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41) The Grays
Author
Language
English
Description
After the decades-long manipulation of human bloodlines in a small Kentucky town by a group of aliens, terrified nine-year-old Conner struggles to understand what he was bred to be.
42) Hellhole
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
On a colonized planet called Hellhole, defeated and exiled rebel General Tiber Adolphus continues his honorable opposition to the political scheming and selfish machinations of the Crown Jewel worlds and grandmotherly Diadem Michella Duchenet. Adolphus and his companions work in secret to undermine the royal space travel monopoly and form a coalition of Deep Zone planets.
43) Old man's war
Author
Series
Old man's war novels volume 1
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Enlisting in the army on his seventy-fifth birthday, John Perry joins an interstellar war between Earth and alien enemies who would stake claims on the few existing inhabitable planets, unaware that the conflict involves much more than he understands.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
So far the Foundation was safe. But there was a hidden Second Foundation to protect the first. The Mule has yet to find it, but he was getting closer all the time. The men of the Foundation sought it, too, to escape from Mule's mind control. Only Arkady, a 14 year-old girl seemed to have the answer, or did she ...?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Ten years have passed on Tines World, where Ravna Bergnsdot and a number of human children ended up after a disaster that nearly obliterated humankind throughout the galaxy. Ravna and the pack animals for which the planet is named have survived a war, and Ravna has saved more than one hundred children who were in cold-sleep aboard the vessel that brought them. While there is peace among the Tines, there are those among them--and among the humans--who...
47) Hunters of Dune
Author
Series
Dune volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
A group of refugees escapes on a ship into the uncharted reaches of the galaxy, seeking safety with the assistance of Paul Muad'Dib and Lady Jessica, revived with the help of genetic technology, while avoiding the diabolical traps of the Enemy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker embark on a mission to uncover the wearabouts of the evil Sith Lord, Darth Sidious, only to become trapped in a labyrinthine web of lies, betrayal, and intrigue.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The final book in C.S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which includes Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra, That Hideous Strength concludes the adventures of the matchless Dr. Ransom. The dark forces that were repulsed in Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra are massed for an assault on the planet Earth itself. Word is on the wind that the mighty wizard Merlin has come back to the land of the living after many centuries, holding the key to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
"The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury--a collection of tales that breathe and move, animated by sharp, intaken breath and flexing muscle. Here are eighteen startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin--visions as keen as the tattooist's needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body. The images, ideas, sounds and scents that abound in this phantasmagoric sideshow are provocative and powerful:...
51) Dragon's fire
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
When the last firestone mine explodes, Tenim contrives to turn this tragedy to his own advantage. Only Pellar, Halla and Cristov can stop him, and secure a future for the Dragonriders.
52) Dragon's kin
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Beginning with the classic Dragonrider of Pern, Anne McCaffrey has created a complex, endlessly fascinating world uniting humans and great telepathic dragons. Millions of devoted readers have soared on the glittering wings of Anne's imagination, following book by book the evolution of one of science fiction's most beloved and honored series. Now, for the first time, Anne has invited another writer to join her in the skies of Pern, a writer with an...
53) Halo: Cryptum
Author
Series
Forerunner saga volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
100,000 years ago, the galaxy was populated by a great variety of beings.But one species--eons beyond all others in both technology and knowledge--achieved dominance.They ruled in peace but met opposition with quick and brutal effectiveness. They were the Forerunners--the keepers of the Mantle, the next stage of life in the Universe's Living Time.And then they vanished.This is their story. Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting is a young rebellious Forerunner....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
"This series narrates the fall of a great galactic empire and the efforts of the Foundations to combat the barbarism that follows." "Hari Seldon possess the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire, Foundation."
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
American archaeologist Jeremy Wainman journeys to Mars to explore the long-dead cities of the Deep Beyond, joined by Martian mercenary Teyud Zha-Zhalt, who is linked to the mysterious city where the last aging descendant of the Tollamune emperors resides.
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 4
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
All seems well on Pern until a mysterious ailment strikes killing myriads of holders, craftsmen, and dragonriders. Pern is left in mortal danger with no one to rise to char the prarasitic Thread. The dragonriders of Pern are in danger from a mutated strain of influenza.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Follows Anakin Skywalker as he struggles with his duty as a Jedi Knight and his role as the secret husband of Senator Padme Amidala, and chronicles the creation of Darth Vader and the birth of Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia Organa.
58) Dark age
Author
Series
Red rising saga volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 43
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
For a decade Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt color-coded Society. Now, outlawed by the very Republic he founded, he wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still salvage the dream of Eo. But as he leaves death and destruction in his wake, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will another legend rise to take his place? Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile, has returned to the Core. Determined to bring peace back to mankind...
59) A call to duty
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Growing up, Travis Uriah Long yearned for order and discipline in his life...two things his neglectful mother couldn't or wouldn't provide. So when Travis enlists in the Royal Manticoran Navy, he thought he'd finally found the structure he'd always wanted so desperately. But life in the RMN isn't exactly as expected. Boot camp is rough; his first ship assignment lax and disorderly; and with the Star Kingdom of Manticore still recovering from a devastating...
60) Life on Mars
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 470L
Language
English
Description
"A young astronaut is trying to find life on Mars, but he's made a very big oversight"--