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Lexile measure:
580L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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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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Publisher:
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date:
2024
Lexile measure:
AD: Adult Directed 720L
Language:
English
Description:
"A visitor from outer space comes to Stephen’s yard one night. It may look like a Dalmatian, but it certainly doesn’t act like one. At first, Stephen and the visitor get off on the wrong paw. They quibble over kibble, debate sleeping arrangements, and must abandon earth dogs’ approach to bathroom breaks altogether to keep the peace. Is a shared love of bacon a strong enough foundation for this ordinary earth boy and extraordinary out-of-this-world...
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Publisher:
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date:
2018
Lexile measure:
970L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"Maybe you remember when a little robotic spacecraft landed on a far-off planet. On August 6, 2012, the rover Curiosity touched down on the rocky surface of Mars and now she's ready to guide you through her journey firsthand. From idea to creation and beyond, this fact-filled, stylish book introduces readers to Curiosity and her mission: to discover more about the red planet and search for evidence of life"--Dust jacket.
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Publisher:
Blue Rose Publishers
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
These are stories about animals in the park who are living there due to different circumstances. Animals teach us about kindness, love, honesty, and being together with all their differences and sizes. They teach you about helping one another, having fun too, and always being happy. There are morals in the stories after every one of them; these are for children and adults too, as we need to learn from them. Kitty and Rover are the ones who are in...
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Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
As quintessentially British as a plate of fish and chips or a British Bulldog, the boxy, utilitarian Land Rover Defender has become an iconic part of what it is to be British. It is said that for more than half the world's population, the first car they ever saw was a Land Rover Defender. It mirrors many of our national traits, stiff upper-lipped and slightly eccentric. The car has remained relatively unchanged for nearly seven decades and has spawned...
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Publisher:
Quarto Publishing Group USA
Pub. Date:
2010
Language:
English
Description:
Not simple retellings of the tried and true stories of buccaneers on the high seas, this book focuses on pirating tactics of the 1500s through 1800s to give the reader a view of how pirates functioned through history. Readers will follow eighteen of the most famous pirates in detail as they raid major ships and pillage coastal villages. Readers will learn how the pirates approached such invasions and how they managed to elude authorities and sometimes...
Series:
Criterion collection volume 463
Publisher:
Criterion
Pub. Date:
2009
Language:
Italian
Description:
When Nazi officers force an Italian swindler to impersonate a recently-executed underground resistance leader to gain information from fellow prison inmates, his conscience stirs him for the first time.
9. The lioness
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
"A luxurious African safari turns deadly for a Hollywood starlet and her entourage in this riveting historical thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant"--
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Publisher:
Ablaze Publishing
Language:
English
Description:
From Eisner Award winning writer Mark Russell and artist Roberto Meli comes the Eisner-nominated compelling sci-fi Traveling to Mars tells the story of former pet store manager Roy Livingston, the first human to ever set foot on Mars. Roy was chosen for this unlikely mission for one simple reason: he is terminally ill and therefore has no expectation of returning. Roy is joined on his mission to Mars by Leopold and Albert, two Mars rovers equipped...
11. The rover
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Language:
English
Description:
A novel of naval life in Napoleonic France. After forty years of piracy on Eastern seas, Citizen Peyrol returns to his native France, a country now ravaged and scarred by revolution and war. Looking for peace in which to end his days, he withdraws to a safe harbor in a remote farmhouse on Escampobar Peninsula, which looks out to the distant Mediterranean, where the lovely Arlette lives with her aunt and the revolutionary Scevola. But the arrival of...
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English
Description:
"In Boston, as the Golden Age of Piracy comes to a bloody close, Hannah Masury - bound out to service at a waterfront inn since childhood - is ready to take her life into her own hands. When a man is hanged for piracy in the town square and whispers of a treasure in the Caribbean spread, Hannah is forced to flee for her life, disguising herself as a cabin boy in the pitiless crew of the notorious pirate Edward "Ned" Low. To earn the freedom to choose...
14. Olivetti
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Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
Witty typewriter Olivetti and twelve-year-old introvert Ernest embark on a mission to find Ernest's missing mother that takes them across San Francisco.
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
2 stars
Description:
"A painting has been stolen...! When Rami sees a floating girl in the museum, he knows he has seen her somewhere before. Then he realizes: She looks just like the girl in the painting that has gone missing. But how does her appearance connect to the theft? Agatha the turtle knows--she has been watching from the garden. But she can't exactly tell anyone...can she? Will Rami, with the help of his classmate, Veda, be able to solve the mystery? The clues...
16. The Coral Island
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Language:
English
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Adventure and peril abound in a classic tale of shipwreck and survivalRalph, Jack, and Peterkin find themselves the sole survivors of a shipwreck on a deserted coral island in the South Pacific. Although fate has led them to temporary safety, the three marooned boys are forced to carve out a life for themselves from what nature provides. They rapidly learn which fruit to eat, which animals to hunt, and which lagoons are best for bathing. Resourceful...
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Series:
Lexile measure:
560L
Language:
English
Description:
"The Sun never stops working to keep things on Earth running smoothly. (That's why it's been Employee of the Month for 4.5 billion years.) So why does the Sun get to be center of attention? Because it's our solar system's very own star! This funny and factual picture book from Awkward Yeti creator Nick Seluk explains every part of the Sun's big job: keeping our solar system together, giving Earth day and night, keeping us warm, and more. In fact,...
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Pub. Date:
2022
Lexile measure:
650L
Language:
English
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Description:
Flip it! It's 2-books-in-1! Start with a factual fiction story about a friendly rocket named Phoenix who becomes best friends with Pyxi, a space rover. Then, flip the book over for a nonfiction exploration of real-life rockets! Photographs and infographics illuminate fun rocket facts. The Rocket and Rover characters make special appearances throughout the nonfiction side to tie the two books together.
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Pub. Date:
2011
Lexile measure:
690L
Language:
English
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Description:
Twelve-year-old twins Katie and David Bowen evade foreign militants and make their way from Washington, D.C. to their uncle's Vermont home, hoping he can help rescue their parents, who were kidnapped because of their secret invention, Rover.