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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Anthony and his younger sister discover that the monster figures he got in an unusual box at an estate sale are alive, but they have no way of knowing that the "monsters" will lead them on fantastical adventures to other worlds in an effort to try to save Earth.
2) Fury
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Publisher
RosettaBooks
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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Beneath the roiling seas and deadly atmosphere of Venus are the Keeps--fully enclosed cities and within those cities live descendants of the survivors who first harbored atomic energy to propel the spaceships that took them to Venus. In massive superstructures built beneath the Venusian seas, a complex feudal society devoted simply to decadence has evolved. Presiding over that society are Immortals--genetic throwbacks to the mutant atomic survivors....
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Young wizards volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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While Nita's sister and her dad host three young alien wizards, teenage wizards Nita and Kit travel halfway across the galaxy as part of an exchange program and find themselves again caught up in the dark doings of their nemesis, the Lone Power.
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My teacher is an alien volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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After Susan sees Mr. Smith the substitute teacher peel off his face, she knows he's an alien and only Peter believes her. Together they work to save the class from Mr. Smith's horrible plans.
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Fall Revolution volume 3
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English
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Ellen May Ngewthu is a soldier and leader of the Cassini Division, the elite defense force of the utopian Solar Union. Here in the twenty-fourth century, the forts of the Division, in orbit around Jupiter, are the front line in humanity's long standoff with the unknowable post-humans: godlike beings descended from the men and women who transformed themselves with high technology centuries ago.
The post-humans' capacities are unknown...but we know...
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English
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For forty years, Colony 3245.12 has been Ofelia's home. On this planet far away in space and time from the world of her youth, she has lived and loved, weathered the death of her husband, raised her one surviving child, lovingly tended her garden, and grown placidly old. And it is here that she fully expects to finish out her days-until the shifting corporate fortunes of the Sims Bancorp Company dictates that Colony 3245.12 is to be disbanded, its...
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Publisher
RosettaBooks
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
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In this complex and profoundly imagined novella, exiles from Earth's atomic armageddon have journeyed to Venus. There, under the oceans, they have created competing civilizations called Keeps. Brian Scott, a Free Companion militiaman finds he must choose between loyalty and love in Kuttner's rigorous and visionary narrative published in 1943. --Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 117 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Korean
Description
Lee Byeong-Gu (Shin Ha-Gyun, JSA) is a sensitive, blue collar sad sack hopped up on conspiracy theories and sci-fi films whose life has been derailed by one bad break after another. Yet he knows there's no such thing as bad luck. The only thing that could have made such a mess of his life are ... aliens. Specifically, Andromedans. Nasty, disgusting Andromedan aliens who have infiltrated human society. Sly Andromedans who are planning to destroy our...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
It’s a golden age for planet hunters: NASA's Kepler mission has identified more than 3,500 potential planets orbiting stars beyond our Sun. Some of them, like a planet called Kepler-22b, might even be able to harbor life. How did we come upon this distant planet? Combining startling animation with input from expert astrophysicists and astrobiologists, Alien Planets Revealed takes viewers on a journey along with the Kepler telescope. How does the...
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Heorot series volume 3
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English
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"Avalon was thriving. The cold sleep colonists from Earth had settled on a verdant, livable world. The fast and cunning predators humans named "grendels" were under control, and the mainland outposts well established. Avalon's new mainland hydroelectric power station was nearly complete, and when on-line would compensate for the nuclear power systems lost in the Grendel Wars. Humans would have power, and with power came the ability to make all the...
13) Red moon
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English
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"Kim Stanley Robinson is a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain, The Years of Rice and Salt and 2312. In 2008, he was named a "Hero of the Environment" by Time magazine, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He lives in Davis, California"--
"It is twenty-five years...
14) The sunlit man
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English
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"Running. Putting distance between himself and the relentless Night Brigade has been Nomads strategy for years. Staying one or two steps ahead of his pursuers by skipping through the Cosmere from one world to the next. But now, his powers too depleted to escape, Nomad finds himself trapped on Canticle, a planet that will kill anyone who doesnt keep moving. Fleeing the fires of a sunrise that melts the very stones, he is instantly caught up in the...
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Lexile measure
530L
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English
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"Explore the dark side of space in Out of this World, a new and exciting series for struggling readers. Is there life on other planets? What is Area 51? These and other fascinating questions are discussed in the Extraterrestrial Life title using considerate text that is written at a higher maturity level with a lower reading level to engage struggling readers. A table of contents, glossary with simplified pronunciations, and index all enhance reading...
16) Stanley in space
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Series
Flat Stanley volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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When the residents of a far-distant planet send a message to Earth asking for someone to meet with them, the President of the United States asks Stanley Lambchop, an all-American boy, to be his ambassador.
17) Dragon Harper
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Captivating . . . The McCaffreys are well known for their brilliant characterizations, and they do not disappoint here.”—Booklist
In Fort Hold, a clutch of fire-lizard eggs is about to hatch, and Lord Bemin’s beautiful young daughter, Koriana, is determined to Impress one of the delightful creatures. At the hatching, apprentice harper Kindan Impresses a fire-lizard of his...
In Fort Hold, a clutch of fire-lizard eggs is about to hatch, and Lord Bemin’s beautiful young daughter, Koriana, is determined to Impress one of the delightful creatures. At the hatching, apprentice harper Kindan Impresses a fire-lizard of his...
18) A tangled web
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Series
Last of the Jedi volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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When the evil Emperor Palpatine threatens the lives of the people closest to Ferus Olin to get him to aid the Empire, Ferus agrees to go on a secret mission for Palpatine, but secretly tries to keep his allegiance to the fallen Jedi Order.
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Series
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Having risen to be one of Earth's most powerful strategists during the war between Ender and alien attackers, Bean finds his efforts to start a family compromised by his enemies, forcing Bean and Petra to leave Earth behind in the control of the Hegemon.
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