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41) The pretender
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Animorphs. Main series volume 23
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IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
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Someone's looking for Tobias. Someone who says she's his long-lost cousin. Tobias isn't sure the person is telling the truth, but she's really nice, and knows a lot about him. And what she tells Tobias definitely gets his attention.
It seems a lawyer has discovered Tobias's father's last will and testament. So, Tobias needs to attend the reading. His cousin even offers to go along. But something just doesn't feel quite right. That's when Tobias and...
42) The attack
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Animorphs. Main series volume 26
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IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
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The Animorphs have met the Ellimist. He helped to save the kids when they were about to be eaten by a Taxxon. He helped to free two Hork-Bajir and restored Tobias's morphing ability. But even though the Ellimist has enormous power, he is not all-powerful. He has an enemy. The Crayak.
The Crayak and the Ellimist have decided that a battle is necessary to prove their ultimate power. But they don't intend to fight each other. The Ellimist will choose...
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"Step-by-step instructions help readers conduct simple experiments to explore states of matter. Projects reveal how to create invisible ink, crystals, and more. Readers not only see science in action but come to understand the scientific concepts behind each project."--
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Tony Boudreaux mysteries volume 8
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In this hilarious introduction to science, the author has compiled his answers to a variety of questions he has taken as an educational presenter in a museum. Among the topics included are what happens when you swallow a burp, why there are no more dinosaurs, where tsunami originate, and what the fate of mankind will be at the hands of evil robots and computers.
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Frederik Pohl, the bestselling author of The Boy Who Would Live Forever, is famous for his novels, but first and foremost, he is a master of the science fiction short story.
For more than fifty years he has been writing incisive, entertaining SF stories, several hundred in all. Even while writing his bestselling triple-crown (Hugo, Nebula, Campbell Award) novel Gateway and the other Heechee Saga novels, he has always written short fiction.
Now,...
46) The underground
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Animorphs. Main series volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
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What's tasty, good for you, and only takes sixty seconds to make? Oatmeal. And because of a strange reaction to the Yeerk's physiology, it's making the would-be invaders of Earth more than a little crazy. Now Rachel and the other Animorphs have a new weapon against the Yeerks. Sounds good, right?Wrong. Because using this advantage against the Yeerks has dire consequences for their human hosts. In order to avoid hurting innocent people, the Animorphs...
47) The arrival
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Animorphs. Main series volume 38
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IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
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Andalites have finally arrived on Earth. The Animorphs and Ax now have allies willing to fight against the Yeerk invasion. But there are only four Andalites. Not nearly enough to defeat thousands of Yeerks. Not enough to stop more humans from being infested. Will Ax leave his friends in the Animorphs or stand with his people?
48) The mutation
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Animorphs. Main series volume 36
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IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
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Visser Three is still trying to find a way to reach the Pemalite ship that was hidden thousands of feet below the ocean's surface. The ship contains technology so advanced that it's superior to anything even the Andalites have built. And this time, the Visser plans to find the ship so he can use the power to complete Earth's invasion.
Jake and the other Animorphs acquire additional deep-sea morphs in order to stop the Visser's plan. But while trying...
49) The departure
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Animorphs. Main series volume 19
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IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
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Cassie's had it. After the last mission, she realizes she's getting tired of missions. Tired of battles. Tired of being an Animorph. She decides that she just can't do it anymore. So she quits.But the war for her planet isn't so easy to quit. It seems a human-Controller named Karen followed Cassie after the last run-in with the Yeerks, and she knows Cassie has the ability to morph. If she exposes Cassie, it's all over. No more Cassie. No more Animorphs....
50) The sickness
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Animorphs. Main series volume 29
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IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
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Something is very wrong with Ax. He's sick, and the Animorphs don't know what to do about it. They can't take him to the hospital. They don't know how to contact the Andalite home world. And Ax is dying.
Cassie and the other Animorphs come up with a plan. But it involves finding a new way into the Yeerk pool. There's just one problem: Jake, Rachel, Tobias, and Marco all come down with Ax's sickness. And now, for the first time, Cassie is on her...
51) The mirror man
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Meet Jeremiah Adams. There are two of him. The offer is too tempting: be part of a scientific breakthrough, step out of his life for a year, and be paid hugely for it. When ViMed Pharmaceutical asks Jeremiah to be part of an illegal cloning experiment, he sees it as a break from an existence he feels disconnected from. No one will know he's been replaced--not the son who ignores him, not his increasingly distant wife--since a revolutionary drug called...
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"Parable of the Sower is the Butlerian odyssey of one woman who is twice as feeling in a world that has become doubly dehumanized. The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers and roaming bands of people addicted to a drug that activates an orgasmic desire to burn, rape, and murder. When one small community is overrun, Lauren Olamina, an 18 year old black woman...
53) Planets
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IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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"Amazing photography accompanies engaging information about planets. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
54) Asteroids
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IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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"Amazing photography accompanies engaging information about asteroids. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
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"In the latest military thriller from the retired Delta Force Operator and New York Times bestselling author, a hostage situation places America's most powerful political elite at the mercy of its worst enemies. When veteran operator Pike Logan and partner Jennifer Cahill receive a letter from Blaisdell Consulting-the umbrella cover company for their real employer, a top secret counterterrorist unit called the Taskforce-they expect orders for their...
57) The stone gods
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What begins as a witty, satirical futurist adventure deepens into a dazzling exploration of humankind's relationship to environment, power, and technology, and to what defines us as humans.
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In Ben Bova's novel JUPITER, physicist Grant Archer led an expedition into Jupiter's hostile planetwide ocean, attempting to study the unusual and massive creatures that call the planet their home. Unprepared for the hostile environment and crushing pressures, Grant's team faced certain death as their ship malfunctioned and slowly sank to the planet's depths. However one of Jupiter's native creatures-a city-sized leviathan-saved the doomed ship. This...
59) Ender's game
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From New York Times bestselling author Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game—adapted to film in 2013 starring Asa Butterfield and Harrison Ford—is the classic Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction novel of a young boy's recruitment into the midst of an interstellar war.
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses
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The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
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