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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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In 2019, teens Mia, Antoine, and Midori are selected by lottery to join experienced astronauts on a NASA mission to the once top-secret moon base, DARLAH 2, while in a Florida nursing home, a former astronaut struggles to warn someone of the terrible danger there.
2) Dove exiled
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Dove chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
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English
Description
After fleeing the Moon, fifteen-year-old Phaet Theta hides on Earth and plots how to rescue her siblings from the wrath of the Lunar government.
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English
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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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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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Secret explorers volume 9
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Blast off into space with this lunar themed installment of DK's new educational fiction series for children.
Meet the Secret Explorers-a band of brainiac kids from all over the world. Everyone in this diverse group of young experts has a specialty, from outer space to dinosaurs, and each story follows a character who gets chosen for a "secret exploration."
In this fun, fact-filled children's ebook, space expert Roshni and geology expert...
Meet the Secret Explorers-a band of brainiac kids from all over the world. Everyone in this diverse group of young experts has a specialty, from outer space to dinosaurs, and each story follows a character who gets chosen for a "secret exploration."
In this fun, fact-filled children's ebook, space expert Roshni and geology expert...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Augmenting her limited income by smuggling contraband to survive on the Moon's wealthy city of Artemis, Jazz agrees to commit what seems to be a perfect, lucrative crime, only to find herself embroiled in a conspiracy for control of the city.
7) Space case
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Series
Moon Base Alpha volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
750L
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English
Description
While living on a moon base with fellow lunarnauts, Dashiell Gibson investigates the murder of one of the moon's most prominent doctors.
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English
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A realistic and chilling vision of life on the Moon, where dust kills as easily as the vacuum of space...but murder is even quicker-a fast-paced, cinematic science fiction thriller, this debut novel combines the inventiveness of The Martian, the intrigue of The Expanse, and the thrills of Red Rising.
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"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets. Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at...
10) Back to the moon
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THE SECOND TIME AROUND-IS HARDER . . .
Decades after the last footprints were left on the Moon, the US was preparing to return to the Lunar surface in a new class of rockets, when the mission suddenly became much more urgent. It would have to be a rescue mission.
Unbeknownst to the rest of the world China had sent its own Lunar expedition. A manned expedition. Until a distress call was received, no human outside of China even knew that the mission...
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"For fans of the popular and award-winning Netflix movie Don't Look Up, a prescient, rediscovered speculative novel about how a small English village prepares for the end of the world. Edgar Hopkins is a retired math teacher in his mid-fifties with a strong sense of self-importance, whose greatest pride in life is winning poultry breeding contests. When not meticulously caring for his Bantam, Edgar is an active member of the British Lunar Society....
13) Spaced out
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Series
Moon Base Alpha volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
In 2041 twelve-year-old Dashiell Gibson is a resident of Moon Base Alpha, and at the moment he is faced with a number of problems: coping with the nasty Sjoberg twins, finding out how the commander of the base has managed to disappear from a facility no bigger than a soccer field, and dealing with the alien Zan who communicates with him telepathically from afar--and who is hiding a secret which may threaten the whole Earth.
14) Luna: new moon
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Series
Luna novels (Ian McDonald) volume 1
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English
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"The Moon wants to kill you. Whether it's being unable to pay your per diem for your allotted food, water, and air, or you just get caught up in a fight between the Moon's ruling corporations, the Five Dragons. You must fight for every inch you want to gain in the Moon's near feudal society. And that is just what Adriana Corta did. As the leader of the Moon's newest "dragon," Adriana has wrested control of the Moon's Helium-3 industry from the Mackenzie...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
660L
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English
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Jones Extrella is ready for the most nauseating event of the Galaxy Games: The Super Duper High Dive. It's a lot like the high dive on Earth, except it's on the moon. Instead of a diving board, there's a sling shot. And instead of three somersaults, divers do a hundred. The event makes everyone barf from motion sickness. Except for one athlete, a mysterious robot named Korg. Can Jones compete against a competitor with a stomach of steel.
16) The dark side
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English
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"In this dark and gripping sci-fi noir, an exiled police detective arrives at a lunar penal colony just as a psychotic android begins a murderous odyssey across the far side of the moon." --
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English
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"What would it really take to make the Six Million Dollar Man? Glenn Armstrong Shepard had his sights set on going to Mars as a flight surgeon, but a training accident on the Moon left him crippled. Now he has a new plan: to be fitted with bionic prosthetics and come back even stronger. Fate and the Space Force have other plans, and Glenn is grounded. Another doctor--his ex-fianc©♭--takes his place, and Glenn will have to fight to prove he can...
18) Luna: Wolf moon
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Series
Luna novels (Ian McDonald) volume 2
Language
English
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Eighteen months after the fall of Corta Helio, one of the five family corporations that rule the Moon, shifting loyalties and political machinations between the families lead toward outright war, even as some suspect that Lucas Corta is not dead and still in the game.
19) Deja doomed
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
On the Moon's far side, shielded from Earth's radio cacophony, Americans are building a radio-astronomy observatory. Russians sift the dust of a lunar "sea" for helium-3 to run future fusion reactors. Commercial robots, remotely operated from Earth, roam the Moon's near side in a hunt for mineral wealth. Why chase distant asteroids for precious metals? Onetime asteroids must lie close beneath the much-bombarded lunar surface. Then a prospecting robot...
20) Crescent
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Series
Helium-3 novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Crater Trueblood, doubting the justice of the war he fights and the evil of enemies he was trained to hate, brings Crescent, an apparently female Crowhopper, to Moontown as his prisoner but soon both are fugitives, fleeing prejudice and cruelty in hostile territory.
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