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1) Airplane
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Introduces assorted airplanes and other flying machines, including gliders, helicopters, and space shuttles.
2) Nope
Pub. Date
[2022]
Appears on list
Description
Two siblings who run a California horse ranch discover something wonderful and sinister in the skies above, and the owner of an adjacent theme park tries to profit from the mysterious, otherworldly phenomenon.
Author
Series
Castaways of the Flying Dutchman volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
In 1620, a boy and his dog are rescued from the doomed ship, Flying Dutchman, by an angel who guides them in travelling the world, eternally helping those in great need.
4) Airman
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Formats
Description
In the late nineteenth century, when Conor Broekhart discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king, he is branded a traitor, imprisoned, and forced to mine for diamonds under brutal conditions while he plans a daring escape from Little Saltee prison by way of a flying machine that he must design, build, and, hardest of all, trust to carry him to safety.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 23
Description
In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who, or what, is out there? In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future, and our own....
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Contains several illustrated photographs that chronicle the history of aviation from man's first attempts to fly including Leonardo da Vinci's drawings of flying machines, airships and balloons, and powered flight throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
8) UFOs
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book discusses reports of UFO sightings and explains that scientists continue to do serious searching for signs of extraterrestrial life.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Lucas Tappan, a wealthy and eccentric billionaire and founder of Icarus Space Systems, approaches the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute with an outlandish proposal--to finance a careful, scientific excavation of the Roswell Incident site, where a UFO is alleged to have crashed in 1947. A skeptical Nora Kelly, to her great annoyance, is tasked with the job. Nora's excavation immediately uncovers two murder victims buried at the site, faces and hands...
10) UFOs
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about UFOs. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"These fabulous books are a must for any young reader with an interest in vehicles and machines. Each book is filled with amazing machines, fun facts, jokes, and age-appropriate text in colorful boxes. This book takes a close look at machines that can fly including super jumbo jets, rockets, and space shuttles. Find out which flying machine is the mightiest of them all!"--
Author
Pub. Date
©1998
Description
There is a place in the Nevada desert the size of Belgium that doesn't officially exist. It is the airbase where test flights of our top-secret experimental military aircraft are conducted and —not coincidentally—where the conspiracy theorists insist the Pentagon is hiding UFOs and aliens. This is Dreamland—or Area 51. For Phil Patton, the idea of writing a travel account of a place he couldn't actually visit...
14) Noir: a novel
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Series
Sammy and the Cheese volume 1
Formats
Description
Madcap, zany noir set on the mean streets of post-World War II San Francisco. Sammy "Two Toes" Tiffin is the bartender in a scruffy gin joint, with street connections that make him the go-to guy for just about everything. When one of his schemes goes south and his lady vanishes, Sammy follows a tortuous trail from Chinatown to Telegraph Hill to a hidden forest enclave in a desperate search to find his girl. Meanwhile, a suspicious flying object has...
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Series
Castaways of the Flying Dutchman volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Ben and Ned, a boy and dog gifted with eternal youth and the ability to communicate with one another nonverbally, encounter pirates on the high seas and rescue a kidnapped prince from a band of gypsy thieves.
17) Flying fox bats
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book introduces flying fox bats, including their physical characteristics, behavior, and habitats.
19) UFOs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Investigates several well-known accounts of UFO sightings as well as theories aimed at explaining why such reports cannot be true.