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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, AK. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy who died in the war, Ernt is secure in his beliefs, but never was a family less prepared for the reality of Alaska, the long, cold winters and isolation. Locals...
4) The Stand
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 72
Language
English
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A patient escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out 99 per cent of the world's population within a few weeks. Those who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader.
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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
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defense is three women, on a farm at the...
Author
Series
Carve the Mark volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Living on a violent planet where everyone develops a unique power meant to shape the future, Akos and Cyra, youths from enemy nations, resent gifts that render them vulnerable to others' control before they become unlikely survival partners.
11) The kill order
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Traces the fateful period after the Earth is decimated by catastrophic solar flares and reveals the stories behind the formation of WICKED, the construction of the Glade, and Thomas' entry into the Maze.
12) Rebellion
Author
Series
The 100 volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a fanatical cult determined to cleanse the war-ravaged Earth threatens the one hundred, Clarke sets off to make peace with these strangers while Glass falls under the spell of the cult's magnetic message.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"When 13-year-old Jace Wilson witnesses a brutal murder, he's plunged into a new life, issued a false identity and hidden in a wilderness skills program for troubled teens. The plan is to get Jace off the grid while police find the two killers. The result is the start of a nightmare. The killers, known as the Blackwell Brothers, are slaughtering anyone who gets in their way in a methodical quest to reach him. Now all that remains between them and...
Author
Series
The remnant chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
With war on the horizon, Princess Lia has no choice but to assume her role as First Daughter, and finds herself at cross-purposes with her love, Rafe, and suspicious of Kaden, who has hunted her down.
Author
Series
Unwind trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After the destruction of the Graveyard, Connor and Lev are on the run, seeking a woman who may be the key to bringing down unwinding forever. Meanwhile Cam, the rewound boy, tries to prove his love for Risa by bringing Proactive Citizenry to its knees.
16) City of the Dead
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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For Hawk, being a hero weighs heavily on her wings.
In the City of the Dead, life happens in the shadows. That's why a war is brewing against an enemy no one can see.
Hawk and Maximum Ride never back down from a conflict, or from each other, and they argue more than they agree.
But as the dead begin to outnumber the living, a mother's experience and a daughter's instinct can make one powerful arsenal.
17) The 5th wave
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
457 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
18) The enemy
Author
Series
Enemy volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
First Hyperion Paperback Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
440 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a devastating disease, everyone sixteen and older is either dead or a decomposing, brainless creature with a ravenous appetite for flesh. Teens have barricaded themselves in buildings throughout London and venture outside only when they need to scavenge for food.
19) The road
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged...
20) UnWholly
Author
Series
Unwind trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
402 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After Connor, Lev, and Risa's high-profile revolt against unwinding, using teens to provide tissues for transplant, a sadistic bounty hunter who takes "trophies" from the unwinds he captures starts to pursue them.