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Across the universe trilogy volume 1
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Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet 300 years in the future, but 50 years before the ship's scheduled landing, Amy is violently woken from her frozen slumber. Someone tried to kill her. The Godspeed is controlled by the tyrannical Eldest and Elder, his teenage heir, who is fascinated by Amy and eager to discover if he has what it takes to lead. Uncertain...
2) Stowaway
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Icarus chronicles volume 1
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To save his father, a Coalition scientist protecting a precious resource, after their ship is attacked, Leo stows away on a strange ship of mercenary space pirates and must decide who to trust- human or alien-to stay alive.
When scientists discover a rare and mysterious mineral buried in the Earth’s crust, it's not long before aliens show up to our little corner of the galaxy offering a promise of protection, some fabulous new technology, and entry...
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Space taxi volume 1
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On "Take Your Kid to Work Day, " eight-year-old Archie discovers that his father drives a space taxi that shuttles aliens from one area of the universe to another.
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Smek (Adam Rex) volume 2
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"Gratuity Tucci and her alien friend, J.Lo, journey to New Boovworld, one of Saturn's moons, to clear J.Lo's name after a string of misunderstandings"--
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Honors volume 1
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Petty criminal Zara Cole is recruited into the Honors, an elite team of humans chosen by the Leviathan to explore the outer reaches of the universe.
7) Starflight
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Starflight volume 1
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Former high school enemies Solara Brooks and Doran Spaulding must team up when they find themselves aboard a renegade spaceship.
8) Alien envoy
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Alien agent volume 6
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Agent Sorn picks Zack up from Earth and together they seek other aliens who can speak in support of inviting that planet to join the Galactic Union, while the Gnairt and the Kiapa Kapa Syndicate try to stop them.
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Skippyjon Jones (Picture books) volume 5
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Skippyjon Jones, the Siamese cat that thinks he is a Chihuahua dog, has an adventure on Mars.
10) Nyxia
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Nyxia triad volume 1
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Emmett accepts an interstellar space contract but learns en route that to win the promised fortune he and nine other recruits face a brutal competition, putting their very humanity at risk.
The number of zeroes on the Babel Corporation's contract has Emmett Atwater boarding their lightship and hoping to return to Earth with enough money to take care of his family-- forever. But it turns out he's one of ten recruits, all of whom have troubled pasts...
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Six kids from around the world have been chosen for the first-ever mission to Mars and Miranda Regent is one of them. But as soon as the announcement is made, protesters worldwide claim the selection process was rigged -- and that Miranda was only chosen because she's American. Soon she's getting anonymous threatening messages. When the training base is attacked, it looks like Miranda is the intended target. Now the entire mission and everyone's...
12) Homebound
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Icarus chronicles volume 2
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Leo Fender is no stranger to catastrophe, whether it's the intergalactic war that took his mother's life or the ongoing fight for his own. He's seen his planet plundered, his ship attacked, his father kidnapped, and his brother go missing, and found himself stranded on a ship with a bunch of mercenary space pirates. Still, nothing could have prepared him for the moment he and the crew tried to save his father and discovered a dark plot that could...
13) Cakes in space
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"When ten-year-old Astra and her family move to a new planet, she must save the spaceship and its crew from man-eating cakes, aliens, and more"--
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Earth's population is divided between only two existing countries which cannot manage to cooperate in any way, until a distress signal arrives from Titan's first settler and neither can afford to rescue her on their own if they act separately. Ambrose wakes up on board with successfully reaching his sister the primary thought in his mind until he notices several strange circumstances: he doesn't remember the launch, the ship's OS is voiced by his...
16) Game of flames
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Voyagers (Random House) volume 2
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Dash, Carly, Gabriel, and Piper visit a planet made up of molten lava and run entirely by robots where they must find the second element of the Source that will save the Earth.
17) Midnight horizon
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Confronting the anarchistic marauders known as the Nihil, the Jedi Knights and their Padawans are put to the test, but soon discover that nothing is what it seems.
After a series of losses, the Republic seems to have the villainous Nihil marauders on the run. Jedi Masters Cohmac Vitus and Kantam Sy are sent to the world of Corellia, in the Galactic Core, to investigate a suspected Nihil attack. There, Padawans Reath Silas and Ram Jomaram encounter...
18) Pathfinder
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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.
19) Infinity riders
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A spaceship piloted by children travels to Planet Infinity where the youngsters must navigate underground tunnels in search of the fourth element of a power source needed to save Earth.
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Andy and Terry live in a 130-story treehouse. It used to be a 117-story treehouse, but they added another 13 stories. It has a soap bubble blaster, a time-wasting level, a 13-story igloo, the GRABINATOR (it can grab anything from anywhere at any time). It is a toilet paper factory, and an extraterrestrial observation center for observing aliens. As it turns out, though, it's Andy, Terry, and Jill who are being observed and then abducted by a giant...