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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order--all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine”...
2) Ender's game
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Once again, the 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 is a 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. How will Ender perform in real combat conditions?...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 920L
Language
English
Description
Having devoted his studies to optics and refraction, an impulsive scientist named Griffin has rendered himself invisible. Unable to reverse the effects, his struggle to survive grows desperate until he realizes that there are benefits to living out of the public eye. Increasingly isolated, he soon spirals into a life of crime and degenerates into madness. He can't see that he has become his own worst enemy. Exploring the loss of identity and the willful...
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Series
Maximum Ride volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
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.
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When the wind blows volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Frannie O'Neill, a young and talented veterinarian whose husband was recently murdered, comes across an amazing discovery near her animal hospital in the woods. Kit Harrison, a troubled and unconventional FBI agent, soon arrives on her doorstep with an agenda of his own. And then, there is eleven-year-old Max--Frannie's amazing discovery.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Before seeing Jurassic World film this June read the original, multimillion copy number 1 bestselling thriller that inspired the first major motion picture Jurassic Park. On a remote jungle island, genetic engineers have created a dinosaur game park. An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now one of mankind's most thrilling fantasies has come true and the first dinosaurs that the Earth has seen in the...
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When the wind blows volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Six genetically engineered bird-children struggle to stay with the couple who saved them from their captors while one scientist hunts for the oldest girl, Max, who knows too much about his new, even more portentous project.
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Maximum Ride volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Six unforgettable kids -- with no families, no homes -- are running for their lives. Max Ride and her best friends have the ability to fly. And that's just the beginning of their amazing powers. But they don't know where they come from, who's hunting them, why they are different from all other humans...and if they're meant to save mankind -- or destroy it.
10) Firestarter
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
"Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were once college students looking to make some extra cash, volunteering as test subjects for an experiment orchestrated by the clandestine government organization known as The Shop. But the outcome unlocked exceptional latent psychic talents for the two of them--manifesting in even more terrifying ways when they fell in love and had a child. Their daughter, Charlie, has been gifted with the most extraordinary and uncontrollable...
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Series
Maximum Ride volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Max boldly navigates post-apocalyptic regions with her broken flock in search of answers about what has happened to their world.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man's nature sprang from the darkest recesses of his own unconscious-during a nightmare from which his wife awakened him, alerted by his screams. More than a hundred years later, this tale of the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll and the drug that unleashes his evil, inner persona-the loathsome, twisted Mr. Hyde-has lost none of its ability to shock. Its realistic police-style narrative...
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Jurassic Park volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
People It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end--the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public. There are rumors that something has survived.
14) Upgrade: a novel
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English
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...
15) Toys: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Animosity between the genetically engineered Elites and their human subjects is fierce, and many rebels fight back against Elite rule. Hays Baker is a high-ranking agent in the Elite forces and at the forefront of keeping the humans under control. However, Hays is unknowingly hiding a secret that will make him the greatest threat to the Elite regime, and their number one target.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
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.
17) Max
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
When millions of fish start dying off the coast of Hawaii and something is destroying hundreds of ships, the government enlists Max and 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 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
The time has come for Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel to face their ultimate enemy and, despite many obstacles, to try to save the world from a sinister pland to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race.
Author
Series
MaddAddam trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. He searches for supplies in a wasteland where insects proliferate and pigoons and wolvogs ravage the pleeblands, where ordinary people once lived, and the Compounds that sheltered the extraordinary. As he tries to piece...
20) Leviathan
Author
Series
Leviathan trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.
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