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3001) Mr. Universe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Michael goes to visit his eccentric mad-scientist uncle who, busy working on yet another time-travel experiment in his cluttered lab, barely notices him. He keeps muttering things like "quantum multiverse transporter" and Michael has to entertain himself. Which is how Michael accidentally ends up in an alternate universe. Everything looks remarkably similar to his own world, but with a few key differences, like lizard men dressed...
3002) Les enfants de l'ombre
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Series
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Français
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Persécutés depuis leur apparition au XVe siècle, les mutants se cachent parmi les humains, tandis que la première d'entre eux crée une brèche menant à un monde parallèle : Féreld. Plus de cinq cents ans après, Marthe Camps, une mutante au pouvoir de l'eau, entre dans ce nouveau monde pour faire ses études à l'école d'Hénert, un établissement dédié à leur espèce, afin de parfaire sa puissance et explorer l'environnement de Féreld....
3003) Enemies & Bookends
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Series
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English
Description
It was either leave these four trapped in ancient times, or risk their lives to save our world in the present.
Helluva choice.
It they died, we'd all be dead soon after.
If we tried anything without them, we'd die just a little later - but still dead.
Because evil doesn't take opposition lightly - unless it's overwhelming. And, even then, they still put up a good fight.
So, fight and live, or fight and die.
Our secret weapon was among those...
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Language
English
Description
First-Person Singularities, stories by science fiction Grand Master Robert Silverberg, features eighteen tales written over the course of his forty-year career, all told in the first-person singular. Inspired by W. Somerset Maugham's Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular, a fiercely realist collection from the 1930s, Silverberg takes on the challenge, offering up his own unique sci-fi twist and "running the gambit of singularity." Every...
3005) Lavender-Green Magic
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Series
Magic books (Andre Norton) volume 5
Language
English
Description
With their father missing in action in Vietnam, Holly and her siblings end up in a time warp as they race to free their town from a witch's curse When Holly, Judy, and Crockett Wade are sent to live with their grandparents after their father is declared MIA in Vietnam, Holly fears she'll never fit in at school. The small town of Dimsdale, Massachusetts, is nothing like Boston. Even worse, Grandma and Grandpa Wade live in an overgrown house next...
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English
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"On an ordinary night in an ordinary year, Tommy Llewellyn's doting parents wake in a home without toys and diapers, without photos of their baby scattered about, and without any idea that the small child asleep in his crib is theirs. That's because Tommy is a boy destined to never be remembered. On the same day every year, everyone around him forgets he exists, and he grows up enduring his own universal Reset. That is until something extraordinary...
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Series
Magic tree house volume 39
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jack and Annie are whisked away to Mongolia to meet the near-extinct little horses and their caretakers, but can they help protect the last of the horses from predators?"--
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Geronimo Stilton travels back in time to ancient Rome, the great Mayan Empire and the palace of Versailles during the age of the Sun King, where he experiences wild historical adventures
3009) Heroes in crisis
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"There's a new kind of crisis threatening the heroes of the DC Universe, ripped from real-world headlines by CIA-operative turned comics writer Tom King: How does a superhero handle PTSD? Welcome to Sanctuary, an ultra-secret hospital for superheroes who've been traumatized by crime-fighting and cosmic combat. But something goes inexplicably wrong when many patients wind up dead, with two well-known operators as the prime suspects: Harley Quinn and...
3010) Risked
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Series
The missing volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jonah, thirteen, and Katherine, eleven, travel through time to 1918 Russia just as Alexei, Anastasia, and the rest of Tsar Nicholas II's family is about to be executed. Author's note includes facts about the Romanov's and the mystery surrounding their deaths
3011) Permafrost
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English
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Description
Fix the past. Save the present. Stop the future. Master of science fiction Alastair Reynolds unfolds a time-traveling climate fiction adventure in Permafrost.
2080: at a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers and physicians gather to gamble humanity's future on one last-ditch experiment. Their goal: to make a tiny alteration to the past, averting a global catastrophe while at the same time leaving recorded...
