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21) A million suns
Author
Series
Across the universe trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three months after Amy is disconnected from her family, she learns harrowing news about the spaceship Godspeed and accompanies Elder on a race to unlock a puzzle that was set in motion centuries earlier, a situation that is complicated by their growing feelings for each other.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"A picture book that can be read front-to-back or back-to-front. Start from one end and journey from outer space down to the sea; start from the other end and journey from deep in the sea out to a distant planet"--Provided by publisher.
23) Pandora's star
Author
Series
Commonwealth saga volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After harsh conditions on Earth threaten humanity's survival, Cooper, a farmer who is also a former NASA test pilot, leads a group of explorers on a mission to find an inhabitable planet in a distant galaxy, testing the limitations of space travel as they cross a wormhole.
Author
Series
Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Embark on an exciting, adventurous, and dangerous journey through the galaxy with the motley crew of the spaceship Wayfarer in this fun and heart-warming space opera{u2014}the sequel to the acclaimed The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in a new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has no memory of what came before. As Lovelace learns to negotiate the...
26) Dune
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
"Science fiction's supreme masterpiece, Dune will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, it is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who will become the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib. Paul's noble family is named stewards of Arrakis, whose sands are the only source of a powerful drug called "the spice." After his family is brought down in a traitorous plot, Paul must go undercover to seek revenge, and...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Earth's population is divided between only two existing countries which cannot manage to cooperate in any way, until a distress signal arrives from Titan's first settler and neither can afford to rescue her on their own if they act separately. Ambrose wakes up on board with successfully reaching his sister the primary thought in his mind until he notices several strange circumstances: he doesn't remember the launch, the ship's OS is voiced by his...
Author
Series
Frank Compton series volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
34) Gemina
Author
Series
Illuminae files volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"When the space station Heimdall is invaded, Hannah and Nik must work together to defeat the enemy"--
Author
Series
Hitchhiker series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The third installment of the zany Hitchhiker series finds Arthur Dent, reluctant space and time traveler, and his wacky entourage on a mission to prevent the destruction of the universe by killer robots. The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads, so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world. Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, Matilda has ferried the last of humanity...
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Cargo ship captain Eva Innocente and her crew on the La Sirena Negra try to figure out why hundreds of monoliths have appeared in space broadcasting the same looped message to surrender or die.
38) Space princess
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Barbie is asked by the king of the galaxy to join a team tasked with getting the stars to dance again, but her individuality might be more of a hindrance than a help.
39) Up Jim River
Author
Series
January dancer volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The Hound Bridget ban has vanished and the Kennel has given up the search. But her daughter, the harper Méarana, has enlisted the scarred man, Donovan, to aid her in her search.
Author
Series
Illuminae files volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"The planet Kerenza is attacked, and Kady and Ezra find themselves on a space fleet fleeing the enemy, while their ship's artificial intelligence system and a deadly plague may be the end of them all"--
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