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2) Monster
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When new meteorite strikes introduce an alien virus, humans develop unique superpowers that trigger a battle between teen hero defenders and supermonsters.
3) Hero
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
While the Rockborn Gang tries to outmaneuver a new supervillain created by meteorite shrapnel, Malik investigates the Dark Watchers and the possibility that their reality is advanced, elaborate simulation.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
150 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a meteorite crashes into a fifth-grade classroom at Lincoln School in Oak Park, Illinois, the genie inside agrees to grant the class a Christmas wish--if they can agree on one within an hour.
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old aspiring geologist Henry Bower investigates the meteorite that crash lands in the hayfield, discovering a rock that will change his family, his town, and even himself.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
What's going on in Bone Lake, Michigan? Penny Hardjoy's conspiracy-theorist father has gone missing -- and other people are turning up dead in the woods. Penny's an aspiring journalist, and the deeper she digs, the weirder things start to get. Men in black suits stroll around Main Street. Chunks of Penny's memory go missing. She teams up with the nerdy boy next door, and the town's star quarterback, to research the long-ago meteorite crash in Bone...
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Middle schooler Liberty likes to make her own maps of the stars, in fact she is obsessed with them, especially since her family is falling apart; her parents are getting divorced, her nine-year-old sister will barely leave the house and carries a stuffed tiger at all times, her father is suffering from depression, but will not talk about it, and the brothers down the street, once friends, have turned into bullies--so when a tiny meteorite literally...
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
47 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides an introduction to comets, covering where they come from, how they travel, their importance to astronomers, as well as their relationship to meteor showers.
10) Mercury rising
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The year is 1975 - Robert Oppenheimer has invented the Atomic Engine, the first human has walked on the moon, and Jet Carson and the Eagle Seven have sacrificed their lives to stop alien invaders. Brooklyn, however, just wants to keep his head down, pay his mother's rent, earn a little scratch of his own, and maybe get laid sometime. Simple pleasures! But life is about to get real complicated when a killer with a baseball bat and a mysterious box...
11) Scowler
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a 1981 meteor shower in Iowa, a homicidal maniac escapes from prison and returns to the farm where his nineteen-year-old son, Ry, must summon three childhood toys, including one called Scowler, to protect himself, his eleven-year-old sister, Sarah, and their mother.
Author
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Alex Woods was struck by a meteorite when he was ten years old, leaving scars that marked him for an extraordinary life. The son of a fortune teller, bookish, and an easy target for bullies, he hasn't had the most conventional childhood. When he meets curmudgeonly widower Mr. Peterson, he finds an unlikely friend. Someone who teaches him that that you only get one shot at life. That you have to make it count. So when, aged seventeen, Alex is stopped...
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
According to Arctic legend, if you whistle at the Northern Lights, they'll swoop down and carry you off forever. Eline Davis was there on the remote glacier in Svalbard, when her mother whistled, then vanished. Years later, living with her dad on Cape Cod, Eli discovers the Northern Lights will be visible there for one night. She hatches a plan to use the lights to contact her missing mother... and it works. Her mother arrives... but magical, dangerous...
16) Deception point
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the eve of a presidential race in which NASA's budget is a pivotal issue, the space agency announces the discovery of an ancient meteorite filled with fossils deep in the Arctic ice.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 82 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Publishers Weekly (01/18/2016): Macdonald, a British historian, naturalist, and illustrator, made waves with her memoir, "H Is for Hawk" but in her debut collection of poetry she goes beyond simply observing the natural world, displaying the indefatigable curiosity that motivated the early naturalists who inspire her. Macdonald employs her knowledge of the natural sciences as she deftly works scientific discoveries into poems on such subjects as love,...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"We have the impression that the solar system is perfectly regular like a clock, or a planetarium instrument. On a short timescale it is. But, seen in a longer perspective, the planets, and their satellites, have exciting lives, full of events - for example, did you know that Saturn's moon, Titan, boasts lakes which contain liquid methane surrounded by soaring hills and valleys, exactly as the earth did before life evolved on our fragile planet? Or...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
25 Blu-rays (94 hr., 35 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged : chiefly color photographs ; 14 x 18 cm)
Language
English
Description
A woman who moves into an apartment across the hall from two brilliant but socially awkward physicists shows them how little they know about life outside of the laboratory. The friends solve everyday problems posed by academia, family and video games. What they prove is that friendship is the element that matters most in the universe.
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