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21) Ambush
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Robot wars (Sigmund Brouwer) volume 3
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"Tyce has to rescue his friend, Director Rawling McTigre, along with three other scientists who are trapped in a cave-in on Mars. He also has to uncover a devious plot that threatens to overtake the spaceship-just as they are nearing the end of their eight-month journey from Mars to Earth"--p. [4] of cover.
22) The fifth man
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Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Strange things are occurring on Mars since the Ares 10 spacecraft arrived. Astronaut Valkerie Jansen may have just discovered evidence of microbial life, but she is trapped by a cave-in. Even worse, something unseen is terrorizing Bob Kaganovski and the rest of the crew. Compounding their problems, NASA's intense scrutiny is beginning to blur the crew's focus on the mission at hand.
23) A wizard of Mars
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Young wizards volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 22
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Young wizards Kit Rodriguez and Nita Callahan manage to wangle their way onto an elite team sent to investigate the mysterious, long-sought "message in a bottle" that holds the first clues to the secrets of the ancient Martian race.
24) Mars
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Half Navajo American Jamie Waterman is a geologist whose dream comes true when he is selected for the first landing team on Mars. He endures the rigors of training, the personality conflicts and political intrigues, as well as the dangers of traveling over 100 million kilometers in space. Once the international crew lands on Mars, they discover they must battle not only the alien land they have invaded but earthbound bureaucrats as well. As they head...
25) Light bringer
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The legendary Reaper, Darrow, to defend Mars from a bloodthirsty would-be conqueror, begins his long voyage home, an interplanetary adventure where old friends will reunite, new alliances will be forged, and rivals will clash on the battlefield.
26) Blue Mars
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Mars trilogy volume 3
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The red planet is no more. Now green and verdant, Mars has been dramatically altered from a desolate world into one where humans can flourish. The First Hundred settlers are being pulled into a fierce new struggle between the Reds, a group devoted to preserving Mars in its desert state, and the Green “terraformers.” Meanwhile, Earth is in peril. A great flood threatens an already overcrowded and polluted planet. With Mars the last hope for the...
27) The Martians
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A companion volume to Robinson's Mars trilogy. New Novellas, short stories, Martian mythology, and character histories. Red mars, Green mars, Blue mars.
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Pub. Date
2003, c1952
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A billion years into the future, Earth's oceans have evaporated, and humanity has all but vanished. The inhabitants of the City of Diaspar believe theirs is the last city, but there is no way to find out for sure. The city is completely closed off by a high wall, and nobody has left in millions of years. The last child born in the city in millions of years, Alvin is insatiably curious about the outside world. He embarks on a quest that leads him to...
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Dinosaur boy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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After heroically saving his classmates, fifth-grader Sawyer's life as a dinosaur-human hybrid has gotten a lot easier until Sawyer, Sylvie, who is part Martian, and Elliot head to Mars in search of Sylvie's missing dad and discover that Mars is trying to kick Pluto out of the solar system.
32) Moving Mars
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Appears on these lists
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Casseia Majumdar was the daughter of one of the family syndicates that had colonized Mars and whose life was changed by the student protest of 2171. Charles, a young physicist was forced to leave his native planet to get the training he needed, and in those days the political distance between the Earth and Mars was growing wider.
33) Love, Ish
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Twelve-year-old Mischa "Ish" Love's longtime dream has been to someday live on Mars, but when she collapses on the first day of seventh grade, Ish receives a diagnosis which threatens her future plans.
34) Desolation Road
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Series
Pub. Date
1988
Description
Relates the history of a bizarre little town on the edge of the Martian desert over the course of its thirty-year existence.
35) Life on Mars
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
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"A young astronaut is trying to find life on Mars, but he's made a very big oversight"--
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Skippyjon Jones (Picture books) volume 5
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Skippyjon Jones, the Siamese cat that thinks he is a Chihuahua dog, has an adventure on Mars.
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Pub. Date
2012
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Combining political intrigue, time travel, family drama, and all the perils that come with being the first at anything, Hugo Award—winning author Philip K. Dick's Martian Time-Slip follows a group of exiled colonists on Mars and the ten-year-old psychic among them, a boy so powerful he not only looks into the future but can send people there.
On an arid Mars, local bigwigs compete with Earth-bound interlopers to buy up land before the UN develops...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 25
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A young man from Mars comes to Earth & must learn our strange ways. After his arrival on Earth from his home on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith becomes the founder and pastor of a new religious sect and the sensation he creates teaches Earth some unforgettable lessons, including grokking, watersharing, and love. One of the greatest science fiction novels ever published, Stranger in a Strange Land's original manuscript had 60,000 words cut. Here at last,...
39) Pandora's star
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Commonwealth saga volume 1
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The year is 2380. The Intersolar Commonwealth, a sphere of stars some four hundred light-years in diameter, contains more than six hundred worlds, interconnected by a web of transport "tunnels" known as wormholes. At the farthest edge of the Commonwealth, astronomer Dudley Bose observes the impossible: Over one thousand light-years away, a star . . . vanishes. It does not go supernova. It does not collapse into a black hole. It simply disappears....
40) Olympos
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Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Achilles and Hector lay seige to the home of the gods, inadvertently triggering a massive conflict between humanity and such powerful beings as Setebos, Prospero, and Caliban.