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Long Earth volume 5
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English
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The Next -- the hyper-intelligent post humans -- realize that the missive they received from the center of the galaxy contains instructions for kick-starting the development of an immense artificial intelligence knows as The Machine. But to build this computer the size of an Earth continent, they must obtain help from the more populous and still industrious worlds of mankind.
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A London businessman withdraws to the countryside to write a play, by which he hopes to alleviate his financial problems. Bedford rents a small countryside house in Lympne, in Kent, where he wants to work in peace. He is bothered every afternoon, however, at precisely the same time, by a passer-by making odd noises. After two weeks Bedford accosts the man, who proves to be a reclusive physicist named Mr. Cavor. Bedford befriends Cavor when he learns...
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Starlight's Shadow volume 2
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English
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Kee Ildez has been many things: hacker, soldier, bounty hunter. She never expected to be a hero, but when a shadowy group of traitors starts trying to goad the galaxy's two superpowers into instigating an interstellar war, Kee throws herself into the search to find out who is responsible-and stop them. Digging up hidden information is her job, so hunting traitors should be a piece of cake, but the primary suspect spent years in the military, and someone...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Nax and a handful of other space Academy washouts are the only surviving pilots after the school is hijacked by terrorists, but in order to spread the truth about the attack, Nax and his fellow failures must execute a dangerous heist.--
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From the Earth to the Moon (French: De la terre à la lune) is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne. It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous Columbiad space gun and launch three people—the Gun Club's president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet—in a projectile with the goal of a Moon landing. Five years later, Verne wrote a sequel...
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Clockwork Dagger novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"Orphaned as a child, Octavia Leander was doomed to grow up on the streets until Miss Percival saved her and taught her to become a medician. Gifted with incredible powers, the young healer is about to embark on her first mission, visiting suffering cities in the far reaches of the war-scarred realm. But the airship on which she is traveling is plagued by a series of strange and disturbing occurrences, including murder, and Octavia herself is threatened....
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When the wind blows volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Six genetically engineered bird-children struggle to stay with the couple who saved them from their captors while one scientist hunts for the oldest girl, Max, who knows too much about his new, even more portentous project.
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It's a big Spiral Arm, and the scarred man, Donavan buigh, has gone missing in it, upsetting the harper Mearana's plans for a reconciliation between her parents. Bridget ban, a Hound of the League, doubts that reconciliation is possible or desirable; but nonetheless has dispatched agents to investigate the disappearance.
The powerful Ravn Olafsdottr, a Shadow of the Names, slips into Clanthompson Hall to tell mother and daughter of the fate of Donovan...
10) Rebellion
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Starbounders volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
890L
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English
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"Four young Starbounder students must once again risk their lives, travel throughout space,and dismantle an evil conspiracy to save their world"--
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Bounders volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
610L
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English
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When twelve-year-old Jasper is chosen to be a member of the first of a group of cadets to be trained at EarthBound Academy, he enjoys his new life until he and his new friends discover their real purpose at Earth Force.
12) Crisis
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Mars bound volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
600L
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English
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Three teenagers on a spaceship headed to Mars must find a way to keep the ship on course after it is damaged and the crew is not responding.
13) Restoration
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Mars bound volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
630L
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English
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Three teenagers on a space ship headed to Mars must find a way to get the ship back on course after it has been sabotaged.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Desperate to become a space pilot like his mother, despite his father's opposition, thirteen-year-old Stewart meets an old spacer who offers him the chance to learn AstroNav during a flight to the moon in the year 2065--and reveals some family secrets along the way.
16) Space quest
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"After spotting a radio signal from space, twins Anthony and Astrid team up with their astronomer grandfather to search for extraterrestrial life. On the way, they learn about space concepts, such as effective rocket design, the effects of gravity on astronauts, and properties of planets in the solar system. When they find an alien on the moon, the adventure really begins! Through this informative and entertaining adventure, readers will increase...
17) The space race
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
390L
Language
English
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"Zip and Zog are in a race through space! Zip has a speedy rocket, but Zog has a powerful ship. Readers will be racing to see who comes out ahead in this fun tale"--
18) Sabotage
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Mars bound volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
740L
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English
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When three teenagers discover that their spaceship has been sabotaged, they must find the saboteur and somehow save the rest of the passengers.
19) The return
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The Return is a tale about the kind of space adventure that could happen today--and that will happen tomorrow. As told by Buzz Aldrin, who's been there...and who's already helped change the world.
Former astronaut Scott Blackstone's dream of opening outer space to visits from everyday people is under attack. His pilot program has been marred by a fatal accident, he's out of a job, and he's being sued for a billions dollars. And it's beginning to...
20) The rock rats
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Visionary space industrialist Dan Randolph is dead-but his protégé, pilot Pancho Barnes, now sits on the board of his conglomerate. She has her work cut out for her. For Randolph's rival, Martin Humphries, still wants to control Astro and still wants to drive independent asteroid miners like Lars Fuchs out of business. Humphries wants revenge against Pancho-and, most of all, he wants his old flame, Amanda, who has become Lars Fuchs's wife. Brimming...
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