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83) Abandoned
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Series
Donovan novels volume 2
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The struggle for survival sharpens as resources dwindle, technology fails, and the grim reality of life on Donovan unfolds. Supervisor Kalico Aguila has bet everything on a fragile settlement far south of Port Authority. There, she has carved a farm and mine out of wilderness. But Donovan is closing in.
When conditions couldn't get worse, a murderous peril descends out of Donovan's sky - one that will leave Kalico bleeding and shattered. Talina...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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John has fallen through a forgotten door to the strange planet Earth and is in great danger. Soon the family who befriends him is in great danger too. Time is running out. He must find the secret passage quickly or he may never get home.
85) Baloney, Henry P
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A transmission received from outer space in a combination of different Earth languages tells of an alien schoolboy's fantastic excuse for being late to school again.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 26
Description
For generations, the dragonriders had dedicated their lives to fighting Thread, the dreaded spores that rained from the sky to ravage the land. Now, for the first time, their dream to eradicate Thread could possibly come true as they uncovered the ancient colonist's voice-activated artificial intelligence system which still functioned and instructed them on how to annihilate Thread.
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Discworld volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
The Discworld is moving towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, and its only possible saviour is Rincewind.
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Description
Jump inside the Millennium Falcon and help Han and Chewie as they journey across the galaxy on a simple smuggling job. But nothing is ever simple with Han Solo, and when things go wrong, Han pretends to be Jabba the Hutt to save himself, Chewie, and the Millennium Falcon. And that's when things go from bad to worse! With over twenty possible outcomes, readers will have to think like a true smuggler to keep Han and Chewie safe from Imperial TIE fighters,...
90) Nemesis Games
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Series
Expanse volume 5
Description
" A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old solar system begin to buckle. Ships are disappearing without a trace. Private armies are being secretly formed. The sole remaining protomolecule sample is stolen. Terrorist attacks previously considered impossible bring the inner planets to their knees. The sins of the past are returning to...
91) Mercury
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Discusses the orbit, surface features, exploration, and other aspects of the planet Mercury.
92) Uranus
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Discusses the surface features, atmosphere, orbit, moons, rings, and exploration of the planet Uranus.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 43
Description
"The crusade against thinking robots has ground on for years; the human worlds grow weary of war, of the bloody, inconclusive swing from victory to defeat. The fearsome cymeks, led by Agamemnon, hatch new plots to regain their lost power from Omnius"--Back cover.
94) Species
Pub. Date
1997, c1995
Description
When a creature genetically engineered through extraterrestrial intelligence escapes from observation, scientist Xavier Fitch assembles an elite team of experts to track it down. These experts--a government assassin, an "empath", a biologist and an anthropologist combine their expertise and trace their prey to Los Angeles. There, in the form of a stunning young woman, the alien initiates a horrific plan: to mate with unsuspecting men and produce...
95) Life on Mars
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"A young astronaut is trying to find life on Mars, but he's made a very big oversight"--
97) Our solar system
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes the origins, characteristics, and future of the sun, planets, moons, asteroids, meteoroids, and comets.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
"Ray Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America's most beloved authors. In a much celebrated literary career that has spanned six decades, he has produced an astonishing body of work: unforgettable novels, including Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes; essays, theatrical works, screenplays and teleplays; The Illustrated Mein, Dandelion Wine, The October Country, and numerous other...
99) Jupiter
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes the characteristics of the planet Jupiter and its moons, as revealed by photographs sent back by unmanned spaceships.
100) Outpost
Author
Series
Donovan novels volume 1
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Description
The first book in a thrilling new sci-fi action adventure, set on Donovan, a treacherous alien planet where corporate threats and dangerous creatures imperil the lives of the planet's inhabitants. A ghost ship, the Freelander, appears in orbit. Missing for two years, she arrives with a crew dead of old age, and reeks of a bizarre death-cult ritual that deters any ship from attempting a return journey. It may be worth the risk, for a brutal killer...