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21) Hunk's story
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Get to know Hunk in this Level 2 Ready-to-Read based on the Netflix original series, Voltron Legendary Defender from DreamWorks Animation! This story gives readers a closer look into the life of Hunk. Back on Earth, Hunk was a cadet at the Galaxy Garrison, but he had awful motion sickness that got in the way of flight training. After he helped find the Blue Lion, he became a Paladin of Voltron and bonded with the Yellow Lion. Learn all about Hunk's...
22) Shipstar
Author
Series
Bowl of heaven volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Science fiction masters Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape) continue the thrilling adventure of a human expedition to another star system that is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure cupping a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths. And which, tantalizingly, is on a direct path heading toward the same system the human ship is...
Author
Series
Legend (Marie Lu) volume 4
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Eden Wing has been living in his brother's shadow for years. Even though he's a top student at his academy in Ross City, Antarctica, and a brilliant inventor, most people know him only as Daniel Wing's little brother. A decade ago, Daniel was known as Day, the boy from the streets who led a revolution that saved the Republic of America. But Day is no longer the same young man who was once a national hero. These days he'd rather hide out from the world...
25) The long Mars
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Series
Long Earth volume 3
Language
English
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"The third novel in Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter's "Long Earth" series, which Io9 calls "a brilliant science fiction collaboration.""--
26) Cibola burn
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Series
Expanse volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"The gates have opened the way to thousands of habitable planets, and the land rush has begun. Settlers stream out from humanity's home planets in a vast, poorly controlled flood, landing on a new world. Among them, the Rocinante, haunted by the vast, posthuman network of the protomolecule as they investigate what destroyed the great intergalactic society that built the gates and the protomolecule. But Holden and his crew must also contend with the...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: The only thing Rosalind Ling Geraghty loves more than watching NASA launches with her dad is building rockets with him. When he dies unexpectedly, all Ro has left of him is an unfinished model rocket they had been working on together. Benjamin Burns doesn't like science, but he can't get enough of Spacebound, a popular comic book series. When he finds a sketch that suggests that his dad created the comics, he's thrilled. Too...
28) Web of doom
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When Kiriazis traps two battle fleets in her energy webs, Hal Jordan of the Green Lantern Corps must find a way to defeat her and prevent the warring battle fleets from attacking each other--then the Orange Lantern Larfleeze shows up and the fight becomes really complicated.
Author
Series
Girls with sharp sticks volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
In the near future at a girls-only private high school isolated in the Colorado mountains, Mena and her classmates--under the watchful eyes of their Guardian, professors, and analyst--are trained to be beautiful and obedient for their sponsors and investors.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Enae's grandmaman passes away, Enae inherits something entirely unexpected: a diplomatic assignment to track down a fugitive who has been missing for over 200 years. No one actually expects Enae to succeed; it's an empty assignment meant to keep hir occupied. But Enae has never had a true purpose--no one ever expected hir to do more than care for grandmaman--so sie is determined to accomplish this task to the best of her ability. Reet knows...
31) Don't sneeze!
Author
Series
Kid from Planet Z volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"As an alien, Zeke Zander is still confused by the weird things humans do. But he knows humans would also find zeebop behavior pretty strange. So when Zeke catches the flu, he has to hide symptoms like green goo that leaks from his eyes. Will his new human friends understand, especially now that they have a group project for school? Maybe being a little bit different is the only way to fix things with his friends!"--
32) The Moon platoon
Author
Series
Space runners volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
In the year 2085, an elite group of kids, including twelve-year-old Benny, is selected for a life-changing trip to the Moon and end up as Earth's only defense against an alien invasion.
33) One-eyed jacks
Series
Wild cards volume 8
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Something is stirring on Ellis Island, something strange and dangerous enough to subdue even the white-hot tensions between Wild Cards and normal humans. They call themselves the Jumpers: a vicious gang with the power to transport their minds into others' bodies, using them to commit acts of terror and violence, before abandoning them and leaving their victims to face the consequences. The Jumpers cutthroat ambition to control the Wild Card community...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Ender's GameEnder's Shadow, Orson Scott Card told the story of another of those precocious generals, the one they called Bean — the one who became Ender's right hand, his strategist, and his friend. And now Card continues Bean's story, and finally tells a tale long awaited by millions of fans. At last we learn what happened on Earth after the destruction of the Hive Queen's worlds, after humanity no longer had a single enemy to unify the warring...
36) Dune messiah
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Series
Language
English
Description
The epic, multimillion-selling science-fiction series continues! The second Dune installment explores new developments on the planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and strange, threatening environment.Dune Messiah picks up the story of the man known as Muad'Dib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to fruition an ambition of unparalleled scale: the centuries-old scheme to create a superbeing who reigns not in the heavens but among men.But...
37) Triple trouble
Author
Series
Gabby Duran volume 4
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
While the Planetary Treaty Association meets to decide the fate of the entire galaxy, Gabby is assigned to care for three young extraterrestials that hail from three different planets.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"The Alliance woke Captain John "Black Jack" Geary from cryogenic sleep to take command of the fleet in the century-long conflict against the Syndicate Worlds. Now Admiral Geary's victory has earned him the adoration of the people--and the enmity of politicians convinced that a living hero can be a very inconvenient thing. The war may be over, but Geary and his newly christened First Fleet have been ordered back into action to investigate the aliens...
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