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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
Includes two of George Orwell's novels about the dangers of tyranny, the corruption of the state, and the enslavement of the individual. 1984 is a political fiction and dystopian science fiction which is set in Airstrip One (formerly Great Britain), a province of the superstate Oceania in a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and public manipulation. Animal farm is an allegorical novel that reflects events leading up to the...
2) Allegiant
Author
Series
Divergent trilogy volume 3
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?
3) Artemis
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Augmenting her limited income by smuggling contraband to survive on the Moon's wealthy city of Artemis, Jazz agrees to commit what seems to be a perfect, lucrative crime, only to find herself embroiled in a conspiracy for control of the city.
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Series
Maze runner volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
As the third Trial draws to a close, Thomas and some of his cohorts manage to escape from WICKED, their memories having been restored, only to face new dangers as WICKED claims to be trying to protect the human race from the deadly FLARE virus.
5) Divergent
Author
Series
Divergent trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
Author
Series
Maze runner volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Before WICKED was formed, before the Glade was built, before Thomas entered the Maze, sun flares hit the earth and mankind fell to disease. Mark and Trina were there when it happened, and they survived. But surviving the sun flares was easy compared to what came next. Now a disease of rage and lunacy races across the eastern United States, and there's something suspicious about its origin. Worse yet, it's mutating, and all evidence suggests that it...
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Series
Shadow saga volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
An urchin is picked off the street by a nun and sent to war school to become a brilliant space-war strategist. He is Bean, so called because of his diminutive stature, the result of an illegal genetic experiment.
8) Illuminae
Author
Series
Illuminae files volume 1
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The planet Kerenza is attacked, and Kady and Ezra find themselves on a space fleet fleeing the enemy, while their ship's artificial intelligence system and a deadly plague may be the end of them all. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
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.
10) The lake house
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Out in the world for the first time since escaping horrifying government experiments, six children make their way toward the Lake House in the hope of being reunited with Kit and Frannie, a couple who once saved their lives.
11) Breaking sky
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In the year 2048 Chase Harcourt, call sign "Nyx," is one of only two pilots chosen to fly the experimental "Streaker" jets at the junior Air Force Academy, but few know the pain and loneliness of her past or the dark secret about her father, and as the world tilts toward war, Chase cracks open a military secret.
12) Obernewtyn
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
13) Free to fall
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"In a near-future world where everyone is controlled by their smartphones, sixteen-year-old Rory Vaughn suddenly begins listening to the voice within--which kids are taught to ignore--and discovers a terrible plot at the heart of the corporation that makes the devices"--
14) Memory boy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Miles and his family must flee their Minneapolis home and begin a new life in the wilderness after a chain of cataclysmic volcanic explosions creates dangerous conditions in their city.
15) The Eye of Minds
Author
Series
Mortality doctrine volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The world is virtual, but the danger is real in book one of the bestselling Mortality Doctrine series, the next phenomenon from the author of the Maze Runner series, James Dashner.
Includes a sneak peek of The Fever Code, the highly-anticipated conclusion to the Maze Runner series—the novel that finally reveals how the maze was built!
The VirtNet offers total mind and body immersion,...
Includes a sneak peek of The Fever Code, the highly-anticipated conclusion to the Maze Runner series—the novel that finally reveals how the maze was built!
The VirtNet offers total mind and body immersion,...
16) Four dead queens
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Keralie Corrington may seem harmless, but she's, in fact, one of Quadara's most skilled thieves and a liar. Varin, on the other hand, is an honest, upstanding citizen of Quadara's most enlightened region, Eonia. He runs afoul of Keralie when she steals a package from him, putting his life in danger. When Varin attempts to retrieve the package, he and Keralie both find themselves entangled in a conspiracy that leaves all four of...
Author
Series
Ender Wiggin saga volume 2
Publisher
T. Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
1991, c1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Andrew Wiggin, itinerant speaker for the dead, is called to aid in the investigation of two deaths when a race of sapient beings is discovered on the planet Lusitania.
18) Rebel heart
Author
Series
Dust lands volume 2
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After rescuing her twin brother from the Tonton, Saba experiences disturbing telepathic visions while being hunted by a cunning enemy.
19) Sly mongoose
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
20) Ruins
Author
Series
Partials volume 3
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
As a war between the humans and the Partials looms, Samm finds himself trapped beyond a toxic wasteland, and Kira finds herself under the control of Dr. Morgan who is desperate to save the Partials.
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