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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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This classic novel of a perfectly engineered society is “one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the twentieth century” (The Wall Street Journal).
Half a millennium from now, in the World State, the watchword is that every one belongs to every one else. No matter what class of human you are bred to be—from the intellectual Alphas to the Epsilons who provide the manual labor—you are...
Half a millennium from now, in the World State, the watchword is that every one belongs to every one else. No matter what class of human you are bred to be—from the intellectual Alphas to the Epsilons who provide the manual labor—you are...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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Soon to be a show on Hulu!
Rights to develop Wild Cards for TV have been acquired by Universal Cable Productions, the team that brought you The Magicians and Mr. Robot, with the co-editor of Wild Cards, Melinda Snodgrass as executive producer.
In 1946, an alien virus that rewrites human DNA was accidentally unleashed in the skies over New York City. It killed ninety percent of those it infected. Nine percent of those who survived mutated into tragically...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind's expansion beyond the solar system in The Precipice.
Once, Dan Randolph was one of the richest men on Earth. Now the planet is spiraling into environmental disaster, with floods and earthquakes destroying the lives of millions. Randolph knows the energy and natural resources of space can save Earth's economy, but the price may be the loss of the only thing he has left--the company...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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After Jared accidentally plunges into a polluted swamp, he gains the ability to read minds . . . and discovers dangerous secrets about his family The first thing Jared does every summer when he and his family arrive at their cottage is hop on his bike and cruise along the back roads. Only this year he's grown too big for the bike. When the brakes suddenly give out at the bottom of the hill where the road makes a sharp turn, Jared plunges into...
7) Passage
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 40
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English
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One of those rare, unforgettable novels that are as chilling as they are insightful, as thought-provoking as they are terrifying, award-winning author Connie Willis's Passage is an astonishing blend of relentless suspense and cutting-edge science unlike anything you've ever read before.
It is the electrifying story of a psychologist who has devoted her life to tracking death. But when she volunteers for a research project that simulates...
It is the electrifying story of a psychologist who has devoted her life to tracking death. But when she volunteers for a research project that simulates...
8) The arc
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"In the final installment of ... [the] Loop trilogy, all of humanity hinges on the greatest escape yet ... [The] escape sets in motion a race against time as Happy's plans to release planet-eating nano-bots into the world draw[s] nearer. The Loop team must reassemble, survive Happy's final attempts to rid the world of the rebels, and figure out how to halt the apocalypse before humanity is destroyed"--Amazon.
9) Rebel heart
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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After rescuing her twin brother from the Tonton, Saba experiences disturbing telepathic visions while being hunted by a cunning enemy.
10) The gunslinger
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Series
Dark tower volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Filled with ominous landscapes and macabre menace, Stephen King's latest mass market novel features The Gunslinger, a haunting figure in combat with The Man in Black in an epic battle of good versus evil. A spellbinding tale that is both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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If the melt-down, flood, plague, the third World War, new Ice Age, Rapture, alien invasion, clamp-down, meteor, or something else entirely hit today, what would tomorrow look like? Some of the biggest names in YA and adult literature answer that very question in this short story anthology, each story exploring the lives of teen protagonists raised in catastrophe's wake-whether set in the days after the change, or decades far in the future.New York...
12) Burn
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Series
Pure trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Inside the Dome, Partridge, having taken his father's place as leader of the Pures, realizes that things are not as clear as he thought while outside, Pressia and Bradwell continue their efforts to heal the Wretches, unsure if they can still trust their friend Partridge.
13) Inhuman
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Beyond the Titan wall lies the Feral Zone, and the only people who break quarantine and venture there are the "fetches", who are paid exorbitant sums to bring back items that were left behind when the wall went up--but Delaney McEvoy's father is there and she is being forced to find him and bring him back.
14) Defy the Worlds
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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This is the thrilling and romantic sequel to Defy the Stars from the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Lost Stars and Bloodline.
An outcast from her home — Shunned after a trip through the galaxy with Abel, the most advanced cybernetic man ever created, Noemi Vidal dreams of traveling through the stars one more time. And when a deadly plague arrives on Genesis, Noemi gets her chance. As the only...
An outcast from her home — Shunned after a trip through the galaxy with Abel, the most advanced cybernetic man ever created, Noemi Vidal dreams of traveling through the stars one more time. And when a deadly plague arrives on Genesis, Noemi gets her chance. As the only...
15) Manners & mutiny
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Series
Finishing school volume the 4th
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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In an alternate England of 1851, Sophronia Temminnick is the only hope for her friends, her school, and all of London when she must put her espionage training to the test to thwart an evil Picklemen plot.
Alternate England, 1851. Lessons in the art of espionage aboard Mademoiselle Geraldine's floating dirigible have become tedious. Sophronia would much rather be using her skills to thwart the dastardly Picklemen, yet her concerns about their wicked...
16) Tumble & fall
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
With an asteroid set to strike Earth in just one week, three teens on an island off the Atlantic Coast wrestle with love, friendship, family, and regret as they decide how to live their final days.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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The thrilling, magical conclusion of the Libyrinth trilogy
The world of the Libyrinth has experienced a series of wrenching changes. After the Libyrarians and their longtime foes the Singers discovered their common heritage, a young healer named Po found the Lion's Bloom, an ancient and enormously powerful artifact capable of rewriting reality.
Behind the mysteries of their shrouded past has always been the legendary Book of the Night. Sought for...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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The moon has been split, and the Visitors have Earth in their alien grip. But, the captive planet? That's not her problem. Megan just wants to track down her missing dad...
The world stopped turning long before Megan was born. Ever since the Visitors split the moon and stilled the Earth, permanent sunset is all anyone has known. But now, riding her trusty steed Cisco, joined by her posse, Kelly and Luis, Megan is on the run from her Texas hometown,...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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The magical sequel to Pearl North's critically acclaimed debut novel, Libyrinth
On a world light-years away, Earth is long forgotten, except for the knowledge protected in the vast libyrinth. But that knowledge was threatened by the Singers, who for generations beyond remembering have relied on oral storytelling. They sought to destroy the books in the libyrinth, which they thought would-if read-kill the words they sing, and the knowledge in their...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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In her debut novel, Pearl North takes readers centuries into the future, to a forgotten colony of Earth where technology masquerades as magic and wars are fought over books.
Haly is a Libyrarian, one of a group of people dedicated to preserving and protecting the knowledge passed down from the Ancients and stored in the endless maze of books known as the Libyrinth. But Haly has a secret: The books speak to her.
When the threat of the rival Eradicants...
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