Anne McCaffrey
62) Nimisha's Ship
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 20
Description
When Nimisha takes an experimental ship on a solo test flight, something goes horribly awry, marooning her light-years from home on a planet as deadly as it is beautiful.
Author
Series
Brain and Brawn Ship series volume 1
Pub. Date
[1969]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Born a hopeless cripple, Helga's parents gave her excellent brain to Central Control for the specialized training and adaptation that turned her into one of a special class of sentient spaceship. Her passion for music and her superb, though artificial voice, was a source of solace, pleasure and even protection in her journey among the stars. As number 834, Helga was known as the ship who sang.
64) Dragonsdawn
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 25
Formats
Description
When the deadly silver "threadfall" from an orbiting comet threatens to destroy the thriving human colony on the otherwise hospitable planet Pern, scientists and genetic engineers undertake a bold and risky experiment to change the tiny dragon-like winged reptiles called fire lizards into allies for mutual survival.
66) Power play
Author
Series
Petaybee trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[1995]
Description
A feeling planet organizes its defenses against uncaring humans. The planet, which can even speak, is home to some ecologically minded people, but its riches are attracting hordes of outsiders with no feeling for nature. Planet and residents join forces.
67) Partnership
Author
Series
Pub. Date
l992
Description
Nancia is her name, NX-928 her designation. Enter a future world in which brains are connected to computers to help run cities and ships; brainless bodies or brawn do the physical work. In the second book of the Brainship series, a new "shellperson"-someone born with grave physical disabilities that required her human body to be encased in a massive titanium column-is provided a direct link between her mind and the computer of her ship, XN-935. Nancia...
68) Freedom's choice
Author
Series
Freedom series (Anne McCaffrey) volume 2
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Human slaves who were forced to colonize a new planet find that the planet may not have been empty. The colonists hope that if another race exists, it will help in the fight for liberty.
Author
Series
Coelura volume 2
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
While on a test flight in a new craft, spaceship designer Nimisha Rondymense is sucked into a wormhole. She emerges light years away in another part of space and meets other victims of the hole. They are people from various civilizations and together they set about building a new civilization of their own. By the author of Freedom's Challenge.
70) Dragon's time
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 29
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Weyrwoman Fiona struggles to keep her surviving Weyr in fighting shape while Lorana plans a complicated time-travel journey to save their world.
71) Damia
Author
Series
Rowan series volume 2
Pub. Date
[1992]
Description
Afra has submerged his romantic feelings for the great telepath, Rowan, and has even dedicated his life to helping raise her family, but trouble brews for Afra when Rowan's talented daughter, Damia, begins to fall for him.
72) The Rowan
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1990]
Description
A mud slide destroys a frontier settlement on another planet and a psychic cry unlike anything heard before floods the minds of the remaining inhabitants. After a desperate search by the authorities, an orphaned three-year-old girl is found. Called "the Rowan," she grows into a woman of beauty and immense telepathic powers.
Author
Series
Harper Hall volume 1, 2, 3
Pub. Date
[1979?]
Description
The planet Pern, where riders mount huge dragons to fend off deadly threadlike spores that fall from the sky, continues to be one of SF's most popular settings. Here, for the first time in one volume, are three novels featuring Menolly and Piemur, two young Pernese with extraordinary musical talent. In Dragonsong, Menolly's yearning to sing is threatened by a stern father who believes it a disgrace -- leaving her no choice but to run away. Dragonsinger...
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 17
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
The dragonriders desperately train to face an enemy they've never fought before.
75) Nerilka's story
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1986]
Description
A deadly epidemic is spreading over the land of Pern and Nerilka secretly leaves home to take supplies and medicine where they are needed.
77) Third watch
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Acorna's rebellious daughter risks everything in order to protect the universe from a mysterious plague-spreading enemy, an effort that is compromised by threats closer to home.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Like their father, each twin can transform into a seal and converse telepathically with the planet's creatures. Ronan and Murel hunger to discover the origins of their shape-shifting talent. Their search for knowledge will place them squarely in the path of peril.
Author
Series
Acorna's children volume 02
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Accompanied by her android "brother," Khorii, the rebellious daughter of the legendary Acorna and her lifemate, Aari, searches for the cause of a mysterious and deadly plague before those responsible use it to cripple an entire star system.
80) On dragonwings
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Description
Presents three classic novels that chronicle the early years of Pern and the cooperative link that forms between the human colonists and Pern's dragons to battle a common enemy.