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1) Serenity
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In a universe filled with hearts and minds as cold and dark as the reaches of space, one small Firefly-class starship named Serenity takes its ragtag crew of mercenaries, outlaws, and fugitives in search of a job, any job, that'll earn them enough cash to afford that most elusive commodity-- peace.
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Skippyjon Jones (Picture books) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Skippyjon Jones, the Siamese cat that thinks he is a Chihuahua dog, has an adventure on Mars.
4) Voyagers
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With the future of the human race at stake, a group of young men and women, bred for intelligence and obedience, embark on an expedition to colonize a distant planet. But when they uncover disturbing secrets about the mission, they defy their training and begin to explore their most primitive natures. As life on the ship descends into chaos, they are consumed by fear, lust, and the insatiable hunger for power.
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Voyagers (Random House) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Eight boys and girls compete for a spot on the space voyage that will search for a source to solve Earth's energy crisis.
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Vorkosigan saga volume 6
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The popular adventures of Miles Vorkosigan, a clever and outlandish science fiction hero for the modern era, continue in these three tales. In ?The Mountains of Mourning,? Miles is dispatched to a back-country region of Barrayar, where he must act as detective, judge, and executioner in a controversial murder case. In ?Labyrinth,? Miles adopts his alternate persona as Dendarii Mercenary Admiral Naismith for an undercover mission to rescue an important...
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Voyagers (Random House) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
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Dash, Carly, Gabriel, and Piper visit a planet made up of molten lava and run entirely by robots where they must find the second element of the Source that will save the Earth.
9) Interstellar
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With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history; traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
"It's a mass audience picture that's intelligent as well as epic, with a sophisticated script that's as interested in emotional moments as immersive visuals."--Los Angeles Times
"A knockout one minute, a punch-drunk crazy film the next, Interstellar...
10) Alien: Covenant
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The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world. When they uncover a threat beyond their imagination, they must attempt a harrowing escape.
11) Ad astra
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Army Corps engineer and astronaut Roy McBride is searching for answers in the depths of space. Twenty years ago, Roy's father went in search of proof of the existence of extraterrestrial life on Neptune during a one-way mission. The mission was designated officially as a failure. Roy searches the solar system for the truth about both his father's mission and a recent mystery that has unfolded that threatens Earth. What Roy doesn't know is that this...
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Galactic hot dogs volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
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Cosmoe the Earth-boy and his space-adventuring partners, Big Humphree and Princess Dagger, return--just in time to save the galaxy...Crostini's Cosmic Carnival is a strange, monster-filled space train that travels the galaxy. When Cosmoe catches the attention of the carnival's ringmaster, the Neon Wiener, hot-dog-selling spaceship, becomes part of the show. Cosmoe is now known as Cosmoe the Monster-Tamer--and he's a hit across the galaxy! Just one...
14) Home
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A lovable misfit from another planet meets a girl named Tip. The two unlikely friends embark on the greatest journey of all time.
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Galactic hot dogs volume 3
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"The past and future collide for Cosmoe, Big Humphree, and Princess Dagger! It's like déjà vu all over again (and again)-Cosmoe's been taken hostage by space pirate Rani, the same pirate who seized him years earlier, beginning his life in space. As memories of Cosmoe's and Humphree's first days on the Neon Wiener unfold, the danger right now is big-time bad. Just when Cosmoe was getting the hang of this hero thing, he loses the one part of him that...
16) Battle for Terra
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When the last surviving Earthlings invade her planet to make it their own, a young Terrian named Mala helps an injured human pilot, forming an unlikely friendship and a way to show their leaders that war is not the answer.
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Space-time (Jeffrey Brown) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
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Jide and Petra are just two normal kids until they are selected to leave Earth and join their new alien classmates on an intergalactic research mission to Mars. Too bad Jide has no idea how she ended up in the program, seeing as the closest she wants to get to space is being a sci-fi writer. Petra, on the other hand, is the brains of the mission, but his helicopter parents make it clear he hasn't left their gravitational pull behind quite yet.
19) Heavy metal
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"Based on the fantastical illustrated magazine Heavy Metal, producer Ivan Reitman enlists the help of some of Hollywood's animation masters to create the otherworldly tale of a glowing green orb from outer space that spreads destruction throughout the galaxy. Only when encountered by its one true enemy, to whom it is inexplicably drawn, will goodness prevail throughout the universe."--Container cover art.
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At the Dawn of Man, a group of hominids encounters a mysterious black monolith that is alien to their surroundings. A hominid discovers the first weapon, using a bone to kill prey. The bone is tossed in the air and it's a 21st century spacecraft hovering over the Earth, skipping ahead millions of years in technological development only to imply that man hasn't advanced very far at all psychologically. U.S. scientist Dr. Heywood Floyd travels to the...
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