprudence
Gail Carriger · 352 pages
Rue and the Spotted Custard shake the foundations of England's scientific community with revelations from their trip to India, a situation that is complicated by supernatural restlessness and her own family's growing fears.
Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl
David Barnett · 351 pages
"Nineteenth century London is the center of a vast British Empire. Airships ply the skies and Queen Victoria presides over three-quarters of the known world, including the East Coast of America, following the failed revolution of 1775. London might as well be a world away from Sandsend, a tiny village on the Yorkshire coast. Gideon Smith dreams of the adventure promised him by the lurid tales of C
Alien Escape
Geronimo Stilton · 112 pages
Space mouse Geronimo Stiltonix must replace the batteries in his damaged spaceship by tracking down a rare element, but he is wary of a group of mysterious aliens who offer their help.
Heaven's River
Dennis E. Taylor · 676 pages
The Black Lung Captain
Chris Wooding
Darian Frey is down on his luck. He can barely keep his squabbling crew fed and his rickety aircraft in the sky. Even the simplest robberies seem to go wrong. It's getting so a man can't make a dishonest living any more.
Pi in the Sky
Wendy Mass · 264 pages
Cogheart
Peter Bunzl · 327 pages
Lily's life is in mortal peril. Her father is missing and silver-eyed men stalk her through the shadows. With her friend Robert and Malkin, her mechanical fox, Lily is plunged into a menacing world where murder, mayhem and mystery await.
Agatha Heterodyne and the Beetleburg Clank
Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio, Brian Snoddy · 96 pages
The Steel Tsar
Michael Moorcock · 156 pages
Old Man's War
John Scalzi · 319 pages
John Scalzi channels Robert Heinlein (including a wry sense of humor) in a novel about a future Earth engaged in an interstellar war against more advanced species. Citizens volunteer for the Colonial Defense Forces after retirement, in exchange for which they have their consciousness transferred into a young body, cloned from their DNA but enhanced. If, against the odds, they survive two years o
The Wonderful Flight To The Mushroom Planet
Eleanor Cameron · 195 pages
The adventures of Chuck and David, two boys who travel to the alien planet Basidium in their homemade spaceship.