Tales from the Wonder Zone
Golden Duck Special Award
for
Best Science & Technology Education
Canadian Science Writers Association
Winner: Science & Society (Youth)
What do you get when you give talented authors the science topics being taught in grades 4 through 9? Astonishing science fiction stories
that fit into any educator’s program.
Welcome to the Wonder Zone.
Covers and interior art by award-winning artist,
Jean-Pierre Normand.
Click to view list of stories in Tales from the Wonder Zone
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Stories in Stardust (for beginning independent readers)
- A Special Introduction by Dr. Gregory Benford
- “Alien Games” by Annette Griessman
- “Looking Through Glass” by Mark Leslie
- “The Doom of Planet D” by Alison Baird
- “Catching Rays” by James Van Pelt
- “Shine” by Beverley J. Meincke
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Stories in Explorer (for competent readers, 8 and up)
- A Special Introduction by C.J. Cherryh
- “The Snow Aliens” by Derwin Mak
- “Moonfuture Incorporated” by Pat York
- “The Word Unspoken” by Marcel Gagné
- “By Its Cover” by Isaac Szpindel
- “Rain, Ice, Steam” by James Alan Gardner
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Stories in Orbiter (for confident readers)
- A Special Introduction by David Brin
- “Just Like Being There” by Eric Choi
- “Space Divers” by Annette Griessman
- “Dragonfly” by Mark Canter
- “Tether” by Jean-Louis Trudel
- “A Strand in the Web” by Anne Bishop (novella)
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Stories in Odyssey (for confident readers)
- A Special Introduction by Greg Bear
- “Jigsaw” by Douglas Smith
- “Skeeters” by MT O’Shaughnessy
- “Tides of Change” by Sarah Jane Elliott
- “To Feast on Royal Jelly” by Francine P. Lewis
- “source material” by Laura Anne Gilman
- “Treasures” by Annette Griessman
- “Defining an Elephant” by Peter Watts
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Stories in Polaris (for confident readers)
- A Special Introduction by Amber Church and Tyler Kuhn
- “Attractions” by Jane Carol Petrovich
- “Polar Shift” by Emily Mah
- “Aptitude” by Marcelle Dubé
- “Frozen Witness” by L. Shelby
- “The Lost Land” by Claire Eamer
- “Above the Pole” by David DeGraff
- “Shining Field” by Anna Paradox
- “Under Martian Ice” by Stephen Baxter
- “Swept Away” by Sarah Niedoba (winner of the International Polar Year Student Writing Contest)
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All Wonder Zone titles are available from Fitzhenry & Whiteside.
Stardust (grade 4 and up)
2002 by Trifolium Books Inc.
1-552440184
Explorer (grade 5 and up)
2002 by
1-552440222
Orbiter (grade 6 and up)
2002 by Trifolium Books Inc.
1-552440206
Odyssey (grade 7 and up)
2004 by Trifolium Books Inc.
1-55244080X
Polaris: A Celebration of Polar Science (grade 8 and up)
2007 by Star Ink Books
978-0889953727
