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Author
Series
Lady astronaut novels volume 3
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Astronauts Elma York, Nicole Wargin and Myrtle Lindholm continue to forge new paths for women astronauts as they work to achieve the International Aerospace Coalition's goal of getting as many people as possible off Earth before it becomes uninhabitable."-Publisher.
2) Bounders
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jasper and his friends are the first group of cadets, called Bounders, to be trained as astronauts who use new spaceships to teleport, but soon are forced to go up against an alien society seeking revenge for stealing this brain-sync technology.
Author
Series
Imperial Radch volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"What if you once had thousands of bodies and near god-like technology at your disposal? And what if all of it were ripped away? The Lord of the Radch has given Breq command of the ship Mercy of Kalr and sent her to the only place she would have agreed to go -- to Athoek Station, where Lieutenant Awn's sister works in Horticulture. Athoek was annexed some six hundred years ago, and by now everyone is fully civilized -- or should be. But everything...
6) Code to zero
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1958, bound together by the past, separated by war, and caught up in the mighty struggle between the superpowers, four old friends from Harvard sit at the very center in this dangerous heart of the cold war. And as Luke Lucas relearns the story of his life, he uncovers long-kept secrets and realizes that his fate is tied to the rocket that stands ready on launch pad 26B at Cape Canaveral.
Author
Series
Star Wars novels. Outbound flight volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Series
Curious George original adventures volume 4
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[1957]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Following a day of misadventures Curious George becomes the first space monkey.
11) Sheep blast off!
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Upon finding a spaceship, sheep climb aboard and bumble around until they blast off into orbit.
Author
Series
Central Corps (Elizabeth Bonesteel) volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Deep in the stars, a young officer and her lover are plunged into a murder mystery and a deadly conspiracy in this first entry in a stellar military science-fiction series in the tradition of Lois McMaster Bujold. When her crewmate, Danny, is murdered on the colony of Volhynia, Central Corps chief engineer, Commander Elena Shaw, is shocked to learn the main suspect is her lover, Treiko Zajec. She knows Trey is innocent--he was with her when Danny...
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.
Author
Series
Planet Kindergarten volume 2
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young child imagines kindergarten as a mission in space, with his fellow kindernauts, and this is their one hundredth day.
Author
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The behavioral psychologist onboard a survey ship headed to a planet ripe for colonization, Dr. Grace Park must determine the origin of a strange phenomenon that is causing the crew to suffer mental breaks without losing her own mind in the process.
17) Aurora rising
Author
Series
Aurora cycle volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Told in separate voices, eighteen-year-old Tyler Jones, top graduate of Aurora Academy, and a group of misfits and troublemakers embark on their first mission with Auri, a stowaway from the distant past.
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 4
Publisher
Harper, an imrpint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Lobsang's pursuit of a human life, Joshua's search for his father, and the adaptation efforts of "the Next" post-humans are challenged by a voracious alien race that would conquer and colonize the Long Earth.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
©2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
A latest entry in the Ender's Game prequel series that includes Earth Afire follows an invasion of terraforming aliens on Earth, which is complicated by politics and power struggles until a small band of humans organize a desperate defense.
20) Mouse in space!
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 52
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When an evil professor begins threatening New Mouse City with terrible inventions, Geronimo Stilton is enlisted by local authorities to embark on a top-secret mission to outer space to thwart a nefarious plot.
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