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21) The disasters
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Nax and a handful of other space Academy washouts are the only surviving pilots after the school is hijacked by terrorists, but in order to spread the truth about the attack, Nax and his fellow failures must execute a dangerous heist.
Author
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"All Alea has ever known is life in the Outpost. Long before she was born, the Outpost crash-landed on an uninhabitable frozen planet that was never meant to support humanity...and yet, life has gone on. School, friends, the fights every Friday night--there's plenty to distract her, yet Alea's sure there's something else out there. And when tragedy strikes, Alea vows to uncover the truth...even if it upends her world forever."
Author
Series
Virga volume 2
Language
English
Description
With the Key of Candesce in her position, Venera Fanning lands on the ancient world of Spyre, where she initiates a war between the status quo and the reformists, and makes it her mission to seek revenge on the individuals responsible for her free fall.
Author
Language
English
Description
A sparkling, provocative history of the English in South Asia during Queen Victoria's reign.
Between 1837 and 1901, less than 100,000 Britons at any one time managed an empire of 300 million people spread over the vast area that now includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Burma. How was this possible, and what were these people like? The British administration in India took pride in its efficiency and broad-mindedness, its devotion to duty and...
Author
Series
Chaos walking volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the King Philip's War of 1675 between New England colonists and the Wampanoag Indians, and examines how the writing about the war, done primarily by the colonists after the conflict, affected future relations and attitudes between Indians and Anglos.
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
In the year 2070, a captain--R. E. Lee--and crew hijack their starship, "Alabama," on the day of its official launch, replace its intended passengers with political dissidents and their families, and set up a colony light-years away on a world named Coyote.
33) The colony
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A novel examining the long, complicit aftermath of colonialism, told through the summer of 1979 and a remote island in the west of Ireland, one of the last places where people speak everyday Irish, and two men who come to experience it"--
It is the summer of 1979. An English painter travels to a small island off the west coast of Ireland. Mr. Lloyd takes the last leg by currach, though boats with engines are available and he doesn't much like the...
34) Dragon Harper
Author
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
35) Dragon's fire
Author
Publisher
Del Rey Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
37) Morgan's run
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Richard Morgan, the refined son of a Bristol tavern-keeper finds himself consigned as a convict to the "First Fleet" which brought male and female prisoners to the newly discovered continent of Australia.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Bean's past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children's gang, and then to help make that gang a template for success for all the others. He civilized them, and lived to grow older. Then he was discovered by the recruiters for the Battle School. For Earth...
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