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Adventure and adventurers Fiction Adventure stories Artificial intelligence Extraterrestrial beings Extraterrestrial beings Fiction Extraterrestrial beings Juvenile fiction Humorous stories Science fiction Science fiction in science education Science fiction in science education Juvenile literatureZoboi, Ibi Aanu
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler. Acclaimed novelist Ibi Zoboi illuminates the young life of the visionary storyteller Octavia E. Butler in poems and prose. Born into the Space Race, the Red Scare, and the dawning Civil Rights Movement, Butler expereinced an American childhood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BUTBorgert-Spaniol, Megan
Summary: Readers will examine the history of time travel, Project Pegasus, famous time travel literature, time slippage, Einstein's theory of relativity and more before deciding for themselves! Table of contents, fun facts, a glossary, and an index are included.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2018
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 530.11 SPABourne, Brianna
Summary: Flint Larson has known when he was going to die since he was eight because of the Half-Life Institute, and he is spending the last forty-one days quietly with his divorced parents; September is a vibrant aspiring scientist who wants to cure "half-life", especially since she has met Flint--but their time together is getting short.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BOUEnderle, Dotti
Summary: Malcolm, Dandy, and Grandma Eunice go to SciCon to meet the Ghost Stalkers--but when a ghost crashes the convention the Stalkers' equipment is useless, and it is up to the boys to show their heroes how it is really done.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ENDCollins, 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 COLBitt, Nate
Summary: Best friends Travis and Journey love going to Arcade World, a mysterious arcade filled with video games no one has ever heard of, and with new friend Devonte they must figure out how to handle the giant robot invasion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2022
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Summary: After a concussion that effects her balance, memory, and other abilities, twelve-year-old Kat goes to I-Can, the "Miracle Clinic in the Swamp," where she joins forces with other patients to expose a plot that endangers them all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MESBorgert-Spaniol, Megan
Summary: UFOs: Are Alien Aircraft Overhead? Readers will examine the history of UFOs, Roswell, alien abduction, Area 51 and more before deciding for themselves! Table of contents, fun facts, a glossary, and an index are included. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2018
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 001.942 SPABorgert-Spaniol, Megan
Summary: Cryptozoology: Could Unexplained Creatures Be Real? Readers will examine the history of Cryptozoology, Bigfoot, Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster and more before deciding for themselves! Table of contents, fun facts, a glossary, and an index are included. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2018
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 001.944 SPAThomas, Rachael L.
Summary: Explores famous accounts of extraordinary encounters with aliens. Includes scientific studies into unbelievable events.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2018
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 001.942 THOMarciano, Johnny
Summary: While his evil pet cat Klawde, an exiled emperor from across the universe, faces a treasonous plot to overthrow him, Raj has to survive an even more perilous group: the students and parents of the Elba Middle School newspaper club.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021
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Summary: "Readers will examine the history of ESP, mind reading, remote viewing, future seers and more before deciding for themselves!" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 133.8 SPASingh, Komal
Summary: Ara loves big numbers - BIG numbers. She wants to program her droid DeeDee <Beep!> to count all the stars, but she's not sure how. In this upbeat adventure, Ara visits Innovation Plex to enlist the help of four tech trailblazers - inspiring real-life engineers of Google. With her new friends, Ara discovers an algorithm for success that can solve BIG problems and be lots of fun: courage,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Two Books 2018
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Summary: Readers will examine the history of artificial intelligence, leading scientists in the field, the Three Laws of robots, the singularity, Sophia the robot, and more before deciding for themselves!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 006.3 FELDahl, Michael
Summary: When Zak, a human teenager from Earth Base Zeta, and his teenage Furling friend, Erro, stowed away on a military spacecraft they thought they were going to see a space battle--instead they ended up on the prison planet, Alcatraz, and now they are being pursued by the prison's killer drones through a jungle which may be just as deadly as any drone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DAHDahl, Michael
Summary: Captured by the sadistic guards of the prison planet Alcatraz, the two teenage friends, Zak, and the alien Erro, are placed in bottomless cages hovering over a sea of poison acid and if they fall asleep or lose their grip they will fall to their deaths--and Zak will need all of his ingenuity if he is going to figure out a way to save himself and his friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DAHDahl, Michael
Summary: Pursued by a killer cyborg tank and surrounded by snakes that spit fire, teenage friends Zak and Erro the furling from the planet Quom, must figure out a way to survive if they are ever to escape from the prison planet called Alcatraz--a situation they are in because they stowed away on a space ship they did not know was headed here.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DAHHawking, Lucy
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 HAWO'Ryan, Ray
Summary: Zack and his father are invited to join the Nebulon Navigators as they set out to return a lost baby pterosaur to the Prehistoric Planet, where Zack sees animals and plants he had only read about in books.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2013
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC ORYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ORYSmith-Llera, Danielle
Summary: In the distant future, when alien Hunters, masters of camouflage, terrorize humans, Rio and his friend Ani are separated from their parents while trying to leave Humanhattan for the government Fortress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LLEDekker, Ted
Summary: What if you could find a way to enter another reality full of wild and life changing adventure? And what if every time you fell asleep you woke up in that other reality? Welcome to the world of Theo Dunnery, a twelve year-old boy who feels alone and full of fear when he stumbles on an ancient book that draws him into another world. In that world, he learns he must complete a quest to find the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Series DekkerShusterman, Neal
Summary: A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: Humanity has conquered all those things and has even conquered death. Now Scythes are the only ones who can end life, and they are commanded to do so in order to keep the size of the population under control. Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe, a role that neither wants. These teens must master the "art" of taking life,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHUO'Ryan, Ray.
Summary: On the planet Nebulon in 2120, Zack joins his school's Explorer's Club and visits Juno, a planet made of crystals, but he is less than thrilled when he is partnered with the class bully.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2013
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC ORYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ORYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ORYO'Ryan, Ray
Summary: Although Halloween is not celebrated on the planet Nebulon, Zach, a boy from Earth, discovers that ghosts may be real.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2015