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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:
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date:
2018
Lexile measure:
970L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"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:
AU Press
Pub. Date:
2008
Language:
English
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From 1919 to 1970, Olaf Hanson was a trapper, fur trader, prospector, game guardian, fisherman, and road blasting expert in northeastern Saskatchewan. He told his life story to popular Saskatchewan author A.L. Karras, who wrote this historical memoir in the 1980's. In an uncompromising, straightforward style, Karras and Hanson reveal the geography, wildlife, and natural history of the region as well as the business and social interactions between...
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Publisher:
Blue Rose Publishers
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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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
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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...
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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.
10. The lioness
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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"--
12. The rover
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English
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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...
13. The Star Rover
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English
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Born into poverty in San Francisco in 1876, Jack London is one of the most well-known and beloved of all American authors, as well as one of the first Americans to become world famous and wealthy from his literary career. London lived a colorful and adventurous life as a young man, working as a sailor and then living as a hobo, all before starting high school. First published in 1915 "The Star Rover" also published as "The Jacket" is the tale of Darrell...
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Lexile measure:
560L
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English
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"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,...
15. Explore rovers
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Lexile measure:
690L
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English
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"Rovers traverse parts of space that people can't easily get to. Readers will love learning about these space machines, from their history to their current missions and where they might go in the future"--
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Pub. Date:
2022
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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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.
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Publisher:
Fortress Press
Language:
English
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From her childhood on an Iowa farm, Lori Erickson grew up to travel the world as a writer specializing in holy sites--journeys that led her on an ever-deepening spiritual quest. In Holy Rover, she weaves her personal narrative with descriptions of a dozen pilgrimages.
19. The Mars Rovers
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Pub. Date:
2016
Lexile measure:
620L
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English
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"Compelling narrative nonfiction text presents the story of the Mars rovers, featuring the intrigue and excitement behind the missions. Additional features to aid comprehension include a table of contents, fact-filled captions and callouts, infographics, a glossary, a listing of source notes, sources for further research, and an introduction to the author." --