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Twister Trouble by Anne Schreiber, Joanna Cole
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe kids in Ms. Frizzle's class are getting ready for the Wild Weather Show. To prepare, they take a field trip to the Weatherama Amusement Park. The class finds out just how wild weather can be when they accidentally fly right into a powerful tornado... -
The Magic School Bus Spins A Web: A Book About Spiders by Tracey West, Joanna Cole
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTransported inside a sci-fi movie about giant bugs, Ms... -
Playground by Richard Powers
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFour lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up on naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home...Categorized as:
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Trapped in a Video Game: The Complete Series by Dustin Brady
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFive books in one box! With nonstop action, huge plot twists, and tons of humor, this series will quickly have your 7- to 12-year-old video game fan begging for just one more chapter.Getting sucked into a video game is not as much fun as you'd think... -
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Explorer Academy: The Star Dunes by Trudi Trueit
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCruz, Sailor, Emmett, and the gang are on their way to Africa when Nebula misses their intended target and someone close to Cruz ends up on the brink of death. Secrets creep out from the shadows and leave Cruz with more questions than answers in this fourth title in the hit series...Categorized as:
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What Should Danny Do? by Adir Levy, Ganit Levy
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Danny is a real-life superhero in training, learning about his most important super power of all: 'the power to choose.' In this book, YOU decide how the story will end by making choices for Danny... -
The Stranding by Kate Sawyer
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRuth lives in the heart of the city. Working, drinking, falling in love: the rhythm of her vivid and complicated life there is set against a background hum of darkening news reports from which she deliberately turns away...Categorized as:
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Трудно быть богом. За миллиард лет до конца света. Улитка на склоне. Пикник на обочине by Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsНа планете, живущей по средневековым законам, работают наблюдатели-земляне. Они здесь, чтобы понять механизмы развития общества, и не имеют права вмешиваться в исторический процесс. Главный герой повести – благородный дон Румата, он же Антон – ученый из Института экспериментальной истории. А вокруг – грубый и мрачный мир Средневековья... -
শঙ্কু একাই ১০০ by Satyajit Ray
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsপ্রফেসর শঙ্কু সিরিজের ষষ্ঠ এই বইটিতে রয়েছে ৪টি গল্প -১. মহাকাশের দূত (প্রথম প্রকাশিত হয় আনন্দমেলা পত্রিকার ১৯৭৯ সনের শারদীয় সংখ্যায়)২. শঙ্কুর কঙ্গো অভিযান (প্রথম প্রকাশিত হয় আনন্দমেলা পত্রিকার ১৯৮১ সনের শারদীয় সংখ্যায়)৩. নকুড়বাবু ও এল ডোরাডো (প্রথম প্রকাশিত হয় আনন্দমেলা পত্রিকার ১৯৮০ সনের শারদীয় সংখ্যায়)৪. প্রফেসর শঙ্কু ও ইউ.এফও... -
সেলাম প্রোফেসর শঙ্কু by Satyajit Ray
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsপ্রফেসর শঙ্কু সিরিজের অষ্টম ও শেষ এই বইটিতে রয়েছে ৭টি গল্প১. নেফ্রুদেৎ এর সমাধি (প্রথম প্রকাশিত হয় সন্দেশ পত্রিকার ১৯৮৬ সনের শারদীয় সংখ্যায়)২. ডাক্তার দানিয়ালের আবিস্কার (প্রথম প্রকাশিত হয় সন্দেশ পত্রিকার ১৯৮৮ সনের শারদীয় সংখ্যায়)৩. শঙ্কু ও ফ্রাঙ্কেনস্টাইন (প্রথম প্রকাশিত হয় আনন্দমেলা পত্রিকার ১৯৮৮ সনের শারদীয় সংখ্যায়)৪... -
স্বয়ং প্রফেসর শঙ্কু by Satyajit Ray
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsপ্রফেসর শঙ্কু সিরিজের পঞ্চম এই বইটিতে রয়েছে ৩টি গল্প -১. মানরো দ্বীপের রহস্য (প্রথম প্রকাশিত হয় আনন্দমেলা পত্রিকার ১৯৭৭ সনের শারদীয় সংখ্যায়)২. কম্পু (প্রথম প্রকাশিত হয় আনন্দমেলা পত্রিকার ১৯৭৮ সনের শারদীয় সংখ্যায়)৩... -
The Wump World by Bill Peet
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Pollutians invade the Wump World and turn the green meadows into a concrete jungle...Categorized as:
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The Wild Robot Protects by Peter Brown
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot series returns, taking Roz on an action-packed under-the-ocean journey to save her beloved island! Life for Roz and the animals on their island is perfect. But when mysterious, dangerous waters surround the island, the animals are forced inland to fight over dwindling resources...Categorized as:
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পুনশ্চ প্রোফেসর শঙ্কু by Satyajit Ray
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsপ্রফেসর শঙ্কু সিরিজের সপ্তম এই বইটিতে রয়েছে ৪টি গল্প -১. আশ্চর্জন্তু২. শঙ্কু ও আদিম মানুষ৩. শঙ্কু পরলোকচর্চা৪... -
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মহাসংকটে শঙ্কু by Satyajit Ray
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsপ্রফেসর শঙ্কু সিরিজের চতুর্থ এই বইটিতে রয়েছে ৩টি গল্প -১. শঙ্কুর শনির দশা (প্রথম প্রকাশিত হয় আনন্দমেলা পত্রিকার ১৯৭৬ সনের শারদীয় সংখ্যায়)২. শঙ্কুর সুবর্ণ সুযোগ (প্রথম প্রকাশিত হয় সন্দেশ পত্রিকার ১৯৭৭ সনের মে-জুন সংখ্যায়)৩... -
