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This unique title looks at how outer space has been depicted on the big screen over the years. Readers will learn about some of the most famous movies, both fact and fiction. Cool Hollywood photos complete the book. This title is at a Level 3 and is written specifically for transitional readers. Aligned to Common Core standards & correlated to state standards. Dash! is an imprint of Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO.
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In the vein of Randall Munroe's What If? meets Brian Green's Elegant Universe, a senior writer from Space.com leads readers on a wild ride of exploration into the final frontier, investigating what's really "out there."
We've all asked ourselves the question. It's impossible to look up at the stars and NOT think about it: Are we alone in the universe? Books, movies and television shows proliferate that attempt to answer this question and explore it....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
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720L
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Taking up where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory leaves off, Charlie, his family, and Mr. Wonka find themselves launched into space in the great glass elevator. Mr. Willy Wonka might be a genius with chocolate, but Charlie and his family don₂t trust his flying skills one bit. And right now, he₂s at the helm of a giant glass elevator that₂s picking up speed and hurtling through space ₇ with Charlie and the entire Bucket family stuck inside!...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 25
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The veteran of four space flights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few have. Now, he takes us inside a sphere utterly inimical to human life. He describes navigating the extreme challenge of long-term spaceflight, both existential and banal: the devastating effects on the body; the isolation from everyone he loves and the comforts of Earth; the pressures of constant close cohabitation;...
28) Astronauts
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Learn about the first man on the moon, explore the parts of a space suit, find out what astronauts do during their days off and more.
29) Spacewalks
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Explains what spacewalking consists of, including collecting samples, fixing equipment, and sightseeing.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Kids can discover the darkest corners of the solar system and then go beyond them with a trip through the Biggest, Baddest Book of Space. Readers will learn the secrets of the biggest planets, get to know flying space rocks, get lost in giant black holes, go on an outer space exploration and more. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing.
32) Space robots
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Space is the new frontier for robots. Readers learn all about the robots that have left Earth s atmosphere to explore space and perform special missions. The book provides an overview of the history of space robots, as well as the development of the newest robots used today. Readers will learn about how robots are changing our knowledge about space and unlocking its many secrets. This book also discusses the future of space technology. Color photographs...
33) A rover's story
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
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Meet Resilience, a Mars rover determined to live up to his name. Res was built to explore Mars. He was not built to have human emotions. But as he learns new things from the NASA scientists who assemble him, he begins to develop human-like feelings. Human emotions or not, launch day comes, and Res blasts off to Mars, accompanied by a friendly drone helicopter named Fly. But Res quickly discovers that Mars is a dangerous place filled with dust storms...
34) The deep sky
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Flatiron Books
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"Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with a lethal explosion that leaves the survivors questioning the loyalty of the crew. To save humanity, they left everything behind-except their differences. It is the eve of Earth's environmental collapse. A single ship carries humanity's last hope: eighty elite graduates of a competitive program, who will give birth to a generation of...
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Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 4
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"With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has going for it is a chance proximity to more popular worlds, making it a decent stopover for ships traveling between the wormholes that keep the Galactic Commons connected. If deep space is a highway, Gora is just your average truck stop. At the Five-Hop One-Stop, long-haul spacers can stretch their legs (if they have legs, that is), and get fuel, transit...
36) History of NASA
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This book summarizes the history of NASA, from its beginnings to its accomplishments, to what it plans for the future. Historical photographs from NASA's archives, a glossary, and an index are included.
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The first interstellar starship, John Glenn, fled a Solar System populated by rogue AIs and machine/human hybrids, threatened by too much nanotechnology, and rife with political dangers. The John Glenn's crew intended to terraform the nearly pristine planet Ymir, in hopes of creating a utopian society that would limit intelligent technology. But by some miscalculation they have landed in another solar system and must shape the gas giant planet Harlequin's...
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Indranan war volume 1
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Hail Bristol has made a name for herself in the galaxy for everything except what she was born to do: rule the Indranan Empire. When she is dragged back to her home planet to take her rightful place as the only remaining heir, she finds that trading her ship for a palace is her most dangerous move yet.
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Honors volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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Petty criminal Zara Cole is recruited into the Honors, an elite team of humans chosen by the Leviathan to explore the outer reaches of the universe.
Petty criminal Zara Cole's painful past made her strong, and she chose life in New Detroit instead moving with her family to Mars. But now she's committed a crime that has her heading to jail. Instead Zara is recruited into the Honors, an elite team of humans selected by the Leviathan-- a race of sentient...
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