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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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What kind of robot can help scientists explore terrain on Mars, collect data about space, and photograph the planets? Space robots! These robots can do jobs far away, where it is too dangerous for humans to travel.
2) Robonauts
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Engaging images accompany information about robonauts. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--
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2023.
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English
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"A new blockbuster science fiction adventure from world-wide phenomenon and #1 New York Times bestseller Christopher Paolini, set in the world of New York Times and USA Today bestseller To Sleep in a Sea of Stars. July 25th, 2234: The crew of the Adamura discovers the Anomaly. On the seemingly uninhabited planet Talos VII:a circular pit, 50 kilometers wide. Its curve not of nature, but design. Now, a small team must land and journey on foot across...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Presents information about recent developments in space exploration, detailing explorations of Saturn and Pluto, the effort to land a vehicle on a comet, and the development of spacecraft that can make the journey to Mars.
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English
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Buzz Aldrin speaks out as a vital advocate for the continuing quest to push the boundaries of the universe as we know it. As a pioneering astronaut who first set foot on the moon during mankind's first landing of Apollo 11-- and as an aerospace engineer who designed an orbital rendezvous technique critical to future planetary landings -- Aldrin has a vision, and in this book he plots out the path he proposes, taking humans to Mars by 2035.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Built to explore Mars, Resilience begins to develop human-like feelings as he learns from the NASA scientists who assembled him, and as he blasts off and explores Mars, Resilience must overcome different obstacles as he explores the red planet.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Presents information about the Hubble and Kepler space telescopes, detailing how the Hubble was sent into space, what it revealed about the origin and structure of the universe, and what the Kepler revealed about the planets of other stars.
10) Rockets
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Engaging images accompany information about rockets. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--
11) Space flights
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Presents the wonders of space flight from the past, present, and far into the future.
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English
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The Hubble Space Telescope is now at the apex of its imaging capabilities yet until the publication of Hubble's Universe, no other popular book had presented the latest pictures taken by the new Wide Field Camera 3. For his most recent book, Terence Dickinson selected a breathtaking portfolio of Hubble pictures from a library of more than 700,000 images. Thanks to Dickinson's familiarity with Hubble's history and discoveries and his access to top...
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Honors volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Zara Cole is recruited into the Honors, an elite team of humans selected by a race of sentient alien ships, to explore the outer reaches of the universe, and begins to feel at home for the first time aboard Nadim, her assigned alien ship.
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Indranan war volume 1
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English
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Hail Bristol has made a name for herself in the galaxy for everything except what she was born to do: rule the Indranan Empire. When she is dragged back to her home planet to take her rightful place as the only remaining heir, she finds that trading her ship for a palace is her most dangerous move yet.
15) Robots in space
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Simple text and full-color photographs describe eight different space robots and the work these robots do."--Provided by publisher.
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"As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine-leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr. Cavor was, after all, the outcome of the purest accident. It might have been any one. I fell into these things at a time when I thought myself removed from the slightest possibility of disturbing experiences. I had gone to Lympne because I...
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"Hundreds of deep space missions since the 1960s have captured stunning photographs of the cosmos. Many of these scientific images can also be classified as art. This book highlights more than 100 examples, revealing the splendor of our universe. This book is a gallery of human accomplishment that celebrates the scientists and engineers who push civilization--including the ways that we produce and experience art--beyond the physical limits of our...
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"Hostilities between factions are threatening to explode into a shooting war on the moon of Yakutsk, and the two major galactic military powers, Central Corps and PSI, have sent ships to defuse the situation. But when a strange artifact is discovered, events are set in motion that threaten the entire colonized galaxy--including former Central Corps Commander Elena Shaw. Now an engineer on a commercial shipping vessel, Elena finds herself drawn into...
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