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41) Stars and bones
Author
Series
Continuance novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventy-five years from today, the human race has been cast from a dying Earth to wander the stars in a vast fleet of arks--each shaped by its inhabitants into a diverse and fascinating new environment, with its own rules and eccentricities. When her sister disappears while responding to a mysterious alien distress call, Eryn insists on being part of the crew sent to look for her. What she discovers on Candidate-623 is both terrifying and deadly....
Author
Series
January dancer volume 3
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
One-time Confederal agent Donovan Buigh is recalled to take part in a secret civil war of sabotage and assassination being waged within the Lion's Mouth, the bureau that oversees the Shadows.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A little girl who loves planes is sent to her bedroom for doing a loop-de-loop off the couch and finds a secret door leading to room with real flying machines, and she sets off on an adventure.
44) Updraft
Author
Series
Bone universe novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
All Kirit Densira wants is to pass her wingtest, strap on her flying gear, and join her mother as a trader, ferrying much-needed supplies between towers made of living bone while eluding the predatory skymouths that snatch citizens from the air. When Kirit breaks Tower Law by deterring a skymouth attack, the enigmatic Singers -- who govern the city from within the Spire -- present her with an agonizing choice: sacrifice her life's dream in order to...
45) Aurora rising
Author
Series
Aurora cycle volume 1
Language
English
Description
2380. The graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the Academy would touch, from a sociopath scientist with a fondness for shooting her bunkmates to an alien warrior with anger management issues. But Ty's biggest problem is Aurora Jie-Lin O'Malley, who he just rescued from interdimensional...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a thunderstorm grounds all flights following a huge Muslim convention, four unlikely kids are thrown together. Feek is stuck babysitting his younger sister, but he's rather be writing a poem that's good enough for his dad, a famous poet and rapper. Hanna is intent on finding a lost cat in the airport--and also on avoiding a conversation with her dad about him possibly remarrying. Sami is struggling with his anxiety and worried that he'll miss...
48) Time to fly
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A mama bird tries to convince a baby bird to leave the nest"--
Author
Language
English
Description
The author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. How much can a person give up? How much weirdness can they take? What happens to you when you can't walk for a year? have sex? smell flowers?...
50) Zoo zoom!
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"The animals at the zoo have a great idea--to take a rocket into outer space! But this flight of fancy goes awry when the hippo falls asleep on the job. Will they be able to return safely to Earth? Zoo Zoom, Zoo Moon!"--
Author
Series
Olga (Elise Gravel) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Olga decides she would like to figure out what planet Meh is from and begins to conduct some research on space travel.
55) Skid: a novel
Author
Series
Occupational Hazards volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The third book in the Occupational Hazards series, a laugh-out-loud novel about a group of strangers flying from Atlanta to Amsterdam
Blissfully unaware that Atlantica Flight 1945 from Atlanta to Amsterdam is about to make aviation history, First Officer Danny McSweeney focuses his energies on navigating the turbulent personalities of an eccentric female captain, a co-pilot with a talent for tactless comments and conspiracy theories, and...
Blissfully unaware that Atlantica Flight 1945 from Atlanta to Amsterdam is about to make aviation history, First Officer Danny McSweeney focuses his energies on navigating the turbulent personalities of an eccentric female captain, a co-pilot with a talent for tactless comments and conspiracy theories, and...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When the alarm went off forty thousand feet above the moon's surface, both astronauts looked down at the computer to see 1202 flashing on the readout. Neither of them knew what it meant, and time was running out ... On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon. One of the world's greatest technological achievements. ... The Apollo 11 mission was a mammoth undertaking involving more than 410,000 men...
Author
Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
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Description
"The mysteries of space have intrigued us since ancient times. Early observers named the constellations as a way to keep track of the starry patterns in the night sky. Through the years, astronomers discovered planets, moons, and many other objects. As technology improved, the dream of physically exploring space became reality, and space shuttles blasted into the world above our heads. Where will we go next?" --
59) Cloudbound
Author
Series
Bone universe novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Kirit Densira left her home tower for the skies, she gave up many things: her beloved family, her known way of life, her dreams of flying as a trader for her tower, her dreams. Kirit set her City upside down, and fomented a massive rebellion at the Spire, to the good of the towers--but months later, everything has fallen to pieces. With the Towers in disarray, without a governing body or any defense against the dangers lurking in the clouds,...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
George does not feel ready to learn to fly, leave his nest, and go south with the other birds, despite his mother's encouragement, but when a strong autumn wind gets hold of the nest, he may have no choice.
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