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1) The Swarm
Author
Series
Second Formic War volume 1
Language
English
Description
The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese army, but China has been devastated by the Formics' initial efforts to eradicate Earth life forms and prepare the ground for their own settlement. The Scouring of China struck fear into the other nations of the planet; that fear blossomed into drastic action when scientists determined that the single ship that wreaked such damage...
Author
Series
Flat Stanley volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
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Description
When the residents of a far-distant planet send a message to Earth asking for someone to meet with them, the President of the United States asks Stanley Lambchip, an all-American boy, to be his ambassador.
3) The hive
Author
Series
Second Formic War volume 2
Language
English
Description
"A coalition of Earth's nations barely fought off the Formics' first scout ship. Now it’s clear that there's a mother-ship out on edge of the system, and the aliens are prepared to take Earth by force. Can Earth's warring nations and corporations put aside their differences and mount an effective defense?"--
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Series
Starlight's Shadow volume 2
Language
English
Description
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...
5) Code to zero
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Series
Language
English
Description
In January 1958, the midst of the Cold War, Luke Lucas wakes alone on the ground in a railway station with no idea how he got there--and finds that he must recover lost memories that others are glad he has forgotten if he is to save the launch of Explorer I, America's attempt to top the Soviet Union's Sputnik.
6) Starsight
Author
Series
Skyward (Brandon Sanderson) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As if the threat of huge, raging monsters from hyperspace isn't scary enough, hotshot fighter pilot Spensa Nightshade becomes embroiled in an alien empire's politics."--
Author
Series
Saucer novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Rip Cantrell and pilot Charley Pine think their days of extraterrestrial adventure are over, but they soon find that ever more exploits are necessary.
Author
Series
Martin Bridge volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Martin's back in two more stories. He gets a new babysitter and learns that dancing isn't all bad. In the second story, Martin his friend Stuart find themselves locked in a toy store with no way out. Also includes related activities.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
10) Bone silence
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The Ness sisters ran away from home to become the most fearsome pirates in the twenty thousand worlds of the Congregation. They've plundered treasures untold, taken command of their own ship, and made plenty of enemies. But now they're being hunted for crimes they didn't commit by a fleet whose crimes are worse than their own. To stay one step ahead of their pursuers and answer the questions that have plagued them, they'll have to employ every dirty,...
11) Abaddon's Gate
Author
Series
Expanse volume 3
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are part of a vast flotilla of scientific and military ships going out to examine an alien artifact. But behind the scenes, a complex plot is unfolding.
12) The Sol Majestic
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Language
English
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Description
Kenna, an aspirational teen guru, wanders destitute across the stars as he tries to achieve his parents' ambition to advise the celestial elite. Everything changes when Kenna wins a free dinner at The Sol Majestic, the galaxy's most renowned restaurant, giving him access to the cosmos's one-percent. His dream is jeopardized, however, when he learns his highly-publicized "free meal" risks putting The Sol Majestic into financial ruin. Kenna and a motley...
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Series
Salvation sequence volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Humanity is struggling to hold out against a hostile takeover by an alien race that claims to be on a religious mission to bring all sentient life to its God at the End of Time. But while things may look grim in the immediate aftermath of the attack, mankind is busy playing an even longer game than the aliens may have expected. Will a strategy millennia in the making finally be enough to defeat this seemingly unstoppable enemy? And what secrets are...
14) Cascade failure
Author
Series
Ambit's run volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"There are only three real powers in the Spiral: the corporate power of the Trust versus the Union's labor's leverage, with the Guild keeping the peace between them. Helmed by an AI, with a ship's engineer/medic who doesn't see much of a difference between the two jobs, and a "don't make me shoot you" XO, the Guild crew of the Ambit is a little . . . different. They're also in over their heads. Responding to a distress call from an abandoned planet,...
15) Ender in exile
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
At the close of Ender's Game, Andrew Wiggin, called Ender by everyone, is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: he is the Savior of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony. He is offered the choice of living in isolation on Eros, at one of the Hegemony's training facilities, but...
18) Mission: mayhem
Author
Series
Hardy boys casefiles volume no. 93
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
After enrolling in a pre-astronaut training program, the Hardys find that someone is trying to sabotage the space mission.
19) Saucer
Author
Series
Saucer volume 01
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Rip Cantrell, a seismic survey worker in the Sahara, spots a glint of reflected light in the distance, he investigates-and finds a piece of metal apparently entombed in the sandstone. Before long, Rip and his colleagues uncover a flying saucer that has been resting there for 140,000 years.
Their discovery doesn't remain a secret for long. The U.S. airforce sends a UFO investigation team, which arrives just minutes before a team sent by an Australian...
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