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This title introduces readers to some of the greatest space pioneers of all time, including Yuri Gagarin, Mae Jemison, and the Apollo 11 crew, Collin, Armstrong, and Aldrin. Amazing historical photographs from NASA's archives complete this book. This title is at a Level 3 and is written specifically for transitional readers. Aligned to Common Core standards & correlated to state standards.
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This unique title looks at how outer space has been depicted on the big screen over the years. Readers will learn about some of the most famous movies, both fact and fiction. Cool Hollywood photos complete the book. This title is at a Level 3 and is written specifically for transitional readers. Aligned to Common Core standards & correlated to state standards.
3) Stellar
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Meet Stellar - an urban crime-fighter who tackles injustice with swift and decisive action, carrying the burden of freeing society from oppression, fighting for the weak and wounded.
She is brave.
She is beautiful.
She is just a comic book character…or at least she was.
Macy Davis is an athletic high school student with an eye for Patrick Newell, the young artist who created Stellar. When Macy's best friend, Keri Cartwright, discovers Patrick's...
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Step #1: Dress up as your crush's superhero to impress him. Check.
Step #2: Fight off the bullies who have been plaguing the school. Check.
Step #3: Get drawn into a plot to bring back the city's notorious villain and - wait, what?
Yup. That just happened. And sometimes Macy Davis still can't believe it.
On Macy's list of things to do, taking on a new crime syndicate wasn't at the top. Patrolling the city as Stellar, balancing crime-fighting with...
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Stellar volume 1
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Stellar was taken as a child and transformed into the ultimate weapon, one that would end an intergalactic war. She succeeded… at everything except finding peace.
Reduced to working as a bounty hunter, she scours the worlds she's broken, searching for redemption. But there are other weapons loose in the galaxy, and some just can't leave the war behind them.
JOSEPH KEATINGE (SHUTTER) and legendary artist BRET BLEVINS (New Mutants, Sleepwalker)...
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"This book summarizes the history of NASA [the National Aeronautics and Space Administration], from its beginnings to its accomplishments, to what it plans for the future. Historical photographs from NASA's archives, a glossary, and an index are included"--OCLC.
7) Poof! a bot!
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Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
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2018.
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IL: LG - BL: 0.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Illustrations and simple text relate how Zip, the unlucky alien magician, zaps a bot and tells it what to do, but the bot does not listen. Includes note to parents, introduction to the books vocabulary, and reading comprehension questions.
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This title introduces the United States' newest military branch, the US Space Force! Readers will learn how the United States plans to protect the nation and the world from space. Amazing photographs from the US military complete the book. This title is at a Level 3 and is written specifically for transitional readers. Aligned to Common Core standards & correlated to state standards. Dash! is an imprint of Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO.
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Armed with alien technology and a complete refit, Henrich Absen captains Conquest on a voyage to take back what humanity has lost.Along the way he must confront a new form of life as well as his own demons in this shocking episode of the Plague Wars/Stellar Conquest saga.
11) Hidden Instinct
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Yadeel has been teaching for the last six years as far away from home as she can get without coming back. She gets fired and abducted two weeks from the end of her contract and wakes in a cell. Someone somewhere on W'lyn is looking to take her apart and use her for medical purposes. She did not volunteer for any of it. She uses her talent for instinct to escape and is on a cliff edge when a Guardian plucks her from the stone and brings her to safety....
12) The Odd Planet
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Something lurks in the crust of a mysterious planet.An interstellar mining crew of five cognioids onboard a sentient ship journey across the galaxy with a mission to obtain resources. Instead, part of the team ends up trapped in a planet, encountering something that humankind had almost given up searching for. Content warning: Contains mild language and mentions of suicide
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From Hugo Award finalist and bestselling author David VanDyke.When an enormous and potent alien ship appears in the colony system of Gliese 370, EarthFleet's Marines must investigate. What they find within will change the course of humanity's future yet again, as they face Desolator. The risks are high and so is the price in blood - and the payoff: new technology far ahead of their own, which may provide the key to fight the alien Meme Empire.
14) Sacred Souls
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War is on the horizon.
Verity is still reeling from the bombshell her father dropped on her and the heavy loss of her close friend. Knox may now be in custody, but she knows it's only a matter of time before he tries something else.
Knox would be happy to wait for Verity to come to him, but with Eiz'm intent on violently colonizing Earth, he needs to convince the humans to trust him so they can all survive. Can he and Verity put aside their differences...
15) Class Zero
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Growing up in the shadow of one of Terra's champions was a comfortable place to be. Padana was the third child of the Empress Amanda Tyrell of the Haldis Imperium, and she was a very requested bride. Being a class zero like her mother, Padana has nothing to offer the next generation. Any child she bears will breed true to the father. This attracts a certain type of suitor who has every interest in her position as princess and none as her descendant...
16) SpaceX
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This title introduces the American aerospace company, SpaceX, what it has accomplished and what it plans to do in the future! Cool photos complete the book. This title is at a Level 3 and is written specifically for transitional readers. Aligned to Common Core standards & correlated to state standards. Dash! is an imprint of Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO.
17) Alien Conquest
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Earth and her solar system are under continuous attack by an empire of a thousand worlds. The enemy's living ships spread inexorably from star to star, reproducing along the way. The only thing standing in their way are the men and women of EarthFleet and their Fleet Marine brothers- and sisters-in-arms.But soon, EarthFleet will launch its own counterattack, a desperate bid to conquer an enemy star system and turn the tide of war. Leading the assault...
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When the crew of Earth Fleet's most powerful dreadnought Conquest is sent on a mission forty light years from Earth, none of them expect to return. But to find a home and keep humanity safe from hostile aliens, they must fight to seize a new world, initiating Earth Fleet's first conquest of another star system.
Starship Conquest (formerly First Conquest) is Book 1 of the Plague Wars: Stellar Conquest series, which carries the Plague Wars series forward...
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From bestselling author David VanDyke.
After barely fending off the insectoid Scourge, Admiral Absen frantically prepares for another attack while dealing with politics and treachery from within, even as Specter pursues his own hidden agenda. Can Earth Fleet save humanity once more, and will a bold counterstrike by an elite force of AI-equipped ships buy time, or merely invite disaster?
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From Hugo Award finalist and bestselling author David VanDyke.Poised to reconquer humanity's home, Captain Absen and Conquest are confronted with a new enemy that upsets the balance of power and changes everything EarthFleet expected.Their struggle to free Earth becomes instead a desperate battle for sheer survival as they contemplate the unthinkable: total annihilation.