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1 online resource (1 audio file) |
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digital rda |
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audio file CD audio rda |
| Summary |
Zack Lightman has spent his life dreaming. Dreaming that the real world could be a little more like the countless science-fiction books, movies, and videogames he's spent his life consuming. Dreaming that one day, some fantastic, world-altering event will shatter the monotony of his humdrum existence and whisk him off on some grand space-faring adventure. ? But hey, there's nothing wrong with a little escapism, right? After all, Zack tells himself, he knows the difference between fantasy and reality. He knows that here in the real world, aimless teenage gamers with anger issues don't get chosen to save the universe. ? And then he sees the flying saucer. ? Even stranger, the alien ship he's staring at is straight out of the videogame he plays every night, a hugely popular online flight simulator called -- Armada From the Hardcover edition. |
| Audience |
1110L Lexile |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.3 19 179440 |
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Accelerated Reader UG 7.3 19 179440 |
| Note |
Downloadable audio file. |
| Processing Action |
Requires Acoustik audio app. |
| Performer |
Read by Wil Wheaton. |
| Summary |
Struggling to complete his final month of high school only to glimpse a UFO that exactly resembles an enemy ship from his favorite video game, Zack questions his sanity before becoming one of millions of gamers tasked with protecting the Earth during an alien invasion. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
High school students -- Fiction.
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Human-alien encounters -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Science fiction.
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Audiobooks.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Wheaton, Wil, narrator.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Cline, Ernest. Armada : a novel New York, New York : Random House Audio, [2015] 9780804149112 (NjBwBT)bl2015022683 (OCoLC)907124289 |
| ISBN |
9780804149143 : $95.00 |
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0804149143 : $95.00 |
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