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith - The Visual Dictionary by James Luceno
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Barnes & Noble ReviewFrom Anakin Skywalker to Yoda, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith -- The Visual Dictionary includes a plethora of pictures and diagrams that describe and explain every minute detail of the important characters and creatures from the Star Wars: Episode III motion picture. With more than 30 characters featured -- Count Dooku, Padme Amidala, Mace Windu, Darth Sidious, et al... -
Lark Ascending by Silas House
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWinner of the Southern Book Prize for Fiction * Winner of a Nautilus Award (Gold)A timely, powerful story of survival set in the not-too-distant future that Margaret Renkl ( Late Migrations ) calls “a beautiful book...shot through with such tenderness and humanity, such love and courage and beauty and hope, that it feels almost like a prayer...Categorized as:
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The Prepared Prepper by William Stone
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen an EMP wipes out the power grid, Stephanie’s world shatters, and survival is no longer a choice. It’s a necessity. A skilled welder who built her life on hard work, she spent years running from her prepper upbringing, determined to give her twin daughters a normal life. But as chaos erupts and danger closes in, the skills she rejected may be the only thing keeping them alive... -
Ensin palasivat linnut by Anne Kovalainen
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsHyytävä tarina luonnonmullistuksen jälkeisestä maailmasta, jonka elämänmenoa varjostaa eristäytyneestä saaresta säteilevä paha.Yhdeksänvuotias Sanelma ja hänen vanhempi sisarensa Sirja ovat pelastuneet luonnonkatastrofista, jossa osa tunnettua maailmaa tuntuu lakanneen olemasta...Categorized as:
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Star Wars OBI-123: A Book of Numbers by Calliope Glass, Caitlin Kennedy
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsONE, TWO, THREE, FOURCounting with Star Wars is hardly a chore!From the chosen ONE to a transport of TWENTYThis book is full of numbers aplenty!So, Padawans, prepare, get ready, get setFor a numerical lesson you'll never... -
Unicorn Expedition and other Stories by Satyajit Ray
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsProfessor Shonku cannot dismiss without proof the possibility that unicorns do exist somewhere on earth. In fact Charles Willard a fellow scientist claimed to have actually seen them in Tibet but unfortunately died shortly afterwards. So when Shonku learns that another expedition is starting off for Tibet he jumps at the opportunity to trace Willard's route and find the unicorns... -
The Last Panther by Todd Mitchell
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor fans of "The One and Only Ivan" and "Hoot, " this is the uplifting story of a girl who discovers a family of panthers that were thought to be extinct, and her journey to save the species. Eleven-year-old Kiri has a secret: wild things call to her. More than anyone else, she s always had a special connection to animals... -
A Year Without a Winter by Dehlia Hannah, Brenda Cooper
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsToday, weather extremes brought about by anthropogenic climate change pose relentless cognitive and imaginative challenges...Categorized as:
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Астровитянка by Николай Горькавый
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsЕе зовут Никки. Она - Космический Маугли. Редчайший случай соединения острого ума,необьятной эрудиции, сверхскорости и сверудачливости. Никки оказалась единственной выжившей после космической катастрофы и выросла в совершенной изоляции. Она учится в самой престижной школе Солнечной системы, у самых лучщих учитетелей, у нее множество верных друзей и безжалостных врагов... -
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Whose Moon Is That? by Kim Krans
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA stunning picture book that addresses the question: do any of us "own" nature? When a curious cat asks the question, "Whose moon is that?," a panoply of animals try to stake their claim. The wolf, the owl, and the starry sky all have their reasons, but the moon ultimately answers for herself -- her light is meant to be shared by everyone... -
Are You a Cheeseburger? by Monica Arnaldo
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLaugh-out-loud humor and a tender friendship blossom in author-illustrator Monica Arnaldo’s charming US picture book debut about a lonely raccoon, a curious seed, and the world’s most important question: Can the seed grow cheeseburgers?Grub is a lonely racoon. Rumbling in the trash. Looking for food.Seed is, well, a seed! Patiently waiting in the trash. Hoping someone will plant it... -
How to Bee by Bren MacDibble
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn a world where real bees are extinct, the quickest, bravest kids climb the fruit trees and pollinate the flowers by hand. Peony lives with her sister, Magnolia, and her grandfather on a fruit farm outside the city. All Peony really wants is to be a bee...Categorized as:
