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Are You Scared, Darth Vader? by Adam Rex
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt's midnight and the moon is full, but Darth Vader isn't scared. OF COURSE I AM NOT SCARED. Nothing can scare Lord Vader! CORRECT. Not monsters or witches or ghosts, and especially not the dark. So what is Darth Vader scared of? Read on in Adam Rex's hilarious and spooky Star Wars tale to find out! YOU WILL LEARN NOTHING... -
The Champion by Scott Sigler
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsTHE CHAMPION is the fifth book in the Galactic Football League series.Seven centuries in the future, the sport of American football has never been bigger, never been faster, never been more lethal. Trillions of fans from all over the galaxy watch six unique races battle in contests so violent that deaths are part of the stat sheet... -
Transporter by Laurence E. Dahners
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis is the sixteenth book in a series of near future Hard-SciFi Thrillers. Their heroine Ell Donsaii has a nerve mutation that’s rendered her a genius as well as providing astonishing athletic abilities... -
Wanted by Laurence E. Dahners
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 24 ratings“Wanted" is the tenth of a series of near future SciFi/Thrillers whose young heroine Ell Donsaii’s nerve mutation makes her a genius and provides astonishing athletic abilities. In “Wanted,” President Stockton continues her efforts to imprison Ell in order to protect the world from some of Ell’s dangerous new technology... -
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Starclimber by Kenneth Oppel
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 21 ratings"Mr. Cruse, how high would you like to fly?" A smile soared across my face. "As high as I possibly can." Pilot-in-training Matt Cruse and Kate de Vries, expert on high-altitude life-forms, are invited aboard the Starclimber, a vessel that literally climbs its way into the cosmos. Before they even set foot aboard the ship, catastrophe strikes:Kate announces she is engaged—and not to Matt...Categorized as:
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George and the Blue Moon by Lucy Hawking, Stephen W. Hawking
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGeorge and Annie are off on another cosmic adventure inspired by the Mars Expedition in the fifth book of the George’s Secret Key series from Stephen and Lucy Hawking.George and his best friend, Annie, have been selected as junior astronauts for a program that trains young people for a future trip to Mars...Categorized as:
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Universo Star Wars by Tricia Barr, Daniel Wallace
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..."Ultimate Star Wars is a comprehensive, wonderfully detailed encyclopedia of the entire Star Wars galaxy that explores characters, creatures, locations, vehicles, technology, and more... -
Orion Lost by Alastair Chisholm
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter a catastrophic Unknown Event leaves the colony ship Orion stranded deep in space, it's up to thirteen-year-old Beth and her friends to navigate through treacherous and uncharted territory and reach safety... -
Without Law 2 by Eric Vall
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen the EMP hit, the small world around a liberal arts college in the Vermont mountains changed drastically. But Tav had trained his whole life for this. Now this ex-Army Ranger has to serve again, but this time it’s a group of four beautiful women and one gentle old man who need his help to survive this lawless world. And Tav isn’t going to let them down... -
The Dinosaur That Pooped a Planet! by Tom Fletcher, Dougie Poynter
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom Tom Fletcher and Dougie Poynter of McFly comes a supersonic space adventure filled with planets, poop, and pandemonium!One boy, one space rocket, one very hungry dinosaur: the ingredients for an explosive space adventure of epic poop-portions! But when Danny realizes he’s forgotten Dino’s lunch box, the very hungry dinosaur eats everything in sight, including their only way home: the...Categorized as:
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Three's a Crowd! by Ray O'Ryan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsZack finds out that two best friends are better than one in this chapter book adventure.Zack is thrilled when he finds out that his best friend on Earth, Bert Jones, is going to visit him on Nebulon. Zack can’t wait to show Bert around the new planet, as well as his new school. But when Bert meets Drake, Zack’s best friend on Nebulon, some jealousy starts to brew... -
George and the Ship of Time by Lucy Hawking
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGeorge travels to the future in the epic conclusion of the George’s Secret Key series from Lucy Hawking.When George finds a way to escape the spacecraft Artemis, where he has been trapped, he is overjoyed. Surely now he can return to Earth. But when George touches down, he knows immediately that something is wrong... -
The Space Child's Mother Goose by Frederick Winsor
