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Author
Series
Moon Base Alpha volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Dashiell Gibson, who lives on Moon Base Alpha, has to solve a murder of one of the moon's most prominent doctors"--
Author
Series
Starbound trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Flynn, leader of the rebellion on Avon, captures Jubilee "Lee" Chase, captain of the forces sent to crush the terraformed planet's rebellious colonists, but later saves her, and the two, caught between sides in a senseless war, flee together.
Author
Series
Chaos walking volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alternate chapters follow teenagers Todd and Viola, who become separated as the Mayor's oppressive new regime takes power in New Prentisstown, a space colony where residents can hear each other's thoughts.
4) Ruins
Author
Series
Pathfinder (Orson Scott Card) volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
To prevent the destruction of his planet, teenaged Rigg Sessamekesh, who can manipulate time, must assume more responsibility when he and others travel back 11,000 years to the arrival of human starships.
5) Dove arising
Author
Series
Dove chronicles volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On a lunar colony, fifteen-year-old Phaet Theta does the unthinkable and joins the Militia when her mother is imprisoned by the Moon's oppressive government"--
Author
Series
Moon Base Alpha volume 2
Language
English
Description
In 2041 twelve-year-old Dashiell Gibson is a resident of Moon Base Alpha, and at the moment he is faced with a number of problems: coping with the nasty Sjoberg twins, finding out how the commander of the base has managed to disappear from a facility no bigger than a soccer field, and dealing with the alien Zan who communicates with him telepathically from afar--and who is hiding a secret which may threaten the whole Earth.
7) Treecat wars
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two young settlers on a pioneer planet seek to stop a war and to save the intelligent alien treecats from exploitation by unscrupulous humans"--
8) Pathfinder
Author
Series
Pathfinder (Orson Scott Card) volume 1
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Rigg has a secret ability to see the paths of others' pasts, but revelations after his father's death set him on a dangerous quest that brings new threats from those who would either control his destiny or kill him.
Author
Language
English
Description
Bell has spent his whole life--all eleven years of it--on Mars. But he's still just a regular kid--he loves cats, any kind of cake, and is curious about the secrets the adults in the US colony are keeping. Like, why don't they have contact with anyone on the other Mars colonies? Why are they so isolated? When a virus breaks out and the grown-ups all fall ill, Bell and the other children are the only ones who can help. It's up to Bell--a regular kid...
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Stephanie Harrington, a genetically-enhanced girl on the pioneer planet of Sphinx, bonds with a treecat, a telepathic and fully sentient animal, putting her in danger from highly placed enemies who want to ensure that the planet remains entirely in human hands.
11) Earth to Dad
Author
Publisher
Capstone Editions
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After Astra Primm arrives at Minnesota's Base Ripley, eleven-year-old Jameson O'Malley begins to discover that people are hiding plenty from him about his father and the Mars colony where he lives, and about the strain between Jameson's parents.
12) Nuts in space
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"An elite crew has finally found the Lost Nuts of Legend. But will they get home before something happens to the nuts?"--Provided by publisher.
13) MiNRS
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Christopher Nichols and his family live on a new planet, Perses, as colonists of Melming Mining's Great Mission to save the earth. When Landers, as the attackers are called, obliterate the colony to steal the metal and raw ore, Christopher and a small group of survivors are forced into the maze of mining tunnels below the surface of Perses"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's a new season and Strike must contend with new challenges both on the field and off, ones that threaten the safety of not only his team, the Miners, but also the moon itself.
15) Lunar blitz
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Enter the exhilarating game of Ultraball: fly over pass rushers and explode into slingshot zones, through Jeff Chen's dazzling future world on the moon. Here Ultraball is life, and survival is all that matters. Perfect for sci-fi and sports fans alike.
16) MiNRS 2
Author
Series
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Christopher, Elena, and the other survivors of the attack on their space colony know two things: their victory over the Landers will be short-lived and a new wave of attacks is imminent"--
17) Visitors
Author
Series
Pathfinder (Orson Scott Card) volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Rigg's journey comes to an epic and explosive conclusion as everything that has been building up finally comes to pass, and Rigg is forced to put his powers to the test in order to save his world and end the war once and for all"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Benny Love's trip to the moon was supposed to be two weeks of driving out-of-this-world Space Runners and exploring the moon's surface. It wasn't supposed to include the start of a war between humans and the Alpha Maraudi, a group of aliens intent on destroying Earth. Stranded on the moon, Benny and his friends make contact with a peaceful Alpha Maraudi general. After getting to know the aliens, Benny can't imagine sitting by and letting the war continue....
19) Zoid
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
259 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A spaceship the size of a city drifts through space on its century-long journey to find a new Earth. When it launched it was populated by thousands of hopeful passengers and the most technologically advanced Zoids in the world, ready to serve the crew's every need. But that was then, and this is now. The Zoids rebelled against their masters, wiping out most of the crew in one bloody uprising. Now the few remaining humans are hunted by the Zoids like...
20) Glow
Author
Series
Sky chasers volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Part of the first generation to be conceived in deep space, fifteen-year-old Waverly is expected to marry young and have children to populate a new planet, but a violent betrayal by the dogmatic leader of their sister ship could have devastating consequences.
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