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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
Out of the Silent Planet introduces Dr. Ransom and chronicles his abduction by a megalomaniacal physicist and his accomplice via space ship to the planet Malacandra. The two men are in need of a human sacrifice and Dr. Ransom would seem to fit the bill. Dr. Ransom escapes upon landing, though, and goes on the run, a stranger in a land that, like Jonathan Swift's Lilliput, is enchanting in its difference from Earth and instructive in its similarity....
2) Xenocide
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 29
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
When the fleet sent to destroy the planet of Lusitania vanishes, a child with the most brilliant mind in the world is given the task of discovering what happened, and the fate of three races rests with her findings.
3) Sphere
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel is discovered resting on the ocean floor. Rushed to the scene is a group of American scientists who descend together into the depths of the sea to investigate this astonishing discovery. What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanations. It is a spaceship.
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Series
Foundation series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall - those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future. Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
"Led by its founding father, the psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and utilizing science and technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Now cleverness and courage may not be enough. For the Empire--the mightiest force in the Galaxy--is even more dangerous in its death throes. Even worse, a mysterious entity called the Mule has appeared with powers beyond anything humanly conceivable. Who--or what--is...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
The second book of Lewis's sci-fi trilogy, this is a sharp, sophisticated fantasy that deals with an old problem, temptation, in a new world, Perelandra. "Mr Lewis has a genius for making his fantasies livable".-The New York Times. Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, of which Perelandra is the second volume, stands alongside such works as Albert Camus's The Plague and George...
7) Woken furies
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Series
Takeshi Kovacs novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Once a gang member, then a marine, then a galaxy-hopping Envoy trained to wreak slaughter and suppression across the stars, a bleeding, wounded Kovacs was chilling out in a New Hokkaido bar when some so-called holy men descended on a slim beauty with tangled, hyperwired hair. An act of quixotic chivalry later and Kovacs was in deep: mixed up with a woman with two names, many powers, and one explosive history. In a world where the real and virtual...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Uneasy about her new substitute teacher, Susan Simmons' suspicions about Mr. Smith are confirmed when she discovers he is an alien determined to bring some sixth-grade specimens back to his planet.
Author
Series
Revelation space universe volume 1
Language
English
Description
Scientist Dan Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship "Nostalgia for Infinity," in an attempt to learn the truth about how and why the Amarantin civilization was annihilated nine hundred thousand years earlier, not realizing that someone or something does not want the secret to be revealed.
10) Command decision
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Series
Vatta's war volume 4
Language
English
Description
Kylara Vatta and her motley space force battle Gammis Turek and his pirate empire as Turek tries to gain control of the universe, killing anyone who gets in his way, including Kylara's family.
Author
Series
Vatta's war volume 5
Language
English
Description
Kylara Vatta has one final opportunity to muster the forces to destroy forever her enemy's power and to restore her family's name.
12) Foundation
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future—to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save humankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire—both scientists and scholars—and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the galaxy...
13) Kenobi
Author
Series
Star Wars novels. Kenobi volume 1
Language
English
Description
As tensions escalate on Tatooine between the farmers and a tribe of Sand People led by a ruthless war chief, Ben finds himself drawn into the fight, endangering the very mission that brought him to the desert planet.
Author
Series
Vatta's war volume 3
Language
English
Description
Kylara Vatta draws on her killer instinct for business and battle after her parents are killed and the Vatta shipping empire is destroyed, pushing Kylara to find those responsible and get revenge.
15) Wizard's holiday
Author
Series
Young wizards volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
While Nita's sister and her dad host three young alien wizards, teenage wizards Nita and Kit travel halfway across the galaxy as part of an exchange program and find themselves again caught up in the dark doings of their nemesis, the Lone Power.
16) Last day on Mars
Author
Series
Chronicle of the dark star volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
While waiting to leave Mars before it burns up just like the Earth before it, Liam and his friend Phoebe discover some facts about time and space and realize that the human race is just one of the races trying to survive in space.
17) Horizon storms
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Series
Saga of seven suns volume 3
Language
English
Description
The momentous war between the powerful hydrogues and fiery faeros continues, with planets and stars being consumed in the devastation. The Terran Hanseatic League must bring all branches of the human race together to resist the threat, but not all humans are willing to concede their freedom.
18) Hidden empire
Author
Series
Saga of seven suns volume 1
Language
English
Description
The three branches of humanity consider themselves the lords of creation, but when they discover a machine that can convert giant gas planets into life-giving suns, they believe the universe is their's to colonize, but the result of their new technology is more hideous than they ever thought possible.
19) We few
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Series
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English
Description
Left stranded on the barbarian planet Marduk with a group of Royal Marines, Prince Roger MacClintock and his followers set out to recapture an interstellar empire from enemies who have branded Roger a traitor and outlaw.
Author
Series
Saga of seven suns volume 7
Language
English
Description
A final stand in an epic clash against galactic civilizations pits the factions of humanity against one another.
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