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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Legendary author Ray Bradbury unfolds the story of humankind's conquest and colonization of Mars. In a bid to save themselves from Earth's imminent destruction, humans send several explorations to the Red Planet. Although secretive, the Martians are inviting at first. However, disease carried to Mars by the human colonists soon sparks an intergalactic war.
Author
Series
Space Odyssey series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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"Allegory about humanity's exploration of the universe, and the universe's reaction to humanity."
Author
Series
Frank Compton series volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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In the fifth volume of the Hitchhiker series, Random, the daughter of Arthur Dent, leaves her remote home planet on the edge of the universe to set out on a cross-galactic odyssey in search of her ancestors' native planet.
Author
Series
Karres novels volume 2
Publisher
Baen Pub. Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
After eliminating the Worm World threat and outwitting a deadly gang of space pirates, Captain Pausert embarks on a mission for the Empress Haile to stop a nanite plague before it can devastate entire worlds.
7) Rama II
Author
Series
Rama series volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1989]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
The best and brightest minds on Earth are assembled to rendezvous with the massive alien spacecraft Rama II in the twenty-third century, and even though they are schooled in everything known about Raman technology and culture, they are still not prepared for the reality.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Ambassador Spock secretly journeys to the planet Romulus at the request of a Romulan commander to help her prevent a catastrophe that could ignite the entire quadrant and becomes enmeshed in the treacherous intrigues of the Romulan empire, while Commander Saavik and Captain Jean-Luc Picard set out to rescue him.
Author
Series
Hitchhiker series volume 6
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In this sixth installment of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, Arthur Dent has finally made it home to Earth, only to discover that it is about to be blown up ... again. What could a pantheon of unemployed gods, everyone's favorite renegade Galactic President, a lovestruck green alien, an irritating computer, and at least one very large slab of cheese have to do with all of this?
10) Spectre
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"The commander of Voyager, one Tom Paris, explains that Captain Kathryn Janeway and half of the original crew are dead, but if that is true, who is the mysterious woman who has kidnapped Kirk back on Earth, pleading with him to assist her against a threat to the entire Federation?"--Jacket
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1992.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
In the spellbinding Arthur C. Clarke tradition, here is an exhilarating adventure into the hearts of both the Universe and mankind . . . By the twenty-third century Earth has already had two encounters with massive, mysterious robotic spacecraft from beyond our solar system--the incontestable proof of an alien technology that far exceeds our own. Now three human cosmonauts are trapped aboard a labyrinthine Raman vessel, where it will take all of...
Author
Series
Rama series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is, incredible, an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and planet-bound scientists alike prepare for mankind's first encounter with alien intelligence. It will kindle...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Struggling with outdated systems and claim-jumping corporate interests in the deeps of the Kuiper Belt, a family on board the cramped mining ship El Cavador spots a rapidly approaching object moving toward the solar system that triggers a catastrophic war.
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