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3) Sacred stone
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In the remote wastes of Greenland, an ancient artifact possessing catastrophic radioactive power is unearthed. But the astounding find puts the world at risk. Caught between two militant factions bent on wholesale slaughter, Juan Cabrillo and his network of spies known as The Corporation must fight to protect the stone-and prevent the outbreak of World War III. In the remote wastes of Greenland, a young scientist has unearthed an artifact hidden in...
4) Singularity
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A swift, gripping novel with a goose-pimple mix of scary science and near-future action." -Greg Bear, New York Times–bestselling, Hugo & Nebula Award–winning author of The Unfinished Land
June 30th, 1908-In Siberia's remote Tunguska river basin, the most devastating cosmic collision ever recorded flattens hundreds of square miles with a blast a thousand times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Yet, more than a hundred...
5) Scowler
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a 1981 meteor shower in Iowa, a homicidal maniac escapes from prison and returns to the farm where his nineteen-year-old son, Ry, must summon three childhood toys, including one called Scowler, to protect himself, his eleven-year-old sister, Sarah, and their mother.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
What if a meteor shower left most of the world blind--and humanity at the mercy of mysterious carnivorous plants? Bill Masen undergoes eye surgery and awakes the next morning in his hospital bed to find civilization collapsing. Wandering the city, he soon realizes that surviving in this new world requires evading strangers and the seven-foot-tall plants known as triffids--plants that can walk and can kill a man with one quick lash of their poisonous...
7) Stardust
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
The fantasy fairy tale about a young man, an evil witch, and the sons of a lord, all seeking the star, a young woman living in the land of Faerie. Annotation. In the sleepy English countryside at the dawn of the Victorian Era, life moves at a leisurely pace in the tiny town of Wall, a secluded hamlet so named for an imposing stone barrier that surrounds a fertile grassland. Armed sentries guard the sole gap in the bulwark to keep the inquisitive from...
8) Impact
Author
Series
Wyman Ford novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
After a meteorite passes straight through the earth, Wyman Ford is called on to investigate the exit hole. What he discovers shatters all that is known about the universe. His investigation leads him to one of Mars' moons where a structure in the shape of a gun is found. It had been built to destroy any intelligent life that might challenge it, but who built it? Since it obviously poses a threat to Earth, Ford's team races against time to dismantle...
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