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Author
Series
Halo series. Forerunner saga volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Continues the story of the ancient Forerunners engineering race, who are worshipped as gods by the Covenant while their mysterious connection to humanity slowly unfolds.
3) Retribution
Author
Series
Halo series. Standalone novels volume 11
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
December 2553. Less than a year after the end of the Covenant War, a string of violent incidents continues to threaten the tenuous peace in human-held space, culminating in the assassination of UNSC fleet admiral Graselyn Tuwa and the abduction of her family. It is a provocation so outrageous that the Office of Naval Intelligence must retaliate swiftly and ferociously--but only after its operatives identify her killer and rescue the hostages. This...
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
While Spartans get all the glory, no soldier--not even the legendary Master Chief--wins a war on their own. Gunnery Sergeant Edward Buck and his team of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers (ODSTs) played a major role in saving the Earth from all-out invasion at the end of the Covenant War--acts of bravery and ingenuity that did not go unnoticed by the United Nations Space Command. Now, after many Spartans have been killed in battle and the Master Chief is...
5) Last light
Author
Series
Halo series. Standalone novels volume 10
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A tale set in the universe of the best-selling game follows the experiences of maverick detective Veta Lopis of the Gao Ministry of Protection, who would capture a serial murderer and prevent full-scale war between the military and insurrection loyalists.
6) Battle born
Author
Series
Halo series. Battle born volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When an alien alliance known as the Covenant lays siege to the planet Meridian, four high school students--Saskia, Dorian, Evie, and Victor--are thrust into battle to save their world. With their village in flames, the four find themselves stuck above ground, locked out of the town shelter where the rest of the survivors are gathers. With nothing but a few scavenged weapons and an injured Spartan, one of the UNSC's super-soldiers, they must tilt the...
7) Envoy
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"An original full-length novel set in the Halo universe and based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! It has been six years since the end of the Covenant War ... and yet on the planet Carrow, a world on the edge of the Joint Occupation Zone, a decisive new battle suddenly erupts. Human colonists and the alien Sangheili have already been living a tension-filled co-existence in this place, with Unified Earth Government envoy Melody...
Publisher
Microsoft Corporation
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A live-action digital series based on the best selling Xbox franchise. A group of cadets are training to be the next generation of soldiers in the United Nations Space Command's (UNSC) war with the outer colonial planets. Cadet Thomas Lasky comes to terms with his potential as a military leader. Halo fans are given insight into Lasky's origin story.
Author
Series
Halo series. Kilo-Five trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to humanity's new war: silent, high stakes, and unseen. This is a life-or-death mission for ONI's black-ops team, Kilo-Five, which is tasked with preventing the ruthless Elites, once the military leaders of the Covenant, from regrouping and threatening humankind again. What began as a routine dirty-tricks operation keeping the Elites busy with their own insurrection turns into a desperate bid to extract one member of Kilo-Five from the seething...
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