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Author
Series
Tripods trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Young Will Parker and his companions make a perilous journey toward an outpost of freedom where they hope to escape from the ruling Tripods, who capture mature human beings and make them docile, obedient servants. Long ago, the Tripods -- huge, three-legged machines -- descended upon Earth and took control. Now people unquestioningly accept the Tripods' power. They have no control over their thoughts or their lives. But for a brief time in each person's...
Author
Series
Daniel X volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Daniel X continues to hunt for intergalactic aliens, he and his friends go to England searching for Berta, an outlaw who takes the form of fire and who killed Daniels's parents when he was two years old.
3) Boom!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Jim and Charlie overhear two of their teachers talking in a secret language and the two friends set out to solve the mystery, they do not expect the dire consequences of their actions.
Author
Publisher
A Yearling Book
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When Jim and Charlie overhear two of their teachers talking in a secret language and the two friends set out to solve the mystery, they do not expect the dire consequences of their actions.
6) Space race
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When he learns that he and his father must soon leave Earth, eleven-year-old Thomas Derwent is upset, but a terrible accident that separates the two of them makes Thomas's situation much worse.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
As Daniel X continues to hunt for intergalactic aliens, he and his friends go to England searching for Beta, an outlaw who takes the form of fire and who killed Daniel's parents when he was two years old.
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Ishmael Jones and his partner Penny have been despatched to assist a group of scientists who are investigating a mysterious black hole which has appeared on a Somerset hillside. Could it really be a doorway to another dimension, an opening into another world? When one of the scientists disappears into the hole, with fatal consequences, Ishmael must prove whether it was an accident or murder. But with no clues, no witnesses and no apparent motive,...
10) Attack the block
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[c2011]
Language
English
Description
A gang of tough inner-city kids try to defend their turf against an invasion of savage alien creatures, which turns a South London apartment complex into an extraterrestrial warzone.
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Four years ago, two girls went looking for monsters on Bodmin Moor. Only one came back... Lee thought she'd lost Mal, but now she's miraculously returned. But what happened that day on the moors? And where has she been all this time? Mal's reappearance hasn't gone unnoticed by MI5 officers either, and Lee isn't the only one with questions. Julian Sabreur is investigating an attack on top physicist Kay Amal Khan. This leads Julian to clash with agents...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Spurred on by his best friend, twelve-year-old Thomas uncovers two major family secrets: that he was adopted, and that his perfect-seeming family is part of an other-worldly organization.