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1) Tomorrowland
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2015]
Formats
Description
Bound by a shared destiny, former boy-genius Frank, jaded by disillusionment, and Casey, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity, embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space known only as "Tomorrowland". What they must do there changes the world-and them-forever.
3) Interstellar
Pub. Date
[2015]
Formats
Description
With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history; traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Appears on list
Description
Built to explore Mars, Resilience begins to develop human-like feelings as he learns from the NASA scientists who assembled him, and as he blasts off and explores Mars, Resilience must overcome different obstacles as he explores the red planet.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Professor Aronnax and two companions set out to investigate a monstrous sea creature, but what they discover is even more extraordinary: the mysterious Captain Nemo and his futuristic submarine, the 'Nautilus'. Full of excitement, drama, and suspense, this spellbinding journey is the crowning achievement of author Jules Verne."--Provided by Publisher.
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Series
Description
"The outstanding new Fargo adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. Baffin Island: Husband-and-wife team Sami and Remi Fargo are on a climate-control expedition in the Arctic, when to their astonishment they discover a Viking ship in the ice, perfectly preserved-and filled with pre-Columbian artifacts from Mexico. How can that be? As they plunge into their research, tantalizing clues about a link between the Vikings and the legendary...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Description
An irresistible blend of history, myth, and misadventure, A Voyage Long and Strange captures the wonder and drama of first contact. Vikings, conquistadors, French voyageurs--these and many others roamed an unknown continent in quest of grapes, gold, converts, even a cure for syphilis. Though most failed, their remarkable exploits left an enduring mark on the land and people encountered by late-arriving English settlers.--From publisher description....
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes the lives and adventures of some of North America's earliest explorers, discussing the challenges they faced, what routes they took, and their impact on the lives of indigenous peoples they encountered.
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Offers a brief historical background and overview of space exploration, and provides information on manned and unmanned voyages into outer space including lunar landings, space shuttles, space stations, and interplanetary probes. A young reader's guide to space exploration, Final Frontier is an illustrated guide to the past, present and future of space exploration. The book covers the early history of space flight, from the first unmanned missions,...
Author
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
"How do you get to the Red Planet? Not via a benighted government program trapped in red tape. Art Thrasher knows this. He is a man with a driving vision: send humans to Mars. Thrasher has a plan. Form a 'club' of billionaires to chip in one billion a year until the dream is accomplished. A billionaire himself and the president of a successful company, it will take all his wiles and master manipulator of business and capital to overcome setbacks and...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Offers a history of space exploration by missions from around the world. Annotation. Since the lift-off of Sputnik in 1957, over 8,000 satellites and spacecraft have been launched from over thirty countries, costing hundreds of billions of dollars. While only about 350 people have made the incredible journey beyond our atmosphere, we all benefit in countless ways from the missions. An authoritative and accessible source that collects information on...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
A visually stunning journey to the end of the world with the hardy and devoted people who live there year-round. The research stations scattered throughout the continent host a close-knit international population of scientists, technicians and craftsmen. Isolated from the rest of the world, enduring months of unending darkness followed by periods when the sun never sets, Antarctic residents experience firsthand the beauty and brutality of the most...
19) The winter pony
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
An account--from the point of view of a pony--of what it was like to be part of Captain Robert Scott's 1910 expedition to reach the South Pole before rival Roald Amundsen.
20) Planets
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Introduces young readers to planets, with simple text, graphics, and NASA and European Space Station images.
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