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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
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?' A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In a society in which books are outlawed, Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.
Author
Series
Fractalverse volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 47
Physical Desc
878 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A space voyager living her dream of exploring new worlds lands on a distant planet ripe for colonization before her discovery of a mysterious relic transforms her life and threatens the entire human race.
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...
Author
Series
The maze runner trilogy 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.
Author
Series
[The maze runner trilogy] volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
9) Skinned
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Simon Pulse ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
361 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
To save her from dying in a horrible accident, Lia's wealthy parents transplant her brain into a mechanical body.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 37
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a near-future where women succumb to a sleeping disease and men revert to their primal natures, one mysteriously immune woman struggles to survive in an Appalachian town where she is treated as both a demon and a lab specimen.
Author
Series
[The maze runner trilogy] volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
After surviving horrific conditions in the Maze, Thomas is entrapped, along with nineteen other boys, in a scientific experiment designed to observe their responses and gather data believed to be essential for the survival of the human race.
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
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.
13) Insurgent
Author
Series
Divergent 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"--
14) Divergent
Author
Series
Divergent volume 1
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 anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
15) The Kingdom
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
340 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ana, a half-android, half-human employee of a futuristic fantasy theme park, the Kingdom, faces a charge of murder in a tale told through flashbacks and court transcripts.
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Raised in isolation in a post-apocalyptic world, Ami Miles escapes to seek her long-lost mother after her grandfather, knowing she is one of the few surviving women capable of child-bearing, arranges her marriage to a stranger.
17) Atlas shrugged
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 102
Language
English
Description
The decisions of a few industrial leaders shake the roots of capitalism and reawaken man's awareness of himself as an heroic being.
18) True believer
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Jeremy Marsh, a science journalist and professional skeptic, finds himself in over his head when he arrives at the small town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, and falls head over heels for the granddaughter of the supposed town psychic.
20) Allegiant
Author
Series
Divergent 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?