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1) Dhalgren
Author
Language
English
Description
"Bellona is a city at the dead center of the United States. The population has fled. Madmen and criminals wander the streets. Strange portents appear in the cloud-covered sky. Into this disaster zone comes a young man-poet, love, and adventurer known only as the Kid. -- Back cover.
Author
Series
Hungry city chronicles. Main series volume 4
Mortal engines quartet volume 04
Predator Cities volume 4
Mortal engines quartet volume 04
Predator Cities volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
London is a radioactive ruin. But Tom and Wren discover that the old predator city hides an awesome secret that could bring an end to the war. But as they risk their lives in its dark underbelly, time is running out. Alone and far away, Hester faces a fanatical enemy who possesses the weapons and the will to destroy the entire human race.The final book in the Mortal Engines series, Philip Reeve's A Darkling Plain is the winner of the Guardian Children's...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
"Ray Bradbury's moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels. Dandelion Wine stands out in the Bradbury literary canon as the author's most deeply personal work, a semi-autobiographical recollection of a magical small-town summer in 1928. Twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding knows Green Town, Illinois, is as vast and deep as the whole wide world that lies beyond the city limits. It is a pair of brand-new tennis...
4) Osiris
Author
Series
(Emma J.).Osiris Project volume 01
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rising high above the frigid waters, the ocean city of Osiris has been cut off from the land since the Great Storm 50 years ago. Most believe that Osiris is the last city on Earth. Adelaide is the black-sheep granddaughter of the city's Architect. A jaded socialite, she wants little to do with her powerful relatives--until her troubled twin brother disappears mysteriously. Vikram, a third-generation storm refugee, sees his own people dying of cold...
Author
Series
Hungry city chronicles. Main series volume 1
Predator cities volume 1
Predator cities volume 01
Mortal engines quartet volume 01
Predator cities volume 1
Predator cities volume 01
Mortal engines quartet volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
Tom, a third class apprentice in a distant future in which technology has been lost and tiered cities move about the Earth on caterpillar tracks, often absorbing smaller locales, has many dangerous adventures after being pushed off London by Thaddeus Valentine, a historian who is trying to resurrect an ancient atomic weapon.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a series of suicide-killings and a deadly storm, the residents of the town of Oleander, Kansas, start acting even more strangely than would be expected. Only the five witnesses of the murders retain their sound minds, and must band together to save the town from whatever has come over it"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Franny and her friends, The Ordinary, fill their time in traumatized Spendor, Ohio, filming their investigations of local legends for YouTube, but when they investigate a cosmic event, everything changes." --
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twenty-year-old Russ arrives in the northern California town of Freedom to visit his dad. Freedom has peculiarities other than its odd name: the local mayor''s ideas of "decentralization" have left it without normal connections to state or federal government and minimal public services. Russ meets an interesting young woman, Pendra, but before he can get to know much about Freedom or its people, a savage tsunami strikes the West Coast.
The wave of...
Author
Series
Frances and the monsters volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Frances Stenzel was just trying to prove her scientific worth to her parents ... instead, she reawakened her great-grandfather's secret and most terrible invention. Before it can destroy the town, she sets off after it ... and she'll have to face ... angry locals and an unexpected friendship ... while the trail for the monster goes cold and time is running out before her science career, and the city itself, are doomed forever"-- Provided by publisher...
10) Terminal café
Author
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
On the Day of the Dead, Santiago Columbar decides to venture into the forbidden streets of St. John, which is a town inhabited by necrovilles--dead humans who have been resurrected.
Author
Series
Centauriad volume 02
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Accompanied by her closest friends, Malora leaves the safety of Mount Kheiron for the bush then the bustling city of the Ka in search of Sky, the stallion who used to lead Malora's herd of horses, and finds herself faced with making decisions about her future in new ways.
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