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Series
Time quintet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Female Science Fiction Writers
Author Birthdays - November
Nevada Reading Week 2024: 3rd - 7th Grade
Newbery Award Winners
Author Birthdays - November
Nevada Reading Week 2024: 3rd - 7th Grade
Newbery Award Winners
Description
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
2) Beautyland
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"A tender, deeply wise novel of a young woman who doesn't feel at home on this earth, by the author of Parakeet"--
"A wise, tender novel about a woman who doesn't feel at home on Earth, by the acclaimed author of Parakeet. At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but she reaches for warmth and...
Author
Series
Expanse volume 2
Language
English
Description
We are not alone. On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a high-level politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from reigniting. And on Venus, an alien protomolecule has overrun the planet, wreaking massive, mysterious changes and threatening to spread out into the solar system. In the vast wilderness of space, James Holden and the crew of...
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Series
Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The patched-up ship has seen better days, but it offers her everything she could possible want: a spot to call home, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy and some distance from her past. And nothing could be further from what she's known than the crew of the Wayfarer."--Page [4] of cover
"Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space - and...
Author
Series
Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 3
Language
English
Description
A young apprentice, an alien academic, a caretaker for the dead, an archivist, and others wrestle with profound questions after their evacuation ship, carrying the last humans on Earth, finally reaches its destination.
Return to the sprawling universe of the Galactic Commons, as humans, artificial intelligence, aliens, and some beings yet undiscovered explore what it means to be a community in this exciting third adventure in the acclaimed and multi-award-nominated...
7) Mickey7
Author
Series
Mickey7 volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"The Martian meets Multiplicity in Edward Ashton's high concept science fiction thriller, in which Mickey7, an "expendable," refuses to let his replacement clone Mickey8 take his place. Dying isn't any fun...but at least it's a living. Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever there's a mission that's too dangerous-even suicidal-the crew turns to Mickey. After one iteration...
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Series
Lorien Legacies volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In order to thwart the Mogadorian invasion, a group of the Garde head to a pyramid in Mexico in order to awaken a power that can save the world.
Author
Series
Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 2
Language
English
Description
Lovelace was once merely a ships artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in a new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has no memory of what came before. As Lovelace learns to negotiate the universe and discover who she is, she makes friends with Pepper, an excitable engineer, who is determined to help her learn and grow.Together, Pepper and Lovey will discover that no matter how vast space is, two people can fill it together.The...
10) United as one
Author
Series
Lorien Legacies volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
The Mogadorian invasion has come to Earth, and they have all but won the battle for our planet. Their warships loom over our most populous cities--like New York City, Tokyo, Moscow, Beijing, and New Delhi--and no army will risk making a move against them. The Garde are all that stand in their way . . . but they are no longer alone in this fight. Human teens from across the globe, like John Smith's best friend, Sam Goode, have begun to develop Legacies...
11) Shards of earth
Author
Series
Final Architecture trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Idris, an enhanced human, and his crew, 50 years after the destruction of the earth by alien aggressors, the Architects, discover something strange in space that many people would kill to obtain--and could herald the return of the enemy.
Author
Series
Daniel X volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Daniel has followed in his parents' footsteps as the Alien Hunter, exterminating beings on The List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma, but when he faces his first of the top ten outlaws, the very existence Earth and another planet are at stake.
Author
Series
Teixcalaan novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus is running out of options. In a desperate attempt at diplomacy with the mysterious invaders, the fleet captain has sent for a diplomatic envoy. Now Mahit Dzmare and Three Seagrass--still reeling from the recent upheaval in the Empire--face the impossible task of trying to communicate with a hostile entity....
14) The 5th Wave
Author
Series
5th wave volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
"Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them"--Provided by publisher of original edition.
15) Scarlet
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
This is not the fairytale you remember. But it's one you won't forget. Scarlet Benoit's grandmother is missing. The police have closed her case. The only person Scarlet can turn to is Wolf, a street fighter she does not trust, but they are drawn to each other. Meanwhile, in New Beijing, Cinder will become the Commonwealth's most wanted fugitive, when she breaks out of prison to stay one step ahead of vicious Queen Levana.
16) The host
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
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Description
The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. But Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former tenant of her body refusing...
17) The last star
Author
Series
5th wave volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"In the epic conclusion to the 5th Wave series, Cassie, Ben, Ringer, and Evan confront the Others' plans for the fate of the human race and the planet"--
18) Binti
Author
Series
Binti volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs. Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter...
19) Cinder
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.
20) Alien tango
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Series
Language
English
Description
"For Katherine "Kitty" Katt, Alien Super-Being Exterminator, anti-alien conspiracies, threats from outer space, and a couple of killer alligators are all in a day's work, but internal alien conspiracies bring a new meaning to the terms chaos and confusion."--Author's website.
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