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The FractalVerse volume Book 2
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"July 25th, 2234: The crew of the Adamura discovers the Anomaly. On the seemingly uninhabited planet Talos VII: a circular pit, 50 kilometers wide. Its curve not of nature, but design. Now, a small team must land and journey on foot across the surface to learn who built the hole and why. But they all carry the burdens of lives carved out on disparate colonies in the cruel cold of space. For some the mission is the dream of the lifetime, for others...
2) Seveneves
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Five thousand years after a catastrophic event rendered the Earth a ticking time bomb, the progeny of a handful of outer space explorers--seven distinct races now three billion strong--embark on yet another audacious journey: to return to Earth.
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Honors volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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Zara Cole is recruited into the Honors, an elite team of humans selected by a race of sentient alien ships, to explore the outer reaches of the universe, and begins to feel at home for the first time aboard Nadim, her assigned alien ship.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Three aliens set off to find a new planet for themselves but soon Bork and Gork have forgotten all of their mother's good advice and only Nklxwcyz builds a home safe enough to withstand the Big Bad Robot in this story reminiscent of "The Three Little Pigs.".
5) Honor bound
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Honors volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
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Savvy criminal turned skilled Leviathan pilot Zara Cole finds new friends and clashes with bitter enemies in the second book of this action-packed series from New York Times bestselling authors Rachel Caine and Ann Aguirre that's perfect for fans of The 100 and The Fifth Wave. Zara Cole was a thief back on Earth, but she's been recently upgraded to intergalactic fugitive. On the run after a bloody battle in a covert war that she never expected to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
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George is heartbroken when his neighbor Annie and her space-scientist father move to Florida, but when Annie sends him a secret message telling him she has been contacted by aliens with a terrible warning, he joins her in a galaxy-wide search for answers. Includes scientific essays on space travel.
7) Cosmic
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
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Liam has always felt a bit like he's stuck between two worlds. This is primarily because he's a twelve-year-old kid who looks like he's about thirty. Sometimes it's not so bad, like when his new principal mistakes him for a teacher on the first day of school or when he convinces a car dealer to let him take a Porsche out on a test drive. But mostly it's just frustrating, being a kid trapped in an adult world. And so he decides to flip things around....
8) Starclimber
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Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
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As members of the first crew of astralnauts, Matt Cruse and Kate De Vries journey into outer space on the Starclimber and face a series of catastrophes that threaten the survival of all on board.
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Jake Ross novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
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It is time to start the colonizing the solar system. Ex-astronaut, current space advisor, and all-out trouble shooter for the President, Jake Ross, is determined to make it happen. And what better way to return to America's glory than by returning to the moon and setting up a permanent moon-base which can then serve as the launching pad for Mars and beyond. But as usual, political intrigue and conflicting priorities are threatening the whole program....
10) Ghost station
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Pub. Date
2024.
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"While part of a small space exploration crew on an abandoned planet, a psychologist confronts a gruesome murder and twisted secrets as she races to prevent history from repeating itself in the form of space-borne madness."--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
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"Ray Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America's most beloved authors. In a much celebrated literary career that has spanned six decades, he has produced an astonishing body of work: unforgettable novels, including Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes; essays, theatrical works, screenplays and teleplays; The Illustrated Mein, Dandelion Wine, The October Country, and numerous other...
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Firefly volume 8
Pub. Date
2023
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"The Serenity crew head to Yell City, one of the settlements on Abel, a moon in the Rim. Their job: track down the killers of a local lawyer shot dead in the streets by a local gang. Their client is Annie Roberts, the eighteen year old daughter of the murdered man. Lucky for them, Annie Roberts is more than capable of handling herself. Unlucky for them, the job is lot more complicated than they first think. Annie's father is not just the victim of...
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Space odyssey volume Bk. 1
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Accompanied by a navigator, three deep-freeze hibernauts, and the computer that guides him, David Bowman sets out in the spaceship Discovery to investigate a planet that may be inhabited by alien creatures.
14) Space Mountain
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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"The year is 2125 and the Magellan Science Academy has given two lucky cadets "Thulium tickets" to join a team of space explorers on a special time-travel mission twenty-four hours into the future. But when their mission goes wrong, the two kids must band together with a tiny flying saucer sidekick to save themselves, their crew, and all of Space Mountain--before time runs out and the galaxy is destroyed!"--P. [4] of cover.
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Pub. Date
c2020
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An original prequel novel based on the new Star Trek series centered around iconic Starfleet captain Jean-Luc Picard. When Starfleet discovers that the Romulan star is about to go supernova, The threat to the stability of the Romulan Star Empire will be catastrophic, nine hundred million Romulans will need to be evacuated. The relief effort will require thousands of ships, let alone the capacity to aid them, if the Romulans will allow the aid. The...
16) Space explorers
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Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Mrs. Frizzle's class goes on a far-out journey all the way to outer space to become real space explorers and learn all about the solar system.
17) Interstellar
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Pub. Date
2015
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Chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
18) Space
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Engineer Stanley Mott, astronomy student John Pope, naval hero Norman Grant, and rocket engineer Dieter Kolff serve as principals in the forty-year history of America's space program and share the complex drama with numerous others.
20) Honor lost
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Honors volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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Zara Cole may have finally met her match. Lifekiller--a creature that can devour entire planets--is spreading terror throughout the universe, and it seems nothing can stand in the monstrous god-king's way. Reeling from a series of battles, Zara and her wounded band of allies are going to need a strategy before they face Lifekiller again. Zara's street smarts may not be enough when their enemy could be anywhere, destroying civilizations and picking...