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1) Red Rising
Author
Series
Red rising volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations...
2) Golden son
Author
Series
Red rising volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forgedby tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future built on lies. Now fully embedded among the Gold ruling class, Darrow continues his work to bring down Society from within.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets? Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality....
4) Morning star
Author
Series
Red rising volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Born a lowly Red in the mines of Mars, Darrow lost his beloved wife to the treacherous Gold overlords. Vowing to fight for the future that his wife believed in, Darrow joins a secret revolutionary group and is remade into a Gold so that he can infiltrate the ruling class and bring them down from the inside. Now, after years of hiding amongst the Golds, Darrow is finally ready to declare open revolution and throw off the chains of oppression. Nothing...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Appears on list
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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family." But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, from the author of three highly acclaimed previous novels. One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a...
Author
Series
5th wave volume 3
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Cassie has been betrayed. So has Ringer. Zombie. Nugget. And all 7.5 billion people who used to live on our planet. Betrayed first by the Others, and now by ourselves. In these last days, Earth's remaining survivors will need to decide what's more important: saving themselves...or saving what makes us human. --Publisher
9) 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...
10) Insurgent
Author
Series
Divergent trilogy volume 2
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.
11) Anthem
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Equality 7-2521 lives in the Dark Ages of the future, where all decisions are made by committee, all people live in collectives, all traces of individualism have been wiped out. But the spark of individual thought and freedom still burns in Equality 7-2521, a passion which he has been taught to call sinful. In a purely egalitarian world, he dares to stand forth from the herd -- to think and choose for himself, to discover electricity, and to love...
Author
Series
Ready player volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday's vaults, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the OASIS a thousand times more wondrous--and addictive--than even Wade dreamed possible. With it comes a new riddle, and a new quest.
13) Dark age
Author
Series
Red rising volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 43
Language
English
Description
For a decade Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt color-coded Society. Now, outlawed by the very Republic he founded, he wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still salvage the dream of Eo. But as he leaves death and destruction in his wake, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will another legend rise to take his place? Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile, has returned to the Core. Determined to bring peace back to mankind...
Author
Series
Andromeda volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
A team of scientists struggles to define and contain a deadly bacteria brought back from outer space by a satellite.
Author
Series
Under the never sky volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"In their effort to reach the fabled Still Blue, Aria and Perry will have to rescue Cinder, defeat Sable and Hess, and unite the Dwellers and the Outsiders once and for all"--
17) The Martian
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive--and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he...
18) 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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses...
Author
Series
Chaos walking volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Alternate chapters follow teenagers Todd and Viola, who become separated as the Mayor's oppressive new regime takes power in New Prentisstown, a space colony where residents can hear each other's thoughts.
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