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To the Moon and Beyond: Books about Outer Space

Picture Books | Beginning Readers | Middle Readers | Older Readers

Picture Books

• From Here to There, by Margery Cuyler
• Zoom! Zoom! Zoom! I'm off to the Moon, by Dan Yaccarino
• Moongame, by Frank Asch
• Moondance, by Frank Asch
• Happy Birthday, Moon, by Frank Asch
• Mooncake, by Frank Asch
• Sun and Moon: A Giant Love Story, by Lisa Desimini
• Where the Moon Lives, by Ivan Gantschev
• Can't Sleep, by Chris Raschka
• Night Goes By, by Kate Spohn
• Rabbit and the Moon, by Douglas Wood
• How the Sky's Housekeeper Wore Her Scarves, by Patricia Hooper
• Company's Coming, by Arthur Yorinks
• Alistair and the Alien Invasion, by Marilyn Sadler
• Space Case, by Edward Marshall
• The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System, by Joanna Cole
• No Moon, No Milk, by Chris Babcock
• Star Gazing Sky, by Deborah Kogan Ray
• I want to be an Astronaut, by Byron Barton
• Johnny on the Spot, by Edward Sorel
• The Nightgown of the Sullen Moon, by Nancy Willard
• Moonstruck: the True Story of the Cow Who Jumped Over the Moon, by Gennifer Choldenko

Beginning Readers

• Commander Toad and the Big Black Hole, by Jane Yolen
• More Commander Toad books by Jane Yolen
• Stargazers, by Gail Gibbons
• The Moon Book, by Gail Gibbons
• Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night, by Cynthia Rylant
• Minnie and Moo Go to the Moon, by Denys Cazet
• Sunshine, Moonshine, by Jennifer Armstrong
• Blast Off! Poems about Space, selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins
• So That's How the Moon Changes Shape!, by Allan Fowler
• The Sun's Family of Planets, by Allan Fowler
• The Sun and Stars, by Leslie Sims
• Poppleton Everyday, by Cynthia Rylant

Middle Readers

• Seeing Earth from Space, by Patricia Lauber
• Star Walk, by Seymour Simon
• The On-Line Spaceman and Other Cases, by Seymour Simon
• The Universe, by Seymour Simon (see also other books about space by Seymour Simon
• Fat Men from Space, by Daniel Pinkwater
• Guys from Space, by Daniel Pinkwater
• Mush, A Dog from Space, by Daniel Pinkwater
• Ned Feldman, Space Pirate, by Daniel Pinkwater
• The Chicken Gave it To Me, by Anne Fine
• My Life among the Aliens, by Gail Gauther
• I Can Be an Astronaut, by June Behrens
• Mrs. Jeepers in Outer Space, by Debbie Dadey
• How I Learned to Fly, by R. L. Stine
• Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the U.F.O., by David Adler
• My Life Among the Aliens, by Gail Gauther

Older Readers

• Invitation to the Game, by Monica Hughes
• Virtual War, by Gloria Skurzynski
• The Transall Saga, by Gary Paulsen
• Hexwood, by Diana Wynne Jones
• The Night the Heads Came, by William Sleator
• Interstellar Pig, by William Sleator
• Off the Road, by Nina Bawden
• Well Wished, by Franny Billingsley
• The Door in the Lake, by Nancy Butts
• New World, by Gillian Cross
• A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeline L'Engle
• Rocket! How a Toy Launched the Space Age, by Richard Maurer
• Black Stars in Orbit: NASA's African-American Astronauts, by Khephra Burns
• Galax-Arena, by Gillian Rubinstein
• Beyond the Labyrinth, by Gillian Rubinstein
• Star Wars: Episode 1, by Terry Brooks
• Star Wars Young Jedi Knights: Diversity Alliance, by Kevin Anderson
• Under Alien Stars, by Pamela Service
• The Winds of Mars, by H. M. Hoover
• Young Star Travellers, by Isaac Asimov, Martin Greenberg, & Charles G. Waugh

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