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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Billionaire Palmer Lloyd is accustomed to getting what he wants--and what he wants for his new museum is the largest meteorite on earth. Unfortunately for Lloyd, it's buried on an inhospitable Chilean island just north of the Ice Limit in the most brutal, unforgiving seas in the world.
On a desolate island off the coast of southern Chile, the largest known meteorite has been found, entombed in the earth for millions of years. In New York, a billionaire...
2) Impact
Author
Series
Wyman Ford novel volume 3
Language
English
Description
Wyman Ford is tapped for a secret expedition to Cambodia ... to locate the source of strangely beautiful gemstones that do not appear to be of this world. While he searches for the origin of these dangerous jewels, a young woman in Maine borrows her father's boat to search the outer islands for the meteorite that lit up the sky in her small town. Meanwhile, a scientist at the National Propulsion Facility discovers an inexplicable source of gamma rays...
3) Sacred stone
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Clive Cussler debuted his new series, The Oregon Files, with the incredible adventure of Golden Buddha. Now he follows that triumph with Sacred Stone, a rollicking new tale featuring the enigmatic captain of The Oregon, Juan Cabrillo. In the remote wastes of Greenland, an ancient artifact possessing catastrophic radioactive power is unearthed. But the astounding find puts the world at risk. Caught between two militant factions bent on wholesale slaughter,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
When a meteorite crashes into a fifth-grade classroom at Lincoln School in Oak Park, Illinois, the genie inside agrees to grant the class a Christmas wish--if they can agree on one within an hour.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
AD 550L
Language
English
Description
Astro, an asteroid that wants nothing more than for his personal outer space to be respected, is hit by a passing satellite and sent on what turns out to be a great adventure from the asteroid belt to Earth. Includes "space facts."
Author
Series
Merlin spiral volume 1
Language
English
Description
"When a meteorite crashes near a small village in fifth-century Britain, it brings with it a mysterious black stone that bewitches anyone who comes in contact with its glow---a power the druids hope to use to destroy King Uthur's kingdom, as well as the new Christian faith. The only person who seems immune is a young, shy, half-blind swordsmith's son named Merlin. As his family, village, and even the young Arthur, are placed in danger, Merlin must...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
"Saturday night at a Little Rock, Arkansas college campus, not much happening, other than the obligatory panty raids and campus cuties in "Frederick's of Hollywood" scanties heating up the hormones of local frat cats on the prowl. That is, until a flaming meteor crashes into a nearby swamp and unleashes a life form so terrifying that it defies description or destruction! The authorities refuse to believe the teens (they never do), who witness a series...
8) Scowler
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a 1981 meteor shower in Iowa, a homicidal maniac escapes from prison and returns to the farm where his nineteen-year-old son, Ry, must summon three childhood toys, including one called Scowler,to protect himself, his eleven-year-old sister, Sarah, and their mother.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
Liberty Johansen is going to change, the way we look at the night sky. Most people see the old constellations, the things they've been told to see. But Liberty sees new patterns, pictures, and possibilities. She's an exception. Some other exceptions: Her dad, who moved out months ago and hasn't talked to her since. Her mom, who's happier since he left, even though everyone thinks she should be sad a lonely. And her sister, who won't go outside their...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Brady and his cousin Quinn love extreme sports, but nothing could prepare them for the aftermath of Brady's close encounter with a meteorite after it crashes into his Black Hills, South Dakota, bedroom.
13) Power up, pups!
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Lexile measure
440L
Language
English
Description
"A meteor has hit Adventure City! What does the PAW Patrol find inside it?" -- Page [4] cover.
14) Evolution
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
It all starts with a meteorite falling to earth near Glen Canyon, Arizona. The next day, biology teacher Dr. Ira Kane and geology teacher Harry Block from Glen Canyon Community College go to investigate. While taking a sample, they discover a slimy blue fluid ozzing from the meteorite. Kane finds myriad single-celled life-forms in the fluid, evolving at an incredible rate, even while he's watching. What seemed like a sure ticket to Sweden for the...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Seven years after her brother's death, Samantha Darko is on the run. She is running from her shattered home, from her bizarre past, and even from herself. When she and her friend Corey become stranded in a desert town, they witness a meteorite crash that fractures time, beginning the countdown to the end of the world. Now Sam must rely on the frightening visions that plague her dreams to overcome her own dark destiny and set time back on course before...
16) Risen
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Disaster unfolds when a meteor strikes a small town, turning the environment uninhabitable and killing everything in the surrounding area. Exobiologist Lauren Stone is called to find answers to the unearthly event. As she begins to uncover the truth, imminent danger awakens and it becomes a race against time to save mankind.