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Author
Series
Whitecoat's daughter volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Octavia has only ever had one goal: to follow in the footsteps of her parents and become a prestigious whitecoat, one of the scientists who study the natural wonders of Faloiv. The secrets of the jungle s exotic plants and animals are protected fiercely in the labs by the Council of N Terra, so when the rules suddenly change, allowing students inside, Octavia should be overjoyed. But something isn t right.
2) Black rose
Author
Series
Seven stars trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Medallion
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Jack and Lucy's adventure continues as the two friends travel through an interdimensional portal to another world and pledge themselves to the Apollonians' humanitarian cause. However, they have yet to find the Risa Star. As their quest to find Alex and defeat the Darkness unfolds, their journey takes them to alien worlds that uncannily parallel their own -- an arctic mountain range, a city in the throes of industrialization, and a forest with inhabitants...
Author
Publisher
Disney + Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Karr is a teenage boy: he goes to school, helps his parents, likes speeders and droids. But when he touches certain objects he gets searing headaches and blacks out, or has visions of people and places he doesn't know. He sets out to discover what connection his mysterious Force powers have to the fabled Jedi-- and what the Force has in store for him. Accompanied by his droid companion, RZ-7, and Maize, a new girl at school, his adventure will take...
Author
Series
Halo series. Forerunner saga volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The first novel in the Forerunner Saga trilogy by science fiction legend Greg Bear--set in the Halo universe and based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! One hundred thousand years ago, the galaxy was populated by a great variety of beings. But one species--eons beyond all others in both technology and knowledge--achieved dominance. They ruled in peace, but met opposition with quick and brutal effectiveness. They were the Forerunners--the...
Author
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...
Author
Series
Nyxia triad volume 3
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Desperate to return home to Earth and claim the reward Babel promised, Emmett and the Genesis team join forces with the Imago. They knew one thing Babel didn't: Eden's two moons are on a collision course no one can prevent. After building eight secret launch stations, the Imago hoped to lure Babel down to their doomed planet as they left it behind. A perfect plan until the Genesis team's escape route was destroyed. As Emmett, his crewmates, and their...
Author
Series
Nyxia triad volume 2
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Emmett Atwater and the other Genesis spaceship survivors are caught between Babel and the indigenous Adamite population when they are sent to extract nyxia, the most valuable material in the universe.
Author
Series
Halo series. Forerunner saga volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Continues the story of the ancient Forerunners engineering race, who are worshiped as gods by the Covenant while their mysterious connection to humanity slowly unfolds.
10) Unearthed
Author
Series
Unearthed volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Scholar Jules Addison and scavenger Amelia Radcliffe join forces to unravel secrets of a long-extinct civilization, only to discover something that could spell the end of the human race.
Author
Series
Whitecoat's daughter volume 2
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In the sequel to A Conspiracy of Stars, Octavia's search to uncover the truth grows more dangerous as she becomes determined to protect her planet's fate. In the forty years since the Vagantur landed on Faloiv, the planet has existed in a tenuous peace between the humans who live in the enclosed community of N'Terra and the Faloii, the indigenous population. But after uncovering the shadowy secrets of the Council's newly elected leader and helping...
12) Renegades
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Find. Claim. Profit. In a post-Covenant War galaxy littered with scrap, it's the salvager's motto--and Rion Forge certainly made her mark on the trade. All she wanted was to grow her business and continue the search for her long-lost father, but her recent discovery of a Forerunner debris field at the edge of human-occupied space has now put her squarely in the crosshairs of the Office of Naval Intelligence and the violent remains of the Covenant....
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, journeyman Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'.
Author
Series
Unstoppable volume 1
Publisher
Tor Teen, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Tina never worries about being "ordinary"--she doesn't have to, since she's known practically forever that she's not just Tina Mains, average teenager and beloved daughter. She's also the keeper of an interplanetary rescue beacon, and one day soon, it's going to activate, and then her dreams of saving all the worlds and adventuring among the stars will finally be possible. Tina's legacy, after all, is intergalactic--she is the hidden clone of a famed...
Author
Series
Hainish series volume 1
Publisher
Perennial Classics
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the anarchist moon Anarres, risks his life by traveling to the mother planet of Urras in the hope of offering wisdom to its inhabitants and to reunite the two long-alienated worlds.
16) Queen's shadow
Author
Series
Star Wars novels. Queen's shadow volume 1
Publisher
Disney/Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"When Padmé Naberrie, "Queen Amidala" of Naboo, steps down from her position, she is asked by the newly-elected queen to become Naboo's representative in the Galactic Senate. Padmé is unsure about taking on the new role, but cannot turn down the request to serve her people. Together with her most loyal handmaidens, Padmé must figure out how to navigate the treacherous waters of politics and forge a new identity beyond the queen's shadow"--
Author
Series
Halo series. Standalone novels volume 6
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008
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...
18) Padawan
Author
Publisher
Disney/Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Obi-Wan Kenobi has not been apprenticed long to Qui-Gon Jinn, and he is chafing at Qui-Gon's training style: all meditation, no action. Obi-Wan yearns to prove himself on a mission, but when he and Qui-Gon are finally set to leave on an assignment, Qui-Gon is nowhere to be found. Angered by his master's abandonment, Obi-Wan sets out on the mission alone, determined to prove himself. On a mysterious planet he encounters a pack of feral, Force-wielding...
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