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Author
Series
Time quintet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
4) Alien summer
Author
Series
Area 51 interns volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
On the first day of summer vacation twelve-year-old Viv Harlow just wants to relax, but when a whole race of aliens escape from the famous Area 51 where her mom works, Viv and her friends will have to gear up, work together, and save their parents from alien abduction.
5) Cibola burn
Author
Series
Expanse volume 4
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"The gates have opened the way to thousands of habitable planets, and the land rush has begun. Settlers stream out from humanity's home planets in a vast, poorly controlled flood, landing on a new world. Among them, the Rocinante, haunted by the vast, posthuman network of the protomolecule as they investigate what destroyed the great intergalactic society that built the gates and the protomolecule. But Holden and his crew must also contend with the...
Author
Series
Expanse volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
-- Rocinante The Expanse The Butcher of Anderson StationGods of RiskThe ChurnThe Vital Abyss
Author
Series
Publisher
Spectra/Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
In the continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, the far future is resplendent with drama and invention. On the world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing--nothing anywhere in the universe--will ever be the same.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time--war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, and race--in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us all"--
10) Red Mars
Author
Series
Mars trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
For eons, sandstorms have swept the desolate landscape. For centuries, Mars has beckoned humans to conquer its hostile climate. Now, in 2026, a group of 100 colonists is about to fulfill that destiny.
John Boone, Maya Toitavna, Frank Chalmers & Arkady Bogdanov lead a terraforming mission. For some, Mars will become a passion driving them to daring acts of courage & madness. For others it offers an opportunity to strip the planet of its riches. For...
11) Caliban's war
Author
Series
Expanse volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
-- Rocinante -- The Expanse The Butcher of Anderson StationGods of RiskThe ChurnThe Vital Abyss
12) Mickey7
Author
Series
Mickey7 volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Martian meets Multiplicity in Edward Ashton's high concept science fiction thriller, in which Mickey7, an "expendable," refuses to let his replacement clone Mickey8 take his place. Dying isn't any fun...but at least it's a living. Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever there's a mission that's too dangerous-even suicidal-the crew turns to Mickey. After one iteration...
13) The Martian
Author
Series
The Martian volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive--and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he...
16) Dust
Author
Series
Silo series volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
WOOL introduced the silo and its inhabitants. SHIFT told the story of their making. DUST will chronicle their undoing. Welcome to the underground.
17) Science rocks!
Author
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A collection of ideas for science fairs and extra credit projects includes chemistry, physics and biology-themed activities that can be performed using mainly household items and completed from within a few minutes to over the course of a full day.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The New York Times “One of the year’s most entrancing books about science.”—The Wall Street Journal “Clear, elegant...a whirlwind tour of some of the biggest ideas in physics.”—The New York Times Book Review This playful, entertaining, and mind-bending introduction to modern physics briskly explains Einstein's general relativity, quantum mechanics, elementary particles, gravity, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe,...
19) Nemesis games
Author
Series
Expanse volume 5
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The fifth novel in James S.A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series now being produced for television by the SyFy Channel! 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....
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist. What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly,...
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