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Author
Language
English
Description
Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would...
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...
3) 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.
4) Cinder
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 1
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 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?
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 6
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the body is (was), how they were killed (that should be relatively straightforward, at least), and why (because apparently that matters to a lot of people-who knew?) Yes, the unthinkable is about to happen: Murderbot must voluntarily speak to humans! Again! A new standalone adventure in the New York Times-bestselling,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In this story inspired by Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," Ana Dakkar, a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world, makes astounding discoveries about her heritage and puts her leadership skills to the test against deadly enemies from a rival school.
8) Max
Author
Series
Maximum ride volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When millions of fish start dying off the coast of Hawaii and something is destroying hundreds of ships, the government enlists the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--to help get to the bottom of the disaster before it is too late.
Author
Series
Ready Freddy! volume 22
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Freddy's success at the science fair is in jeopardy when his mother throws out his project.
11) Replica
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two novels which can be read separately or in alternating chapters. In Lyra, two experimental subjects escape from the Haven Institute, where human replicas are created and observed. In Gemma, a lonely, often-ill teenager discovers her father's connection to the Haven Institute and travels there, meeting the escaped replicas.
13) Nemesis
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
In A.D. 2236 Earth and its one hundred space colonies are crowded, anarchical and socially degenerate. Two light-years away burns a neighbouring star with its own planetary system, the star is named Nemesis.
Author
Series
Timeless volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"In a world where past, present, and future have collided, Diego and his friends must rescue Diego's father from an evil group of renegades, otherwise their whole existence is threatened"--
15) Renegade
Author
Series
Mila 2.0 volume 2
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Mila is back on the run--this time with potential boyfriend Hunter by her side. As they search for a man who might know more about her mysterious past, Mila must rely on her android abilities to protect them from the people who want her dead. But embracing her identity as a machine leads her to question the state of her humanity, as well as Hunter's true intentions.
16) Yesterday
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
After the mysterious death of her father and a sudden move back to her native Canada in 1985, sixteen-year-old Freya feels distant and disoriented until she meets Garren and begins remembering their shared past, despite the efforts of some powerful people to keep them from learning the truth.
17) Swarm
Author
Series
Zeroes volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
As they celebrate the opening of their underground nightclub, the Zeroes, six teenagers with unique abilities, learn about the sinister power of Swarm, who uses a crowd's rage to kill--and who loves killing Zeroes.
18) Ghost talkers
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Ginger Stuyvesant, an American heiress living in London during World War I, is engaged to Captain Benjamin Hartshorne, an intelligence officer. Ginger is a medium for the Spirit Corps, a special Spiritualist force ... Ginger and her fellow mediums contribute a great deal to the war efforts, so long as they pass the information through appropriate channels. While Ben is away at the front, Ginger discovers the presence of a traitor. Without the presence...
19) Caught
Author
Series
Missing volume 5
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When Jonah and Katherine travel to early 1900s Switzerland and Serbia to return Albert Einstein's daughter, Lieserl, to history, her mother Mileva grasps entirely too much about time travel and has no intention of letting her daughter go.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
NY : [2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1984, twelve-year-old Ebony-Grace of Huntsville, Alabama, visits her father in Harlem, where her fascination with outer space and science fiction interfere with her finding acceptance.
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