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Series
Honors volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
Zara Cole is recruited into the Honors, an elite team of humans selected by a race of sentient alien ships, to explore the outer reaches of the universe, and begins to feel at home for the first time aboard Nadim, her assigned alien ship.
Author
Series
The FractalVerse volume Book 2
Language
English
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Description
"July 25th, 2234: The crew of the Adamura discovers the Anomaly. On the seemingly uninhabited planet Talos VII: a circular pit, 50 kilometers wide. Its curve not of nature, but design. Now, a small team must land and journey on foot across the surface to learn who built the hole and why. But they all carry the burdens of lives carved out on disparate colonies in the cruel cold of space. For some the mission is the dream of the lifetime, for others...
4) Honor bound
Author
Series
Honors volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Savvy criminal turned skilled Leviathan pilot Zara Cole finds new friends and clashes with bitter enemies in the second book of this action-packed series from New York Times bestselling authors Rachel Caine and Ann Aguirre that's perfect for fans of The 100 and The Fifth Wave. Zara Cole was a thief back on Earth, but she's been recently upgraded to intergalactic fugitive. On the run after a bloody battle in a covert war that she never expected to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who, or what, is out there? In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future, and our own....
6) Cosmic
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Liam has always felt a bit like he's stuck between two worlds. This is primarily because he's a twelve-year-old kid who looks like he's about thirty. Sometimes it's not so bad, like when his new principal mistakes him for a teacher on the first day of school or when he convinces a car dealer to let him take a Porsche out on a test drive. But mostly it's just frustrating, being a kid trapped in an adult world. And so he decides to flip things around....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Three aliens set off to find a new planet for themselves but soon Bork and Gork have forgotten all of their mother's good advice and only Nklxwcyz builds a home safe enough to withstand the Big Bad Robot in this story reminiscent of "The Three Little Pigs.".
9) Seveneves
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015.
Language
English
Description
Five thousand years after a catastrophic event rendered the Earth a ticking time bomb, the progeny of a handful of outer space explorers--seven distinct races now three billion strong--embark on yet another audacious journey: to return to Earth.
10) Alone out here
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When the president's daughter--eighteen-year-old Leigh Chen--ends up on the only ship escaping a dying earth, she and a group of teenagers must grapple with the challenges of what it will take to survive as the last remnants of humanity.
11) Honor lost
Author
Series
Honors volume 3
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Zara Cole may have finally met her match. Lifekiller--a creature that can devour entire planets--is spreading terror throughout the universe, and it seems nothing can stand in the monstrous god-king's way. Reeling from a series of battles, Zara and her wounded band of allies are going to need a strategy before they face Lifekiller again. Zara's street smarts may not be enough when their enemy could be anywhere, destroying civilizations and picking...
12) Shards of earth
Author
Series
Final Architecture trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Language
English
Description
"Idris used to be a war hero--a fighting elite, technologically enhanced not only to be stronger, faster, and near immortal, but to communicate mind-to-mind with Earth's mysterious alien enemies known as the Architects. Then the Architects simply disappeared--and Idris and his kind became obsolete. Now, fifty years later, Idris and his crew have found something strange abandoned in space. Have their enemies returned? And if so, why?"--provided by...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The daughter of two astronauts, Romy Silvers is no stranger to life in space, but she never knew how isolating the universe could be until her parents tragic deaths left her alone on the Infinity, a spaceship speeding away from Earth. Romy tries to make the best of her lonely situation, but with only brief messages from her therapist on Earth to keep her company, she cant help but feel like something is missing. It seems like a dream come true when...
Author
Series
Sentinels of the galaxy volume 1
Publisher
[published by the author]
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"'The answer is no, Lyra,' my mother utters her--I swear--phrase.No means I have to travel with them to another planet--again.No means leaving all my friends fifty years in the past. Thanks, Einstein.Seventeen-year-old Lyra Daniels can't truly blame Einstein or her parents for their impending move across the Milky Way Galaxy. It's all due to the invention of the Q-net, which made traveling the vast distances in space possible--with one big caveat:...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Language
English
Description
"The Berenstain Bears can't wait to visit the Bear Country Space Center, where rockets blast off into outer space! When the tour guide gives Mama, Papa, and the cubs a tour of the Big Bear Space Rocket, he makes it very clear not to touch anything. But when Papa sees a big red button, he just can't help himself. Get ready to blast off!"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
George is heartbroken when his neighbor Annie and her space-scientist father move to Florida, but when Annie sends him a secret message telling him she has been contacted by aliens with a terrible warning, he joins her in a galaxy-wide search for answers. Includes scientific essays on space travel.
17) Governor
Author
Series
Ascent to empire volume 1
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"For more than fifty years, the Terran Republic and the Terran League have been killing one another. The death toll has climbed ever higher, year after year, with no end in sight. But the members of the Five Hundred, the social elite of the Republic's Heart Worlds, don't care. Their star systems are light-years from any threat of attack. Their children are sheltered from the "mandatory service" that falls so heavily on the Fringe Worlds' backs. Their...
19) Chilling effect
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the universe delivering small cargo for even smaller profits. When her sister Mari is kidnapped by The Fridge, a shadowy syndicate which holds people hostage in cryostasis, Eva must undergo a series of unpleasant, dangerous missions to pay the ransom. But Eva may lose her mind before she can raise the money. The ship's hold is full of psychic cats, an amorous fish-faced emperor wants her...
20) Binti
Author
Series
Binti volume 1
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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...