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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 23
Description
In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who, or what, is out there? In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future, and our own....
Author
Series
Binky adventures volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Binky is a space cat - at least in his own mind. He's really a house cat who has never left the family "space station." Unlike other house cats, Binky has a mission: to blast off into outer space (outside), explore unknown places (the backyard) and battle aliens (bugs). Binky must undergo rigorous training so he can repel the alien attacks that threaten his humans. As he builds his spaceship, he must be extremely careful with his blueprints - the...
4) Space race
Author
Description
Zip, Zat, Zing, and Ray have a fun race in space. Includes related phonics and activities.
5) Binti
Author
Series
Binti volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
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Description
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs. Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter...
6) Larklight
Author
Series
Larklight volume 1
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 13
Description
In an alternate Victorian England, young Arthur and his sister Myrtle, residents of Larklight, a floating house in one of Her Majesty's outer space territories, uncover a spidery plot to destroy the solar system.
Author
Series
Binky adventures volume 2
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
A loveable and delusional house cat named Binky, who, while in hot pursuit of an alien wanderer (a bug), falls out of the space station porthole (the bathroom window), and finds himself in outer space (outside the house).
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
In this outer space adaptation of the fairy tale in rhyme, Cinderella dreams of becoming a spaceship mechanic.Once upon a planetoid,amid her tools and sprockets,a girl named Cinderella dreamedof fixing fancy rockets.With a little help from her fairy godrobot, Cinderella is going to the ball. But when the prince's ship has mechanical trouble, someone will have to zoom to the rescue! Readers will thank their lucky stars for this irrepressible fairy...
9) Binti: home
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Series
Binti volume 2
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Description
It's been a year since Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza University. A year since Binti was declared a hero for uniting two warring planets. A year since she found friendship in the unlikeliest of places. And now she must return home to her people, with her friend Okwu by her side, to face her family and face her elders. But Okwu will be the first of his race to set foot on Earth in over a hundred years, and the first ever to come in peace. After generations...
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Series
Honors volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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Description
Zara Cole is recruited into the Honors, an elite team of humans selected by a race of sentient alien ships, to explore the outer reaches of the universe, and begins to feel at home for the first time aboard Nadim, her assigned alien ship.
12) Boom! Zoom!
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Description
Ray blasts off into space, where he crash lands on a strange planet and must escape from an alien being. Includes related phonics activities.
13) Shards of earth
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Series
Final Architecture trilogy volume 1
Description
"Idris used to be a war hero--a fighting elite, technologically enhanced not only to be stronger, faster, and near immortal, but to communicate mind-to-mind with Earth's mysterious alien enemies known as the Architects. Then the Architects simply disappeared--and Idris and his kind became obsolete. Now, fifty years later, Idris and his crew have found something strange abandoned in space. Have their enemies returned? And if so, why?"--provided by...
14) Space explorers
Series
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Mrs. Frizzle's class goes on a far-out journey all the way to outer space to become real space explorers and learn all about the solar system.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
The daughter of two astronauts, Romy Silvers is no stranger to life in space, but she never knew how isolating the universe could be until her parents tragic deaths left her alone on the Infinity, a spaceship speeding away from Earth. Romy tries to make the best of her lonely situation, but with only brief messages from her therapist on Earth to keep her company, she cant help but feel like something is missing. It seems like a dream come true when...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Three aliens set off to find a new planet for themselves but soon Bork and Gork have forgotten all of their mother's good advice and only Nklxwcyz builds a home safe enough to withstand the Big Bad Robot in this story reminiscent of "The Three Little Pigs.".
17) Governor
Author
Series
Ascent to empire volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"For more than fifty years, the Terran Republic and the Terran League have been killing one another. The death toll has climbed ever higher, year after year, with no end in sight. But the members of the Five Hundred, the social elite of the Republic's Heart Worlds, don't care. Their star systems are light-years from any threat of attack. Their children are sheltered from the "mandatory service" that falls so heavily on the Fringe Worlds' backs. Their...
18) Honor lost
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Series
Honors volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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Description
Zara Cole may have finally met her match. Lifekiller--a creature that can devour entire planets--is spreading terror throughout the universe, and it seems nothing can stand in the monstrous god-king's way. Reeling from a series of battles, Zara and her wounded band of allies are going to need a strategy before they face Lifekiller again. Zara's street smarts may not be enough when their enemy could be anywhere, destroying civilizations and picking...
19) Honor bound
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Series
Honors volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Formats
Description
Savvy criminal turned skilled Leviathan pilot Zara Cole finds new friends and clashes with bitter enemies in the second book of this action-packed series from New York Times bestselling authors Rachel Caine and Ann Aguirre that's perfect for fans of The 100 and The Fifth Wave. Zara Cole was a thief back on Earth, but she's been recently upgraded to intergalactic fugitive. On the run after a bloody battle in a covert war that she never expected to...
Author
Series
George Greenby books volume 1
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Follows the adventures of a young boy and his neighbor friend as they travel through a computer portal into outer space, where they explore such mysteries as black holes and the origins of the universe, while trying to evade an evil scientist.