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If you enjoy watching Star Trek, you're in good company. Some of the most distinguished physicists in the world, from Kip Thorne to Steven Weinberg and Sheldon Glashow, tune in, and a popular pastime at professional physics meetings and over e-mail is a discussion of the science in the series. Now you can join the fun. Anyone who has ever wondered, "could this really happen?" will gain useful insights into the Star Trek universe (and, incidentally,...
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[2020]
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With the gang spread across the country (and beyond) at college, Spencer is back to feeling out of place, even when he returns home over winter break. Desperate to escape his grandfather who is sharing his room, and to feel confident again, he attempts to fix the broken Jumanji video game, giving his friends no choice but to level up and return to rescue him.
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Press start! volume 1
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IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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"When King Viking and his evil robot army attack Animal Town, and kidnap Singing Dog, it is up to Super Rabbit Boy, with some help from Sunny and his video game console, to save the day"--OCLC.
5) Minecraft
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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"Minecraft is the best-selling video game of all time! Through informative text and photos, this title introduces readers to the history of Minecraft from its beginnings to the present-day, including important releases and updates, charitable giving, fan engagement, and more. Features offer additional information, including a creator profile, a historic timeline, a sales graph, a character feature, and more." -- Amazon.com.
"Engaging images accompany...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Video games on computers and consoles provide both learning and entertainment to players. Stunning graphics and interesting storylines draw people into virtual worlds of action and fantasy. Inside Video Games introduces readers to the uses of video games, the hardware and software that make video games possible, and the future of video game technology. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of...
7) Free guy
Pub. Date
[2021]
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A bank teller, who discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, decides to become the hero of his own story, one he rewrites himself. Now in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who saves his world his way, before it is too late.
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Diary of a wimpy kid volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
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In the latest diary of middle-schooler Greg Heffley, he records his attempts to spend his summer vacation sensibly indoors playing video games and watching television, despite his mother's other ideas.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Tired of always losing to Super Rabbit Boy in their video game world, King Viking goes to the Secret Lands to find the Super Power Up that will give him super powers--Super Rabbit Boy must stop him, but first he must make it past goblins, ghosts, and other video dangers.
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Press start! volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Super Rabbit Boy is racing in the Super Grand Prix car race--but among the other racers is King Viking and his team of cheaters, and they will do anything to win.
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Press start! volume 4
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Super Rabbit Boy falls down a pipe and discovers himself in a mirror reality where everyone good is now evil, including his mirror self, Super Rabbit Boss, and he must make friends with King Viking (now one of the good guys) and somehow defeat his alter ego in order to save this world--and somehow find a way back to his own reality.
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On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have...
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Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations can co-exist peacefully as equals without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But peace has also made humanity complacent....
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Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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"The end of summer has brought new challenges for Evan when a bully chooses to target him. Evan tries to hide this from his friends, but when he and the gang find themselves in a similar situation in the EverRealm, Evan can't keep quiet anymore. As they find themselves assaulted by pirates, and then by an even bigger threat, all the players realize they must learn to rely on each other to face adversity."--