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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In infectiously hyperbolic prose that's liberally interspersed with quotes and accompanied by sheaves of period photos, Thimmesh retraces the course of the space mission that landed an actual man, on the actual Moon. It's an oft-told tale, but the author tells it from the point of view not of astronauts or general observers, but of some of the 17,000 behind-the-scenes workers at Kennedy Space Center, the 7500 Grumman employees who built the lunar...
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Language
English
Description
"Flight attendant Skye Armstrong has heard the voice of warning before, and as she's returning home from London, she recognizes the feeling of dread that accompanies her sixth sense. Walking from the airport terminal to her car, she pauses in the middle of the road. Her hesitation gives a Good Samaritan the split second he needs to pull her out of the path of a speeding car, saving her life. But her misfortunes are just beginning. When she arrives...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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On an epic voyage far beyond the Republic, the Jedi will confront their most extraordinary enemy—and test the limits of honor and sacrifice against their most devastating challenge.
The Clone Wars have yet to erupt when Jedi Master Jorus C’baoth petitions the Senate for support of a singularly ambitious undertaking: the dream of Outbound Flight. Six Jedi Masters, twelve Jedi Knights, and fifty thousand men, women, and children...
The Clone Wars have yet to erupt when Jedi Master Jorus C’baoth petitions the Senate for support of a singularly ambitious undertaking: the dream of Outbound Flight. Six Jedi Masters, twelve Jedi Knights, and fifty thousand men, women, and children...
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Series
Long Earth volume 4
Language
English
Description
Lobsang's pursuit of a human life, Joshua's search for his father and the adaptation efforts of "the Next" post-humans are challenged by a voracious alien race that would conquer and colonize the Long Earth.
"2045-2059. Human society continues to evolve on Datum Earth, its battered and weary origin planet, as the spread of humanity progresses throughout the many Earths beyond. Lobsang, now an elderly and complex AI, suffers a breakdown, and disguised...
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Language
English
Description
"A claustrophobic thriller set over twenty hours on one airplane flight, with the heart-stopping tension of The Last Flight and the wrenching emotional intensity of Room, Hostage takes us on board the inaugural nonstop flight from London to Sydney. Mina is trying to focus on her job as a flight attendant, not the problems of her five-year-old daughter back home, or the fissures in her marriage. But the plane has barely taken off when Mina receives...
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Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The riveting inside story of three heroic astronauts who took on the challenge of mankind’s historic first mission to the Moon, from the bestselling author of Shadow Divers.
“Robert Kurson tells the tale of Apollo 8 with novelistic detail and immediacy.”—Andy Weir, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Martian and Artemis
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“Robert Kurson tells the tale of Apollo 8 with novelistic detail and immediacy.”—Andy Weir, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Martian and Artemis
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Author
Series
Flight school volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Little Penguin, who has the "soul of an eagle," enrolls in flight school.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
137 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie present information about the universe, including our solar system, and briefly describe the history of space travel and of the science of astronomy.
11) Hello, airplane!
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read text follow an airplane as it says good-bye to the ground and hello to the sky, where it flies over a town, mountains, clouds, and people.
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This beautifully illustrated, oversized guide to the people and technology of the moon landing by award-winning author/illustrator John Rocco is a must-have for space fans, classrooms, and tech geeks"--
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 52
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack Johnson finds a book that tells how humans can learn to fly and hopes to use his knowledge to show-up his classmate Wilson Schlame, but when the news gets out that Jack can fly, things start to get out of hand and he questions whether flying is really the way to go.
14) The hive
Author
Series
Second Formic War volume 2
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling authors Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to the prequels to Ender's Game following The Swarm with The Hive, the second audiobook in the Second Formic War.
Card and Johnston continue the fast-paced hard science fiction history of the Formic Wars—the alien invasions of Earth's Solar System that ultimately led to Ender Wiggin's total victory in Ender's Game.
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15) A web of air
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Mayda, a post-apocalyptic city off the coast of Portugal, a brilliant young engineer and a mysterious recluse race to build a flying machine, unaware that powerful enemies will kill to possess--or destroy--their new technology.
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[24] p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Scratch, Lofty, and Sniff are three dinosaurs determined to fly, but jump and flap as they might, their plan for flight fails, until someone comes along who is very good at flying.
Author
Series
Cat the cat (Easy readers) volume 2
Publisher
Balzer & Bray
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An exuberant cat cheers on her friends as they demonstrate whether or not they can fly.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Guest Room, a powerful story about the ways an entire life can change in one night: A flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man - and no idea what happened. Cassandra Bowden is no stranger to hungover mornings. She's a binge drinker, her job with the airline making it easy to find adventure, and the occasional blackouts seem to be inevitable. She lives with them,...
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