Bryon, Nathan
Summary: Aspiring astronaut Rocket draws her community together to see a rare appearance of the Phoenix Meteor Showers, hoping especially that her big brother, Jamal, will look up from his phone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BRYGreenland, Shannon
Summary: Stranger Things meets The Goonies in this suspenseful yet heartwarming adventure story about a group of friends who set out to find a crashed meteor, but find mystery and danger instead as their close relationships begin to fracture. Annie, Beans, Rocky, and Fynn are the Scouts, best friends who do everything together. It's 1985, and the summer before seventh grade is just beginning. The Scouts...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC GRERobshaw, Brandon
Summary: When a shooting star grants Sam a million wishes (as long as they are logically possible) he thinks that he will be able to make his life better at his new school--but he soon learns that you have to be very careful, because wishes can have unexpected consequences.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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Summary: "Robert Miller must work together with North Korean scientists to find a way to keep the larger comet fragment from hitting Earth. Major Winter joins him as his bodyguard, leaving Jeremy and Anna to fend for themselves at his mansion. Janice has plans of her own up on the Ark, while Dustin and Karina realize that Israel is less hospitable now that the Earth's temperature has returned to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: EPIC Escape, an imprint of EPIC Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MARMartens, J. D.
Summary: "Dustin and Karina struggle to survive in Europe, while Jeremy returns to Houston with renewed vigor to help stop the comet. Meanwhile, the United States Government tries to find out more about a terrorist organization, the Soldiers of God. While Suri recovers from a terrorist attack, Robert struggles to work without his "partner in science." With the impact only months away, will they be able...
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Publisher / Publication Date: EPIC Escape, an imprint of EPIC Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MARLyon, George Ella
Summary: A child relates some of the wondrous tales told by an old man who once found a falling star and stood at the end of a rainbow.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE MYMartens, J. D.
Summary: "Jeremy and Anna encounter many difficulties in the new apocalyptic United States. Dustin and Karina also find themselves returning to their home country as Seed Ambassadors for Global See Vault. Meanwhile, Robert and Major Winter are finding out that it will be much harder to leave North Korea than they had anticipated ... Will civilization rise again after coming to the brink of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: EPIC Escape, an imprint of EPIC Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MARMartens, J. D.
Summary: "After the comet's fracture, the world braces for one of the fragments to land somewhere on the Eurasian Plate. While humanity struggles to survive under these new onerous circumstances, Robert and his team must find a way--with limited resources--to stop the other comet fragments from hitting Earth. Hopefully, the new Vishnu spacecraft captained by Dr. Nia Rhodes will help keep Earth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: EPIC Escape, an imprint of EPIC Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MARGreenland, Shannon
Summary: Stranger Things meets The Goonies in this suspenseful yet heartwarming adventure story about a group of friends who set out to find a crashed meteor ... but find mystery and danger instead as their close relationships begin to fracture. Annie, Beans, Rocky, and Fynn are the Scouts--best friends who do everything together. It's 1985, and the summer before seventh grade is just beginning. The...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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Summary: Phew, it's hot! Under the titan Hyperion's rule, the sun is burning even brighter than normal and scorching everything in northern Greece, including the villagers! The Olympians are forced to play a sizzling "game" of Dodge the Sunbursts as Hyperion hurls giant fireballs that could fry them to pieces! Armed with some clues, Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades set out to figure out why in the world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2013
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Summary: On the eve of a presidential race in which NASA's budget is a pivotal issue, the space agency announces the discovery of an ancient meteorite filled with fossils deep in the Arctic ice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2002
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Summary: When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory-- a victory with profound implications for NASA policy and the impending presidential election. To verify the the find, the White House calls upon intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton. Accompanied by a team of experts, Rachel travels to the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BROBrown, Dan
Summary: On the eve of a presidential race in which NASA's budget is a pivotal issue, the space agency announces the discovery of an ancient meteorite filled with fossils deep in the Arctic ice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FICTION BrownPercy, Benjamin
Summary: "From award-winning author Benjamin Percy comes the second novel in his grippingly original sci-fi series, The Comet Cycle, in which a passing comet has caused irreversible change to the growth of fungi, spawning a dangerous, invasive species in the Pacific Northwest that threatens to control the lives of humans and animals alike"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERButler, M. Christina.
Summary: Woodland friends gather to watch shooting stars and help each other through dangers along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Good Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BUTPolacco, Patricia.
Summary: A quiet rural community is dramatically changed when a meteor crashes down in the front yard of the Gaw family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1987
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Summary: The summer before seventh grade, five best friends sneak out to watch a meteor shower, but soon find themselves on the run from a violent mountain clan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GREKowal, Mary Robinette
Summary: "On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space, and requires a much larger share...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2018
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Summary: The lives of four high school seniors intersect weeks before a meteor is set to pass through Earth's orbit, with a 66.6% chance of striking and destroying all life on the planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WALCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC WALGallo, Tina
Summary: When Olivia hears that there will be a meteor shower, she plans a "falling star" party, but everyone needs to stay awake to enjoy it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2014