Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot

10 best books like Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot (Janet Asimov): Gateway, The Secret of Chimneys, Alchemy and Meggy Swann, A World Out of Time, The Affair of the Porcelain Dog, The Boy Who Reversed Himself, Batman and Robin, Volume 1: Born to Kill, Kissing Sherlock Holmes, Foundation's Fear, Waiting for the Galactic Bus

Gateway

Author	Frederik Pohl
ISBN	0345475836

Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe... and on reaches of unimaginable horror.

When prospector Robinette Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fortune. Three missions later, now famous and permanently...

The Secret of Chimneys

Author	Agatha Christie
ISBN	0007122586

A young drifter finds more than he bargained for when he agrees to deliver a parcel to an English country house…

Little did Anthony Cade suspect that a simple errand on behalf of a friend would make him the centrepiece of a murderous international conspiracy. Someone would stop at nothing...

Alchemy and Meggy Swann

Author	Karen Cushman
ISBN	0547231849

Fans of Karen Cushman's witty, satisfying novels will welcome Meggy Swann,newly come to London with her only friend, a goose named Louise. Meggy's mother was glad to be rid of her; her father, who sent for her, doesn't want her after all. Meggy is appalled by London,dirty and noisy, full of rogues and...

A World Out of Time

Author	Larry Niven
ISBN	0345336968

Jaybee Corbell awoke after more than 200 years as a corpsicle -- in someone else's body, and under sentence of instant annihilation if he made a wrong move while they were training him for a one-way mission to the stars.

But Corbell picked his time and made his own move. Once he was outbound, where...

The Affair of the Porcelain Dog

Author	Jess Faraday
ISBN	1602822301

London, 1889. For Ira Adler, former rent-boy and present plaything of crime lord Cain Goddard, stealing back the statue from Goddard's blackmailer should have been a doddle. But inside the statue is evidence that could put Goddard away for a long time under the sodomy laws, and everyone's after it,...

The Boy Who Reversed Himself

Author	William Sleator
ISBN	0140389652

When Laura finds her homework in her locker with its writing reversed, she's baffled, until she learns an unbelievable secret: her weird neighbor, Omar, has the ability to travel to the fourth dimension. Laura forces him to take her there, and then, a novice in "four-space", she goes there on her own....

Batman and Robin, Volume 1: Born to Kill

Author	Peter J. Tomasi
ISBN	1401234879

As a part of the acclaimed DC Comics--The New 52 event of September 2011, Batman begins battling evil with his son, Damian, at his side, Batman now realizes that the hardest part of the job may be trying to work together.
As Batman and Robin try to adjust to their new partnership, a figure emerges from...

Kissing Sherlock Holmes

Author

T.D. McKinney

My dear Watson, how does one go about kissing a woman?”...

Sherlock Holmes’ question leads to a lesson Watson never expected to teach. And feelings he never thought to explore. A single kiss alters Watson’s world while the announcement of Holmes’ upcoming marriage sets an odd fear...

Foundation's Fear

Author	Gregory Benford
ISBN	0061056383

Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the high-water marks of science fiction. It is the monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline, and the secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the inevitable Dark Age with the science of psychohistory. Now, with the permission -- and blessing...

Waiting for the Galactic Bus

Author	Parke Godwin
ISBN	0385246358

Imagine if "Job" by Heinlein was written from the immortals' perspectives.

Good, yes? Now keep that image in mind. Hold it firm and tight, and you won't have to read this book, as likely what's in your head is better than what's on the page.

It's not bad, exactly. It's an interesting look...

The True Meaning of Smekday

Author	Adam Rex
ISBN	0786849002

It all starts with a school essay.

When twelve-year-old Gratuity (“Tip”) Tucci is assigned to write five pages on “The True Meaning of Smekday” for the National Time Capsule contest, she’s not sure where to begin. When her mom started telling everyone about the messages aliens...