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOnly a few years ago (1950s) we walked on solid earth. Today we whirl through space. Space is big. It is not cozy. But with these verses and drawings... cheerfulness breaks in. Suddenly, science seems merry. And space begins, with the rhyme on page 1, to feel a little more like home. A witty collection of 1950's space age poetry accompanied by clever black and white line drawings by Marian Parry... -
Dark Matter by Jenetta Penner
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsArcadia was supposed to be Earth 2.0—a haven for humanity while they fought desperately to save their dying homeworld. But nothing has turned out like Cassiopeia Foster had thought.Another race, the Alku, already occupies the planet in a parallel dimension called Paxon... -
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The Seventh Element by Wendy Mass
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe action is on the page, on your device, and out of this world! This multiplatform series is part sci-fi, all action-adventure. And you don't have long to wait—six books are coming all in one year! Earth is in danger! The only thing that can save our planet are six essential elements that can fuse into a new source of clean energy. But the elements are scattered throughout the galaxy...Categorized as:
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Ben Archer and the Cosmic Fall (The Alien Skill Series, Book 1) by Rae Knightly
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA BOY WITH AN ALIEN POWER.“The thing is, it wasn’t meteors that fell into the woods that night. It was alien spacecraft.”THE WISHING SHELF BOOK AWARDS 2019 SILVER MEDAL WINNER - AUTHOR ACADEMY AWARDS 2019 FINALIST.When UFOs crash into the fields next to his grandfather’s house, twelve-year-old Ben Archer becomes a cumbersome witness in the eyes of the government...Categorized as:
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Star Wars: The Galaxy Needs You by Caitlin Kennedy
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHave you ever stopped to think about how there is nobody else in the galaxy who is exactly like you? This empowering picture book celebrates young heroes-in-the-making and features illustrations that follow Rey on her own hero's journey... -
Star Wars: A New Hope by Geof Smith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe epic space saga, Star Wars: A New Hope, is retold in the Little Golden Book format! Luke Skywalker begins a journey that will change the galaxy, as he leaves his home planet, battles the evil Empire, and learns the ways of the Force... -
The Countdown Conspiracy by Katie Slivensky
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAmbassador, you are go for launch in T- minus 5…4…3…2…. Get ready to blast off with this high-action, high-stakes middle grade adventure that’s perfect for fans of Chris Grabenstein and Peter Lerangis!Miranda Regent can’t believe she was just chosen as one of six kids from around the world to train for the first ever mission to Mars... -
Beware! Space Junk! by Geronimo Stilton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSpacemouse Geronimo Stiltonix's adventures are out of this world!MouseStar 1 is surrounded by floating space junk! It's yucky -- and dangerous. Geronimo Stiltonix tracks down the source of the junk, and meets very wasteful aliens... -
Star Wars: I Am a Princess by Courtney Carbone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRead all about brave Princess Leia, hero of the Rebel Alliance, as she joins forces with Luke Skywalker and Han Solo to battle Darth Vader and the evil Galactic Empire! Featuring stunning retro illustrations, this book is perfect for Star Wars—and Little Golden Book—fans of all ages... -
Lights on Wonder Rock by David Litchfield
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHeather wants more than anything to go to outer space, where the stars sparkle with magic and wonder. When a UFO lands behind her house and she meets a friendly alien, it seems that all of her dreams have come true. But soon her new friend has to return home... -
Crudrat by Gail Carriger
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMaura is doomed to starve. Her space station has no further use for her.New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger brings you a fast-paced young adult scifi adventure featuring a capable heroine, her adorable pet, and the alien they accidentally rescue...Categorized as:
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The Way Back Home by Oliver Jeffers
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen a boy discovers a single-propeller airplane in his closet, he does what any young adventurer would do: He flies it into outer space! Millions of miles from Earth, the plane begins to sputter and quake, its fuel tank on empty. The boy executes a daring landing on the moon . . -
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Aliens Love Underpants by Claire Freedman
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis humorous tale describes how aliens, rather than visiting Earth to take over the planet, really visit to steal your pants... -
Earth Awakens by Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe story of The First Formic War continues in Earth Awakens.Nearly 100 years before the events of Orson Scott Card's bestselling novel Ender's Game, humans were just beginning to step off Earth and out into the Solar System. A thin web of ships in both asteroid belts; a few stations; a corporate settlement on Luna... -
