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81) Alien separation
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Before Jeff and Kitty Katt-Martini can take down the Mastermind, they are transported to another solar system and into the middle of the Alpha Centauri system's Civil War where they must fight a battle that isn't their own to get home and stop their enemy from destroying Earth and everyone they love.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Li is the only human left after aliens take over the planet, but she learns to stay alive, with the help of her human-sympathizing father, by assimilating to Abdolorean society, which she must keep a secret at all costs or risk the terrifying consequences of exposure.
83) Alien tango
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"For Katherine "Kitty" Katt, Alien Super-Being Exterminator, anti-alien conspiracies, threats from outer space, and a couple of killer alligators are all in a day's work, but internal alien conspiracies bring a new meaning to the terms chaos and confusion."--Author's website.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Unhappy at being sent to stay with his grandmother at the inn she operates, The Intergalactic Bed & Breakfast, Scrub discovers that each room is actually a portal to space and the inn's visitors are aliens who are vacationing on Earth.
85) The darkest star
Author
Series
Origin volume 1
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"When seventeen-year-old Evie is caught up in a raid at a notorious club known as one of the few places where humans and aliens can mingle freely, she meets Luc, an unnaturally beautiful guy she initially assumes is a Luxen...but he is in fact something much more powerful"--
86) The last shadow
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Orson Scott Card's The Last Shadow is the long-awaited conclusion to both the original Ender series and the Ender's Shadow series, as the children of Ender and Bean solve the great problem of the Ender Universe-the deadly virus they call the descolada, which is incurable and will kill all of humanity if it were allowed to escape from Lusitania. One planet. Three sapient species living peacefully together. And one deadly virus that could wipe out...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Badly damaged and low on supplies, the Alliance Fleet is raiding Syndic mines for raw materials-and Captain "Black Jack" Geary hopes they can continue to remain one step ahead of their enemies. But the Syndics are the least of Geary's worries when he learns of the existence of aliens with the power to annihilate the human race.
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Marketing manager Katherine "Kitty" Katt steps into the middle of a domestic dispute, but things get ugly when the man turns into a winged monster and goes on a killing spree. In the middle of the chaos a handsome hunk named Jeff Martini appears, sent by the "agency" to perform crowd control. He's Kitty's kind of guy, no matter what planet he's from.
90) Iron widow
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall of China. It doesn't matter that the girls die from the mental strain. When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. But when she gets her vengeance, it becomes clear that she is an Iron Widow, a rare...
91) Rey meets BB-8
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney/Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Scavenger Rey lives a lonely existence on the planet Jakku until a visit by droid BB-8 changes her life forever.
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
Lorien Legacies volume 5
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The Garde, broken and divided, discover that the Mogadorians have commenced their ultimate invasion plans and will stop at nothing to thwart it.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
The enchantment continues... The universe of the Lunar Chronicles holds stories - and secrets - that are wondrous, vicious, and romantic. How did Cinder first arrive in New Beijing? How did the brooding soldier Wolf transform from young man to killer? When did Princess Winter and the palace guard Jacin realize their destinies? With six stories - two of which have never before been published - and an exclusive never-before-seen excerpt from Marissa...
96) Exo
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
For a century now, Earth has been a peaceful colony of an alien race, and Donovan Reyes is a loyal member of the security forces, while his father is the Prime Liaison--but when a routine search and seizure goes bad Donovan finds himself a captive of the human revolutionary group, Sapience, terrorists who seem to prefer war to alien rule, and killing Donovan just might be the incident they are looking for.
Author
Series
Unearthed volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Trapped aboard the Undying's ancient spaceship and reeling from what they've learned there, scavenger Mia and academic Jules are plunged into a desperate race to warn their home planet of the danger humanity's greed has unleashed"--
98) Return to zero
Author
Series
Lorien legacies reborn volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"When the United Nations takes drastic measures against the Human Garde to keep them in check, the students at the Academy must go on the offensive while those who have defected face off against a new and equally dangerous threat"--
99) Eyes of the void
Author
Series
Final Architecture trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Facing impending extinction, an Intermediary decides to help the Human Colonies stop the Architects who are back consuming entire planets after eighty years of a fragile peace, in the second novel of the series, following Shards of Earth.
100) Rabbid of the sea
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Rabbids wreak havoc at the beach, where they stir up chaos by modelling starfish and making a hat out of an angry octopus.
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