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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF READY PLAYER ONE It's just another day of high school for Zack Lightman. He's daydreaming through another boring math class, with just one more month to go until graduation and freedom--if he can make it that long without getting suspended again. Then he glances out his classroom window and spots the flying saucer. At first, Zack thinks he's going crazy. A minute later, he's sure of it. Because the...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Living in isolation with a robot on what appears to be an alien world populated with bizarre life forms, a twelve-year-old human girl called Eva Nine sets out on a journey to find others like her. Features "augmented reality" pages, in which readers with a webcam can access additional information about Eva Nine's world.
3) Desperation
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
There's a place alone Interstate 50 that some call the loneliest place on Earth. It's not a very nice place to live. It's an even worse place to die. It's known as Desperation, Nevada...
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Series
Pub. Date
2024
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Keep your eyes down and your feet moving, or this planet will rust you. That's what Lunar Jones tells the other kids at the relocation clinic. All of them were born on Mars, a planet that never wanted people in the first place. With resources scarce and hope even scarcer, it's easy to get distracted looking up. After all, their ancestors descended from the stars. Martian history always starts with Earth. The first astronauts discovered that space...
Author
Series
Gideon Crew novel volume 4
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
That thing is growing again. We must destroy it. The time to act is now ... With these words begins Gideon Crew's latest, most dangerous, most high-stakes assignment yet. Failure will mean nothing short of the end of humankind on earth. Five years ago, the mysterious and inscrutable head of Effective Engineering Solutions, Eli Glinn, led a mission to recover a gigantic meteorite--the largest ever discovered--from a remote island off the coast of South...
Author
Series
Galaxy Zack volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Zack is shocked to find a large, green, six-eyed creature sitting in his place at school one morning, but soon learns that he and the "monster" have a lot in common.
9) Binti
Author
Series
Binti volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs. Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter...
11) The hive
Author
Series
Second Formic War volume 2
Language
English
Description
A second prequel to Ender's Game continues the sci-fi history of the Formic Wars and finds the warring nations and corporations of Earth struggling to set aside their differences to defend against an imminent alien invasion.
"A coalition of Earth's nations barely fought off the Formics' first scout ship. Now its clear that there's a mother-ship out on edge of the system, and the aliens are prepared to take Earth by force. Can Earths warring nations...
12) The dark above
Author
Language
English
Description
At four-years-old William Changed vanished into the woods... and returned. He's been the living proof that his grandmother and her fellow researchers into missing people were right all along about the terror from the stars and a vast government conspiracy. Now he's in hiding, avoiding everything except for the nightmares: fires, storms, disease and violence. The media, government operatives and renegade true believers are desperate to find him, but...
13) Aurora rising
Author
Series
Aurora cycle volume 01
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Told in separate voices, eighteen-year-old Tyler Jones, top graduate of Aurora Academy, and a group of misfits and troublemakers embark on their first mission with Auri, a stowaway from the distant past.
2380. The graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the Academy would touch, from...
14) The hunt
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Series
Language
English
Description
After being abducted from Earth and forced to work as human captives in a safari-themed environment called the Hunt, Cora works to develop her psychic powers to help her friends escape and return home.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In the chaotic turmoil that follows the Boov invasion of Earth, eleven-year-old Gratuity Tucci finds herself driving her mother's car to Florida, where all of the humans are being relocated, with her cat and a renegade extraterrestiral named J. Lo as her copilots.
17) Halo: the flood
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
The humans aboard the spaceship the Pillar of Autumn crash-land onto a mysterious ringworld, where they discover a secret weapon, the Halo construct, built to stop the force known as the Flood, as they battle the Covenant who worship the Halo.
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Language
English
Description
Stories of your life and others delivers dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, often presenting characters who must confront sudden change -- the inevitable rise of automations or the appearance of aliens -- while striving to maintain some sense of normalcy.
19) The solar war
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Series
Language
English
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Description
The continuing story of humanity's fight for survival, as Dr. James Sinclair and the other survivors learn that the end of the Long Winter does not mean the end of the threat. leading Dr. Sinclair to come up with a plan that risks everything for survival.
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