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2022-2023 OBOB 6th to 8th Grade
You May Not Be A Billionaire, But These Stories Can Take You To Space For Free
You May Not Be A Billionaire, But These Stories Can Take You To Space For Free
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Publisher Annotation: The first time I heard about Planet Choom, we'd been on Mars for almost a year. But life on the Mars station was grim, and since Earth was no longer an option (we may have blown it up), it was time to find a new home. That's how we ended up on Choom with the Zhuri. They're very smart. They also look like giant mosquitos. But that's not why it's so hard to live here. There's a lot that the Zhuri don't like: singing (just ask my...
3) ZooKS
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Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Wanting to restore balance between man and nature, King Alexander sets out to undo the damage done by previous generations. But not everyone agrees with his plan.
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Man made Boy volume 2
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Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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As Boy, the hacker son of Frankenstein's Monster and the Bride, moves to Switzerland to enroll in college, the secret world of monsters and mythical creatures, hiding in plain sight, is torn apart by conflict.
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Under their skin volume 1
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016?]
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English
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Twelve-year-old twins Nick and Eryn investigate why their mother and new stepfather are keeping secrets, why they are forbidden to meet their stepsiblings, and, most important, why their lives are in danger.
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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In accessible journalistic prose, author Lynas distills what environmental scientists predict about the consequences of human pollution for the next hundred years, degree by degree. At 1 degree Celsius, most coral reefs and many mountain glaciers will be lost. A 3-degree rise would spell the collapse of the Amazon rainforest, disappearance of Greenland's ice sheet, and the creation of deserts across the Midwestern United States and southern Africa....
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Learn more about what climate change means and how it's affecting our planet. The earth is definitely getting warmer. There's no argument about that, but who or what is the cause? And why has climate change become a political issue? Are humans at fault? Is this just a natural development? While the vast majority of scientists who study the environment agree that humans play a large part in climate change, there is a counterargument. Author Gail Herman...
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Under their skin volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Twelve-year-old twins Nick and Eryn and their robot stepsiblings, Jackson and Ava, try to save humanity from killer robots.
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Criterion collection volume 1100
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Existentialism goes pop in this benchmark of atomic-age science fiction, a superlative adaptation of a novel by the legendary Richard Matheson that has awed and unnerved generations of viewers with the question, What is humanity's place amid the infinity of the universe? Six months after being exposed to a mysterious radiation cloud, suburban everyman Scott Carey finds himself becoming smaller... and smaller... and smaller until he's left to fend...
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Northwest reprints volume 0
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Stephen Dow Beckham's classic history documents the subjugation and removal of southwestern Oregon's native peoples and the destruction of their ages-old lifeways during the Rogue River Wars of the 1850s. It tells of the penetration of their land by fur seekers, explorers, overland emigrants, and miners. Beckham also identifies the consequences of white settlement and mining. What had been a land of abundance endured significant ecological upset,...
13) African journey
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Bradbury Press
Pub. Date
c1987
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English
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Describes in text and photographs how nature dictates the way of life for people in six different regions of Africa.
14) Like
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In a series of amusing comparisons, a boy shows how humans are much more like each other than we are like any other thing on Earth.
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Showtime Networks Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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"This groundbreaking documentary event series explores the human impact of climate change. From the damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy to the upheaval caused by drought in the Middle East, YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY combines the blockbuster storytelling styles of top Hollywood movie makers with the reporting expertise of Hollywood's brightest stars and today's most respected journalists"--Showtime website.
16) Infinite
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Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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A man discovers that his hallucinations are actually visions from past lives.
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English
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“Living Lunarly” is the nature-inspired self-care book powered by the cycles of the moon.
As you follow the lunar cycle, you'll set monthly intentions, explore plant care, crystals, and meditation, and find new emotional strength in aligning with nature.
Never has the idea of mindfully checking in with yourself and creating a "whole body" health-health that is more than simply the absence of illness-been so appealing. This book reveals how introspection,...
20) The whale
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Docurama Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This film tells the remarkable true story of a young, wild killer whale (an Orca) nicknamed Luna, who lost contact with his family on the coast of British Columbia and became famous around the world when he tried to make friends with human beings.
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