Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Shadow children volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The definitive edition
• Features an uplifting extended biography of the life and experiences of Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Remastered for premium quality print and easy reading
Tara, princess of Helium, is a lively young princess being courted by prince Jed of Gathol. However, she spurns the prince because she sees him as a weakling and too mild-mannered for her tastes.
Later, when Tara is piloting her flier in the middle of a storm, she loses control...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926), the author of more than fifty books on classics, theology, history, and Shakespeare, was headmaster of the City of London School and one of the leading educators of his time. Thomas Banchoff is professor emeritus of mathematics at Brown University and author of Beyond the Third Dimension.
In 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a mathematical adventure set in a two-dimensional plane world, populated by a hierarchical...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, H.G. Wells, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Chapter Book, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Classics-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original classic. These classics...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine-leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr. Cavor was, after all, the outcome of the purest accident. It might have been any one. I fell into these things at a time when I thought myself removed from the slightest possibility of disturbing experiences. I had gone to Lympne because I...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Iron Heel (1907) is a novel by American writer Jack London. A groundbreaking work of dystopian science fiction, The Iron Heel was, inspired by London's socialist views and belief in an eventual global upheaval. Although his predictions proved wrong for the United States of the early-twentieth century, London was, recognized by such figures as George Orwell for his foresight regarding the rise of fascism in Europe. The novel is, told from the perspective...
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Adult - Best Children's Novels for Adults
Kids - Chapter Books (Staff Favorites)
Kids - Science Fiction Chapter Books
More Lists...
Kids - Chapter Books (Staff Favorites)
Kids - Science Fiction Chapter Books
More Lists...
Description
Young Meg Murry, her brother Charles, and their friend Calvin, embark on a journey through space and time, assisted by three eccentric women, when they set out to find Meg's father, a physicist who disappeared while experimenting with time travel.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
First published in 1907, "Lord of the World" is the dystopian work of science fiction by Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson which depicts the rise of the Anti-Christ and the ensuing end of the world. The novel begins with a prologue set in early 21st century London in which the history of the last century is described. A global rise of Marxism has divided the world up into three power-blocs; a European Confederation of Marxist one-party states, an Eastern...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
The mysteries of the monoliths are revealed in this inspired conclusion to the Hugo Award–winning Space Odyssey series—“there are marvels aplenty” (The New York Times).
On an ill-fated mission to Jupiter in 2001, the mutinous supercomputer HAL sent crewmembers David Bowman and Frank Poole into the frozen void of space. Bowman’s strange transformation into a Star Child is traced through...
On an ill-fated mission to Jupiter in 2001, the mutinous supercomputer HAL sent crewmembers David Bowman and Frank Poole into the frozen void of space. Bowman’s strange transformation into a Star Child is traced through...
11) Deathworld
Author
Series
Deathworld volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
This classic science fiction novel by Harry Harrison was originally serialized in Astounding Science Fiction magazine. It follows professional gambler, Jason dinAlt, who uses his psionic abilities to rig games of chance. He is challenged by Kerk Pyruss, ambassador for the planet Pyrrus, to ply his trade with a large sum at a government casino. He succeeds and avoids their attempts to reclaim his winnings. On a whim he decides to accompany Kerk back...
12) One trick pony
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In a future where alien beings consume technology as a few humans try to preserve it, Strata, her brother, and a friend are separated from their caravan and, with a wonderful robotic horse, must fight their way back.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question of "what do people need?" is answered. But the answer...
14) Shift
Author
Series
Silo series volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event. At almost the same...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
TWO PLANETS CLASH FOR LUNAR TREASURE Gregg Haljan was aware that there was a certain danger in having the giant spaceship Planetara stop off at the moon to pick up Grantline's special cargo of moon ore. For that rare metal-invaluable in keeping Earth's technology running-was the target of many greedy eyes. But nevertheless he hadn't figured on the special twist the clever Martian brigands would use. So when he found both the ship and himself suddenly...
17) Fahrenheit 451
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Adult - Banned Books
Adult - Dystopian Fiction
Adult - Staff Picks Sci Fi and Mysteries
Teens - Dystopian Fiction
Adult - Dystopian Fiction
Adult - Staff Picks Sci Fi and Mysteries
Teens - Dystopian Fiction
Description
Nowadays firemen start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. Then he met a seventeen-year old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who told him of a future where people could think. And Guy Montag knew what he had to do.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The complete Broken series. Follow Josh and Mimi on their saga in this four-episode box set. Contains the following books: Broken Episode One, Broken Episode Two, Broken Episode Three, and Broken Episode Four.. . ..Special Commander Joshua Cook has a secret, she's sure of it. He's the Coalition's latest golden boy, but she knows he has a past that's far from sparkling. Ready to find out what his secret is, she isn't ready for the man himself. Josh...
19) Dune messiah
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known -- and feared -- as the man christened Muad'Dib. As Emperor of the known universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremen, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne -- and a conspiracy conducted within his own sphere of influence. And even as House Atreides begins...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains-this suspenseful, elegiac, spellbinding novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request