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1) The giver
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In Lois Lowry's Newbery Medal–winning classic, twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind his fragile community.
Life in the community where Jonas lives is idyllic. Designated birthmothers produce newchildren, who are assigned to appropriate family units. Citizens are assigned their partners and
...Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
In a prequel to "The Hunger Games," eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow prepares to mentor the female tribute from District 12 in the tenth Hunger Games, with the fate of his family hanging on the slim chance that he can help her win the Games.
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
After surviving horrific conditions in the Maze, Thomas is entrapped, along with nineteen other boys, in a scientific experiment designed to observe their responses and gather data believed to be essential for the survival of the human race.
4) Cinder
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.
5) Allegiant
Author
Series
Divergent volume 3
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered--fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. But will she be prepared to face impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice and love?
6) Dune messiah
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
1987, c1969
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Book Two in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time
Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known—and feared—as the man christened Muad’Dib. As Emperor of the known universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremen, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he...
Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known—and feared—as the man christened Muad’Dib. As Emperor of the known universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremen, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he...
8) Found
Author
Series
Missing volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time.
9) Enders
Author
Series
Starters volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"With the Prime Destinations body bank destroyed, Callie no longer has to rent herself out to creepy Enders. But Enders can still get inside her mind and make her do things she doesn't want to do. Like hurt someone she loves"-- Provided by publisher.
10) Gathering blue
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
12) Winter
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
Cinder and her allies are joined in the plot to overthrow Queen Levana by the queen's stepdaughter, Winter, who has long been defying her evil stepmother's wishes by harboring feelings for her personal guard whom she is forbidden from marrying.
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston's taut thriller Invasive Procedures takes readers a few years into the future, and shows the promise and danger of new genetic medicine techniques.
George Galen is a brilliant scientist, a pioneer in gene therapy. But, Galen is dangerously insane, he has created a method to alter human DNA, not just to heal diseases, but to "improve" people, make them stronger, make them able to heal more quickly, and make them...
Author
Series
Jurassic Park volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A breakthrough in genetic engineering leads to the development of a technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA, a method that brings about the creation of Jurassic Park, a tourist attraction populated by creatures extinct for eons.
15) Starters
Author
Series
Starters volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
To support herself and her younger brother in a world decimated by a viral outbreak , sixteen-year-old Callie hires her body out to seniors who want to experience being young again, and she lives a fairy-tale life until she learns that her body will commit murder, unless her mind can stop it.
16) Defy the stars
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Teenaged soldier Noemi and an enemy robot, Abel, who is programmed to obey her commands, set out on an interstellar quest to save her home planet, Earth colony Genesis.
17) True believer
Author
Series
Publisher
Warner
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks, a supernatural love story between a journalist and a librarian who dare to believe in the impossible.
Science journalist Jeremy Marsh specializes in debunking the supernatural–until he falls in love with the granddaughter of the town psychic, Lexie Darnell.
When Jeremy receives a letter from Boone Creek, North Carolina, about ghostly lights appearing in a cemetery,...
Science journalist Jeremy Marsh specializes in debunking the supernatural–until he falls in love with the granddaughter of the town psychic, Lexie Darnell.
When Jeremy receives a letter from Boone Creek, North Carolina, about ghostly lights appearing in a cemetery,...
18) The forgetting
Author
Series
Forgetting volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Canaan is a quiet city on an idyllic world, hemmed in by high walls, but every twelve years the town breaks out in a chaos of bloody violence, after which all the people undergo the Forgetting, in which they are left without any trace of memory of themselves, their families, or their lives--but somehow seventeen-year-old Nadia has never forgotten, and she is determined to find out what causes it and how to put a stop to the Forgetting forever.
19) Insurgent
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love"--
One choice can transform you -- or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she...
20) Vitals
Author
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A harrowing thriller based on real-life discoveries in cell theory and the battle against aging and death by the bestselling author of Darwin's Radio and War Dogs. Scientist Hal Cousins is on the brink of success in his quest to determine the biological underpinnings of immortality. Funded by angel investors, the brilliant researcher makes a trip by submersible to the bottom of the sea, searching for primitive one-celled organisms that may be related...
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