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Author
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 14
Formats
Description
The Year is 1500. Christopher Columbus, stripped of his title Admiral of the Ocean Seas, waits in chains in a Caribbean prison built under his orders, looking out at the colony that he founded, nurtured, and ruled for eight years. Less than a decade after discovering the New World, he has fallen into disgrace, accused by the royal court of being a liar, a secret Jew, and a foreigner who sought to steal the riches of the New World for himself.
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3) Honor lost
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Zara Cole may have finally met her match. Lifekiller--a creature that can devour entire planets--is spreading terror throughout the universe, and it seems nothing can stand in the monstrous god-king's way. Reeling from a series of battles, Zara and her wounded band of allies are going to need a strategy before they face Lifekiller again. Zara's street smarts may not be enough when their enemy could be anywhere, destroying civilizations and picking...
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Description
A savvy young criminal with antisocial behavior is recruited to attend the Honors space program and joins a team on a sentient spaceship destined for the far reaches of the galaxy only to discover dangerous secrets hidden among the stars.
Author
Publisher
Nobrow Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Weaving together the true life historical expeditions of Ada Blackjack and Robert Bartlett with a contemporary fictional story, How to Survive in the North is a unique and visual narrative journey that shows the strength it takes to survive in even the harshest conditions--whether that be struggling for survival in the Arctic in the 1900s or surviving a mid-life crisis in the present day"--
13) The precipice
Author
Series
Asteroid wars volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind's expansion beyond the solar system in The Precipice.
Once, Dan Randolph was one of the richest men on Earth. Now the planet is spiraling into environmental disaster, with floods and earthquakes destroying the lives of millions. Randolph knows the energy and natural resources of space can save Earth's economy, but the price may be the loss of the only thing he has left--the company...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1998, ©1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
A thousand years after the Jupiter Mission, astronaut Frank Poole is recovered and revived. He is intrigued by how much has changed. Then he receives a warning that the Monoliths have decided to destroy the human race.
16) Robinson Crusoe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 27
Description
During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600's an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island.
17) The rock rats
Author
Series
Asteroid wars volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Visionary space industrialist Dan Randolph is dead-but his protégé, pilot Pancho Barnes, now sits on the board of his conglomerate. She has her work cut out for her. For Randolph's rival, Martin Humphries, still wants to control Astro and still wants to drive independent asteroid miners like Lars Fuchs out of business. Humphries wants revenge against Pancho and, most of all, he wants his old flame, Amanda, who has become Lars Fuchs's wife.
Brimming...
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventure volume 6
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1983.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Pitt must find a missing nuclear sub before the sea explodes and before assassins get him.
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