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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. But everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down.
Author
Language
English
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"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets. Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
June Andersen is professionally successful but her personal life is marred by unhappiness. Unexpectedly, she is called to settle her great-aunt Ruby's estate and determine the fate of Bluebird Books, the children's bookstore Ruby founded in the 1940s. Amidst the store's papers, June stumbles upon letters between her great-aunt and the late Margaret Wise Brown and steps into the pages of American literature.
Author
Publisher
Tor/A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Curt Newton has spent most of his life hidden from the rest of humankind, being raised by a robot, an android, and the disembodied brain of a renowned scientist. This unlikely trio of guardians has kept his existence a closely guarded secret after the murder of Curt's parents. Curt's innate curiosity and nose for trouble inadvertently lead him into a plot to destabilize the Solar Coalition and assassinate the president. There's only one way to uncover...
10) Moon dreams
Author
Publisher
Templar Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Luna, who loves to look at the moon, wonders where it goes during the day.
11) Moonday
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the Moon disrupts a town by lowering itself into someone's backyard, a child finds a way to return the Moon to its proper place in the sky.
13) Moon plane
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A young boy looks at a plane in the sky and imagines flying one all the way to the moon.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Stranded on the moon after his extraordinary airplane takes him into outer space, a boy meets a marooned young Martian with a broken spacecraft, and the two new friends work together to return to their respective homes.
18) Moon over Star
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On her family's farm in the town of Star, eight-year-old Mae eagerly follows the progress of the 1969 Apollo 11 flight and moon landing and dreams that she might one day be an astronaut, too.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
After stealing food from hikers and other forest animals, a hungry bear thinks the moon is following him, but when Moon finally disappears, the bear promises to be good if only it will come back.
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