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Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Sixteen-year-old Gardner Elliot has lived his whole life with a team of scientists on Mars. He's always longed to see Earth to find the father he's never known and to meet a beautiful street-smart girl named Tulsa he's become friends with online. But when his chance finally comes, doctors discover his heart can't withstand the Earth's atmosphere. Eager to find his father, Gardner and Tulsa escape on a cross-country race against time to unravel the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
The strange and wonderful tale of man’s experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonishing visions. Now part of the Voyager Classics collection. The Martian Chronicles tells the story of humanity’s repeated attempts to colonize the red planet. The first men were few. Most succumbed to a disease they called the Great Loneliness when they saw their home planet dwindle to the size of a fist. They felt they had never been born. Those...
3) Life
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
The six-member crew of the International Space Station is on the cutting edge of one of the most important discoveries in human history: the first evidence of extraterrestrial life on Mars. As the crew begins to conduct research, their methods end up having unintended consequences and the life form proves more intelligent than anyone ever expected.
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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.
5) Life on Mars
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 470L
Language
English
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"A young astronaut is trying to find life on Mars, but he's made a very big oversight"--
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Skippyjon Jones (Picture books) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 610L
Language
English
Description
Skippyjon Jones, the Siamese cat that thinks he is a Chihuahua dog, has an adventure on Mars.
8) The Martian
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive--and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
"A deluxe hardcover edition of the most famous science-fiction novel of all time--part of Penguin Galaxy, a collectible series of six sci-fi/fantasy classics, featuring a series introduction by Neil Gaiman A human raised on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith has just arrived on planet Earth. Among his people for the first time, he struggles to understand the social mores and prejudices of human nature that are so alien to him, while his own "psi" powers--including...
10) Green mars
Author
Series
Mars trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
In the Nebula Award winning Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson began his critically acclaimed epic saga of the colonization of Mars, Now the Hugo Award winning Green Mars continues the thrilling and timeless tale of humanity's struggle to survive at its farthest frontier.Nearly a generation has passed since the first pioneers landed, but the transformation of Mars to an Earthlike planet has just begun The plan is opposed by those determined to preserve...
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English
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Buzz Aldrin speaks out as a vital advocate for the continuing quest to push the boundaries of the universe as we know it. As a pioneering astronaut who first set foot on the moon during mankind's first landing of Apollo 11--and as an aerospace engineer who designed an orbital rendezvous technique critical to future planetary landings--Aldrin has a vision of taking humans to Mars by 2035; here he plots out his proposed path to that goal.
12) The lion of Mars
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Description
"When a mysterious virus breaks out in the U.S. settlement on Mars, Bell and his friends must work together to save not just their home, but all the other international settlements on the planet"--
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Series
Barsoom series volume 3
John Carter of Mars volume 3
Martian tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs volume 03
Mars novels volume 03
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John Carter of Mars volume 3
Martian tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs volume 03
Mars novels volume 03
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English
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"Far to the north, in the frozen wastes of Polar Mars, lay the home of the Holy Therns, sacred and inviolate. Only John Carter dared to go there to find his lost Dejah Thoris. But between him and his goal lay the bones of all who had gone before."--
14) Blue Mars
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Series
Mars trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
It's fully terraformed - specifically engineered plants and animals live by recently formed canals and stormy seas - and it is politically independent. Most of the First Hundred have died. Those that remain are like walking myths to Martian youth. Earth has grown too much.Chronic overpopulation, bitter nationalism, scarce resources; to too many Terrans, Mars is a mocking utopia. A dream to live for, fight for.. perhaps even die for.
15) A rover's story
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Meet Resilience, a Mars rover determined to live up to his name. Res was built to explore Mars. He was not built to have human emotions. But he learns new things from the NASA scientists who assemble him, he begins to develop human-like feelings. Maybe there's a problem with his programming. Human emotions or not, launch day comes, and Res blasts off to Mars. But Res quickly discovers that Mars is a dangerous place filled with dust storms and giant...
16) Mars
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Uses photographs and other recent findings to describe the atmosphere and geographic features of Mars.
17) The Gods of Mars
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Series
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English
Description
After the long exile on Earth, John Carter finally returned to his beloved Mars. But beautiful Dejah Thoris, the woman he loved, had vanished. Now he was trapped in the legendary Eden of Mars - an Eden from which none ever escaped alive.
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English
Description
"A young planetary scientist intimately details the search for life on Mars, tracing our centuries-old obsession with this seemingly desolate planet. Mars was once similar to Earth, but today there are no rivers, no lakes, no oceans. Coated in red dust, the terrain is bewilderingly empty. And yet multiple spacecraft are circling Mars, sweeping over Terra Sabaea, Syrtis Major, the dunes of Elysium, and Mare Sirenum - on the brink, perhaps, of a staggering...
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Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
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Description
Explore the science behind a trip to Mars, from launch to landing on the Red Planet. Set to the tune of "The Farmer in the Dell," this jaunty journey follows five adorable, bobble-headed astronauts as they learn how to bathe in zero gravity, grow veggies in space, and entertain themselves on the six-month trip.
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Series
Barsoom series volume 1
Mars novels volume 1
John Carter volume 01
John Carter of Mars volume 1
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Mars novels volume 1
John Carter volume 01
John Carter of Mars volume 1
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
First book of the Martian series. John Carter embarks on a daring journey to the dying red planet threatened with dispersion of its weak atmosphere and continuing combat among rival tribes. Taken prisoner is Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, to rescue her is calls upon every ounce of his courage, strength and ingenuity and if he fails she will suffer at the hands of the green warriors' depraved ruler.
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