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Author
Series
Dinosaur boy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Formats
Description
After heroically saving his classmates, fifth-grader Sawyer's life as a dinosaur-human hybrid has gotten a lot easier until Sawyer, Sylvie, who is part Martian, and Elliot head to Mars in search of Sylvie's missing dad and discover that Mars is trying to kick Pluto out of the solar system.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
H.G. Wells' "scientific romance," published first in serial form and then as a book in 1898, attained perhaps its greatest fame in another form, the infamous realistic 1939 radio broadcast "Invasion from Mars" by Orson Welles. It was also made into an early 1950s science fiction adventure movie. Stover (emeritus, Illinois Institute of Technology) describes Wells' story as "a prophecy of startling originality foreseeing the coming of totalitarianism...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Studying the planets at school, Pedro learns fascinating facts about Mars.
"En la escuela, Pedro ha estado leyendo libros sobre el planeta Marte. Cuando llega a casa, imagina cómo sería vivir en el planeta rojo. ¿Podría escalar la superficie rocosa de Marte? ¿Sobreviviría sin helado? ¿Será que su gran imaginación lo lleve a quedarse en Marte o decidirá que prefiere vivir en el planeta Tierra?"--
6) Earth to Dad
Author
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Astra Primm arrives at Minnesota's Base Ripley, eleven-year-old Jameson O'Malley begins to discover that people are hiding plenty from him about his father and the Mars colony where he lives, and about the strain between Jameson's parents.
Author
Series
Skippyjon Jones (Picture books) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Skippyjon Jones, the Siamese cat that thinks he is a Chihuahua dog, has an adventure on Mars.
Author
Series
First graders from Mars volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Nergil's first-grade class concentrates on health and fitness during Martian Health Week, he is very nervous about doing poorly in the upcoming space race.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cosmo, a boy living on Mars, must come up with a quick solution when his malfunctioning robot Rex threatens his sister Jewel.
Author
Series
First graders from Mars volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Pelly feels miserable because she looks different from her Martian classmates, but a glamorous opera singer who visits her class shows Pelly that her differences make her special.
11) Life on Mars
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young astronaut is trying to find life on Mars, but he's made a very big oversight"--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
When astronauts land on Mars, their first discovery is a substance not unlike pie filling and Kate and Henry are eager to go taste some, but Grandpa, who may have some inside information, discourages them.
15) Last day on Mars
Author
Series
Chronicle of the dark star volume 1
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
While waiting to leave Mars before it burns up just like the Earth before it, Liam and his friend Phoebe discover some facts about time and space and realize that the human race is just one of the races trying to survive in space.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Wonderland
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
AD 1130L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Mars is lonely--his father, the sun, denies him a pet and his sibling planets will not play with him--but when rovers Spirit and Opportunity arrive from Earth, he finally has playmates. Includes facts about the solar system, Mars, and the Mars rovers.
18) Invisible sun
Author
Series
Black hole sun volume 2
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2012], ©2012
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Durango and his lieutenant--and girlfriend--continue their adventures as mercenaries on Mars.
19) In the red
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a massive solar flare hits their Mars colony, friends Michael and Lilith are stranded with no protection from the sun, a quickly dwindling supply of air, food, and water, and little hope for rescue.
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 810L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
An interplanetary detective, Opportunity, aka Oppy, shares her adventures on the Red Planet, taking thousands of pictures and making groundbreaking discoveries that she transmits back to Earth.
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