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1) The host
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed.
Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former tenant of her body...
Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former tenant of her body...
2) Never fade
Author
Series
Darkest minds volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Ruby sets out across a desperate, lawless country to find Liam and answers about the catastrophe that has ripped both her life and America apart she is torn between old friends and the promise she made to serve the League. Ruby will do anything to protect the people she loves. But what if winning the war means losing herself?Ruby never asked for the abilities that almost cost her her life. Now she must call upon them on a daily basis, leading dangerous...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The Carls just appeared. Coming home from work at three a.m., twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship -- like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor -- April and her friend Andy make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. The next day April wakes up to a viral video and a new life. News quickly spreads that there are Carls in dozens of cities around...
Author
Series
Aurora cycle volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the academy would touch. A cocky diplomat with a black belt in sarcasm. A sociopath scientist with a fondness for shooting her bunkmates. A smart-ass tech whiz with the galaxy's biggest chip on his shoulder....
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2005, c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In a future world ravaged by a mutant virus, sixteen-year-old Ceej and three other teenagers seek to save the Grand Canyon from being flooded, while trying to avoid capture by a band of renegade Survivors.
6) Elusion
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Teens uncover the dangerous secrets of a virtual reality program that's taking the country by storm"--
7) Variant
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After years in foster homes, seventeen-year-old Benson Fisher applies to New Mexico's Maxfield Academy in hopes of securing a brighter future, but instead he finds that the school is a prison and no one is what he or she seems.
8) Zeroboxer
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
As seventeen-year-old Carr 'the Raptor' Luka rises to fame in the weightless combat sport of zeroboxing, he learns a devastating secret that jeopardizes not only his future in the sport, but interplanetary relations. --Publisher
10) Rebel
Author
Series
Legend volume 4
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eden Wing has been living in his brother's shadow for years. Even though he's a top student at his academy in Ross City, Antarctica, and a brilliant inventor, most people know him only as Daniel Wing's little brother. A decade ago, Daniel was known as Day, the boy from the streets who led a revolution that saved the Republic of America. But Day is no longer the same young man who was once a national hero. These days he'd rather hide out from the world...
11) Outrage
Author
Series
Singular menace volume 2
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Shay Remby and her gang of renegades have struck a blow to the Singular Corporation by rescuing Shay's brother and Fenfang, a girl who literally knows too much. Can the knowledge brought by these ex-captives help Shay and her friends expose the crimes of this corrupt corporation?
12) Aurora burning
Author
Series
Aurora cycle volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Our heroes are back. Kind of. First, the bad news: an ancient evil - you know, your standard consume-all-life-in-the-galaxy deal - is about to be unleashed. The good news? Squad 312 is standing by to save the day. They've just got to take care of a few small distractions first. Like the clan of gremps who'd like to rearrange their favorite faces. And the cadre of illegit GIA agents with creepy flowers where their eyes used to be, who'll stop at nothing...
13) Aurora's end
Author
Series
Aurora cycle volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When we last saw Squad 312, they working together seamlessly (aka, freaking out) as an intergalactic battle raged and an ancient superweapon threatened to obliterate Earth. Everything went horribly wrong, naturally. But as it turns out, not all endings are endings, and the team has one last chance to rewrite theirs. Maybe two. It's complicated. Cue Zila, Fin, and Scarlett (and MAGELLAN!): making friends, making enemies, and making history? Sure,...
14) Queen's shadow
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Written by the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Star Wars Ahsoka!
When Padmé Naberrie, "Queen Amidala" of Naboo, steps down from her position, she is asked by the newly-elected queen to become Naboo's representative in the Galactic Senate. Padmé is unsure about taking on the new role, but cannot turn down the request to serve her people. Together with her most loyal handmaidens, Padmé must figure...
When Padmé Naberrie, "Queen Amidala" of Naboo, steps down from her position, she is asked by the newly-elected queen to become Naboo's representative in the Galactic Senate. Padmé is unsure about taking on the new role, but cannot turn down the request to serve her people. Together with her most loyal handmaidens, Padmé must figure...
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