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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
The veteran of four space flights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few have. Now, he takes us inside a sphere utterly inimical to human life. He describes navigating the extreme challenge of long-term space flight, the devastating effects on the body, and the necessary isolation that path entails.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The year is 2072. Soon volcanic eruption will trigger catastrophic devastation, and the only way out is up. While the world's leaders, scientists, and engineers oversee the frantic production of a space fleet meant to save humankind, their children are brought in for a weekend of touring the Lazarus, a high-tech prototype spaceship. But when the apocalypse arrives months ahead of schedule, First Daughter Leigh Chen and a handful of teens from the...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
During a visit to a space museum, Fly Guy and Buzz learn all about planets, space crafts, and space suits.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets. Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
An account of the previously unheralded but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program; describes how they were segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws in spite of their groundbreaking successes.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 710 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After answering a distress signal from the U.S.S. Enterprise, the U.S.S. Discovery welcomes aboard Captain Christopher Pike and begins a new mission to investigate the meaning behind seven mysterious red signals. Michael Burnham grapples with her past growing up on Vulcan with her foster parents and brother Spock.
8) Moonhorse
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Just as Daddy dozes off, a winged moonhorse lifts a child across the sky, pulling the moon across the heavens, where they have wondrous adventures until it is time to return home to Daddy and bed.
10) Mouse in space!
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
107 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When an evil professor begins threatening New Mouse City with terrible inventions, Geronimo Stilton is enlisted by local authorities to embark on a top-secret mission to outer space to thwart a nefarious plot.
12) Elsewhere
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Since his wife left them, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, but when a local eccentric entrusts Jeffy with hiding a strange device that allows people to jump between parallel planes, he and his daughter must outwit a man determined to obtain the device and use its grand potential for profound evil or the place that they call home may never be safe again.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The gripping story of one scientist in outer space, another who watches over him, the family left behind, and the lengths people will go to protect the people and planet they love Scientist Alex Welch-Peters has believed for twenty years that his super-algae can reverse the effects of climate change. His obsession with his research has jeopardized his marriage, his relationships with his kids, and his own professional future. When Sensus, the colossal...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 295 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 32 cm
Language
English
Description
Offers photographs from the author's year spent aboard the International Space Station, documenting life on the space station as well as images of space, sky, and, especially, the Earth, along with his commentaries giving the images context.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
447 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Interdependency--humanity's interstellar empire--is on the verge of collapse. The extra-dimensional conduit that makes travel between the stars possible is disappearing, leaving entire systems and human civilizations stranded. Emperox Grayland II of the Interdependency is ready to take desperate measures to help ensure the survival of billions. But arrayed before her are those who believe the collapse of the Flow is a myth--or at the very least...
Author
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Pub
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the adventures of Mike Foale, an American astronaut on the Russian space station, Mir, during an eventful flight when Mir was badly damaged in a series of accidents.
18) Tomorrowland
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bound by a shared destiny, former boy-genius Frank, jaded by disillusionment, and Casey, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity, embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space known only as "Tomorrowland". What they must do there changes the world-and them-forever.
19) Space
Author
Publisher
Random House Childrens Pub (Lib)
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
20) Peppa in space
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm + 1 sheet of stickers
Language
English
Description
Peppa Pig goes to a museum with her family where she takes a pretend trip to outer space and the moon.