Book Extra Credit

1. How this works
• Select the book you want to read. Some titles have reading guides
available on Canvas.
• Sign the check out agreement for your first book. You will be able
to check the book out for up to 2 weeks plus one renewal.
• When you are finished, make an appointment with me. I will ask
you questions about the book, and based on your answers, I will
assign you points to add to your six weeks average.
• You may earn up to 18 points each six weeks.
• You might also check with your English teacher to see if you can
earn extra credit there as well!

2. Have Space Suit, Will Travel
When high school senior Kip Russell wins an
authentic space suit in a slogan-writing
contest, he doesn’t realize that it will lead
him on a wild trip from his backyard to
being a prisoner on a space pirate’s ship
and further on to the stars.
Read this book to earn up to 8 points on
your six weeks average.

3. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
“There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch!”
This is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of the
former Lunar penal colony against the Lunar
Authority that controls it from Earth. It is the tale
of a computer technician, a vigorous young
female agitator, and an elderly academic who
become the rebel movement’s leaders. And it is
the story of Mike, the supercomputer whose
sentience is known only to this inner circle.
Read this book to earn up to 10 points on your
six weeks average.

4. The Rolling Stones
It all started when the twins, Castor and
Pollux Stone, decided that life on the Lunar
colony was too dull and decided to buy
their own spaceship. Their father thought this
was a fine idea – except that he should buy
it and take the whole family along. Soon,
the whole Stone family was on their way out
into the far reaches of the Solar System.
Read this book to earn up to 5 points on
your six weeks average.

5. Starship Troopers
Johnnie Rico never really intended to join up –
and definitely not as part of the Mobile Infantry.
But now he’s trying to get through combat training
that is harder than anything he could have
imagined. And he knows everyone in his unit is one
bad move away from buying the farm in the
interstellar war the Terran Federation is waging
against the Arachnids.
Because everyone in the infantry fights. And if the
training doesn’t kill you, the Bugs are more than
ready to finish the job.
Read this book to earn up to 10 points on your six
weeks average.

6. What Goes Up
Eddie applies to NASA’s mysterious
Interworlds Agency because he has nowhere
else to go. Rosa applies because she has
felt the pressure of her brilliant parents’
legacies her entire life. Although they don’t
know exactly what being a trainee entails,
they are both determined to survive the
round after round of crazy-competitive
testing. And then it gets real.
Read this book to earn up to 8 points on
your six weeks average.

7. A Wrinkle In Time
Meg Murray’s father had been experimenting
with tesseracts – a fifth dimension of time travel
– when he mysteriously disappeared. After a
midnight arrival of a disturbing visitor, Meg, her
friend Calvin, and her brother Charles Wallace
begin their journey to rescue him.
Can they outwit the forces of evil they will
encounter on their heart-stopping journey
through space?
Read this book to earn up to 4 points on your six
weeks average.

8. Higher Education
When a misfired practical joke gets him kicked
out of school, Rick Luban thinks he has nowhere
to go but down. Instead, he gets a second
chance – and a whole new life – when he signs
up for a career in asteroid mining. But life in
space proves more challenging than Rick
expected. Competition is intense and the harsh
realities of space allow no room for error.
Then the murders start.
Read this book to earn up to 8 points on your six
weeks average.

9. Back to the Moon
Decades after the last lunar mission in
1972, the U.S. is preparing to return to the
lunar surface when a sudden distress signal
reveals that China had sent its own lunar
expedition which had crash-landed. Now,
the U.S.’s mission has to launch immediately
if the Chinese astronauts are going to have
any chance of survival.
Read this book to earn up to 10 points on
your six weeks average.

10. On Basilisk Station
Honor Harrington, a commander in the Star
Kingdom of Manticore’s navy, has been exiled to
Basilisk Station through no fault of her own. To
add insult to injury, an old enemy is now her new
superior, and he has set up for ruin in an
impossible situation. On top of all of that,
Manticore’s enemy, the Republic of Haven is
trying to destabilize the system as a prelude to
war. No one thinks Honor can navigate her way
through all of these perils. Except Honor herself.
Read this book to earn up to 8 points on your six
weeks average.

11. The Martian
Six days ago, Mark Watney was the 17th person
to set foot on Mars. After a dust storm that
caused his fellow crew members to think him
dead and evacuate the planet, he’s sure he’ll be
the first to die there. Even if he could let Earth
know he’s still alive, without more food, his
supplies will run out causing him to starve to
death. Armed with nothing but his ingenuity, his
engineering skills, and a dark sense of humor,
Mark embarks on a dogged quest to stay alive
in spite of everything Mars throws at him.
Read this book to earn up to 8 points on your six
weeks average.

12. Special Offer! ☺
If you check out a book before February 15th and agree to
• Let me take your picture with the book (your face will not be shown)
• Write a short thank you note to the donor who paid for these books
I will give you an additional 2 points when you finish the book.