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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
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Description
A young man from Mars comes to Earth & must learn our strange ways. After his arrival on Earth from his home on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith becomes the founder and pastor of a new religious sect and the sensation he creates teaches Earth some unforgettable lessons, including grokking, watersharing, and love. One of the greatest science fiction novels ever published, Stranger in a Strange Land's original manuscript had 60,000 words cut. Here at last,...
3) Mars
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Photographs and simple text describe the planet Mars, its place in the solar system, what it looks like, and what it is made of.
4) Mars
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book explores Mars' orbit, name origin, physical description, and location in space.
5) Mars
Author
Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Reviews the history of Earth's observation of the red planet since ancient times, explores the results of modern scientific studies carried out by telescope, satellite, and landing probe, and speculates on a future human landing.
7) Mars
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the history, unique features, and exploration of Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A young planetary scientist intimately details the search for life on Mars, tracing our centuries-old obsession with this seemingly desolate planet. Mars was once similar to Earth, but today there are no rivers, no lakes, no oceans. Coated in red dust, the terrain is bewilderingly empty. And yet multiple spacecraft are circling Mars, sweeping over Terra Sabaea, Syrtis Major, the dunes of Elysium, and Mare Sirenum-on the brink, perhaps, of a staggering...
Author
Publisher
Ted Books, Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"It sounds like science fiction, but Stephen Petranek considers it fact: Within twenty years, humans will live on Mars. We'll need to. In this sweeping, provocative book that mixes business, science, and human reporting, Petranek makes the case that living on Mars is an essential back-up plan for humanity and explains in fascinating detail just how it will happen. The race is on. Private companies, driven by iconoclastic entrepreneurs, such as Elon...
10) Mars
Author
Series
Publisher
Cody Koala, an imprint of Pop!
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the planet Mars.
Author
Series
Lords of Creation volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In the parallel world first introduced in S. M. Stirling's The Sky People, aliens terraformed Mars (and Venus) two hundred million years ago, seeding them with life-forms from Earth. Humans didn't suspect this until the twentieth century, but when the first probes landed on our sister worlds, and found life--intelligent life, at that--things changed with a vengeance. By the year 2000, America, Russia, and the other great powers of Earth are all contending...
12) Blue Mars
Author
Series
Mars trilogy volume 3
Language
English
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Description
The red planet is no more. Now green and verdant, Mars has been dramatically altered from a desolate world into one where humans can flourish. The First Hundred settlers are being pulled into a fierce new struggle between the Reds, a group devoted to preserving Mars in its desert state, and the Green “terraformers.” Meanwhile, Earth is in peril. A great flood threatens an already overcrowded and polluted planet. With Mars the last hope for the...
13) Mars
Author
Publisher
Abdo Zoom, a divison of ABDO
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This title will teach readers all about the fourth planet from the sun, Mars! The title will cover important information, like the many fascinating current and planned missions to Mars. This is a Level 3 title and is written specifically for transitional readers. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.--
14) Mars life
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Jamie Waterman discovered the cliff dwelling on Mars, and the fact that an intelligent race lived on the red planet sixty-five million years ago, only to be driven into extinction by the crash of a giant meteor. Now the exploration of Mars is itself under threat of extinction, as the ultraconservative New Morality movement gains control of the U.S. government and cuts off all funding for the Mars program. Meanwhile, Carter Carleton, an anthropologist...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Sixteen million years ago, an asteroid crashing into Mars sent fragments flying into space and, eons later, one was pulled by the Earth's gravity onto the icy wilderness of Antarctica, where a geologist spotted it. In its new home at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, the rock languished on a shelf for nine years. Then, in 1993, a geochemist unmasked the rock as a Martian meteorite. Before long, possible signs of once-living organisms were detected,...
16) Red Mars
Author
Series
Mars trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Chronicles the colonization of Mars in the year 2026. In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of research and cutting-edge science in the first of three novels that will chronicle the colonization of Mars. For eons, sandstorms have swept the barren desolate landscape of the red planet. For centuries, Mars has beckoned to mankind to come and conquer its hostile climate. Now, in the year 2026,...
Author
Publisher
Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From a long-term planning lead for the Mars Exploration Rover Project comes this vivid insider account of some of NASA's most vital and exciting missions to the Red Planet, illustrated with full-color photographs-a wondrous chronicle of unprecedented scientific discovery and the search for evidence of life on Mars"--
18) Near planets
Author
Series
Publisher
Smart Apple Media
Pub. Date
c 2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Maybe you remember when a little robotic spacecraft landed on a far-off planet. On August 6, 2012, the rover Curiosity touched down on the rocky surface of Mars and now she's ready to guide you through her journey firsthand. From idea to creation and beyond, this fact-filled, stylish book introduces readers to Curiosity and her mission: to discover more about the red planet and search for evidence of life"--Dust jacket.