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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
The sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to save both humanity and the earth, Ryland Grace is hurtled into the depths of space when he must conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
Ryland Grace has been asleep for a very, very long time. He's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. He can't remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive--and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he...
3) El marciano
Author
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Escucha esta novela brillante, delirio ingenioso, con una mecánica del suspense que te sorprenderá una y otra vez. Una experiencia literaria excepcional en gravedad cero.
«La mejor novela de ciencia ficción en años.»
Wall Street Journal
Las mejores novelas de ciencia ficción en formato audiolibro
Seis días atrás el astronauta Mark Watney se convirtió en uno de los primeros hombres en
...Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his volatile father is picked to become an astronaut for NASA's mission to Mars, seventeen-year-old Cal, an aspiring journalist, reluctantly moves from Brooklyn to Houston, Texas, and looks for a story to report, finding an ally (and crush) in Jeremy, the son of another astronaut.
5) Countdown!
Author
Publisher
Gingham Dog Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A young boy getting ready for bed counts down the special things that help him fall asleep, such as putting on his spacesuit-pajamas and drinking his space juice.
8) Gravity
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
An organism harmless on earth where it is subject to gravity terrorizes a research station in space. Scientists die violently and from their insides spill creatures that are part human, part frog and part mouse. A medical thriller by the author of Bloodstream.
9) Mousetronaut
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A small, but plucky, mouse named Mike is sure that he can help the Space Shuttle astronauts, and ends up saving the whole mission.
11) The return
Author
Series
Voyagers volume 4
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
After more than a century of exploring the stars, Keith Stoner returns to Earth to find the planet in peril. Stoner wants to save Earth's people, but first he must save himself from the frightened zealots who want to destroy this stranger--and the terrifying message he brings from the stars.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When young Mae Jemison is asked by her teacher what she wants to be when she grows up, African American Mae tells her mostly white classmates that she wants to be an astronaut, a dream that her parents wholeheartedly support.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When one of Pom Pom's botany experiments goes awry on the International Space Station, the CatStronauts must find a way to tame the weeds gone haywire and get back to Earth without help from Mission Control.
16) Astro girl
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After Astrid tells her father that she wants to be an astronaut, he tells her of all the things that astronauts have to do.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carbon dioxide is out of control on Earth, and the fate of humankind rests in the paws of four experimental, untested Animal Astronauts (AlphaWolf, SmartHawk, LaserShark, and StinkBug) who are seeking another habitable planet; first destination is the Plant Planet which at first looks perfect, except that the abundant plant life can think for itself--and it thinks that it really does not like the AstroNuts.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In 2019, teens Mia, Antoine, and Midori are selected by lottery to join experienced astronauts on a NASA mission to the once top-secret moon base, DARLAH 2, while in a Florida nursing home, a former astronaut struggles to warn someone of the terrible danger there.
19) Life on Mars
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Arcturus Betelgeuse Chambers' quest to find life on other planets seems at an end when his parents decide to move to Las Vegas, but while they look for a house he stays with his neighbor, an astronaut who soon becomes a friend.
20) Life on Mars
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A young astronaut is trying to find life on Mars, but he's made a very big oversight"--
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