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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.
61) Pi in the sky
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joss, the seventh son of the Supreme Overlord of the Universe, must team up with a human girl to re-create Earth, when the planet is accidentally erased from existence.
Author
Series
Foundation series volume 4
Language
English
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Description
The second novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series
THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION
Led by its founding father, the psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and utilizing science and technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Now cleverness and courage may not be enough. For the Empire—the...
THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION
Led by its founding father, the psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and utilizing science and technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Now cleverness and courage may not be enough. For the Empire—the...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"When Jakub Procha is sent into space to examine a cosmic dust cloud covering Venus, it may be a solo suicide mission. Dreaming of becoming a national hero and desperate to atone for his father's sins as a Communist informer, he leaves his beloved wife behind and launches into the galaxy. But things aboard spaceship JanHus1 quickly turn weird, and, to make matters worse, he soon learns that his wife has disappeared without a trace back on Earth. As...
64) The One: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
"How far would you go to find The One? A simple DNA test is all it takes. Just a quick mouth swab and soon you'll be matched with your perfect partner--the one you're genetically made for. That's the promise made by Match Your DNA. A decade ago, the company announced that they had found the gene that pairs each of us with our soul mate. Since then, millions of people around the world have been matched. But the discovery has its downsides: test results...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Illustrated Man is a classic Bradbury--eighteen startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin. In this phantasmagoric sideshow, living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, Martian invasions are foiled by the good life and the glad hand, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets."--P. [4] of cover.
66) Starter villain
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano...
67) BZRK reloaded
Author
Series
BZRK volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
The struggle for control between the Armstrong twins and the group known as BZRK continues with the stakes higher than ever.
68) Marsbound
Author
Series
Marsbound novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young Carmen Dula and her family are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime--they're going to Mars. Once on the Red Planet, however, Carmen realizes things are not so different from Earth. There are chores to do, lessons to learn, and oppressive authority figures to rebel against. And when she ventures out into the bleak Mars landscape alone one night, a simple accident leads her to the edge of death until she is saved by an angel--an angel...
69) Allegiant
Author
Series
Divergent trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered--fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories. But Tris's new reality is even more alarming than the one she left...
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When millions of fish start dying off the coast of Hawaii and something is destroying hundreds of ships, the government enlists the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--to help get to the bottom of the disaster before it is too late.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In his much-anticipated debut novel, Hank Green--cocreator of Crash Course, Vlogbrothers, and SciShow--spins a sweeping, cinematic tale about a young woman who becomes an overnight celebrity before realizing she's part of something bigger, and stranger, than anyone could have possibly imagined. The Carls just appeared. Coming home from work at three a.m., twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance...
Author
Series
Dune novels. Main series volume 8
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
A ship of escaped refugees uses genetic technology to revive talented figures from the world's past in order to safeguard their survival, including Paul Maud'Dib and Lady Jessica.
73) Rogue Protocol
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is. The cyborg Security Unit Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good. Is Milu, a deserted terraforming facility in space, an abandoned project of GrayCris or a cover for its recovery operations for alien remnants? -- adapted from jacket and goodreads.com....
75) Unravel me
Author
Series
Shatter me (Mafi) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Juliette has escaped to Omega Point, the headquarters of the rebel resistance and a safe haven for people with abilities like hers. She is finally free from The Reestablishment and their plans to use her as a weapon, but Warner, her former captor, won't let her go without a fight."--
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, he...
77) Firefight
Author
Series
Reckoners trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
"David and the Reckoners continue their fight against the Epics, humans with superhuman powers, except they may have met their match in Regalia, a High Epic who resides in Babylon Restored, the city formerly known as the borough of Manhattan"--
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
An anthology of science fiction tales from the past century includes both classic and contemporary works by Anne McCaffrey, Arthur C. Clarke, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and other masters of the science fiction genre.
79) Authority
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In the second volume of the Southern Reach Trilogy, questions are answered, stakes are raised, and mysteries are deepened. In Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer introduced Area X--a remote and lush terrain mysteriously sequestered from civilization. This was the first volume of a projected trilogy; well in advance of publication, translation rights had already sold around the world and a major movie deal had been struck. Just months later, Authority,...
80) Anthem
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Equality 7-2521 lives in the Dark Ages of the future, where all decisions are made by committee, all people live in collectives, all traces of individualism have been wiped out. But the spark of individual thought and freedom still burns in Equality 7-2521, a passion which he has been taught to call sinful. In a purely egalitarian world, he dares to stand forth from the herd -- to think and choose for himself, to discover electricity, and to love...
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