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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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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) Animal farm
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
The animals of Manor Farm have revolted and taken over. Upon the death of Old Major, pigs Snowball and Napoleon lead a revolt against Mr. Jones, driving him from the farm. The animals embrace the Seven Commandments of Animalism and life carries on, but they learn that a farm ruled by animals looks more human than ever.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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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...
4) The fire
Author
Series
Witch and wizard volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Whit and Wisty Allgood have led the resistance against a totalitarian regime that has banned all forms of creativity and executed their parents, but even the growing strength of the siblings' magic has not been able to stop the evil dictator, and they must somehow prepare for an imminent showdown.
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Language
English
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Welcome to the chilling and prophetic world of Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World," a dystopian novel that explores the dark underbelly of a seemingly perfect society. Set in the distant future, society is meticulously engineered, with every aspect of human life controlled and regulated. From birth, citizens are assigned to specific social classes and conditioned to fulfill predetermined roles. Happiness is prioritized, but it comes at a steep price—the...
7) The Kiss
Author
Series
Witch and wizard volume 4
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Magical siblings Whit and Wisty have known each other their whole lives . . . but when a mysterious stranger captures Wisty's heart, she is forced to make the ultimate choice.
Whit and Wisty Allgood, a witch and wizard with extraordinary abilities, have defeated the ruthless dictator who long overshadowed their world. But for the first time in their lives, the powerful brother and sister find themselves at odds as Wisty is drawn to...
Whit and Wisty Allgood, a witch and wizard with extraordinary abilities, have defeated the ruthless dictator who long overshadowed their world. But for the first time in their lives, the powerful brother and sister find themselves at odds as Wisty is drawn to...
8) The gift
Author
Series
Witch and wizard volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After escaping imprisonment by the totalitarian regime known as the New Order, siblings Wisty and Whit Allgood, who possess magical powers, establish themselves as leaders of the Resistance, a hidden community of teenagers like themselves, hunted by the state and determined to defy its ban on the arts, magic, and all other forms of creativity.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Imprisoned by the political party to which he has dedicated his life, Nicolas Rubashov paces his prison cell, examining his life and remembering his tempestuous career. As the old intelligentsia is eradicated to make way for the new, he is psychologically tortured and forced to confess to preposterous crimes. Comparing himself to Moses, led to the Promised Land but refused entry, he sees only darkness at the end of his life where once he saw such...
11) V for vendetta
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In the near future, England has become a corrupt, totalitarian state, opposed only by V, the mystery man wearing a white porcelain mask who intends to free the masses through absurd acts of terrorism.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 134
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
The year is 1984. Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth, his job is to 'correct' history so that all records support the Party's official worldview. But Winston is in grave danger; his memory still functions. He knows that the Party controls the people through brutal alienation, depriving them of every liberating human pursuit, from reason to passion. Together with his beloved Julia, Winston risks his life in a revolution against the powers...
Author
Series
Song of the shattered sands volume 4
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Ceda was an elite warrior in service to the kings of Sharakhai. She has been an assassin in dark places. A weapon poised to strike from the shadows. A voice from the darkness, striving to free her people. No longer. Now she's going to lead. The age of the Kings is coming to an end . . ."--Publisher description.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order--all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls.
Author
Publisher
IDW Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Whit and Wisty Allgood recieve a clandestine proposal from a member of the New Order's inner circle to help them oust the New Order's leader from power, the siblings question whether they should trust such a man.
Author
Publisher
IDW Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the oppressive New Order declares that all magic is evil, sibling teenagers Whit and Wisty Allgood use their newly discovered magic abilities to infiltrate the New Order's territory.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-four-year-old Natasha Wiley lives in America-Five, a high-tech, underground, utopian settlement where hunger and money do not exist, everyone has a job, and all basic needs are met. But when her mentor and colleague, Jeffrey, selects her to join a special team to venture Outside for the first time, Natasha's allegiances to home, society, and above all to Jeffrey are tested. She is forced to make a choice that may put the people she loves most...
Author
Publisher
The University of Wisconsin Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Since the Eagle Party took power in the United States, all schools and public utilities have been privatized, churches and libraries closed, and independent news media shut down. Drones buzz overhead in constant surveillance of the populace, and the internet has been replaced by the network of the New Society Corporation. Environmental degradation and unchecked climate change have brought raging wildfires to the Western states and disastrous flooding...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perrenial Modern Classics
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Huxley's vision of the future comes to life in his astonishing 1931 novel Brave New World--a world of tomorrow in which capitalist civilization has been reconstituted through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering--and its sequel, written thirty years after his classic novel of the future, in which Huxley describes the shocking scientific devices and techniques available to any group in a position to manipulate society.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Originally published in 1932, Brave New World is one of the most revered and profound works of twentieth century literature. Touching on themes of control, humanity, technology, and influence, Aldous Huxley's enduring classic is a reflection and a warning of the age in which it was written, yet remains frighteningly relevant today. With its surreal imagery and otherworldly backdrop, Brave New World adapts beautifully to the graphic novel form. Fred...
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