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Publisher:
Doubleday
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Description:
"Heliopause is a real place - the very outer edge of our solar system where the sun's solar winds are no longer strong enough to keep debris and intrusions from bombarding our system. It isthe farthest edge of our protected boundary (it was recently crossed by Voyager), and the line beyond which space experts look for extraterrestrial presences. Weaving together the story of Jim, a down-on-his-luck absentee father in the Osage territory of Oklahoma,...
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Series:
Tristan Strong volume 1
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 680L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Seventh grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in. Tristan is dreading the month he's going to spend on his grandparents' farm in Alabama, where he's being sent to heal from the tragedy. But on his first night there, a sticky creature shows up in his bedroom and steals Eddie's notebook. Tristan...
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The talented team of Robert Venditti and Olivia Stephens brings to glorious full color the novel that best-selling author Jason Reynolds called "A brilliant action adventure rooted in African American lore." Seventh grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in. Tristan is dreading the month...
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Series:
Arkship Trilogy volume 1
Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
Peter F. Hamilton presents Book 1 in the Arkship Trilogy series.
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Publisher:
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date:
[2019]
Lexile measure:
730L
Language:
English
Description:
The true story of how Mexican-American scientist Mario Molina helped solve the ozone crisis of the 1980s and went on to become a Nobel laureate and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His inspiring story gives hope in the fight against global warming. Full color.
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Publisher:
Caliber Comics
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
A considerable amount of time has now passed. We find that Dan and Joey have found a sizable defended city and decided to stay. Both of them soon establish themselves in the city as Dan takes on the role of a car mechanic and Joey becomes a student. This city is trying to reestablish civilization. Jenny and Marla are Joey and Dan's girlfriends, respectively. The city is attempting to bring a sense of normalcy to the crazed and deadly world.
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale. a Cengage Company
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
"Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend Eddie when they were in a bus accident together. But on his first night at his grandparents' farm, a sticky creature shows up in his bedroom and steals Eddie's notebook. When Tristan chases after, he finds himself in the middle of a battle that has left black American folk heroes John Henry and Brer Rabbit exhausted. In order to get back home, Tristan and these...
13. Holes in the sky
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Publisher:
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date:
©2018
Lexile measure:
730L
Language:
English
Description:
Soon after her beloved grandmother's death, Trisha's family moves to a diverse California neighborhood where she meets Stewart and his grandmother, Miss Eula, who brings people together to help a grieving neighbor.
14. Holes in the Sky
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Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
Who owns what is traditionally considered sacred? Can the Catholic Church legally conspire with the federal government to steal the most sacrosanct of Native American holy places? Holes in the Sky, the second in the series Zeb Hanks: Small Town Sheriff with Big Time Troubles, explores these questions in a clash of cultures mixed with mysterious deaths. In the middle of the night a priest sits in a rocking chair on a dip in the highway at the foot...
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Publisher:
Globe Pequot
Pub. Date:
2010
Language:
English
Description:
Knack Night Sky is an ode to the solar system in its awe-inspiring complexity. This book shows you ways to find stars, constellations, and other celestial objects, photos, comets, and meteor showers from the past and comets and meteor showers to come.
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Publisher:
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date:
[2019]
Language:
Spanish
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"Una historia real sobre un científico contemporáneo que salvó la capa de ozono y el planeta, evitando un desastre en el medioambiente. Mario Molina es un científico mexicoamericano y un héroe de nuestros días que ayudó a resolver la crisis de la capa de ozono de la década de 1980. Se crió en la Ciudad de México y desde niño sintió curiosidad por los mundos ocultos...
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Lexile measure:
1160L
Language:
English
Description:
The New York Times-bestselling classic set amid the mountains and streams of early twentieth-century Montana, "as beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway" (Chicago Tribune). When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs Through It and Other Stories to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, "it has trees in it." Today, the title novella is recognized as one of the great American...
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Series:
Crescent City volume 3
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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"Bryce Quinlan never expected to see a world other than Midgard, but now that she has, all she wants is to get back. Everything she loves is in Midgard: her family, her friends, her mate. Stranded in a strange new world, she's going to need all her wits about her to get home again. And that's no easy feat when she has no idea who to trust. Hunt Athalar has found himself in some deep holes in his life, but this one might be the deepest of all. After...
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Stink volume 5
Lexile measure:
530L
Language:
English
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When Stink discovers that Pluto has been downgraded from a planet to a dwarf planet, he launches a campaign in his classroom to restore its status to that of a full-fledged member of the solar system.