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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Bell has spent his whole life -- all eleven years of it -- on Mars. But he's still just a regular kid-he loves cats, any kind of cake, and is curious about the secrets the adults in the US colony are keeping. Like, why don't they have contact with anyone on the other Mars colonies? Why are they so isolated? When a virus breaks out and the grown-ups all fall ill, Bell and the other children are the only ones who can help. It's up to Bell -- a regular...
Author
Series
Chaos walking volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions, questioning all they have ever known as they try to step back from the darkness and find the best way to achieve peace.
Author
Series
Chaos walking volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.
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Series
Moon Base Alpha volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
In 2041 on Moon Base Alpha, thirteen-year-old Dash must solve the mystery of how Lars was poisoned before the base loses oxygen, forcing the colonists to return to Earth.--
Author
Series
Moon Base Alpha volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Children's New Books: September 2020 eBooks and eAudiobooks
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
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In 2041 twelve-year-old Dashiell Gibson is a resident of Moon Base Alpha, and at the moment he is faced with a number of problems: coping with the nasty Sjoberg twins, finding out how the commander of the base has managed to disappear from a facility no bigger than a soccer field, and dealing with the alien Zan who communicates with him telepathically from afar--and who is hiding a secret which may threaten the whole Earth.
6) Mars One
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"A teenage boy leaves for Mars as a colonist with the Mars One space program and grapples with what he's leaving behind to do so"--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Mike is suspicious when his family joins an expedition to Mars at the last minute, and his fears are confirmed when all of the adults on the colonizing mission, including his parents, begin to act strangely.
Author
Series
Final six volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Surrounded by strangers all competing for one of the six slots to travel to Jupiter's moon, Europa, Naomi, an Iranian-American science genius, finds a friend in Leo, an Italian championship swimmer, as the training tests their limits.
Author
Series
Starbound trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Flynn, leader of the rebellion on Avon, captures Jubilee "Lee" Chase, captain of the forces sent to crush the terraformed planet's rebellious colonists, but later saves her and the two, caught between sides in a senseless war, flee together.
10) Lunar blitz
Author
Series
(Jeffrey).Ultraball volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Enter the exhilarating game of Ultraball: fly over pass rushers and explode into slingshot zones, through Jeff Chen's dazzling future world on the moon. Here Ultraball is life, and survival is all that matters. Perfect for sci-fi and sports fans alike.
11) The disasters
Author
Publisher
Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Nax's one-way trip back to Earth is cut short after the school is hijacked by terrorists. Now he and a handful of other space Academy washouts are the only surviving pilots. In order to spread the truth about the attack, Nax and his fellow failures must execute a dangerous heist.--
12) Pathfinder
Author
Series
Pathfinder (Orson Scott Card) volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2011, ©2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Rigg has a secret ability to see the paths of others' pasts, but revelations after his father's death set him on a dangerous quest that brings new threats from those who would either control his destiny or kill him.
13) Aetherbound
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After escaping her abusive family's interstellar merchant ship, seventeen-year-old Pendt lands on a remote space station run by the Brannick twins, and together they make plans to thwart the destinies they never wanted.
14) Home planet
Author
Series
Publisher
Saddleback Educational Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sam was born on the moon. He lives on a moon base with his parents. He's never been to Earth. But there's a school break, and his aunt invites him to stay with her family. Sam is excited. He will get to spend time with his cousin, Linn. She will show him around. His parents know he will love his home planet.
15) Space opera
Author
Publisher
Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Once every cycle, the great galactic civilizations gather for Galactivision-- part gladiatorial contest, part beauty pageant, part concert extravaganza, and part, a very large, but very subtle part, continuation of the wars of the past. This year, a bizarre and unsightly species has looked up from its muddy planet-bound cradle, and found glitter. And lipstick. And pyrotechnics. And electric guitars. A band of human musicians, dancers, and roadies...
Author
Series
Starbound trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
When a foiled attempt to infiltrate the corrupt LaRoux Industries forces hacker Gideon Marchant and revenge-seeking Sofia Quinn into a fragile alliance, they join forces with Icarus survivors Tarver and Lilac and Avon's protectors Flynn and Jubilee, to take down the most powerful corporation in the galaxy--before LRI's secrets destroy them all.
Author
Series
Mars Patel volume 2
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
"Six months ago, Mars Patel boarded a spaceship to travel to Oliver Pruitt's colony on the planet Mars, and now he's finally there. The journey gave Mars lots of time to bond with his copilots, but Mars and his new friends soon discover that Pruitt's colonists aren't the only people living on the inhospitable planet. A splinter group, led by the mysterious Fang, are desperate to go back to Earth--and they don't care who they hurt in the process. Amid...
Author
Series
Moon Base Alpha volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Children's Recommended: 6th Grade
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Recommended: Summer Reads for Middle Schoolers
Summer 2023 Must Reads — Middle School
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Recommended: Summer Reads for Middle Schoolers
Summer 2023 Must Reads — Middle School
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Description
"Dashiell Gibson, who lives on Moon Base Alpha, has to solve a murder of one of the moon's most prominent doctors"--
19) Ruins
Author
Series
Pathfinder (Orson Scott Card) volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
From the author of Ender's Game, the soon-to-be major motion picture! A complex fate. A deadly path. Book two in the New York Times bestselling series Publishers Weekly calls "an epic in the best sense." When Rigg and his friends crossed the Wall between the only world they knew and a world they could not imagine, he hoped he was leading them to safety. But the dangers in this new wallfold are more difficult to see. Rigg, Umbo, and Param know that...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books / HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Clementine Chang moves from Earth to Mars for a new start and is lucky enough to land her dream job with Dr. Marcella Lin, an Artificial Intelligence pioneer. On her first day of work, Clem meets Dr. Lin's assistant, a humanoid AI named Kye. Clem is no stranger to robots--she built herself a cute moth-shaped companion named SENA. Still, there's something about Kye that feels almost too human. When Clem and Kye begin to collaborate, their chemistry...
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