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1) Honor lost
Author
Series
Honors volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"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...
2) Thrawn
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rescued from exile by Imperial soldiers, Thrawn proved to be indispensable to Emperor Palpatine and the Empire. Ambitious and a warrior never to be underestimated, one promotion followed another. Follow the events that launched the blue-skinned, red-eyed master of military strategy and lethal warfare into the highest realms of power and infamy as Thrawn rises to Admiral.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 47
Language
English
Description
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...
Series
Halo series. Forerunner saga volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting is a young rebellious Forerunner who seeks out the marvelous artifacts left behind by the Precursors --long-vanished superbeings of unknowable power and intent -- an act that forces his father's hand and forever changes Bornstellar's destiny ... and the fate of the entire galaxy.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
An urchin is picked off the street by a nun and sent to war school to become a brilliant space-war strategist. He is Bean, so called because of his diminutive stature, the result of an illegal genetic experiment.
6) Cytonic
Author
Series
Skyward (Brandon Sanderson) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fighter pilot Spensa Nightshade has been embroiled in an alien empire's war and now, to figure out what she really is, she must leave her world behind to enter the Nowhere, a mysterious realm from which those who enter rarely ever return.
As a Defiant Defense Force pilot, Spensa has proved herself one of the best starfighters in the human enclave of Detritus, and traveled light-years as an undercover spy to infiltrate the Superiority, where she learned...
7) Ender's game
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Once again, Earth is under attack. An alien species is poised for a final assault. The survival of humanity depends on a military genius who can defeat the aliens. But who? Ender Wiggin. Brilliant. Ruthless. Cunning. A tactical and strategic master. And a child. Recruited for military training by the world government, Ender's childhood ends the moment he enters his new home: Battle School. Among the elite recruits Ender proves himself to be a genius...
8) Aurora's end
Author
Series
Aurora cycle volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When we last saw Squad 312, they working together seamlessly (aka, freaking out) as an intergalactic battle raged and an ancient superweapon threatened to obliterate Earth. Everything went horribly wrong, naturally. But as it turns out, not all endings are endings, and the team has one last chance to rewrite theirs. Maybe two. It's complicated. Cue Zila, Fin, and Scarlett (and MAGELLAN!): making friends, making enemies, and making history? Sure,...
Author
Series
Formic Wars volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
When the alien ship screamed through the solar system, it disrupted communications between the far-flung human mining ships and supply stations and between them and Earth. So Earth and Luna were unaware that they had been invaded until the ship pulled into Earth orbit, and began landing terra-forming crews in China. Politics and pride slowed the response on Earth, and on Luna, corporate power struggles seemed more urgent than distant deaths. In this...
10) The flood
Author
Series
Halo series. Standalone novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"2552. Having barely escaped the final battle for Reach against the vast alien alliance known as the Covenant, the crew of the Pillar of Autumn, including Spartan John-117--the Master Chief--and his AI companion Cortana, is forced to make a desperate escape into slipspace. But their destination brings them to an ancient mystery and an even greater struggle. In this far-flung corner of the universe floats a magnificently massive, artificial ringworld....
11) Halo: Primordium
Series
Halo series. Forerunner saga volume 2
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In the wake of apparent self-destruction of the Forerunner empire, two humans--Chakas and Riser--are like flotsam washed up on very strange shores indeed. Captured by the Master Builder, misplaced during a furious battle in space, they now find themselves on an inverted world where horizons rise into the sky, and where humans of all kinds are trapped in a perilous cycle of horror and neglect. For they have become both research animals and strategic...
Author
Series
Star Wars novels. Film novelizations volume 3
Publisher
Lucas Books/Del Rey
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
13) Halo: Silentium
Series
Halo series. Forerunner saga volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"In the last years of the Forerunner empire, chaos rules. The Flood--a horrifying shape-changing parasite--has arrived in force, aided by unexpected allies. Internal strife within the ecumene has desperately weakened Forerunner defenses.Too little, too late, the legal rate of Juridicals is only now investigating possible crimes by the Master Builder and others. Evidence-gathering agents known collectively as Catalog have been dispatched to collect...
14) Ghosts of Onyx
Author
Series
Halo series. Standalone novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The twenty-sixth century. Once considered clandestine, the Spartan-II program has now gone public. Tales of armored super-soldiers fending off thousands of Covenant attacks have become the stuff of legend. While the Master Chief defends a besieged Earth, and the myriad factions of the Covenant continue their crusade to eliminate humanity, an ultra-secret cell of the Office of Naval Intelligence known as "Section Three" devises a plan to buy the UNSC...
15) Halo: Glasslands
Author
Series
Halo series. Kilo-Five trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
After the defeat of the Covenant and the death of billions of people, Dr. Rachel Halsey, thought to be dead, discovers a technology that can save mankind, as the Kilo-Five hunts for her and the Venezia colony makes plans to attack a weakened Earth.
Author
Series
Honor Harrington novels. Main series volume 1
Publisher
Baen Publishing Enterprises
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Having made him look the fool, she's been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace and set up for ruin by a superior who hates her. Her demoralized crew blames her for their ship's humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket station. The aborigines of the system's only habitable planet are smoking homicide-inducing hallucinogens. Parliament isn't sure it wants to keep the place; the major local industry is smuggling; the merchant cartels want her...
Author
Series
Aftermath trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2016, c2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
As the Empire reels from its critical defeats at the Battle of Endor, the Rebel Alliance--now a fledgling New Republic--presses its advantage by hunting down the enemy's scattered forces before they can regroup and retaliate. But above the remote planet Akiva, an ominous show of the enemy's strength is unfolding. Out on a lone reconnaissance mission, pilot Wedge Antilles watches Imperial Star Destroyers gather like birds of prey circling for a kill,...
18) The Thursday war
Author
Series
Halo series. Kilo-Five trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
One member of the black-ops team Kilo-Five is missing on Sanghelios, and they must rescue him before he falls into the wrong hands.
Author
Series
Halo series. Standalone novels volume 6
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008, 2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In the first, desperate days of the Human-Covenant War, the UNSC has enacted the Cole Protocol to safeguard Earth and its Inner Colonies from discovery by a merciless alien foe. When the Prophets send their best--an ambitious and ruthless Elite--to destroy the the Outer Colonies and acquire the location of Earth, a three-man renegade squad led by Navy Lieutenant Jacob Keyes fights to hold together a shaky alliance between human survivors and the Covenant...
20) Contact harvest
Author
Series
Halo series. Standalone novels volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
The New York Times bestseller-part of the expanded universe based on the award-winning video game series Halo! 2524. Harvest is a peaceful, prosperous farming colony on the very edge of human-controlled space. But humanity has unknowingly trespassed on holy ground-straying into the path of the aggressive, theocratic empire known as the Covenant. What begins as a chance encounter between an alien privateer and a human freighter soon catapults all of...
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