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62) Rocketman
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A computer geek is chosen to go on the first manned mission to Mars, and his crewmates aren't happy.
63) Shadow captain
Author
Series
Revenger novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
A sequel to the award-winning Revenger finds a haunted Adrana and an increasingly obsessed Fura Ness searching for Bosa Sennen's hidden treasure, a hunt that is complicated by the late pirate's numerous enemies.
64) Wings
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
BR 90L
Language
English
Description
Follows a baby bird on its first flight, one that starts cautiously and ends with delight.
Author
Series
Cat the cat (Easy readers) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An exuberant cat cheers on her friends as they demonstrate whether or not they can fly.
66) Ad astra
Language
English
Formats
Description
Army Corps engineer and astronaut Roy McBride is searching for answers in the depths of space. Twenty years ago, Roy's father went in search of proof of the existence of extraterrestrial life on Neptune during a one-way mission. The mission was designated officially as a failure. Roy searches the solar system for the truth about both his father's mission and a recent mystery that has unfolded that threatens Earth. What Roy doesn't know is that this...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1110L
Language
English
Description
In the age of rockets and space travel, many animals have travelled into orbit, and most have returned safely to earth. This book tells the stories of 50 trips into space, with details about the animals and the scientists involved. The experiments, often designed by students, originate from many countries and encourages young readers to engage in real science like the young people they will read about in this book. Jennifer L. Read lives in Halifax,...
68) A web of air
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
In Mayda, a post-apocalyptic city off the coast of Portugal, a brilliant young engineer and a mysterious recluse race to build a flying machine, unaware that powerful enemies will kill to possess--or destroy--their new technology.
Author
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
First cat in space volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ridiculously fun and brilliantly illustrated." —Dav Pilkey, creator of Dog Man and Captain Underpants
As seen on The TODAY Show! New York Times bestselling Mac Barnett and Caldecott Honor award-winning illustrator Shawn Harris turn their massively popular The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza live cartoon into an action-packed and hysterical graphic novel series—perfect for fans of Dav Pilkey, Raina Telgemeier,
...Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 52
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
370L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Jack finds a book that explains how people can fly, he thinks it may be his chance to get revenge on a bully, but Jack is in for the ride of his life.
Author
Language
English
Description
In this moment-to-moment narrative, based on groundbreaking reporting, Lynn Spencer brings the inspiring true drama of the heroic response of American pilots and controllers on the morning of 9/11 vividly to life for the first time, taking us right inside the airliner cockpits and control towers, the fighter jets and the military battle cabs. She makes vital corrections to the findings of the 9/11 Commission Report, and reveals many startling, utterly...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 830L
Language
English
Description
Here is the story of the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon -- a story of leaving and returning during the summer of 1969, and a story of home, seen whole, from far away by steady astronauts in their great machines.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Description
"This beautifully illustrated, oversized guide to the people and technology of the moon landing by award-winning author/illustrator John Rocco is a must-have for space fans, classrooms, and tech geeks"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On July 20, 1969 the whole world stopped. It was a day in which a man who grew up on a farm without electricity would announce, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
In this, the first ever biography of Neil Armstrong, Leon Wagener explores the man whose walk on the moon is still compared to humankind's progenitor's crawl out of the primordial ooze. And whose retreat back to a farm in his native Ohio soon after the last ticker tape...
76) Abuela
Author
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
While riding on a bus with her grandmother, a little girl imagines that they are carried up into the sky and fly over the sights of New York City.
78) Moon landings
Author
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Describes the Apollo spacecraft missions to the Moon, detailing each mission's voyage, the astronauts of the Apollo program, and what it takes to be an astronaut.
79) Granted
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Former international flight attendant Annie Taylor is embracing her country roots and racing toward a future with her sustainable farmer fiance, but wedding plans are complicated by her new job, a mysterious ex-boyfriend, and a narcissistic father. Meanwhile, Annie's old-fashioned grandma, Beulah, is facing a shake-up in the last place she ever thought she would--home. A crisis on May Hollow Road follows a friend's betrayal, challenging Beulah's...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
George does not feel ready to learn to fly, leave his nest, and go south with the other birds, despite his mother's encouragement, but when a strong autumn wind gets hold of the nest, he may have no choice.
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