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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive -- and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though,...
2) Vector prime
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Pub. Group
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Author
Series
Jedi Academy volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
After surviving his first year at Jedi Academy, Roan Novachez thought his second year would be a breeze. This year, Roan will have to face alien poetry tests, menacing robots, food fights, flight simulation class, online bullies, more lightsaber duels, and worst of all ... a girl who is mad at him.
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
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This striking one-volume edition marks the 75th anniversary of Lewiss classic SF trilogy featuring the adventures of Dr Ransom on Mars, Venus and Earth. It includes an exclusive Foreword compiled from letters by J.R.R. Tolkien, who inspired Lewis to write the first volume.
The Space Trilogy is a remarkable work of fantasy, demonstrating the powerful imagination of C.S..Lewis. This new one-volume edition marks the 75th Anniversary of the first publication...
7) Semiosis
Author
Series
Semiosis duology volume 1
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
February 2018.
Language
English
Description
"Colonists from Earth wanted the perfect home, but they'll have to survive on the one they found. They don't realize another life form watches...and waits...Only mutual communication can forge an alliance with the planet's sentient species and prove that humans are more than tools."--
8) Planet 51
Publisher
Alliance Atlantis
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
American astronaut Captain Charles T. Baker thinks he is the first person to set foot on Planet 51. Little does he know the planet is inhabited by little green people who live in a cheerful, innocent world. The only fear they have is that their planet will be overtaken by alien invaders from planet Earth. Now, before he becomes part of the Planet 51 Alien Invaders Space Museum, Captain Baker, with the help of his new friend, Lem, must figure out a...
10) Acorna's quest
Author
Series
Acorna series volume 2
Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
'I must find my own kind!' Found as an infant drifting in space, Acorna, the Unicorn Girl, has become a young woman. She still has her tiny, translucent horn, and her 'funny' feet and hands. And, she still has her miraculous ability to make plants grow and heal human sickness. But Acorna has strange dreams of a gentle folk who mind-speak by touching horns. With her 'Uncle' Calum, one of the three grizzled asteroid prospectors who rescued, protected,...
11) Avatar
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A paraplegic soldier finds himself caught between his fellow humans and an alien race on the planet Pandora when he agrees to take on an avatar, a new identity and body that will help him to blend in with the inhabitants of the planet while on a mission from Earth.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Steven Spielberg's masterpiece about a boy and his special bond with an alien from another planet. This 30th Anniversary Edition includes hours of bonus features, including a new interview with Steven Spielberg.
Author
Series
Choose your own adventure volume 12
Publisher
Chooseco
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
You and your Martian teamate, Fippto, must make the right choices to save the universe from total destruction.
14) The sunlit man
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Landing on a new planet where he's instantly caught up in the struggle between a tyrant and the rebels, Nomad, in a world under constant threat of a sunrise whose heat will melt the very stones, must gain enough power to leap offworld before he pays the ultimate price.
Author
Series
Dune novels. Legends of Dune volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 37
Language
English
Description
It has been fifty-six years since the events of the author's The machine crusade and following the death of Serena Butler, the bloodiest decades of the Jihad take place.
Author
Series
Dune novels. Legends of Dune volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 43
Language
English
Description
As the struggle against the thinking robots continues, Serena Butler's forces continue their battle and Selim Wormrider and his Fremen outlaws take the first step into becoming the fighters who would change history.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Planet 51 (2009, 91 min.): When Chuck the astronaut lands on a distant planet filled with little green people, he is surprised to discover that we are not alone in the galaxy. But he gets the shock of his life when the residents of Planet 51 mistakenly believe that his presence is the start of an alien invasion of the human kind. Luckily, an alien teenager named Lem quickly realizes that Chuck is friendly and the two blast off on an adventure to try...
Author
Publisher
Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"The universe is vast beyond description. We look around us, and in every direction, we see millions (if not billions) of galaxies floating in space, seemingly frozen in time. Yet, how do we measure the telltale signs of universal expansion? There are many Christians who believe the literal interpretation of the Bible and its timeline that ages Earth to a little over 6000 years. However, it cannot be denied that new and powerful telescopes are photographing...
19) Galaxy quest
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000, c1999]
Language
English
Description
The alumni cast of a cult space TV show have to live out their roles when an alien race needs their help.
20) Aliens
Author
Publisher
Neon Squid
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A beautiful nonfiction book showcasing the different ways scientists are trying to find alien life in the outer space"--
"Do aliens exist? Are UFOs real? The race is on to discover alien life in the universe! Join space expert Joalda Morancy on an out-of-this-world adventure in search of aliens. Get ready to crisscross the universe to meet robots on Mars, fly through the clouds of Venus, and dive into underground oceans on icy moons. You will...
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