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61) Shards of earth
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Idris, an enhanced human, and his crew, 50 years after the destruction of the earth by alien aggressors, the Architects, discover something strange in space that many people would kill to obtain--and could herald the return of the enemy.
64) Luciana
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Aspiring astronaut Luciana heads to Space Camp. But her leadership in the team robot challenge goes awry, and she learns that if she ever wants to get to Mars, she must be the kind of person her team can depend on.
65) Sponge in space!
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SpongeBob and Patrick decide to go to Outer space, but when their rocket returns them back to Earth, they assume everyone in Bikini Bottom is an alien.
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Maxion Belmont has lived on his own on the small space station Azura for two years after his beloved father died, using his hydrodriver to repair starships and pursue his engineering passion, but also being torn between that passion and his father's old string instrument and the music he can make on it. When Mr. Hames, the stranger-turned-substitute-teacher, shows up in a foreign starship raving about mysterious alien star whales, Max and the rest...
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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.
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"Luciana Vega wants to be the first kid on Mars. But first she's got to be a good team player here on Earth."--Page [4] of cover.
In her second novel, Luciana is off to youth astronaut training camp! She hopes to be chosen to dive to an underwater habitat where real astronauts train for life in space. But when Luci accuses her diving partner of sabotage, no one believes her and her chances of making the diving team sink fast. Things hit rock bottom...
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"That quokka may be cute, but does it want a hug? The quokka says "No!" In Don't Hug That Quokka!, young readers get a lighthearted and friendly introduction to the concept of consent, learning that even the most adorable creatures might not want a hug--unless they say so! Consent is a really important topic for parents to introduce with young children, but it can be tricky to do so in a way that's clear without being frightening. This book is funny...
71) 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...
75) Chasing Bigfoot
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"Chooch Tenkiller is not thrilled to be spending some of his summer with his Cherokee story-telling uncles and cousin Janees at a convention in North Carolina. While there, the uncles want to visit Judaculla Rock, a place of spiritual significance to the Cherokee people. Little does Chooch know that he has his own connection to the rock--a connection that could put him in mortal danger."--Provided by publisher.
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Lizzie hates her new school, so she decides to run away and go back to find her old friends. In the woods, she discovers a strange blue box called the TARDIS, a spaceship that can travel through time and space, and meets a woman named the Doctor. Lizzie learns that the TARDIS is broken, and the Doctor needs Lizzie's help to fix it. They travel to the time of the dinosaurs, ancient Egypt, and an alien planet named Planet Plorp. The aliens who live...
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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport,...
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Ten-year-old Starr has decided that living in a space station is cool, but now that it is time to take a family of space tourists on a trip to the moon she has to cope with her bossy 13-year-old brother, Apollo, who claims it is dangerous for girls--but when Apollo and the boys he is escorting disappear it is up to Starr to figure out where they are.
79) The Orpheus plot
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"Lucas Adebayo grew up on a small mining ship in the asteroid belt, but wants to join the Navy and become the best pilot in the galaxy. The Navy has never accepted a Belter cadet before, but Lucas's skills secure him a place on the training ship, the Orpheus. Life in the Navy couldn't be more different than life in the Belt, and Lucas struggles to find his place. As a Belter, he's an outsider among his peers; as a Navy cadet, he doesn't quite fit...
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"In her third story, Luciana and her family are headed to Chile for winter break. Luci can't wait to see her cousins - but the reunion doesn't go as planned, and Luci feels like an outsider in her own family. Just then she receives a surprise invite from Claire Jacobs, her frenemy from astronaut training camp, to join her at the Mars habitat in the desert and watch NASA scientists at work. It's an offer too good to refuse, so Luci decides to leave...