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Author
Series
Imperial Radch volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now isolated in a single frail human body, Breq, an artificial intelligence that used to control of a massive starship and its crew of soldiers, tries to adjust to her new humanity while seeking vengeance and answers to her questions.
Author
Series
Curious George original adventures volume 4
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[1957]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Following a day of misadventures Curious George becomes the first space monkey.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
The sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to save both humanity and Earth, Ryland Grace is hurtled into the depths of space when he must conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
Ryland Grace has been asleep for a very, very long time. He's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. He can't remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete...
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 5
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Language
English
Description
"The thrilling conclusion to the internationally bestselling Long Earth series explores the greatest question of all: What is the meaning of life?"--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Flat Stanley volume 3
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 4
Language
English
Description
Lobsang's pursuit of a human life, Joshua's search for his father, and the adaptation efforts of "the Next" post-humans are challenged by a voracious alien race that would conquer and colonize the Long Earth.
7) Dragon Pearl
Author
Series
Thousand worlds volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Min, a thirteen-year-old girl with fox-magic, stows away on a battle cruiser and impersonates a cadet in order to solve the mystery of what happened to her older brother in the Thousand World Space Forces.
Author
Series
Heaven's shadow trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
"An object one hundred miles across, originating from Octans constellation, on a trajectory for our sun. Now its journey is almost over. And humanity's journey is about to begin. As the Near-Earth Object--dubbed "Keanu"--approaches, two manned vehicles race through almost half a million kilometers of space to reach it first and land on the frozen, desolate surface: NASA's Destiny, originally designed for flights to the Moon and Mars, and the untested...
Author
Series
Saucer novels volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author Stephen Coonts took fans by surprise with the phenomenal and heart-pounding tale of Saucer. Now Rip Cantrell and Charley Pine are back for seconds with Saucer: The Conquest.
Rip Cantrell is brought back to give the saucer one last flight. Charley Pine has started flying for a rich French tycoon, and there is believed to be another downed saucer somewhere in the area. Rip can't quite get over the fact that Charley has dumped him....
11) Generation ship
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyger
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In 2108, Colony Ship Voyager departed Earth for the planet of Promissa with 18,000 of the world's best and brightest on board. 250 years and 27 light years later, an arrival is imminent. But all is not well. The probes that they've sent ahead to gather the data needed to establish any kind of settlement aren't responding, and the information they have received has presented more questions than answers. It's a time when the entire crew should be coming...
12) Swarm
Author
Series
Second Formic War volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to their Ender's Game prequel series with this first volume of an all-new trilogy about the Second Formic War in The Swarm. The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese army. China has been devastated by the Formic's initial efforts to eradicate Earth life forms and prepare the ground for their own settlement. The Scouring of China...
Author
Series
Binky adventures volume 1
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Binky, a beloved house cat, tries to prepare a rocket ship so that he can explore outer space, but he has second thoughts about taking off as he wonders how his owners would protect themselves against aliens if he weren't there to help them.
14) Infinity beach
Author
Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
We are alone. That is the verdict, after centuries of Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence missions and space exploration. The only living things in the Universe are found on the Nine Worlds settled from Earth, and the starships that knit them together. Or so it's believed, until Dr. Kimberly Brandywine sets out to find what happened to her clone-sister Emily, who, after the final, unsuccessful manned SETI expedition, disappeared along with the...
15) Cosmic
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Super-sized, eleven-year-old Liam makes a giant leap for boy-kind by competing with a group of adults for the chance to go into space.
16) Guerilla
Author
Series
Makaum War volume 2
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
While Master Sergeant Frank Sage runs recon on what could be a Phrenorian military base deep in the savage wilderness, a mysterious faction of Makau insurgents breaks the fragile peace with a reckless attack on the Terran base.
17) The Hive
Author
Series
Second Formic War volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A second prequel to Ender's Game continues the sci-fi history of the Formic Wars and finds the warring nations and corporations of Earth struggling to set aside their differences to defend against an imminent alien invasion.
18) Rocket rescue
Author
Series
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Book
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
BB is selected from thousands of candidates to train for a trip to Mars, but his first mission is to the Moon to give emergency aid.
19) Star dragon
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The SS Cygni probe sent back hours of video, captured by the Biolathe AI, but only a few minutes mattered--the four minutes that showed a creature made of fire, living , moving, dancing in the plasma fire of the double star's accretion disk. A dragon made of star stuff, so alien that only a human expedition to observe and perhaps capture it, could truly understand them.
It's a perilous journey into the future, however, for SS Cygni is 245 light-...
20) Dead silence
Author
Publisher
Nightfire/Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Investigating a strange distress signal, Claire Kovalik and her crew discover a luxury space-liner that vanished 20 years prior and board the vessel to find words scrawled in blood, strange movements and whispers in the dark.
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