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Expanse volume 1
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When Captain Jim Holden's ice miner stumbles across a derelict, abandoned ship, he uncovers a secret that threatens to throw the entire system into war. Attacked by a stealth ship belonging to the Mars fleet, Holden must find a way to uncover the motives behind the attack, stop a war and find the truth behind a vast conspiracy that threatens the entire human race.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
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Mars was a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in waves... Each wave different, and each wave stronger. The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America's most beloved authors. In a much-celebrated literary career that has spanned six decades, he has produced an astonishing body of work: unforgettable novels, including Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes;...
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Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 1
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Rosemary Harper doesn't expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. While the patched-up ship has seen better days, it offers a bed, a chance to explore the galaxy, and some distance from her past. The crew is diverse: Sissix, the exotic reptilian pilot; chatty engineers Kizzy and Jenks who keep the ship running, and Ashby, the captain. They are offered a job tunneling wormholes through space to a distant planet. It's a lucrative job,...
5) Meru
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"In a future where human life has been restricted to Earth, while posthuman descendants called alloys freely explore the galaxy, Jayanthi, the adopted human child alloys, and her alloy pilot Vaha are sent to test the habitability of an Earthlike planet called Meru, an unoccupied new world, and the future of human-alloy relations."--Provided by publisher.
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Hitchhiker series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
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Earthling Arthur Dent, Ford Perfect, and Zaphod Beeblebrox, the ex-president of the galaxy, are all aboard a space ship on a search for answers about life, the universe, and the perfect place to eat in space.
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Geronimo Stilton. Spacemice volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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When Space mouse Geronimo Stiltonix helps an alien spacecraft get back to its home planet, their queen becomes enchanted by Geronimo, and tries to force him to marry her and stay on the planet Flurkon forever.
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Hitchhiker series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 9
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In this second of galactic adventures of Arthur Dent, he is transported from a prehistoric Earth through time to a crickett match at Lords Crickett Ground, two days before the earth is to be demolished by the Vogens.
9) Obsidio
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Illuminae files volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
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Kady, Ezra, Hanna, Nik reluctantly return to Kerenza with other refugees, while Asha has joined Kerenza's ragtag underground resistance, and when she reconnects with her old flame Rhys, the two find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict.
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Hitchhiker series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 7
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Further adventures of Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, and the all new voidoid gang upon returning to Earth after eight years of crazed wanderings around the galaxy in this science fiction spoof which continues "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe."
13) Cakes in space
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Not-so-impossible tales volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
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"When ten-year-old Astra and her family move to a new planet, she must save the spaceship and its crew from man-eating cakes, aliens, and more"--
15) Defy the storm
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"One year after the fall of Starlight Beacon, the galaxy is in chaos. An anarchistic group known as the Nihil has taken over a section of space now known as the Occlusion Zone. Jedi Knight Vernestra Rwoh and scientist Avon Starros team up in an attempt to find a way through the Nihil Stormwall to save those on the other side. But what are the Nihil's real plans? And what of the nameless creatures that can destroy the Jedi Order? The battle has just...
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Starbound trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
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"Two star-crossed lovers must fight for survival when they crash land on a seemingly uninhabited planet"--
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Geronimo Stilton. Spacemice volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Discovering a planet that bafflingly appears and disappears, Spacemouse Geronimo Siltonix lands his MouseStar 1 ship to investigate and encounters a race of mysterious, secret-keeping aliens.
18) Honor bound
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Honors volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
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After defeat in battle, Zara Cole and her crew flee to Sliver, an outpost inhabited by alien criminals, but when Zara discovers dark secrets about Sliver, she has to decide if she is going to stand and fight the evil trying to annihilate them.
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Honors volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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A savvy young criminal with antisocial behavior is recruited to attend the Honors space program and joins a team on a sentient spaceship destined for the far reaches of the galaxy only to discover dangerous secrets hidden among the stars.
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"We've come a long way in the forty years since the Shongairi attacked Earth, killed half its people, and then were driven away by an alliance of humans with the other sentient bipeds who inhabit our planet. But it also transpires that the Shongairi expedition that nearly destroyed our home planet ... wasn't an official one. That, indeed, its commander may have been acting as an unwitting cats-paw for the Founders, the ancient alliance of very old,...
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