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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MARTIAN • Soon to be a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, with a screenplay by Drew Goddard
From the author of The Martian, a lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating...
From the author of The Martian, a lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating...
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize-winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in twenty-four hours. A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots a day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space--not toward the moon or the vast unknown, but around our planet. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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When young Mae Jemison is asked by her teacher what she wants to be when she grows up, African American Mae tells her mostly white classmates that she wants to be an astronaut, a dream that her parents wholeheartedly support.
4) Life on Mars
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Arcturus Betelgeuse Chambers' quest to find life on other planets seems at an end when his parents decide to move to Las Vegas, but while they look for a house he stays with his neighbor, an astronaut who soon becomes a friend.
Author
Publisher
Harper Festival, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Pete the Cat heads to space camp, where he floats in zero gravity, flies to the Moon, and plays an interstellar song for his fellow cat-stronauts.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Houston and his younger brother Robbie dream of becoming astronauts, but when Houston is accepted to the Junior Astronaut Recruitment Program he realizes that Robbie's dream may not be achievable due to his cerebral palsy, so he makes anew plan that shoots for the stars.
Author
Publisher
Mattel Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Join Malibu Barbie and Brooklyn Barbie as they meet Nadine, an astronaut! Nadine shows Malibu and Brooklyn the many ways that astronauts prepare for space travel. Malibu and Brooklyn conduct science experiments, ride in a shuttle motion simulator, try a VR spacewalk, and even eat astronaut food!"--Back cover.
Author
Series
Final six volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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As Naomi and her fellow teen astronauts investigate the fate of their predecessors on the Europa colony, back on a deteriorating Earth, Leo works with a renegade scientist to warn the crew about hostile extraterrestrials.
Leaving Earth behind is hard, but what's ahead, on Europa, could be worse. The International Space Training Camp continues to hide the truth about what happened to the last group of astronauts who attempted a similar colonization...