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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 47
Language
English
Description
During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira Navárez finds an alien relic. At first delighted, her elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move. As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact is not at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very limits of what it means to be human. Now Earth and its colonies stand...
Author
Series
Chaos walking volume 3
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions, questioning all they have ever known as they try to step back from the darkness and find the best way to achieve peace.
Author
Series
Chaos walking volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Alternate chapters follow teenagers Todd and Viola, who become separated as the Mayor's oppressive new regime takes power in New Prentisstown, a space colony where residents can hear each other's thoughts.
Author
Series
System divine volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
"This sweeping reimagining of Les Mis erables tells the story of three teens from very different backgrounds who are thrown together amidst the looming threat of revolution on the French planet-colony of Laterre"--
Author
Series
Chaos walking volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.
6) Mars One
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"A teenage boy leaves for Mars as a colonist with the Mars One space program and grapples with what he's leaving behind to do so"--
Author
Series
Goddess in the machine volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Bound for humanity's new colony planet, seventeen-year-old Andra wakes up from a cryogenic sleep 1,000 years later than scheduled, forcing her to navigate an unfamiliar planet where technology is considered magic and its practitioners revered as deities.
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Pellar is an orphan taken in by Masterharper Zist. Though born mute, Pellar is a gifted tracker, and when Zist sets off to take over as harper for Natalon's coal-mining camp, Pellar-along with his fire-lizard, Chitter-joins him on a secret mission of his own: to find out if reported thefts of coal are the work of the Shunned, criminals condemned to a life of wandering and hardship.
9) Dragonheart
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 21
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
The dragons of Pern are dying...and the only person who can save them has been dead for over 400 Turns. This fantasy is written by Anne McCaffrey's son, Todd, heir to the literary world of Pern.
10) The final six
Author
Series
Final six volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Surrounded by strangers all competing for one of the six slots to travel to Jupiter's moon, Europa, Naomi, an Iranian-American science genius, finds a friend in Leo, an Italian championship swimmer, as the training tests their limits.
11) The disasters
Author
Publisher
Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Nax's one-way trip back to Earth is cut short after the school is hijacked by terrorists. Now he and a handful of other space Academy washouts are the only surviving pilots. In order to spread the truth about the attack, Nax and his fellow failures must execute a dangerous heist.--
Author
Series
Shadow saga volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
In a novel of war between humans and aliens, a child warrior from the Battle School, a boy called Bean, becomes the friend, confidant, strategist, and right hand of Ender Wiggin.
14) Freedom's ransom
Author
Series
Catteni volume 4
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
After freeing themselves from the alien Catteni who had enslaved them, Kris Bjornsen, renegade Catteni Zainal, and their comrades on the planet Botany struggle to establish their new role in the universe, seeking to exchange the planet's vast natural resources for Earth's technology as they set out to decide what kind of world they will become. When Kris Bjornsen and her fellow slaves were dumped on an uninhabited planet by the alien Catteni overlords,...
Author
Series
Catteni volume 1
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1995.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
After Earth is conquered by aliens, a shipload of human slaves is exiled to a planet for an experiment in survival. There is a romance between one of the women slaves and an alien nobleman from the conquering race, exiled for killing one of his own. By the author of Lyon's Pride.
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