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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Visionary space industrialist Dan Randolph is dead-but his protégé, pilot Pancho Barnes, now sits on the board of his conglomerate. She has her work cut out for her. For Randolph's rival, Martin Humphries, still wants to control Astro and still wants to drive independent asteroid miners like Lars Fuchs out of business. Humphries wants revenge against Pancho and, most of all, he wants his old flame, Amanda, who has become Lars Fuchs's wife.
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5) Ahsoka
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Struggling to find her place after the devastating events of Order 66, Jedi apprentice Ahsoka's resolve to fight the Empire leads her to Bail Organa and the Rebel Alliance.
7) A new dawn
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English
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The first Star Wars novel created in collaboration with the Lucasfilm Story Group set during the legendary "Dark Times" between Episodes III and IV of the popular films tells the story of how two of the lead characters from the animated series Star Wars Rebels first came to cross paths.
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Sekret machines volume 1
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English
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Four people scattered across the world--a soldier, a socialite, a pilot, and a prisoner--are forever changed by what they see in the sky and what it means for the future.
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2023.
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English
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"Sergeant Adrienne Valero wants to die. She can't. After enduring a traumatic resurrection for the ninety-sixth time, Valero is reassigned to a special forces unit and outfitted with a cutting-edge virtual intelligence aid. They could turn the tide in the war against intelligent machines dedicated to the assimilation, or destruction, of humanity. When her VI suddenly achieves sentience, Valero is drawn into the machinations of an enigmatic major who's...
11) The never wars
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English
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Owen Quarry is a member of COG, an company of elite, disgraced soldiers from around the globe, and while they are accustomed to crazy ops, they aren't used to orbiting a black hole to slow down time to fight Earth's dirty wars in the future. If they complete ten missions, they'll be redeemed as citizens in good standing, but the cost will be heavy in both time and their souls.
12) Leviathan wakes
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Expanse volume 1
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English
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When Captain Jim Holden's ice miner stumbles across a derelict, abandoned ship, he uncovers a secret that threatens to throw the entire system into war. Attacked by a stealth ship belonging to the Mars fleet, Holden must find a way to uncover the motives behind the attack, stop a war and find the truth behind a vast conspiracy that threatens the entire human race.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Ezra Bridger, a fourteen-year-old living on the Outer Rim planet of Lothal, discovers the secrets behind his parents' disappearance and finds himself helping the rebels in their fight against Agent Kallus and the Inquisitor.
15) Heir to the Jedi
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English
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Luke Skywalker takes on a high-stakes espionage operation to rescue a brilliant alien cryptographer sympathetic to the rebel cause, a mission that will push his abilities as a Rebel fighter and would-be Jedi to the limit.
16) Hostage
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Rebel force volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Princess Leia, who has withstood kidnapping and torture under Darth Vader, faces a difficult mission as she heads home, where X-7, a deadly assassin of the Empire, awaits her.
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English
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"When Unit Four, a biological soft robot built and stored high above the Jovian atmosphere is activated for the first time...Aliens are attacking the Helium-3 mine it was created to oversee, and now its sole purpose is to defend Earth's largest energy resource from the invaders in ship-to-ship combat...Unit Four launches its ship and goes on the attack, but it has no idea it's about to get caught in a downward spiral of misinformation, reprogramming,...
18) Line War
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Series
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Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Night Shade Books edition.
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1 online resource
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English
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"The Polity is under attack from a ''melded'' AI entity with control of the lethal Jain technology, yet the attack seems to have no coherence. When one of Erebus''s wormships kills millions on the world of Klurhammon, a high-tech agricultural world of no real tactical significance, agent Ian Cormac is sent to investigate, though he is secretly struggling to control a new ability no human being should possess . . . and beginning to question the motives...
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Neog volume 2
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English
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"Zuma's Ghost has won the Boarding Games for the second straight year. The crew...all come together to form an unstoppable team. Until it all comes apart. After a plea deal transforms a twenty-year ore-mining sentence into NeoG service, Spacer Chae Ho-kiearns a spot on the team. But there's more to Chae that the crew doesn't know, and they must hide a secret that could endanger everyone they love"--
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Old Man's War universe volume 2
Lexile measure
830L
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English
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In this sequel to "Old Man's War," the Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF's toughest operations.
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