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If you like A Wrinkle in Time
A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle

Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government, in a rerelease of the classic story. A Newbery Medal Book. 
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Fuzzy
by Tom Angleberger

When Max (Maxine Zealster) befriends her new robot classmate Fuzzy, she helps him navigate Vanguard Middle School and together they reveal the truth behind the Robot Integration Program
Children of exile
by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Raised along with the other kids in her town by a group of adults who tell them that it is too dangerous to stay with their parents, eldest child Rosi prepares to be sent back to her family only to discover that home is nothing like she expected. By the best-selling author of the Shadow Children series. 
The Firefly code
by Megan Frazer Blakemore

When an unbelievably perfect newcomer arrives in their utopian community, Mori and her friends experience uncertainty about their world for the first time as a result of the new girl's astonishing secret. By the award-winning author of The Water Castle.
The Secret Sea
by Barry Lyga

Hearing a voice that warns him of danger, 12-year-old Zak barely escapes a subway flood and becomes trapped with his two friends in an alternate universe where they race to cure a rare disease and prevent a global catastrophe that is threatening their home world. By the author of The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl. 
The wild robot
by Peter Brown

Initializing for the first time on a remote island where she is all alone, Roz the robot learns survival strategies from the island's hostile animals and finally gains acceptance when she cares for an orphaned gosling. By the Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator of Creepy Carrots! 
More Books on the subject
The Search for WondLa by Tony DiTerlizzi
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Under their Skin by Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Mark of the Dragonfly by Jaleigh Johnson
The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L Holm
Fuzzy Mud by Louis Sachar
Pi in the sky by Wendy Mass
Randoms by David Liss
Evil genius by Catherine Jinks
The Sound of Life and Everything by Krista Van Dolzer
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
When you Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
 
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