A Liaden Universe Constellation: Volume 4 by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBOOK 4 in the multivolume Liaden Universe® short fiction collection. Tales of the Liaden Universe® brought together for the first time. Space opera and romance on a grand scale in a galaxy full of interstellar trading clans... -
The Prehistoric Planet by Ray O'Ryan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGalaxy Zack blasts back to the past in this outer space chapter book adventure!A baby pterosaur can’t find his way home, so it’s up to the Nebulon Navigators to return him to the Prehistoric Planet. And when Zack’s dad is invited on the journey, Zack finds a way to go along too! But as they blast off on the super shuttle, they hear a strange noise... -
MiNRS 2 by Kevin Sylvester
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDive right back into the action on Perses in this thrilling sequel to the gritty, space adventure, MiNRS, which School Library Journal called “a solid survival story.”They are coming to get you. Hide. Hide. Hide. The children of Perses have been receiving this message on repeat from Earth for weeks... -
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back by Geof Smith
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe epic space saga, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, is finally retold in the iconic Little Golden Book format! After the destruction of the Death Star, the Empire has regrouped—with Darth Vader leading the hunt for Luke Skywalker...Categorized as:
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Star Wars: Return of the Jedi by Geof Smith
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe epic space saga, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, is finally retold in the iconic Little Golden Book format! Luke Skywalker heads a mission to rescue Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, and faces Darth Vader one last time... -
Voyage of the Dogs by Greg Van Eekhout
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLopside is a Barkonaut, a specially trained dog who assists human astronauts on missions in space. He and the crew aboard the spaceship Laika are en route to set up an outpost on a distant planet.When the mission takes a disastrous turn, the Barkonauts on board suddenly find themselves completely alone on their severely damaged ship.Survival seems impossible...Categorized as:
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Star Wars: 5-Minute Star Wars Stories by Rebecca L. Schmidt, Brooke Dworkin
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBlast off into hyperspace with these eleven action-packed Star Wars tales! Jedi Master Yoda has a lightsaber showdown with the dreaded Count Dooku; Luke Skywalker and the Rebels race against time to destroy the Death Star; and the brave Rey makes a new friend when she meets the droid BB-8... -
Randy Riley's Really Big Hit by Chris Van Dusen
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRandy likes space, robots, and baseball, but he can't ace everything . . . or can he? Chris Van Dusen knocks one out of the park with a comical ode to ingenuity.Randy Riley loves two things: science and baseball. When it comes to the solar system, the constellations, and all things robot, Randy is a genius. But on the baseball diamond? Not so much. He tries . . . but whiffs every time... -
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The Court of a Thousand Suns by Chris Bunch, Allan Cole
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSten had fought his way up from slave labor on a factory world to commander of the Eternal Emperor’s bodyguard, the Imperial Gurkhas. But during his first three months on Prime World, the most dangerous weapons Sten had encountered were the well-phrased lies of Court politicians. It seemed no place for an honest fighting man... -
Nyxia by Scott Reintgen
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsWhat would you be willing to risk for a lifetime of fortune? Emmett Atwater isn’t just leaving Detroit; he’s leaving Earth. Why the Babel Corporation recruited him is a mystery, but the number of zeroes on their contract has him boarding their lightship and hoping to return to Earth with enough money to take care of his family. Forever... -
Captured by Douglas E. Richards
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIncluded in The California Department of Education’s Recommended Literature for Science and Math and in Missouri State University’s Best New Books to Engage Students in Math and Science This fast-paced, science fiction adventure is a stand-alone sequel to The Prometheus Project: Trapped... -
We're Not from Here by Geoff Rodkey
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsImagine being forced to move to a new planet where YOU are the alien! From the creator of the Tapper Twins, New York Times bestselling author Geoff Rodkey delivers a topical, sci-fi middle-grade novel that proves friendship and laughter can transcend even a galaxy of differences. The first time I heard about Planet Choom, we'd been on Mars for almost a year... -
Mars Evacuees by Sophia McDougall
