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Space Odyssey series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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The mysteries of the monoliths are revealed in this inspired conclusion to the Hugo Award–winning Space Odyssey series—“there are marvels aplenty” (The New York Times).
On an ill-fated mission to Jupiter in 2001, the mutinous supercomputer HAL sent crewmembers David Bowman and Frank Poole into the frozen void of space. Bowman’s strange transformation into a Star Child is traced through...
On an ill-fated mission to Jupiter in 2001, the mutinous supercomputer HAL sent crewmembers David Bowman and Frank Poole into the frozen void of space. Bowman’s strange transformation into a Star Child is traced through...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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An adventurous geology professor mounts an expedition that descends into a subterranean world of luminous rocks, antediluvian forests, and fantastic marine life -- a living past that holds the secrets to the origins of human existence.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 47
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English
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Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds. Now she's awakened a nightmare. During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she's delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move. As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact isn't at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Enter the vivid and cinematic world of Faloiv in the first book of this dazzling YA sci-fi/fantasy series, perfect for fans of Carve the Mark, Red Rising, and These Broken Stars. Octavia has always dreamed of becoming a whitecoat, one of the prestigious N'Terra scientists who study the natural wonders of Faloiv. So when the once-secretive labs are suddenly opened to students, she leaps at the chance to see what happens behind their closed doors.
However,...
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Rama series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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An enigmatic spacecraft appears in the solar system, puzzling astronomers.
6) The Hunt
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
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Never trust anyone.
Remember they are always searching.
Don't get involved.
Keep your head down.
Don't fall in love. Ariane Tucker has finally escaped GTX, the research facility that created her. Now that she's on the run, Zane Bradshaw is the only person she can trust. He knows who-and what-she is and still wants to be part of her life. But accepting Zane's help means putting him in danger. Dr. Jacobs, the head of GTX, is not the only one hunting...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Lord of the Flies meets War of the Worlds in J. Barton Mitchell's alien-invaded post-apocalyptic world where two teens and a young girl with amazing powers must stop the aliens' mysterious plan
Earth has been conquered by an alien race known as the Assembly. The human adult population is gone, having succumbed to the Tone, a powerful, telepathic super-signal broadcast across the planet that reduces them to a state of complete subservience. But, the...
8) Angelmass
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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Deep in space lies the black hole known as Angelmass, so called because it emits enigmatic particles with the unusual ability to render humans calm, reasonable, and incapable of lying-which would normally be seen as a good thing. But not by everyone. For while Empyrean human colonies on the edge of the galaxy utilize the power of the "angels," the Earth-based Pax empire views the emissions as a threat that could be used to subvert humanity. Academic...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 12
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From the Publisher: The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city-intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began. But at what cost? With the advent of peace, man ceases to strive for creative greatness, and a malaise settles over the human race. To those who resist, it becomes...
10) Acorna's rebels
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Acorna series volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
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Acorna's people, the Linyaari, have begun reclaiming their homeworld from the ravages of the brutal Khleevi. But the first wave of explorers has unlocked a larger mystery about the origins of the Linyaari -- one that has led Aari, Acorna's beloved lifemate, on a dangerous journey from which he may never return.
Setting off on a quest to find Aari, Acorna and her friends -- Captain Becker, Mac, Nadhari, and RK -- are forced to crash land on the beautiful...
11) Red planet
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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A young colonist on Mars befriends a strange round creature called Willis who gets him into trouble when he goes away to school, but whose presence and friendship finally enable the colonials to negotiate a treaty with the Martians.
12) Honor bound
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Honors volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
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Savvy criminal turned skilled Leviathan pilot Zara Cole finds new friends and clashes with bitter enemies in the second book of this action-packed series from New York Times bestselling authors Rachel Caine and Ann Aguirre that's perfect for fans of The 100 and The Fifth Wave. Zara Cole was a thief back on Earth, but she's been recently upgraded to intergalactic fugitive. On the run after a bloody battle in a covert war that she never expected to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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The Selection meets The 5th Wave in this heart-racing debut duology about a girl competing for a spot on a mysterious mission to the outer reaches of space.
THE RULES ARE SIMPLE: You must be gifted. You must be younger than twenty-five. You must be willing to accept the dangers that you will face if you win.
Eighteen-year-old Cassandra Gupta's entire life has been leading up to this-the opportunity to travel to space. But to secure a spot on this...
14) The last 8
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
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Eight teenagers struggle to survive after an alien attack.
After an alien attack devastates the Earth, pilot and future astronaut Clover Martinez bands with seven other teens in a struggle to survive.
15) The First 7
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
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The thrilling conclusion to The Last 8 duology that follows the Last Teenagers on Earth as they head home to a now-hostile planet.
Clover Martinez and The Last Teenagers on Earth are busy exploring the galaxy after leaving earth behind...even if they can't help but be a little homesick.
So when their ship receives a distress signal from their former planet, they hope against hope that it means other survivors. But as soon as they arrive, they realize...
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Honors volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Petty criminal Zara Cole is recruited into the Honors, an elite team of humans chosen by the Leviathan to explore the outer reaches of the universe.
Petty criminal Zara Cole's painful past made her strong, and she chose life in New Detroit instead moving with her family to Mars. But now she's committed a crime that has her heading to jail. Instead Zara is recruited into the Honors, an elite team of humans selected by the Leviathan-- a race of sentient...
17) Honor lost
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Honors volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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"Zara Cole may have finally met her match. Lifekiller--a creature that can devour entire planets--is spreading terror throughout the universe, and it seems nothing can stand in the monstrous god-king's way. Reeling from a series of battles, Zara and her wounded band of allies are going to need a strategy before they face Lifekiller again. Zara's street smarts may not be enough when their enemy could be anywhere, destroying civilizations and picking...
18) Miss Meteor
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
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"There hasn't been a winner of the Miss Meteor beauty pageant who looks like Lita Perez or Chicky Quintanilla in all its history. But that's not the only reason Lita wants to enter the contest, or her ex-best friend Chicky wants to help her. The road to becoming Miss Meteor isn't about being perfect; it's about sharing who you are with the world--and loving the parts of yourself no one else understands. So to pull off the unlikeliest underdog story...
19) Any sign of life
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Paige Miller fears she is the only person left alive in Ohio until she meets a handful of other survivors, and together they struggle with the knowledge that their new reality is the first part of an alien invasion.
20) Never cry wolf
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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The bestselling nature classic that stands as a hallmark of conservation writing and forever changed the way we look at wolves In 1948, Farley Mowat landed in the far north of Manitoba, Canada, a young biologist sent to investigate the region's dwindling population of caribou. Many people thought that the caribous' conspicuous decline had been caused by the tundra's most notorious predator: the wolf. Alone among the howling canine packs, Mowat expected...
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