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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
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"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets. Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
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Description
While sick in bed with cancer, Lucien begins making journeys to Belleza, a place in a parallel world that resembles Venice, Italy, and becomes caught up in the political intrigues surrounding the Duchessa who rules the city.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
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Description
In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are a team of special operatives charged with maintaining order throughout the human territories. Under assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two embark on a mission to the astonishing city of Alpha. A mystery is at the center of Alpha, a dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the city.
"An expansive, expensive adventure whose creativity outweights its more uneven elements."--Variety.
"Valerian...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist. What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly,...
6) Half magic
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[1989?], c1954
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Four children looking forward to an ordinary summer enjoy a series of fantastic adventures by double-wishing on an ancient coin.
Author
Series
Peri Reed chronicles volume 1
Description
Detroit 2030. Don't forgive and never forget has always been Peri's creed. But her day job makes it difficult: she is a drafter, possessed of a rare, invaluable skill for altering time, yet destined to forget both the history she changed and the history she rewrote. When Peri discovers her name is on a list of corrupt operatives, she realizes that her own life has been manipulated by the agency. Her memory of the previous three years erased, she joins...
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
Once again, Artemis will have to pair up with his old comrade, captain Holly Short, to track down the missing demon and rescue him before the time spell dissolves and the lost demon colony returns violently to Earth.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 32
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Jack and Annie are joined by Teddy and Kathleen as they travel to the snowy Land-Behind-the-Clouds, where they search for the eye of the Ice Wizard and attempt to help Merlin and Morgan.
10) The operator
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Series
Description
"Peri Reed's job eats her mind, but for a special task agent in hiding, forgetting the past can be a blessing. Betrayed by the man she thought she loved and the agency who turned her into the very thing she fought against, Peri abandoned the wealth and privilege of Opti for anonymity riddled with memory gaps and self-doubt. But when a highly addictive drug promises to end her dependency on those who'd use her as a tool for their own success, she must...
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018.
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Description
Although he has been missing for several years and the entire town thinks her father has abandoned her family, Meg steadfastly believes the best and protects her younger brother, Charles Wallace, from the brunt of the rumors and taunting. It is he, however, who convinces her to join him, the school sports star Calvin, and three unusual women on an interplanetary voyage to rescue their father from a vast evil.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When he goes to spend the summer with his great-aunt in the family's old house, eleven-year-old Drew is drawn eighty years into the past to trade places with his great-great-uncle who is dying of diptheria.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 48
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
Magically transported to southwest China to find the final object needed to break the spell on the wizard Merlin's beloved penguin, Jack and Annie take a side trip to the world's largest giant panda reserve.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 20
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie away to Australia where they must save some animals from a wildfire.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c1986
Description
Kirk and his crew time travel back to 1986 San Francisco where they encounter the alien life of punk, pizza and exact-change buses while trying to capture two almost-extinct humpback whales to take back with them to the 23rd century.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
With their house in foreclosure, sisters India and Mouse and brother Finn are sent to stay with an uncle in Colorado until their mother can join them, but when the plane lands, the children are welcomed by cheering crowds to a strange place where each of them has a perfect house and a clock that is ticking down the time.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
When he moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new house is haunted by the spirit of a black slave boy who asks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteenth century and prevent his murder by slave traders.
20) Only ever always
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
The notes of an old music box connects two girls from very different worlds--Clara, who struggles to survive poverty and violence in a troubled city, and Claire, whose ordinary life is beset by grief--in a place where neither can be sure what is real.
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