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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 22
Description
The sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to save both humanity and the earth, Ryland Grace is hurtled into the depths of space when he must conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
Ryland Grace has been asleep for a very, very long time. He's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. He can't remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 52
Description
On July 20, 1969, the world stood still to watch 38-year-old American astronaut Neil A. Armstrong become the first person ever to step on the surface of another heavenly body. Upon his return to Earth, Armstrong was celebrated for his monumental achievement. He was also--as NASA historian Hansen reveals in this authorized biography--misunderstood. Armstrong's accomplishments as an engineer, a test pilot, and an astronaut have long been a matter of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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While grieving her husband's murder, a young Colorado veterinarian meets a troubled FBI agent and begins to uncover the world's most sinister secrets in this thriller from James Patterson.
Frannie O'Neill is a young and talented veterinarian living in Colorado. Plagued by the mysterious murder of her husband, Frannie throws herself into her work, but it is not long before another bizarre murder occurs and Kit Harrison, a troubled and unconventional...
Frannie O'Neill is a young and talented veterinarian living in Colorado. Plagued by the mysterious murder of her husband, Frannie throws herself into her work, but it is not long before another bizarre murder occurs and Kit Harrison, a troubled and unconventional...
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Series
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 19
Description
The Clone Wars have yet to erupt when Jedi Master Jorus C'baoth petitions the Senate for support of an ambitious undertaking. 6 Jedi Masters, 12 Jedi Knights, and 50,000 men, women, and children will embark on a mission to contact intelligent life and colonize worlds beyond the galaxy. Bureaucracy threatens to scuttle the expedition until Master C'baoth foils a plot, winning him the political capital to set in motion Outbound Flight. Unknown to the...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
The six children have escaped horrifying government experiments, a childhood in captivity and and frightening brush with death. Living out in the world for the first time, they yearn to be reunited with Kit and Frannie, the couple who saved their lives. And Max, the leader of the flock, is seized by and overpowering fear that the kids are about to face a danger greater than any they've ever known. All that the children want is to return to the one...
Author
Series
Aurora cycle volume 01
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
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Description
Told in separate voices, eighteen-year-old Tyler Jones, top graduate of Aurora Academy, and a group of misfits and troublemakers embark on their first mission with Auri, a stowaway from the distant past.
8) Aurora's end
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Series
Aurora cycle volume 03
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
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"When we last saw Squad 312, they working together seamlessly (aka, freaking out) as an intergalactic battle raged and an ancient superweapon threatened to obliterate Earth. Everything went horribly wrong, naturally. But as it turns out, not all endings are endings, and the team has one last chance to rewrite theirs. Maybe two. It's complicated. Cue Zila, Fin, and Scarlett (and MAGELLAN!): making friends, making enemies, and making history? Sure,...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In 2019, teens Mia, Antoine, and Midori are selected by lottery to join experienced astronauts on a NASA mission to the once top-secret moon base, DARLAH 2, while in a Florida nursing home, a former astronaut struggles to warn someone of the terrible danger there.
10) The disasters
Author
Publisher
Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Nax and a handful of other space Academy washouts are the only surviving pilots after the school is hijacked by terrorists, but in order to spread the truth about the attack, Nax and his fellow failures must execute a dangerous heist.--
11) Ender in exile
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Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Description
At the close of Ender's Game, Andrew Wiggin, called Ender by everyone, is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: he is the Savior of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony. He is offered the choice of living in isolation on Eros, at one of the Hegemony's training facilities, but...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 13
Description
2003 ECPA Gold Medallion Award winner! The best-seller that has brought comfort and hope to millions in the wake of 9/11 is now available in softcover! Let's Roll!-the moving, behind-the-scenes story of United Flight 93 hero Todd Beamer and his widow, Lisa-is so much more than a tribute. A message of character, courage, and undeniable faith in the face of horrifying tragedy, it encourages anyone who reads it to live real life right now . . . and to...
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Series
Publisher
Rosen
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
An account of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, focusing on the events leading up to the act of terrorism, the impact on people involved, and the investigation of this crime.
14) Neil Armstrong
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Series
Publisher
Lucent Books/Thomson Gale
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
A biography of the first man on the moon, covering his life and his career as an astronaut.
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