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The Future Library by Peng Shepherd
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMore than a hundred years from now, an arborist fighting to save the last remaining forest on Earth discovers a secret about the trees—one that changes not only her life, but also the fate of our world.Inspired by the real-life “Future Library,” a long-term environmental and literary public art project currently underway in the Norwegian wilderness... -
The High House by Jessie Greengrass
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this powerful, highly anticipated novel from an award-winning author, four people attempt to make a home in the midst of environmental disaster.Perched on a sloping hill, set away from a small town by the sea, the High House has a tide pool and a mill, a vegetable garden, and, most importantly, a barn full of supplies...Categorized as:
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Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels by Bill Smith, Doug Chiang
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsText by W. Haden BlackmanAll new full color illustrations by Ian FullwoodFrom the beat-up landspeeders that whisk travelers between desert towns on Tatooine to Jabba the Hutt’s luxurious sail barge and the elegant Naboo Royal Starship, the vehicles and vessels in the Star Wars universe have captivated millions of delighted fans... -
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois, Ian R. MacLeod
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWidely regarded as the one essential book for every science fiction fan, The Year's Best Science Fiction (Winner of the 2002 Locus Award for Best Anthology) continues to uphold its standard of excellence with more than two dozen stories representing the previous year's best SF writing. This year's volume includes Ian R. MacLeod, Nancy Kress, Greg Egan, Maureen F... -
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois, Maureen F. McHugh
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe twenty-first century has so far proven to be exciting and wondrous and filled with challenges we had never dreamed. New possibilities previously unimagined appear almost daily . . . and science fiction stories continue to explore those possibilities with delightful results:Collected in this anthology are such compelling stories as:"On K2 with Kanakaredes" by Dan Simmons... -
The Hab Theory by Allan W. Eckert
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Eckert's plotline is terrifying and provides the reader with intense action, character developments that reek with reality, and some of the finest mind-bending writing in a long, long time."-Cincinnati Enquirer"Intrigue, love, high imagination, politics, White House and residential drama, cunning skill, technique and an overpowering sense of disaster...Categorized as:
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Green Rising by Lauren James
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSet in a near-future world on the brink of ecological catastrophe, Lauren James’ novel is a gripping, witty and romantic call to arms.Gabrielle is a climate-change activist who shoots to fame when she becomes the first teenager to display a supernatural ability to grow plants from her skin. Hester is the millionaire daughter of an oil tycoon and the face of the family business... -
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The Last Beekeeper by Pablo Cartaya
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAward-winning author Pablo Cartaya’s latest middle grade, The Last Beekeeper, follows twelve-year-old Yolanda Cicerón as she fights to the save the last known beehive in the world from extinction against nearly insurmountable obstacles—an environment completely changed by climate change and the greedy humans who will profit from the bees...Categorized as:
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The Secret Explorers and the Lost Whales by S.J. King
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDive into the world of The Secret Explorers and learn about ocean life in this action-packed first installment in a brand-new fiction series.Meet The Secret Explorers! This group of brilliant kids comes together from all four corners of the globe to fix problems, solve mysteries, and gather knowledge all over the planet - and beyond...Categorized as:
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Afterglow: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors by Grist
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHopeful and forward-looking futuristic short stories that explore how the power of storytelling can help create the world we need“This is a glorious book that challenges our conceptions of bookmaking as much as it questions our conceptions of world-building. We, as earthlings, will be better to the earth after experiencing this book. That is not hyperbole...Categorized as:
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Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA professor in pandemic isolation rescues books from the flooded and collapsing McPherson Library. A man plants fireweed on the hillside of his depopulated Vancouver Island suburb. An aspiring luthier poaches the last ancient Sitka spruce to make a violin for a child prodigy...Categorized as:
