Collins, A. L. (Ai Lynn)
Summary: Twelve-year-old Belle Song and her family moved to Mars because they were offered good jobs, only to find that the jobs have disappeared--her father, Yun, is unwilling to return to the worn-out Earth, so, to the horror of his city-raised daughter, he buys a farm in the "Wild West" area of Mars, and Belle does her best to adapt to a life which is filled with difficulties and danger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED COLHaddix, Margaret Peterson.
Summary: Time-travelers Jonah and Katherine are summoned to help another missing child from history, this time Virginia Dare from the Roanoke Colony, but their journey is sabotaged and goes dangerously awry, leaving them in the wrong time period. Includes author's note about the history of Roanoke Colony and Virginia Dare.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: LP YA FIC HADHaddix, Margaret Peterson.
Summary: Time-travelers Jonah and Katherine are summoned to help another missing child from history, this time Virginia Dare from the Roanoke Colony, but their journey is sabotaged and goes dangerously awry, leaving them in the wrong time period. Includes author's note about the history of Roanoke Colony and Virginia Dare.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HADBarrett, Judi
Summary: When astronauts land on Mars, their first discovery is a substance not unlike pie filling and Kate and Henry are eager to go taste some, but Grandpa, who may have some inside information, discourages them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Barrett 2013Brown, Peter
Summary: After being captured by the Recons and returned to civilization for reprogramming, Roz is sent to Hilltop Farm where she befriends her owner's family and animals, but pines for her son, Brightbill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction BrownWells, Dan
Summary: "With the Help of Samm and Heron, Kira sets out on a desperate search for clues as to who she is, while Marcus and the remaining human population gear up for war with the Paritals"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WELWells, Dan
Summary: "In a post-apocalyptic eastern seaboard ravaged by disease and war with a manmade race of people called Partials, the chance at a future rests in the hands of Kira Walker, a sixteen-year-old medic in training"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2012
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Summary: "When a talented mechanic in 1818 Geneva brings his brother back from the dead using clockwork parts, the citizens of Geneva think they may have inspired the recently published novel Frankenstein"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC LEESwiedler, Christopher
Summary: Michael Prasad knows he shouldn't go out on the Mars surface alone. It's dangerous. His parents have forbidden it. And the anxiety he feels almost every time he puts on a spacesuit makes it nearly impossible for him to leave the safety of the colony. But when his best friend, Lilith, suggests they sneak out one night, he can't resist the chance to prove everyone--including himself--wrong. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SWIAsimov, Isaac
Summary: The Foundation, a colony of psychologists, battles for supreme power in the galaxy, while also struggling to preserve all the accumulated knowledge of humankind in The Foundation, a sanctuary created by Hari Seldon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2008
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Summary: When George and Annie are selected as junior astronauts, it is a dream come true until they learn that strange things are happening on Earth as well as in the skies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HAWVonnegut, Kurt.
Summary: The author questions the condition of modern man in this novel depicting a science fiction writer's struggle to find peace and sanity in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2006
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Summary: Forced to abandon Princess Elizabeth when Mary ascends the English throne, Rose sews elaborate gowns for Mary's upcoming coronation before violently escalating attacks on Protestants compel her to escape into her own time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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Summary: Two space expeditions--one American, the other Euro-Chinese--race to be the first on Mars and first to return to Earth. Both teams reach the planet, but with disastrous results. The problem now is not who will return to Earth, but if any of them will return at all. By the author of Cosm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENPreston, Douglas J.
Summary: Wyman Ford and a team of scientists must figure out how to destroy an alien doomsday weapon aimed at Earth, and the only tools at their disposal are a handful of weaponless machines--the Mars Orbiter, a lander and a few satellites--not much to work with, especially since they only have 60 hours to save the planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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Summary: "Bell has spent his whole life - all eleven years of it - on Mars. But he's still just a regular kid - he loves cats, any kind of cake, and is curious about the secrets the adults in the US colony are keeping. Like, why they don't have contact with anyoneon the other Mars colonies? Why are they so isolated? When a virus breaks out and the grown-ups all fall ill, Bell and the other children are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in JT Science Fiction, Call number: JT SF Holm 2021Bear, Greg
Summary: Casseia Majumdar dreams of an independent Mars and finds herself involved in the planet's revolutionary war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 1994
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BEABennett, Jeffrey O.
Summary: A dog named Max flies into space as a special member of a team studying Mars. Includes educational sidebars about the planet on every page, and a hands-on activity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Big Kid Science 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Bennett 2006Emerson, Kevin
Summary: While waiting to leave Mars before it burns up just like the Earth before it, Liam and his friend Phoebe discover some facts about time and space and realize that the human race is just one of the races trying to survive in space.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC EMEPike, Christopher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: T. Doherty Associates 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PIKStirling, S. M.
Summary: American archaeologist Jeremy Wainman journeys to Mars to explore the long-dead cities of the Deep Beyond, joined by Martian mercenary Teyud Zha-Zhalt, who is linked to the mysterious city where the last aging descendant of the Tollamune emperors resides.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2008