3012) Wolf's Curse
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English
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The past never dies, and mine won't stay buried. Starting over in the modern human world as a fox shifter is tough enough. But when a malevolent spirit begins possessing and killing those around me, my new life takes a deadly turn. Drake and I team up to hunt down the culprit even though our secrets threaten to tear our fragile alliance apart. To make matters worse, the looming full moon means the spirit grows stronger and more dangerous daily. With...
3013) The dark tower
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English
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Description
Based on the best-selling book series by highly-acclaimed author Stephen King. The last Gunslinger, Roland has been locked in an eternal battle with the Man in Black, determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower, which holds the universe together. With the fate of the worlds at stake, good and evil will collide in the epic battle as only Roland can defend the Tower from the Man in Black.--From container
3014) The Lost Celt
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Language
English
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Written in the voice of Mikey, a fourth-grader who believes that eating crunchy things will get your neurons to fire, The Lost Celt follows Mikey's adventures after a chance encounter with what he thinks is a time-traveling Celtic warrior. With the help of his best friend Kyler, and clues from his military history book, Mikey tracks down the stranger, and in the process learns about the power and obligations of friendship. Full of heart, The Lost...
3015) Les sorcières de Salers
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Series
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Français
Description
Suivez les aventures d'un trio de détectives pas comme les autres
Sorah, Miriel et Hénora, sont des triplettes un peu particulières. En effet, ce sont de puissantes sorcières, transportées du XVIIème au XXIème siècle pour échapper au bûcher par leur "oncle" Jin, lui-même génie. Depuis leur maison près de Salers, elles s'efforcent désormais de résoudre toutes sortes d'affaires mystérieuses. Ce qu'elles ignorent c'est que leur voyage...
3016) Future Friend
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Language
English
Description
From million-copy bestselling author David Baddiel comes a laugh-out-loud and inspiring new adventure for all readers of 8 and up that is ahead of its time – 1,001 years ahead, to be precise… The year is 3020. Pip@256X#YY.3_7 is lonely and bored: she goes to virtual school on her G-Glasses, she only has a talking cat and parrot to hang out with, and she can't even leave her LivingSpace due to the extreme heat and floods outside. Until the day...
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Series
Flashback Four volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In this jaw-dropping final installment of New York Times bestselling author Dan Gutman's action-packed series, four risk-taking friends travel back in time to record the most infamous duel in American history.
Billionaire Miss Z might be out of the picture, but a top-secret agency wants to send Luke, Julia, David, and Isabel on one final mission. This time, the Flashback Four are headed to Weehawken, New Jersey-in 1804-to videotape the fateful duel...
3018) Bridge of Time
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Best friends Lee Jones and Joan Lee have a lot more in common besides their names. On the eve of their class trip, they each learn their parents are getting divorced. Ugh. The class trip is a dud, so Lee and Joan steal away to talk. What follows is an afternoon nap in a lighthouse, walking up to find the Golden Gate Bridge gone-gone!-and meeting a young man named Sam Clemens, who is on the run from a mysterious stranger.
Lee and Joan wonder: Where...
3019) Meet Hedy Lamarr
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Series
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English
Description
In the second book of Caroline Fernandez's Asha and Baz series, readers once more dive into the past-this time to learn about famous actor and inventor Hedy Lamarr!
Computer class is off to a rocky start for Asha and Baz! They've been given a Coding Challenge and must correctly code instructions to send a digital frog across a computer screen. But they can't seem to figure it out. With their reputation as the smartest kids in their class at stake,...
3020) The Goblin Reservation
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Language
English
Description
The hunt for his killer leads a dead professor of supernatural phenomena into the perilous intrigues of aliens, fairy folk, and time-travelers in this classic of science fiction. Until the day he was murdered, Professor Peter Maxwell was a respected faculty member of the College of Supernatural Phenomena. Imagine his chagrin when he turns up at a Wisconsin matter transmission station several weeks later and discovers he's not only dead but unemployed....
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