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Provides access to the printed True Book series in the form of eBooks. There are also accompanying videos and other activities to supplement the books. This is a great resource for elementary students, in grades 3 to 6, doing research on science or social studies topics.
Author
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Sending a spaceship to rendezvous with an enormous vessel made up of a series of globular habitats approaching its star system, the aliens find a savage race calling themselves "humans" who promptly slaughter the exploration team, except for a single survivor who escapes to another habitat, where he finds more friendly humans whose help he requires to get back to his own ship.
4) Threshold
Author
Series
Boundary novels volume 2
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When the strange fossil she's discovered had ended up giving her a trip to Mars, Helen Sutter thought she'd gone about as far as any paleontologist would ever go in her lifetime. But when you've also married A.J. Baker, overconfident super-sensor expert for the only private agency in space--the Ares Corporation--and your best friend is a former secret agent who's just signed on as the chief of security for the newly created and already emabttled Interplanetary...
Author
Series
Boundary novels volume 4
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Half a year into their journey to the colony world of Tantalus, Sakura Kimei, her family, and her best friend, the alien 'Bemmie' nicknamed Whips, were suddenly torn from the safety of the colony ship and stranded, light years from any known world. In a nearly crippled lifeboat, they had maybe one chance to find and land on a habitable world. With only each other to depend on, Sakura, Whips, and Sakura's family will have to avoid the deadly perils...
Author
Series
Boundary novels volume 5
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Worst-Case Scenario: Sergeant Samuel Morgan Campbell had been in plenty of tight spots before, but nothing like this. It had happened in a few terrifying seconds: the starship he and his crew travelled on, the Outward Initiative, shattered to pieces before their eyes and disappeared, leaving them stranded in the endless night of deep space on Lifeboat LS-88 all systems dead, light-years from any known colony. Somehow, Sergeant Campbell and his crew...
7) Boundary
Author
Series
Boundary novels volume 1
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
What is a paleontologist doing on Mars? Pushing her boundaries. Problematica, n: a term used in paleontology to refer to fossils that appear to be either of unknown taxonomic origin, or whose occurrence in the location they are found contradicts current beliefs of the field. A "funny fossil" is found that no one had seen before out in the middle of the Arizona desert. The strangely shaped fossil could help explain one of the greatest mysteries of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Surviving crash-landings and monsters and island-eaters was only the beginning! The Kimei family and the second group of castaways, led by Sergeant Campbell, had finally joined forces after both had been forced to land on the bizarre planet Lincoln, whose "continents" were huge floating coral colonies, inhabited by even stranger lifeforms. They had survived crash-landings and venom-filled bites and disease, their own despair, and even the destruction...
9) Portal
Author
Series
Boundary novels volume 3
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Madeline Fathom and the stranded members of the Odin vessel struggle to survive the lethal elements of Europa while attempting to repair an escape shuttle, an effort that is further complicated by the discovery of a formidable trap.
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"It's been more than a year since the cruise ship Queen of the Sea was transported in time and space to the ancient Mediterranean not long after the death of Alexander the Great. Captain Lars Floden and the other "Ship People" are trying to plant the seeds of modern civilization. It's not an easy task, to put it mildly, even if they have a tacit alliance with the co-regents of Alexander's empire, his widow Roxane, and Eurydice, the wife of his half-brother....
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