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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.
42) Space camp
Author
Series
Galaxy Zack volume 14
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Will troublesome cabin mates ruin Zack's summer at space camp on the planet Sylvan?
43) Great north road
Author
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Futuristic speculation combines with murder when a scientific expedition on a faraway planet searches for an alien species only to be stalked by a determined killer who may be a hostile alien or a member of their own team.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Struggling with outdated systems and claim-jumping corporate interests in the deeps of the Kuiper Belt, a family on board the cramped mining ship El Cavador spots a rapidly approaching object moving toward the solar system that triggers a catastrophic war.
45) Spin
Author
Series
Captain Chase novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the aftermath of a NASA rocket launch gone terribly wrong, Captain Calli Chase comes face-to-face with her missing twin sister, as well as the startling truth of who they really are. Now, a top secret program put in motion years ago has spun out of control, and only Calli can redirect its course. Aided by cutting-edge technologies, the NASA investigator and scientist turned Space Force pilot sets out on a frantic search for the missing link between...
46) The final six
Author
Series
Final six volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Surrounded by strangers all competing for one of the six slots to travel to Jupiter's moon, Europa, Naomi, an Iranian-American science genius, finds a friend in Leo, an Italian championship swimmer, as the training tests their limits.
Author
Series
Willful child volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the continuing adventures of the starship A.S.F. Willful Child, not-terribly-bright but exceedingly cock-sure Captain Hadrian Sawback and his motley crew embark on another rollicking ride through the infinite vastness of interstellar space.
48) Pathfinder
Author
Series
Pathfinder (Orson Scott Card) volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Rigg has a secret ability to see the paths of others' pasts, but revelations after his father's death set him on a dangerous quest that brings new threats from those who would either control his destiny or kill him.
49) Ashfall legacy
Author
Series
Ashfall series (Pittacus Lore) volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old half-alien Sydney Chambers leaves Earth to seek his long-missing father, and unearths a devastating, centuries-old secret about humanity.
50) Containment
Author
Series
Sanctuary novels volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Kenzie and her friends learn that more aliens are headed to Earth, and it is up to them to stop the invastion at all costs.
52) Shadow fall
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The daredevil Republic pilots of Alphabet return in this exciting new entry in the Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron trilogy. After their narrow victory over Shadow Wing, Alphabet Squadron is on the attack, hunting their adversaries within the Imperial Remnant. Shadow Wing is desperate for direction and leadership--and they find both in the iron will of Major Keize, their former commander and Yrica Quell's one-time mentor. As battle lines blur, Alphabet...
53) Meru
Author
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In a future where human life has been restricted to Earth, while posthuman descendants called alloys freely explore the galaxy, Jayanthi, the adopted human child alloys, and her alloy pilot Vaha are sent to test the habitability of an Earthlike planet called Meru, an unoccupied new world, and the future of human-alloy relations.
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When an Earth-like planet is discovered, a team of six teens, along with three veteran astronauts, embark on a twenty-year trip to set up a planet for human colonization--but find that space is more deadly than they ever could have imagined.
Author
Series
Neog volume 2
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The crew of Zuma's Ghost has won the Boarding Games for the second straight year. The crew feels unstoppable, until their leaders decide to retire and they get a new commander.
56) Coming home
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 7
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Antiquities dealer Alex Benedict travels to Earth to search for an artifact of the early space age while waiting for the Capella, an interstellar transport that vanished in a space/time warp eleven years prior, to reappear.
57) 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
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"At the edge an isolated star system, Kel Gardavros, once a member of an Order whose military arm was disbanded and scattered across the galaxy, finds her past intruding in the form of a long-dormant Pale war machine that is suddenly reactivated, primed to kill every sentient creature on the planet"--
59) Nyxia
Author
Series
Nyxia triad volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Emmett accepts an interstellar space contract but learns en route that to win the promised fortune he and nine other recruits face a brutal competition, putting their very humanity at risk.
The number of zeroes on the Babel Corporation's contract has Emmett Atwater boarding their lightship and hoping to return to Earth with enough money to take care of his family-- forever. But it turns out he's one of ten recruits, all of whom have troubled pasts...
60) Neptune
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In the outer settlements of the human-occupied solar system, there are rumors about what was found deep under Neptune's frozen seas when a Hungarian billionaire's ship was lost with all hands. But the rumors are far more tame than the reality. When the billionaire's daughter mounts a mission to find the truth, her discoveries will up-end humanity's understanding of our origins on Earth"-- Provided by publisher.
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