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Series
Maximum Ride volume 7
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Heartbroken after her best friend and soul mate, Fang, leaves her flock, Maximum Ride begins to believe the evil scientists trying to convince her she needs to save the world, and that Dylan, the newest member of her flock, is her perfect mate.
Author
Series
When the wind blows volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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Six extraordinary children are trying to lead normal lives in the Rocky Mountain countryside. The only time they've ever felt safe was when they were together in the waterfront cabin they call the Lake House. Dr. Ethan Kane is chief of surgery at Liberty General Hospital, where terrible secrets lie, secrets that will change the world for all.
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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After a short stay with an FBI agent who gives them a chance to attend school and live a normal life, the six genetically-altered, winged youths head toward Florida and Max's ultimate destiny--to save the world, whether she wants to or not.
4) Toys
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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Hays Baker and his wife Lizbeth possess super-human strength, extraordinary intelligence, stunning looks, a sex life to die for, and two beautiful children. Of course they do--they're Elites, endowed at birth with the very best that the world can offer. The only problem in their perfect world: humans and their toys! The one with the most toys--dies. The top operative for the Agency of Change, Hays has just won the fiercest battle of his career. He...
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 6
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When Max and the Flock discover an unscrupulous scientist who's experimenting on humans in an effort to "improve" the human race, they decide that they must try to stop him, in spite of Angel's prediction about Fang dying.
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 3
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
The time has come for Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel to face their ultimate enemy and, despite many obstacles, try to save the world from a sinister plan to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race.
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 5
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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
Maximum Ride volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "bird kids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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Follows the daily life of Frannie O'Neill, a Colorado veterinarian. After the mysterious death of her husband several years before, Frannie retreated to an isolated life in her Colorado practice. But a series of bizarre events suddenly disrupts her lonely routine.
10) Ender's game
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
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Once again, Earth is under attack. An alien species is poised for a final assault. The survival of humanity depends on a military genius who can defeat the aliens. But who? Ender Wiggin. Brilliant. Ruthless. Cunning. A tactical and strategic master. And a child. Recruited for military training by the world government, Ender's childhood ends the moment he enters his new home: Battle School. Among the elite recruits Ender proves himself to be a genius...
11) Altar of Eden
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Following the fall of Baghdad, two Iraqi boys stumble upon armed men looting the city zoo. The floodgates have been opened for the smuggling of hundreds of exotic birds, mammals, and reptiles to Western nations, but this crime hides a deeper secret. Amid a hail of bullets, a concealed underground weapons lab is ransacked and something even more horrific is set free. Seven years later, Louisiana state veterinarian Lorna Polk stumbles upon a fishing...
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock-- a band of genetically modified children who can fly-- are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants to auction them off to the highest bidder.
13) City of the Dead
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Series
Hawk volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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Description
Hawk accepts her mother Max's help to prevent vengeful hybrids, amoral scientists, traitorous politicians, and a deadly virus from overwhelming her beloved, polluted city.
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 8
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
One last chance . . . for Max, Fang, and Dylan . . . before it all ends. "Nevermore" is one last incredible, explosive adventure with an astonishing ending that no one could have seen coming.
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
Max boldly navigates post-apocalyptic regions with her broken flock in search of answers about what has happened to their world.
16) Watchers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 28
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Description
From a top secret government laboratory come two genetically altered life forms. One is a magnificent dog of astonishing intelligence. The other, a hybrid monster of a brutally violent nature. And both are on the loose.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
The time has come for Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gazzy and Angel to face their ultimate enemy and, despite many obstacles, try to save the world from a sinister plan to re-engineer a selected population into a scientifically superior master race. Book #3
18) Upgrade
Author
Pub. Date
2022
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Description
"An ordinary man undergoes a startling transformation-and fears that all of humanity may be next-in the mindblowing new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion Logan Ramsay can feel his brain...changing. And his body too. He's becoming something other than himself. Maybe even something other than human. As he sets out to discover who did this to him, and why, his transformation threatens everything-his family,...
19) Dawn
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Series
Xenogenesis series volume 1
Description
"When Lilith Iyapo wakes from a deep sleep, she finds herself aboard a vast spaceship, haunted by confused memories of a nuclear war that ravaged the world. She discovers that she is being held by the Oankali, a seemingly benevolent alien race that intervened in the human race's extinction, rescuing the survivors from their ruined planet and placing them in a coma-like sleep for centuries. Now the restored Earth is ready for inhabitants, and the Oankali...
20) Shadow puppets
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
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A new chapter in the saga of Ender's Earth. Earth and its society have been changed irrevocably in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin's victory over the Formics. The unity forced upon the warring nations by an alien enemy has shattered. Nations are rising again, seeking territory and influence, and seeking to control the skills and loyalty of the children from the Battle School. But one person has a better idea. Peter Wiggin, Ender's older, more ruthless...