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Every Version of You by Grace Chan
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn late twenty-first century Australia, Tao-Yi and her partner Navin spend most of their time inside a hyper-immersive, hyper-consumerist virtual reality called Gaia. They log on, go to work, socialise, and even eat in this digital utopia. Meanwhile their aging bodies lie suspended in pods inside cramped apartments...Categorized as:
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Birds by Kevin Henkes
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBirds come in all sizes, shapes, and colors. Birds are magic. Birds are everywhere. If you listen very carefully you will hear them, no matter where you live. And if you look very closely you will see them, no matter where you are... -
The Wall by Gautam Bhatia
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMithila’s world is bound by a Wall enclosing the city of Sumer—nobody goes out, nothing comes in. The days pass as they have for two thousand years: just enough to eat for just enough people, living by the rules. Within the city, everyone knows their place. But when Mithila tries to cross the Wall, every power in Sumer comes together to stop her... -
Unplugged by Steve Antony
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMeet Blip. Blip loves being plugged into her computer. When a blackout occurs, Blip trips over her wire and tumbles outside. Suddenly, Blip's gray world is filled with color and excitement. She plays with her new friends and has adventures all day long. When Blip finally returns home, she realizes that the world can be even brighter once you unplug... -
To The Stars by Robert A. Heinlein
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis is a collection of Heinlein classics--originally published for young readers of the 50's, but great fun for us all... -
Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor years Kitty Hawke has lived alone on Wolfe Island, witness to the island’s erosion and clinging to the ghosts of her past. Her work as a sculptor and her wolfdog Girl are enough. News of mainland turmoil is as distant as myth until refugees from that world arrive: her granddaughter Cat, and Luis and Alejandra, a brother and sister escaping persecution...Categorized as:
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Oliver's Tree by Kit Chase
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA board book about three adorable best friends!Oliver, Charlie, and Lulu love to play outside together. Their favorite game is hide-and-seek, but it's not fun for Oliver when his friends hide in the trees--he can't reach them! So the friends set off to find a tree that Oliver can play in... -
Jurassic Park: the Junior Novelization by Gail Herman, Michael Crichton
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA story about the potential perils of advanced technology chronicles the chaos that ensues when the prehistoric monsters living in a theme park run amok, in the novelization of the popular new film. Movie tie-in... -
Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers by Sarena Ulibarri, D.K. Mok
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSolarpunk is a type of optimistic science fiction that imagines a future founded on renewable energies. The seventeen stories in this volume are not dull utopias—they grapple with real issues such as the future and ethics of our food sources, the connection between technology and nature, and the interpersonal conflicts that arise no matter how peaceful the world is...Categorized as:
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Monsters by Peter Cawdron
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMonsters is a dystopian novel set against the backdrop of the collapse of civilization.The fallout from a passing comet contains a biological pathogen, not a virus or a living organism, just a collection of amino acids, but these cause animals to revert to the age of the mega-fauna, when monsters roamed Earth.Bruce Dobson is a reader. With the fall of civilization, reading has become outlawed...Categorized as:
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Perijee and Me by Ross Montgomery
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPerijee and Me is a hilarious and touching story about an unusual friendship, a heart-stopping adventure, and the power of kindness when you’re faced with an alien invasion. If E.T. the Extra Terrestrial is still “right here” in your heart, then you’re sure to fall hard for the misunderstood Perijee and the one girl who’s desperate to save him... -
Star Wars: A Scanimation Book: Iconic Scenes from a Galaxy Far, Far Away... by Rufus Butler Seder
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsImagine: the first Star Wars book that actually moves, bringing to life the most memorable scenes from the epic: Obi-Wan battles Darth Maul The Millennium Falcon zooms away from an exploding Death Star Luke rides a galloping Tauntaun, Yoda twirls his green lightsaber, Boba Fett blasts up, up and away! And of course the most memorable scene of all—red and blue lightsabers flashing, Luke and Darth...
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