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe fact that someone had decided I would be safer on Mars, where you could still only SORT OF breathe the air and SORT OF not get sunburned to death, was a sign that the war with the aliens was not going fantastically well.I’d been worried I was about to be told that my mother’s spacefighter had been shot down, so when I found out that I was being evacuated to Mars, I was pretty calm... -
The Search for Snout by Bruce Coville
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSomewhere Snout is waiting.Rod Allbright and his alien friends face the biggest mystery of their lives: where in the wide, wide galaxy is their missing friend Snout, the Master of the Mental Arts?Their death-defying search for their friend leads them across the stars to the Mentat, the mysterious home of the Mental Masters. But the clues they uncover there only deepen the mystery — and the danger... -
Transport 3: The Zone by Phillip P. Peterson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhile Russell and the other colonists of New California fight for the independence of their colony against General Morrow and his mercenaries, a new danger emerges. The transporters turn out to be horrendous weapons that pose a threat not only to the people of New California, but to the whole of the galaxy... -
A New Hope: The Illustrated Screenplay (Star Wars, Episode IV) by George Lucas
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNow here is the complete screenplay of the film that launched a science fiction phenomenon. Experience the capture of Princess Leia by Lord Darth Vader and the evil minions of the Empire...Farmboy Luke Skywalker's discovery of her desperate message hidden in the droid R2-D2...Luke's fateful meetings with legendary Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi and intergalactic smuggler Han Solo.. -
Man On The Moon by Simon Bartram
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBeginning with an introduction to the history of mosaics, colour and design are explored in mosaic-making, across the full range of equipment, materials and tesserae on offer... -
The Jamie Drake Equation by Christopher Edge
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the author of The Many Worlds of Albie Bright comes another cutting-edge cosmic space adventure for anyone who's ever looked up at the stars and wondered about the universe. An exploration of the constellations, an appreciation of the courage of astronauts, and a loving father-son story. Perfect for fans of Scott Kelly's Astrotwins series... -
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Voyagers: Game of Flames by Robin Wasserman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe action is on the page, on your device, and out of this world! This multiplatform series is part sci-fi, all action-adventure. And you don't have long to wait -- 6 books are coming all in one year! Earth is in danger! The only thing that can save our planet are six essential elements scattered throughout the galaxy...Categorized as:
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Earth to Clunk by Pam Smallcomb
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat do you send your alien pen pal Clunk to make it clear you do not want an alien pen pal? You send him your big sister. That'll teach Clunk to have a pen pal from Earth-or so our intrepid narrator thinks. But then Clunk sends him a Zoid, an exasperating Zoid that follows him everywhere... -
Star Wars: The New Essential Guide to Characters by Daniel Wallace
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Star Wars universe is expanding faster than ever before, and Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Characters has received an exciting new face-lift–with completely updated text and more than a hundred brand new, full-color illustrations by extraordinary new artist Michael Sutfin...Categorized as:
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The Secret Academy by Jason Fry
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsZare Leonis has reached the Arkanis Imperial Academy, where his sister, Dhara, was taken by evil agents of the Empire. He must win acceptance into a secret society within the school to gain access to the mysterious Area Null, where he believes Dhara is being held. This secret order is loyal to the Academy's commandant and is part of his terrifying vision for the future of the Empire...Categorized as:
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Mammoth Trouble by D. Robert Pease
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNoah Zarc has a life most kids only dream of - traveling through time on an immense spaceship, seeing the wonders of the solar system, and experiencing the vast history of Earth... before everything on the planet was destroyed. His family's mission is to repopulate Earth with life retrieved from the past. Of course, nothing ever goes as planned...Categorized as:
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Alien Pursuit by Sigmund Brouwer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSet at an experimental community on Mars in the year 2039, the Mars Diaries feature 14-year-old virtual reality specialist Tyce Sanders. Life on the red planet is not always easy, but it is definitely exciting. As Tyce explores his strange surroundings, he finds that the mysteries of the planet point to his greatest discovery-a new relationship with God...Categorized as:
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