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"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,...
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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...
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
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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.
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8) Half magic
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[1989?], c1954
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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Four children looking forward to an ordinary summer enjoy a series of fantastic adventures by double-wishing on an ancient coin.
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Beyonders volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 20
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After Jason succeeds in finding a way back to Lyrian, he's immediately in more danger than ever. Meanwhile, Rachel and the others have made their own progress--as well as discovered new enemies. As the group ultimately rejoins, they strive to convince their most needed ally to join the war and form a rebellion strong enough to triumph against the emperor.
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Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
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As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid, " a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
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Magic tree house volume 32
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Random House
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
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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.
16) The long Earth
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2012
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1916: The Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong and the wind in the leaves. Where have the mud, blood, and blasted landscape of no-man's-land gone? For that matter, where has Percy gone? 2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Police officer Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive--some say mad, others allege dangerous--scientist who seems to have vanished. Sifting through...
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1988
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A Brief History of Time, published in 1988, was a landmark volume in science writing and in world-wide acclaim and popularity, with more than 9 million copies in print globally. The original edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the universe. But the ensuing years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- and the macrocosmic world--observations that have confirmed...
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Aladdin
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 19
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Fourteen-year-old Jason Walker is transported to a strange world called Lyrian, where he joins Rachel, who was also drawn there from our world, and a few rebels, to piece together the Word that can destroy the malicious wizard emperor, Surroth.
19) Interworld
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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At nearly fifteen years of age, Joey Harker learns that he is a Walker, able to travel between dimensions, and soon joins a team of different versions of himself, each from another dimension, to fight the evil forces striving to conquer all the worlds.
20) The time garden
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001, c1986
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While spending the summer in a house by the sea, four cousins, Roger, Ann, Eliza, and Jack, discover a bank of wild thyme whose magic propels them on a series of adventures back and forth through time.
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