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Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
[1987], 1959
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
With Earth embroiled in a vast interplanetary war with the "Bugs," a young recruit in the Federal Reserves relates his experiences training in boot camp and as a junior officer in the Terran Mobile Infantry.
Author
Series
Safehold volume 1
Language
English
Description
With humankind reduced to a single colony on the world of Safehold, the human rulers of the planet, in an effort to preserve the remnants of their industrial civilization, build a religion designed to hide the colony by keeping its society medieval.
Author
Series
Servants of the empire volume 03
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Posing as a model student at Lothal's Imperial Academy, rebel spy Zare Leonis faces down Captain Roddance, his merciless commander, while secretly battling criminals in the shadiest parts of Capital City.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Centuries ago, the human race fought its first great war against an alien race, and lost. A tiny population of human beings fled to distant Safehold. Centuries later, their descendants have forgotten their history; for them, life has been an eternal Middle Ages, ruled by the Church of God Awaiting, whose secret purpose is to prevent the re-emergence of industrial civilization. But not all of Safehold's founders were on board with this plan. Those...
5) Tarkin
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
Even Darth Vader did as he commanded. Discover the truth about the man who ran the Death Star and ordered Alderaan's destruction with this closer look at the man who pulled all the strings: Grand Moff Tarkin.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"When the leaders and soldiers of the tiny island of Charis rise up behind cybernetic avatar Merlin to defend their home, a powerful Church of God Awaiting, pushed to the brink of defeat, draws on its formidable resources and forbidden technologies in an ultimate battle between freedom and oppression." -- From Novelist.
7) 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...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the pequeninos, a large colony of humans, and the hive queen, brought there by Ender Wiggin. But now, once again, the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania. Ender's oldest friend, Jane, an evolved computer intelligence, can save the three sentient races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly...
14) 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.
15) Heir to the Jedi
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Luke Skywalker takes on a high-stakes espionage operation to rescue a brilliant alien cryptographer sympathetic to the rebel cause, a mission that will push his abilities as a Rebel fighter and would-be Jedi to the limit.
17) Out of the dark
Author
Language
English
Description
The Galactic Hegemony, having learned of the existence of Earth and its human inhabitants, decides to send in the aggressive, carnivorous Shongairi to neutralize the humans before they can become a threat to galactic peace, but even though Earth is conquered in minutes, the alien Shongairi soon discover they seriously underestimated the enemy.
18) Trapped
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Old secrets make new trouble for the heroes as they battle against their latest enemy.
19) Uprising
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewbacca are sent to Tessacor, a planet that sympathizes with the Rebels, they discover that a group of Imperial teenagers has overthrown the city's government, suppressing dissent and initiating the Empire's protocols; the heroes, in order to avoid the Empire's wrath, attempt to convince the youngsters to join the Rebel Alliance.
20) AT-AT attack!
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Luke Skywalker and the rest of the Rebels face off against the Empire's dreaded mechanical AT-ATs on the ice planet of Hoth.
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