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Author
Series
Artemis Fowl volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Artemis has committed his entire fortune to a project he believes will save the planet and its inhabitants, both human and fairy. Can it be true? Has goodness taken hold of the world's greatest teenage criminal mastermind? Captain Holly Short is unconvinced, and discovers that Artemis is suffering from Atlantis Complex, a psychosis common among guilt-ridden fairies - not humans - and most likely triggered by Artemis's dabbling with fairy magic. Symptoms...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
viii, 470 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A mind-bending book about modern physics, quantum mechanics, the fate of stars and the deep mysteries of black holes. What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed it did--and in doing so put at risk everything we know about physics and the fundamental laws of the universe. Most scientists didn't recognize the import of Hawking's claims, but Leonard Susskind...
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
2040-2045: In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds. Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this perilous rescue work when, out of the blue, Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father and inventor of the original Stepper device, Willis Linsay. He tells her he is planning a fantastic voyage across the Long Mars and wants her...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
167 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Albie's mother dies from cancer, his father explains that she may be alive in a parallel universe, so he decides to universe-hop and find her with the help of a banana, a laptop, and a box.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
viii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Following the great minds that first drew the links between music and physicsa list including Pythagoras, Kepler, Newton, Einstein, and RakimThe Jazz of Physics revisits the ancient realm where music, physics, and the cosmos were one. This cosmological journey accompanies Alexanders own tale of struggling to reconcile his passion for music and physics, from taking music lessons as a boy in the Bronx to studying theoretical physics at Imperial College,...
66) Big time
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
What if time could be taken from us—the minutes, the hours, the years of our lives, extracted like organs taken for transplant? What would it mean for the world? And what would it do to the person from whom it’s taken?
Grace Berney is a mid-level bureaucrat in the Food and Drug Administration, a woman who once brimmed with purpose but somehow turned into a middle-aged single mom with a dull government job and a melancholy sense that life has...
Author
Series
Artemis fowl volume 8
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
328 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Opal Koboi after reanimating fairy warriors from thousands of years in the past, plans to destroy all human life on Earth, unless Artemis Fowl teen genius, can stop her, and the Fowl Estate is ground zero for the battle.
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 5
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xi, 377 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's 2070-71. Nearly six decades after Step Day, and in the Long Earth the new Next posthuman society continues to evolve. For Joshua Valiente, now in his late 60s, it is time to take one last solo journey into the High Meggers: an adventure that turns into a disaster. Alone and facing death, his only hope of salvation lies with a group of trolls. But as Joshua confronts his mortality, the Long Earth receives a signal from the stars. A signal that...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 19
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
71 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having used their magic tree house to travel to India, where they must get a gift to help free the dog Teddy from a spell, Jack and Annie have adventures involving a tiger and other endangered jungle animals.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
As we grow older -- most of all, in what we remember and what we dream -- we live in the past. Sometimes, we live more vividly in the past than in the present. As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, but what travels with him are his dreams and memories; he is most alive in his childhood and early adolescence in Mexico. "An aura of fate had marked him," John Irving writes, of Juan Diego. "The chain of events, the links in...
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl volume 6
Publisher
Disney Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
391 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Artemis's mother has contracted a deadly disease and the only cure lies in the brain fluid of African lemurs. Unfortunately, Artemis himself was responsible for making the lemurs extinct five years ago. Now he must enlist the aid of his fairy friends to travel back in time and save them. Not only that, but he must face his deadliest foe yet...his younger self. 500: :
Includes an excerpt from Airman.
Author
Publisher
9th Cinebook
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
159 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Bad Dreams: Valerian is sent by Galaxity to 11th-century France, chasing a dissident. While there, he encounters Laureline, who shows her pretty face for the first time...and saves the young spatio-temporal agent from an early end!
The City of Shifting Waters and Earth in Flames: Valerian and Laureline arrive in New York in 1986, hunting for Xombul as he tries to take over after cataclysm that devastated the planet. From the waters of the sunken...
Author
Publisher
9th Cinebook
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
174 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
The land without stars: At the edge of the universe, a rogue planet threatens Terran colonies. Called upon to help, Valerian and Laureline discover a strange world where the war of the sexes rages ... literally. The two explorers split up to tackle the problem, each in their own way -- one ever the action man, the other a high priestess of charm. Will they be able to prevent the impending disaster?
Welcome to Alflolol: Technorog is an uninhabited...
Author
Series
Pendragon volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
Each of the Travelers returns home to learn the truth about their origins before being reunited for a final, ineveitable confrontation with Saint Dane, whose efforts to control Halla are destroying its very foundations.
75) The rehearsals
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Megan Givens and Tom Prescott are heading into what is supposed to be their magical wedding weekend on beautiful San Juan Island. With two difficult families, ten years of history, and all too many secrets, things quickly go wrong. After a disastrous rehearsal dinner they vow to call the whole thing off-- only to wake up the next morning stuck together in a time loop. They seem destined to relive the worst day of their lives, over and over-- and what...
76) Sent
Author
Series
The missing volume 2
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Jonah, Katherine, Chip, and Alex suddenly find themselves in 1483 at the Tower of London, where they discover that Chip and Alex are Prince Edward V and Richard of Shrewsbury, imprisoned by their uncle, King Richard III, but trying to repair history without knowing what is supposed to happen proves challenging. Author's note includes historical facts about the princes and king.
Author
Series
Pendragon volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bobby Pendragon travels to the territory of Cloral, a world covered by water, and discovers that he must expel marauders from the land and find the lost land of Faar.
Author
Series
Empire games volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xiv, 385 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The alternate timelines of Charles Stross' Empire Games trilogy have never been so entangled than in Invisible Sun-the techno-thriller follow up to Dark State-as stakes escalate in a conflict that could spell extermination for humanity across all known timelines. An inter-timeline coup d'�etat gone awry. A renegade British monarch on the run through the streets of Berlin. And robotic alien invaders from a distant timeline flood through a wormhole,...
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After their scientist father disappears during an experiment, Meg, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin travel through time and space to find him with the help of three magical beings.
Author
Series
Strangeworlds travel agency volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (8 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Flick Hudson accidentally ends up in the Strangeworlds Travel Agency, she uncovers a fantastic secret: there are hundreds of other worlds just steps away from hers. All you have to do to visit them is just jump into the right suitcase. Then Flick gets the invitation of a lifetime: join Strangeworlds' magical travel society and explore other worlds. But, unbeknownst to Flick, the world at the very center of it all, a city called...
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