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Author
Series
Smek (Adam Rex) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her mother is abducted by aliens on Christmas Eve (or "Smekday" Eve since the Boov invasion), 11 year-old Tip hops in the family car and heads south to find her and meets an alien Boov mechanic who agrees to help her and save the planet from disaster.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Abducted by aliens periodically throughout his youth, Henry Denton is informed by his erstwhile captors that they will end the world in 144 days unless he stops them by deciding that humanity is worth saving.
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
As one of six abducted scientists reserved for special use, physicist Clint Beecham and the five other Reserves decide to free the fifty thousand other humans abducted as food for the aliens' trip home and prevent their abductors from identifying the earth as a food source.
Author
Series
Adventures of Arnie the doughnut volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Arnie is shocked when he hears his neighbor Loretta Schmoretta tell news reporters that she was the victim of an alien abduction. And not just any aliens--alien doughnuts from outer spastry. Will Arnie be abducted? Will alien doughnuts take over the earth? What or who is at the heart of this "who-donut" mystery?
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Artemisia (Sia) Martinez's mother was deported to Mexico by ICE and disappeared in the Sonoran Desert trying to make it back to her American family; Sia believes that she was as-good-as murdered by ICE and the sheriff in their small Arizona town on the edge of the national park, and wants revenge against him and his son, Jeremy--but her search for the truth will uncover many more secrets than she counted on.
7) Taken
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
From the world's leading visionary filmmaker comes his newest extra terrestrial smash hit! Includes: Roswell: The Landing; A New Generation; Abductions and Government Conspiracies; Alien Contact; and The Gift. Also, a sixth disc full of bonus features.
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The Delany, captained by a swashbuckling capitalist named Bob, is circling Europa--one of the moons of Jupiter--studying its atmosphere, but inside, the ship is divided into two warring camps. First there are the group of "Bobs" who slavishly follow the ship's vain, ignorant captain and who antagonize the two crew members who've run afoul of the Bobs: Dwayne and Nalani, who are studying the surface of the moon itself. But it is Dwayne and Nalani...
Author
Series
The captive's war volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The Carryx - part empire, part hive - have waged wars of conquest for centuries, destroying or enslaving species across the galaxy. Now, they are facing a great and deathless enemy. The key to their survival may rest with the humans of Anjiin. Caught upin academic intrigue and affairs of the heart, Dafyd Alkhor is pleased just to be an assistant to a brilliant scientist and his celebrated research team. Then the Carryx ships descend, decimating the...
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