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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
470L
Language
English
Description
When a rainstorm prevents Nancy and her best friend, Robert, from getting to the planetarium the night of a class field trip, she has a brilliant idea for making things better.
6) Life on Mars
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Arcturus Betelgeuse Chambers' quest to find life on other planets seems at an end when his parents decide to move to Las Vegas, but while they look for a house he stays with his neighbor, an astronaut who soon becomes a friend.
8) Portals
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After a research facility creates the first active black hole, multiple portals appear all over the world and some people end up drawn into them.
10) 2012
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
A geophysical team, who are investigating the effect radiation from other solar systems has on the Earth, learn that the core of the Earth is heating up and warn the President of the United States. While the leaders of the world race to build 'arks' to escape the impending doom, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc all over the world.
11) Where I live
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In a series of poems, Diana writes about her life, both before and after her father loses his job and she and her family move far away to live with Grandpa Joe.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 560L
Language
English
Description
When pizzeria owner's son requests a pizza with everything, his father helps him add sauce, a house, penguins, and more, until they accidentally create a pizza black hole.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
After seventeen-year-old best friends Rora and Claudia discover there are secret cities, ruled by astrology-based magic, on other planets in our solar system, they travel into the spheres to solve a mysterious disharmony threatening the balance of the outer worlds and their own.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Brady and his cousin Quinn love extreme sports, but nothing could prepare them for the aftermath of Brady's close encounter with a meteorite after it crashes into his Black Hills, South Dakota, bedroom.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Nine-year-old Julian almost died when he was born and he believes that he has a special connection to the universe because of that, and he wants to make his two moms and his sister (who turned into a black hole of discontentment when she turned fourteen)happy because he is convinced that soon he will die and travel to the dog star--but now they have moved to Maine and he resolves to also use his "uni-sense" ability to help Mr. X, their neighbor, who...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Mormon girl Elizabeth is torn between becoming an astronomer and familial duties and faith when she navigates a whole new world of possibility, in this sweeping adventure set in Colorado in the late nineteenth century.
Elizabeth Bertelsen dreams of becoming an astronomer, but for her such dreams are as unreachable as the stars she so deeply adores. As a Mormon girl, her duty is to her family and, in a not too far away future, to...
17) Contact: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
Beautiful astrophysicist Rebecca Blake deciphers long-awaited signals from space, persuades world leaders to construct a machine that many consider a Trojan Horse, and journeys into space for an epochal encounter.
20) The black hole
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Scientists are all aboard an Earth discovery vessel on a fruitless search for life in space when they encounter a lost spaceship perched on the event horizon of the universe's most powerful phenomenon, a black hole.
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