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Author
Series
Time quintet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin are guided by unearthly strangers as they go on a journey through space and time to search for Meg's and Charles' scientist father who disappeared while experimenting with a new form of space travel. Includes related readings and study questions.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 14
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack and Annie must travel back in time to New Orleans in 1915 to help a teenaged Louis Armstrong fulfill his destiny and become the "King of Jazz."
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 30
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jack and Annie travel in the magic tree house to Galveston, Texas on September 8, 1900--the day of the worst natural disaster in US history"--
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house transports Jack and Annie on a mission to the Ice Age where they encounter Cro-Magnons, cave bears, sabertooth tigers, and woolly mammoths.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 27
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack and Annie travel in their magic treehouse to the year 1621, where they celebrate the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians in the New Plymouth Colony.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The magic treehouse whisks Jack and Annie back to the days of deserted islands, secret maps, hidden gold, and nasty pirates.
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace Murry and the unicorn Gaudior must travel through time and space in a battle against an evil dictator who would destroy the entire universe. Includes an interview with the author.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 22
Publisher
Random House Childrens Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Join Jack and Annie as they as they meet one of the world's most famous illusionists - Harry Houdini!"--
9) Caught
Author
Series
The missing volume 5
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When Jonah and Katherine travel to early 1900s Switzerland and Serbia to return Albert Einstein's daughter, Lieserl, to history, her mother Mileva grasps entirely too much about time travel and has no intention of letting her daughter go.
10) The Shadow
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Only two people know that Lamont Cranston has a secret identity as a crusader for justice: his greatest love, Margo Lane, and his fiercest enemy, Shiwan Khan. When Khan ambushes the couple, they must risk everything for the slimmest chance of survival, in the future.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a Czechoslovakian Jewish boy is sent to northern Scotland to live in a castle that houses gifted children who are learning to harness their magical powers to support the Allies' cause.
13) Unholy land
Author
Publisher
Tachyon Publications
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Lior Tirosh is a semi-successful author of pulp fiction, an inadvertent time traveler, and an ongoing source of disappointment to his father. Tirosh has returned to his homeland in East Africa. But Palestina--a Jewish state founded in the early 20th century--has grown dangerous. The government is building a vast border wall to keep out African refugees. Unrest in Ararat City is growing. And Tirosh's childhood friend, trying to deliver a warning,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1987 in New York City, and Micah is at a dance club, trying to pretend he's more out and outgoing than he really is. C.J. isn't just out -- he's complete out there, and Micah can't help but be both attracted to and afraid of someone who travels so loudly and proudly through the night. A connection occurs. Is it friendship? Romance? Is C.J. the one with all the answers... or does Micah bring more to the relationship that it first seems? As their...
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The Stargate is an intergalactic gateway, developed by an ancient civilization, that links other planets from other solar systems to ours. The U.S. Air Force assembles a Stargate team headed by Colonel Jack O'Neill for interstellar peacekeeping missions.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The Stargate is an intergalactic gateway, developed by an ancient civilization, that links other planets from other solar systems to ours. The U.S. Air Force assembles a Stargate team headed by Colonel Jack O'Neill for interstellar peacekeeping missions.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Centers on Abel and Vera Paisley, a working-class Jamaican couple striving to build a better life for their children. Abel travels to London in the early 1960s in search of fortune. Instead, he sees an opportunity to escape the drudgery of his life by faking his death and assuming a new identity. Vera, now a widow, is racked with guilt over her husband's "death" and takes out her grief on her children, Irene and Vincent. The effects of Abel's decision...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A nascent AI, assisted by droids, continues to edge toward world domination and the ruin of humankind, accepting no limits. It fears no one, except John Connor. The machines know John, now 16, is the future head of the resistance and know of his growing abilities. They must find and terminate him. But Sarah Connor is there, protecting and instructing her son as he becomes the man he's destined to be. There will be powerful revelations, breathless...
Publisher
A Tor Book published by Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The stories span the range from short-shorts to novellas, and evoke every hue on the emotional spectrum. Besides stories firmly entrenched in subgenres familiar to Western SFF readers such as hard SF, cyberpunk, science fantasy, and space opera, the anthology also includes stories that showcase deeper ties to Chinese culture: alternate Chinese history, chuanyue time travel, satire with historical and contemporary allusions that are likely unknown...
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