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Time quintet volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
850L
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English
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The youngest of the Murry children must travel through time and space in a battle against an evil dictator who would destroy the entire universe.
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English
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Years before he met Luke and Leia, before he helped overthrow the Emperor, Han Solo started where all heroes start: at the bottom. Join your most favorite scoundrel in the galaxy on an adventure you'll never forget! Throughout his death-defying adventures among the criminal scum of the Star Wars Universe, Han will meet the one who will become his closest ally, Chewbacca! Watch as Han matches wits with the infamous gambler Lando! Follow Han on the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
HL 1170L
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English
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As life on Mars becomes impossible, Martians and their terrifying machines invade the earth. Find yourself caught in the middle of an alien invasion in the late 1800s in this collectible hardcover edition of the thrilling science fiction classic. A classic science fiction novel, The War of the Worlds tells the story of the martian invasion of Planet Earth. This late–nineteenth century novel plays on the mood of the period in which it was written—a...
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Ray Ferrier is a working class man living in New Jersey. He has become estranged from his family and his life isn't in order. His small town life is shaken violently by the arrival of destructive intruders: Aliens which have come up from the ground, en masse, to destroy Earth and all the humans living on it. As the aliens plow through the country in a wave of mass destruction and violence, Ray must put aside thoughts of himself and come to the defense...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Dispatched on a rescue mission to the farthest reaches of space, the USS Enterprise is ambushed by Krall, a ruthless enemy sworn against the Federation. Crash-landing on an uncharted hostile world, Captain Kirk, Spock, and the crew are separated with no means of escape. Only Jaylah, a rebellious alien warrior, can help them reunite and find a way off the planet in a race against time to stop Krall's deadly army from triggering all-out galactic war....
6) Ender's game
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
780L
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English
Description
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut-young Ender is the Wiggin...
7) Xenocide
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 29
Lexile measure
890L
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English
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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.
10) Ender's shadow
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Shadow series (Orson Scott Card) volume 1
Ender saga volume 05
Ender's Game
Shadow saga volume 01
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Ender saga volume 05
Ender's Game
Shadow saga volume 01
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
780L
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English
Description
You can't step into the same river twice, but Card has gracefully dipped twice into the same inkwellAonce for Ender's Game and again for this stand-alone "parallel novel." The course readers will follow this time is of the superhuman child Bean. Raised on streets ruled by starving children's gangs, he was too weak, at age four, to hold peanuts in his hand, but ingenious enough to trick the other children into civilizing themselvesAand to keep himself...
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[2016]
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English
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Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare people for the aliens' advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring the world back from the brink of extinction.
12) Double star
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"Lawrence Smith--also known as 'Lorenzo the Great'--[is] a down-and-out actor wasting the remainder of his life in bars. When he encounters a space-pilot who offers him a drink, before he knows what is going on, he is on Mars involved in a deep conspiracy with global consequences. He is given a mission where failure would not only mean his own death, it would almost certainly mean an all-out planetary war"
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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One hundred years before Ender's Game, the aliens arrived on Earth with fire and death. This is the story of the First Formic War. Victor Delgado beat the alien ship to Earth, but just barely. Not soon enough to convince skeptical governments that there was a threat. They didn't believe that until space stations and ships and colonies went up in sudden flame. And when that happened, only Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police could move...
14) Zoe's tale
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
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English
Description
Zoë Boutin-Perry travels to the fledgling colony world of Roanoke with her adoptive parents, John Perry and Jane Sagan, who have accepted positions as administrators. When her biological father develops the technology to give the Obin consciousness and self-awareness, she suddenly becomes the center of a critical but endangered treaty between the Obin and the Colonial Union.
15) The Swarm
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Second Formic War volume 1
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English
Description
The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese army, but China has been devastated by the Formics' initial efforts to eradicate Earth life forms and prepare the ground for their own settlement. The Scouring of China struck fear into the other nations of the planet; that fear blossomed into drastic action when scientists determined that the single ship that wreaked such damage...
17) The rescue
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Star wars adventures in wild space volume 06
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
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Milo and Lina Graf have located the mysterious Wild Space planet where their parents are being held. They must infiltrate a secret base to free them. With an entire legion of Imperial troops to contend with, can the children at last succeed in the rescue?
18) Homebound
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Series
Icarus chronicles volume 2
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English
Description
Leo Fender is no stranger to catastrophe, whether it's the intergalactic war that took his mother's life or the ongoing fight for his own. He's seen his planet plundered, his ship attacked, his father kidnapped, and his brother go missing, and found himself stranded on a ship with a bunch of mercenary space pirates. Still, nothing could have prepared him for the moment he and the crew tried to save his father and discovered a dark plot that could...
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Galaxy's most wanted volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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"You'd think saving the universe not once but twice would buy you a little time off. Not so for Kevin Brewer and his science-camp buddies. They've just got word that their favorite comic book author, Max Grayson, is in terrible danger--and so is the universe! The kids have no choice but to head to outer space to save their hero and prevent a diabolic breed of aliens from annihilating their home galaxy."--
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