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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
990L
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At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is, incredibly, an interstellar spacecraft.
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Space Odyssey series volume 4
(Arthur Charles),Space odyssey volume 04
(Arthur Charles),2001 a space odyssey volume 04
(Arthur Charles),Space odyssey volume 04
(Arthur Charles),2001 a space odyssey volume 04
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1100L
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English
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From the Publisher: One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore the mysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman was transformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space, frozen and forgotten, leaving the supercomputer HAL inoperable. But now Poole has returned to life, awakening in a world far different from the one he left behind-and just as the Monolith may be stirring once again.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
990L
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English
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The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city-intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began. But at what cost? With the advent of peace, man ceases to strive for creative greatness, and a malaise settles over the human race - NoveList.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 32
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English
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Nicole Wakefield, ex-governor of the colony of humans on the spaceship Rama III, is in her cell awaiting death for treason. She opposed the colony's new rulers. But Richard, her husband whom she thought dead, sends robots to rescue her.
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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
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English
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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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Wolf: a deadly world under a cold red sun, old when Terrans were learning to walk upright. Only one Terran agent knew Wolf well enough to pass undetected; but he had ruined his usefulness long ago. And yet only this scarred and bitter man could discover the secret of The Door Through Space...
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Honors volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
HL 720L
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English
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Petty criminal Zara Cole has a painful past that made her stronger than most, which is why she chose life in New Detroit instead moving with her family to Mars. In her eyes, living inside a dome isn't much better than a prison cell.
9) Triplanetary
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Lensman volume 1
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English
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Nevia, located many light years from the Earth’s sun, is running out of iron, the primary source of energy for the planet’s dominant amphibious race. Armed with technology that can extract iron atoms from anything it encounters—rock, machinery, man-made structures, even human blood—the Nevians set their sights on a rich lode of the precious element: the planet Earth. Descending on its unsuspecting target, the Nevian space-ship destroys the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1070L
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English
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Arthur C. Clarke's space saga continues in 2061, when an Earth vessel landing on Halley's Comet marks the beginning of another confrontation between Heywood Floyd and David Bowman - or whatever Bowman has become - a newly independent HAL and the unseen alien power that controls the destiny of Earth. Arthur C. Clarke, one of most popular science fiction writers of the 20th century, has written over 50 books including "The City and the Stars", "Rendezvous...
12) Rama II
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
970L
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Years ago, the enormous, enigmatic alien spacecraft Rama sailed through our solar system as mind-boggling proof that life existed—or had existed—elsewhere in the universe. Now, at the dawn of the twenty-third century, another ship is discovered hurtling toward us. A crew of Earth’s best and brightest minds is assembled to rendezvous with the massive vessel. They are armed with everything we know about Raman technology and culture. But nothing...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
840L
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English
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The worst was supposed to be over. We were reunited after a decade apart. We were discovering the truth about our past. We were training and getting stronger every day. We were even happy... But we never imagined the Mogadorians could turn one of our own against us. We were fools for trusting Five. And now eight is lost for ever. I would do anything to bring him back, but that's impossible. Instead I will dso whatever it takes to destroy every last...
14) Binti
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Binti volume 1
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English
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Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs. Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter...
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Fall of night volume 2
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The authorized sequel to Arthur C. Clarke’s science fiction classic Against the Fall of Night, set on a dying planet Earth millions of years in the future.
In Against the Fall of Night, a young man named Alvin ventures beyond the domed city of Diaspar to explore a planet Earth left nearly barren by a centuries-old cataclysm. What he discovers is the thriving rural civilization of Lys and an insane non-corporeal...
In Against the Fall of Night, a young man named Alvin ventures beyond the domed city of Diaspar to explore a planet Earth left nearly barren by a centuries-old cataclysm. What he discovers is the thriving rural civilization of Lys and an insane non-corporeal...
16) The forge of God
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Forge of God volume 1
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English
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A vanished moon of Jupiter, a 500-foot -high cinder cone in Death Valley never before seen, and an enormous granite mountain in Australia also never seen before all point the way to an alien invasion of planet Earth.
17) EarthRise
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After the vicious, insect-like aliens called the Saurons invaded Earth and killed billions, they enslaved the survivors, forcing them to build mysterious temples under brutal conditions. In an effort to control their human slaves, the Saurons install a puppet president to keep them under control.
But President Alexander Franklin and Chief of Security Jack Manning aren't about to play along. Rebellion is in the air, and the fight for freedom is...
But President Alexander Franklin and Chief of Security Jack Manning aren't about to play along. Rebellion is in the air, and the fight for freedom is...
18) The Gods of Mars
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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.
19) The fate of Ten
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Lorien Legacies volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
770L
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English
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For years the Garde have fought the Mogadorians in secret, but now the invasion has begun. If the Garde can't find a way to stop the Mogs, humanity will suffer the same fate as the Lorien: annihilation. When the Elders sent the Garde to Earth, they had a plan -- one which the Garde are finally starting to understand. A group of the Garde traveled to an ancient pyramid in Mexico where they awoke a power that had been hidden for generations. Now this...
20) Spaceside
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A military legend is caught in the web between alien intrigue and human subterfuge...Following his mission on Cappa, Colonel Carl Butler returns to a mixed reception. To some he is a do-or-die war hero. To the other half of the galaxy he's a pariah. Forced into retirement, he has resettled on Talca Four where he's now Deputy VP of Corporate Security, protecting a high-tech military company on the corporate battlefield--at least, that's what the job...
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