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Billy is looking forward to the frog dissections at school, but his disrespectful behavior toward his teacher and the frogs earns him detention. So he sneaks back at night planning revenge, only to find that the dissected frogs have come back to life, multiplied, and are out to get their revenge on him. Written in graphic-novel format.
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When intergalactic evil strikes, heroic astronauts, aliens, and robots spring into action! This ultimate guide shows readers how to create bizarre extraterrestrial life-forms, design amazing robots, and deck their characters out in space gear. Readers will draw inspiration from Earth s insects and strange animals as they bring their own alien species to life. They ll build diverse planets and mind-blowing star fields for their characters to conquer...
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Tragic pasts, secret identities, compelling personalities the best character designs are built on these essential factors! This ultimate guide shows readers how to create costumes that reflect their characters powers, how to design a team of characters with interesting group dynamics, and how backstory can contribute to a character s flaws and strengths. Using classic designs, poses, and powers as references, readers will create their own unique characters....
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"Deep, deep down, at the very bottom of the ocean, lies a secret world. Through lyrical narration, this spare-text STEM picture book takes readers on a journey to a place very few humans have ever been--the Mariana Trench. The imagined voyage debunks scary myths about this mysterious place with surprising and beautiful truths about life at Earth's deepest point. Deep, Deep Down shows a vibrant world far below, and teaches readers how interconnected...
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Jenna is supposed to be doing her chores, but she's secretly making slime instead. Her dads took away her normal slime ingredients, so she found a new recipe online. The instructions are a little weird, but the gooey blob she's created looks really cool. Until it starts growing and moving . . . and sucking things into its squishy mass! Written in graphic-novel format.
10) Haunted planet
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As part of a space mission to discover a new home, eleven-year-old twins Evie and Emery have spent years in space. When they find an empty planet, the twins sneak to the surface, but on what is supposed to be a planet devoid of intelligent life, Evie starts noticing strange occurrences and wonders if they really are alone on the planet.
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On the red, dusty moon of Rodmark, life is only possible within the dome walls of Lysande, because the air outside is poisonous, and there are monsters, or at least that is what all the citizens have been told; but thirteen-year-old Flossy has seen lights and people moving outside and she is determined to find out the truth of what is beyond the Dome--even if it means she can never go back.
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Twelve-year-old Amelia and dog-boy Greeny stow away on board a ship heading to a junk field to gather valuable parts. One day, an alarm on the ship blares out that intruders have invaded the ship, and one by one the crew's life signals begin going out. Amelia and Greeny must find a way to escape the alien attack or forever risk floating in the debris field.
13) Alien lockdown
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Fifth-grader Yin is really excited about her class trip to the International Space Station Three and the station museum's newest exhibit, the Star Cabbage, an alien plant discovered floating in space and considered harmless; but the station is on lockdown, the crew is not in evidence, and something large and growling is stalking the halls--but Yin is determined to investigate and find out whether the plant has mutated, or whether the real culprit...
14) End user
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The science station sits on asteroid 2035 RAXQ, which is about to pass through a radiation belt; 12-year old twins Raz and Kiley, as well as the other scientists on the station plan to take refuge deep inside the asteroid where they will be safe--but immediately they start seeing ghostly figures, until it becomes clear that they may be safe from the radiation, but not from an artificial intelligence that wants to kill them.
15) Vampire invasion
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Something has woken Lon, a boy on the Starlight spaceship, even though the rest of the crew remain in stasis, but what he finds is the stuff of nightmares--Pandora, a human child modified to interface with computers and a tool of the race of vampires called Lamprey, has attached tubes to all the other humans and is draining their blood to feed her masters, and Lon and the ship's computer must find a way to save them all before it is too late.
17) Book of storms
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Pablo, twelve, and his younger brother Alex find a book on extreme weather, only to discover the book does not just discribe weather, it creates it--and only the Librarian can control the book's power.
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When Aaron Kingston's BMX bike is badly damaged during a stunt, a local bike shop owner offers to fix the bike for free if Aaron will represent the shop at a local race. But when the race starts Aaron and his rival Castel find themselves transported to another dimension, in a race that nobody is supposed to survive, and they must cooperate because if they die, this terrifying dimension will take over the earth. Written in graphic-novel format.