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81) Shatter Me
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Shatter me (Mafi) volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
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Ostracized or incarcerated her whole life, seventeen-year-old Juliette is freed on the condition that she use her horrific abilities in support of The Reestablishment, a post-apocalyptic dictatorship, but Adam, the only person ever to show her affection, offers hope of a better future.
82) Specials
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Uglies volume 3
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IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
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After being captured and surgically transformed into a "special," teenaged Tally Youngblood, now a government agent programmed to protect society from outside threats, is ordered to eliminate the rebel colony New Smoke, Tally's former home.
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Shadow children volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
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In a society that allows families to have only two children, a group of third-borns tries to save themselves and others like them.
84) The 5th Wave
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5th wave volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 17
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"Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them"--Provided by publisher of original edition.
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Chronicles of the One volume 3
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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Year One and Of Blood and Bone concludes her stunning new trilogy praised as "A match for end-of-the-world classics like Stephen King's The Stand." After the sickness known as the Doom destroyed civilization, magick has become commonplace, and Fallon Swift has spent her young years learning its ways. Fallon cannot live in peace until she frees those who have been preyed upon by the government or the fanatical...
86) The infinite sea
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
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How do you rid the Earth of seven billion humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.Surviving the first four waves was nearly impossible. Now Cassie Sullivan finds herself in a new world, a world in which the fundamental trust that binds us together is gone. As the 5th Wave rolls across the landscape, Cassie, Ben, and Ringer are forced to confront the Others' ultimate goal: the extermination of the human race.Cassie and her friends haven't seen the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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One night, thirteen-year-old Meg Murry meets an eccentric new neighbor, Mrs Whatsit, who refers to something called a tesseract. She later finds out it is a scientific concept her father was working on before his mysterious disappearance. The following day, Meg, her child genius brother Charles, and fellow schoolmate Calvin visit Mrs Whatsit's home, where the equally strange Mrs Who and the unseen voice of Mrs Which promise to help Meg find and rescue...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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Gr 5-7-Luke, a third child, hides quietly in his house, eluding the Population Police because he lives in a society in which families are only allowed two children. Now he has a chance to come out of the shadows by taking on an assumed identity and leaving home. This sequel to Among the Hidden (S & S, 1998) has Luke, now Lee, entering the Hendricks School for boys and a completely new existence where he feels lost and confused by his surroundings....
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Dune novels. Main series volume 6
Dune chronicles volume Book 6
Dune chronicles volume 6
Dune Chronicles volume 06
Dune chronicles volume Book 6
Dune chronicles volume 6
Dune Chronicles volume 06
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 22
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Fifteen thousand years after Leto II's death, the remnants of the Bene Gesserit contend with the ruthless leaders of an alien culture to forge a new civilization and preserve the best of the Old Empire.
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2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 7
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"Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying a profoundly unusual cargo - a menagerie of savage animals. Nursed to recovery by the keeper Montgomery, who gives him dark medicine that tastes of blood, Prendick soon finds himself stranded upon an uncharted island in the Pacific with his rescuer and the beasts. Here, he meets Montgomery's master, the sinister Doctor Moreau - a...
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Wild robot volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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After being captured by the Recons and returned to civilization for reprogramming, Roz is sent to Hilltop Farm where she befriends her owner's family and animals, but pines for her son, Brightbill.
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Pub. Date
1985
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The frightened people have heard the weird noises and seen the eerie glow atop the mountain. Only one man, Chief Inspector John Stock, finds a clue. And only he is able to trace the threads of the mystery to a fantastic machine and its creator - a genius who intends to make his mad dreams come true.
93) The Time Machine
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IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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"An intrepid adventurer, known simply as the Time Traveler, meets his friends for dinner one night. During the conversation, he baffles them with his wild ideas about moving forward or backward in time. His claims are met with disbelief. Even when he proves his theory with a real-life experiment, his associates simply claim that he is a trickster--a magician. A week later, he enthralls his acquaintances yet again. He tells a story so unbelievable...
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2005
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When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, their president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that they build a gun big enough to launch a rocket to the moon. But when Barbicane's adversary places a huge wager that the project will fail and a daring volunteer elevates the mission to a "manned" flight, one man's dream turns into an international space race.
95) Messenger
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IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
96) Golden son
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 21
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"With shades of The Hunger Games, Ender's Game, and Game of Thrones, debut author Pierce Brown's genre-defying epic Red Rising hit the ground running and wasted no time becoming a sensation. Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by 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...
97) Nightfall
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Kalgash is a world on the edge of chaos, torn between religious fanaticism and scientific rationalism. Their civilization is threatened by Nightfall, the first sunset in over two thousand years
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Michael Vey volume 2
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
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Fifteen-year-old Michael Vey, born with Tourette's syndrome and special electromagnetic powers, joins his techno-genius best friend and an alliance of other "electric" teenagers to battle powerful foes in the jungles of Peru, where Michael learns the Order of Elgen's plan to "restructure" the world.
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[2017]
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China's one-child policy and its cultural preference for male heirs have created a society overrun by forty million unmarriageable men. By the year 2030, more than 25 percent of men in their late thirties will not have a family of their own. An Excess Male is the story of one such leftover man's quest for love and family under a State that seeks to glorify its past mistakes and impose order through authoritarian measures, reinvigorated communist ideals,...
100) The Giver
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.