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1) On the beach
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
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Description
The last generation, innocent victims of an accidental nuclear war, live out their last days, make plans that will never be carried out, and hope for a miracle that will not come. As the deadly rain moves closer, the world as we know it moves toward the end.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
"New York Times best selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real...a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages...A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP). A weapon that may already be in the hands of our enemies." "Months before publication, One...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
"Alas, Babylon." Those fateful words heralded the end. When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly. But for one small town in Florida, miraculously spared, the struggle is just beginning, as men and women of all backgrounds join together to confront the darkness.
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Series
Seven sleepers series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Joshua Adams wakes from a fifty-year sleep to find that he has escaped nuclear war--and that the genetically altered races of Earth now hail his awakening as the first fulfillment of an ancient prophecy.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
"A Canticle for Leibowitz is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American writer Walter M. Miller, Jr., first published in 1960. Set in a Roman Catholic monastery in the desert of the southwestern United States after a devastating nuclear war, the story spans thousands of years as civilization rebuilds itself. The monks of the Albertian Order of Leibowitz take up the mission of preserving the surviving remnants of man's scientific knowledge...
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Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
U.S. Air Force aerial warfare expert Major General Patrick McLanahan has been demoted and moved back to a desk job. But while keeping a keen eye on what's going on with old enemies, he notices that Russia's heavy bomber and tactical bomber bases are busier than ever. McLanahan tries to get his superiors to pay attention and is ignored. Russian president General Anatoliy Gryzlov is determined to punish McLanahan and his fleet of robotic warplanes...
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Divided we fall trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Danny Wright is considered to be a hero by many in the rebel held area of Idaho and the Northwest, but he has little faith in what passes for a government there, or in the secretive and repressive Brotherhood--and when nuclear weapons are detonated in Washington, D.C. and New York, the Civil War suddenly turns into World War III.
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Series
Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 7
Jack Ryan novel volume 07
Jack Ryan novel volume 06
Jack Ryan Jack Ryan Jr. and John Clark novels volume 07
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Jack Ryan novel volume 07
Jack Ryan novel volume 06
Jack Ryan Jack Ryan Jr. and John Clark novels volume 07
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 53
Language
English
Description
How do you save the U.S. President from himself? Jack Ryan never thought he'd would have to ask this question. With the exceptional realism and authenticity, Clancy, constructs a novel of unrelenting suspense, a story as explosive as today's headlines. With one terrible act, the world is plunged into the ultimate nightmare. Forces collide. Shots are exchanged. What had seemed to be an isolated and horrible incident appears to each side as the...
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Series
Camel Club novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
After witnessing a shocking murder, four conspiracy theorists team up with a Secret Service agent to uncover the government corruption that threatens to cause an international terrorism crisis in this New York Times bestselling thriller. Welcome to THE CAMEL CLUB. Existing at the fringes of Washington, D.C., the Club consists of four eccentric members. Led by a mysterious man known as "Oliver Stone," they study conspiracy theories, current events,...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
The 50th Anniversary Edition of the Lord of the Flies is the volume that every fan of this classic book will have to own! Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. Yet soon it became a cult favorite among both students and literary critics who...
11) Z for Zachariah
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Seemingly the only person left alive after a nuclear war, a sixteen-year-old girl is relieved to see a man arrive into her valley until she realizes that he is a tyrant and she must somehow escape.
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Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Explores why the Cold War ended, including such reasons as the changing relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union, economic problems, and the increase in nuclear weaponry worldwide.
13) Ashling
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Series
Obernewtyn chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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Description
Elspeth Gordie, the heroic leader of a group of children outcast from society because of their psychic powers, tries to seal an alliance between the secret Misfit community at Obernewtyn and the rebel forces rumored to be hiding in the capital.
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