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Series
Akiko novels volume 8
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
Fifth-grader Akiko renews her acquaintance with her friends from the planet Smoo when they whisk her away to the Zarga Baffa Training Camp, where she must deal with mud, misery, and a training master who is out to get her.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Description
"When an experimental shuttlecraft fails, Captain Christopher Pike suspects a mechanical malfunction--only to discover the very principles on which Starfleet bases its technology have simply stopped functioning. He and his crewmates are forced to abandon ship in a dangerous maneuver that scatters their party across the strangest new world they've ever encountered"--
8083) Outer space bedtime race
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Aliens from all planets race to complete their quirky bedtime routines"--
8084) Maximum Ride : Vol. 4
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009-
Formats
Description
"Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride knows what it's like to soar above the world. She and all the members of her 'flock'-- Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel-- are just like ordinary kids, except they have wings and can fly! It may seem like a dream come true to some, but for the flock it's more like a living nightmare when the mysterious lab known as the 'School' turns up and kidnaps their youngest member. Now it's up to Max to organize a rescue, but...
8085) District 9
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Twenty years ago, aliens from another planet made contact with Earth. Now, the refugee camp they are forced to live in has deteriorated into a slum-like ghetto. When field operative Wikus van der Merwe is put in charge of evicting the aliens, he contracts a strange virus that changes his DNA to match that of the refugees. As his body begins to mutate, he becomes a hunted man, and the aliens' only hope for freedom.
8086) Showdown at the fair
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Follows Burryaga the Wookie Padawan and his fellow Jedi as they save the day from their mysterious enemies, the Nihil.
Author
Series
Rebalancing the cosmos volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Eklatros is a peaceful planet, untouched by war for thousands of years. Long after the back-to-back conflicts known as the War for Equality and the Dark War, humans have become soft. Their history has become myth and magic that was once abundant is fading away. Now, Eklatros faces its gravest threat yet from an alien horde known as the Gnusar. The planets only hope for survival rests in a mysterious elvish woman, simply known as Ànifa. Without...
8089) Zahrah the Windseeker
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Description
In the Ooni Kingdom, children born dada-with vines growing in their hair-are rumored to have special powers. Zahrah Tsami doesn't know anything about that. She feels normal. Others think she's different-they fear her. Only Dari, her best friend, isn't afraid of her. But then something begins to happen-something that definitely marks Zahrah as different-and the only person she can tell is Dari. He pushes her to investigate, edging them both closer...
8090) The Skywalker saga
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"This beautifully illustrated treasury celebrates the stories that make up the greatest saga of all time. New York Times Best-Selling Author, Delilah Dawson, retells Episodes I-VIII through Anakin, Luke, Leia, and Rey's points of view. Exquisitely bound, with artwork by Brian Rood, this special collection is the perfect gift for Star Wars fans young and old"-- Provided by publisher.
8091) Zone one: a novel
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Description
Overview: In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuilding civilization under orders from the provisional government based in Buffalo. Their top mission: the resettlement of Manhattan. Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island...
Author
Series
Jedi quest volume 9
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker struggle to keep the members of the Galactic Senate safe when they are threatened by sinister forces.
8093) The next together
Author
Series
Next together volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Katherine and Matthew are reborn generation after generation to find each other, only to be devastatingly ripped apart. But why?"--
Author
Series
Article 5 trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ember Miller has perfected the art of keeping a low profile in a future society in which Moral Statutes have replaced the Bill of Rights and offenses carry stiff penalties, but when Chase, the only boy she has ever loved, arrests her rebellious mother, Ember must take action.
8095) Invasion of the insects
Author
Series
Data Set volume 6
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"The town of Newtonburg has been invaded by all sorts of creepy-crawlies from mosquitoes to bees to ants and more! What's worse is that they are all mysteriously swarming toward Dr. Bunsen's house when the kids get shrunk down to the size of insects"--
Author
Series
Dust Lands volume 1
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
In a distant future, eighteen-year-old Lugh is kidnapped, and while his twin sister Saba and nine-year-old Emmi are trailing him across bleak Sandsea they are captured too, and taken to brutal Hopetown, where Saba is forced to be a cage fighter until new friends help plan an escape.
8098) Charisma
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Tacoma, Washington, high school junior Aislyn's extreme shyness has crippled her socially and cost her a college scholarship, so she jumps at the chance to try an illegal gene therapy, but although she is finally able to date her long-term crush, Jack, the therapy becomes a contagious disease that can be fatal.
Author
Series
Akiko novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
Sixth-grader Akiko makes another visit to the planet Smoo, but on the way she passes through a time warp that sends her back twenty-five years.
8100) The child thief
Author
Series
Child thief volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
America in 2105 is beset with mass inequality, poverty and increasingly large numbers of the poor. A fractured America ushers in an authoritarian government that promises to solve these problems by redistributing children born to the poor to be adopted by the rich. Robin, a single teen mother, fell within the scope of the scheme and lost her baby two years ago. A life of factory work doesn't provide much hope until she stumbles upon a group of misfits...