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1) Partials
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Partials sequence volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
HL 810L
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English
Description
"In a post-apocalyptic eastern seaboard ravaged by disease and war with a manmade race of people called Partials, the chance at a future rests in the hands of Kira Walker, a sixteen-year-old medic in training"--
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Justin C. Key has long been obsessed with monsters. Reading R.L. Stine's Goosebumps as a kid, he imagined himself battling monsters and mayhem to a triumphant end. But when watching Scream 2, in which the movie's only Black couple is promptly killed off, he realized that the Black and Brown characters in his favorite genre were almost always the victim or villain--if they were portrayed at all. In The World Wasn't Ready for You, Key expands and subverts...
3) Riot baby
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""Riot Baby bursts at the seams of story with so much fire, passion and power that in the end it turns what we call a narrative into something different altogether."-Marlon James. Rooted in foundational loss and the hope that can live in anger, Riot Baby is both a global dystopian narrative and an intimate family story with quietly devastating things to say about love, fury, and the black American experience. Ella and Kev are brother and sister,...
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Ethan Fairmont volume 1
Lexile measure
620L
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English
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Sixth-grader and self-proclaimed genius inventor, Ethan Fairmont, along with his ex-best friend Kareem, and new-kid Juan Carlos stumble across an extraterrestrial visitor they name Cheese, who is stuck on Earth in need of serious repairs, spicy snacks, and total secrecy.
5) They came
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Lexile measure
460L
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English
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The arrival of a mysterious alien ship prompts panic in a small town, until a young boy's discovery changes everything.
6) Fragments
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Series
Partials sequence volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
"With the Help of Samm and Heron, Kira sets out on a desperate search for clues as to who she is, while Marcus and the remaining human population gear up for war with the Paritals"-- Provided by publisher.
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Español
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Polvo es para los héroes.
Mara Duval, una espacial nacida en la Estación Tombaugh, bajó a la Tierra preparada para soportar seis semanas de exilio en este páramo atestado de enfermedades y desgarrado por la guerra que los espaciales llaman polvo. En su lugar, descubrió que el control absoluto que el Servicio Espacial tiene sobre el acceso al espacio está construido sobre mentiras, y a la gente que merece ser parte de la búsqueda por las estrellas...
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Polvo es para los perdedores. Es el año 2021, y la humanidad ha estado en el espacio por medio siglo. La Luna está salpicada de ciudades, las colonias se extienden por Marte, y se están construyendo naves para explorar el espacio profundo. Mara Duval, de dieciéis años, nació y creció en la Estación Tombaugh, y está en entrenamiento para formar parte de la primera misión de la humanidad hacia las lunas de Júpiter. La vida en el espacio está...
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Español
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Hace sesenta años el Servicio Espacial de los Estados Unidos fue creado y empoderado para proteger los potencialmente ilimitados conocimiento y riqueza del espacio para beneficio de toda la humanidad. Guardianes de la tecnología de fusión y todo lo que está por encima de la atmósfera, el Servicio Espacial controla el flujo de gente, material e información entre la Tierra y las estaciones espaciales, Luna y Marte. Todos en el espacio están atados...
10) Alien superstar
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Series
Alien superstar volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Buddy Burger escapes his home planet, lands in Hollywood, and is cast in a new television series, but must pretend his six eyes and suction-cup feet are the costume and his human skin, real.
11) Down to Dirt
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It's 2021, and humanity has been in space for half a century. Giant space stations are hubs of scientific and industrial research, colonies are spreading across the moon and Mars, and sixteen-year-old Mara Duval, born and raised on Tombaugh Station, is training to be part of humanity's first mission to the moons of Jupiter.
Life is full of possibilities-opportunities denied those deemed unfit for life in space. The unintelligent, the diseased, the...
12) Rise from Dirt
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Mara Duval, a spacer born on Tombaugh Station, came down to Earth prepared to endure six weeks of exile on the disease-ridden, war-torn wasteland that spacers call dirt. Instead, she discovered the Space Service's stranglehold on access to space is built on lies, and people who deserve to be part of humanity's reach for the stars are denied their birthright. Mara got the word out, and for her crimes was "disappeared" without warning.
But the Space...
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The land-dwelling Erdlanders don't know about her.
The amphibious Sualwets reject and resent her.
Serafay is anomaly, an unwanted outcast from both worlds. Fearing the people who tortured and experimented on her mother's waterborne race, Sera remains hidden and isolated, feeling like she doesn't belong. When she meets a stranger, Tor, another misfit like herself, Sera realizes that she's not alone, finally discovering a sense of home. With the war...
14) Life on Dirt
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Sixty years ago the United States Space Service was created and empowered to protect the potentially unlimited knowledge and wealth of space for the benefit of the whole of humankind. Guardians of fusion technology and everything above the atmosphere, the Space Service controls the flow of people, materiel, and information between Earth and the space stations, Luna, and Mars. Everyone in space is bound to the Space Service, and all spacers belong...
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"A resistance group takes America's racial reckoning into its own hands in this powerful, stirringly original debut novel After the murder of an unarmed Black teenager by the hands of the police, protests spread like wildfire in Bliss City, New Jersey. A full-scale resistance group takes control of an abandoned housing project and decide to call it Hush Harbor, in homage to the secret spaces their enslaved ancestors would gather to pray. Jeremiah...
16) Dark Harvest
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English
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A'ri needs help. An orphan slave boy, caught in the social machinery of The Realm and forced to work and live in isolation, he is desperate to make a difference, to change things not only for himself, but for all the slaves in The Realm. With his unusually high intelligence he's been able to learn secrets, get hidden information, and now he has a plan that just might revolutionize everything. He can't do it without the assistance of someone on a faraway...
17) Ignite the stars
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Series
Ignite the stars volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
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"When the notorious I.A. Cōcha is captured by the Olympus Commonwealth and revealed to be a sixteen-year-old girl, she is sentenced to correctional rehabilitation at a training ground for the elite Star Force where she forms unlikely alliances"--
19) Movers
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Series
Movers trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
The world is dying, overcrowded and polluted. Storms rage over the immensely tall tower blocks, attracted to Movers.
Movers are connected to people in the future, their Shadows. And moving your Shadow is highly illegal.
Patrick knows all too well what happens if you break the law: his father has been in the Shelves ever since he moved his Shadow. And now Patrick and his family are in danger again.
Following a catastrophic event at their school,...
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2017 Winner of the New York Big Book Award; 2018 Winner of Independent Press Award for Best Multicultural Novel and Distinguished Favorite for Science Fiction Novel; 2018 Finalist for Best Multicultural Novel, National Indie Excellence Awards. 2018 Finalist Best Sci-Fi Novel Cygnus AwardsAs a black college student in the rural West Virginia town of Selah Station, Kenia Dezy already feels out of place. But when an unexplained phenomenon starts transporting...
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