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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A tale of deceptive simplicity that slowly reveals an extraordinary emotional depth and resonance, this moving new novel subtly re-imagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love. As a child, Kathy -- now 31 years old –- lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world. She was brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being...
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Series
Visit from the Goon Squad volume 2
Language
English
Description
"The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton,'a tech demi-god on a first name basis with the world.' Bix is forty, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or 'externalizing memory. It's 2010. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, "Own Your Unconscious"--which allows you access to every memory you've...
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Language
English
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"All Beth has to do is drive her son to his soccer game, watch him play, and then return home. Just because she knows her ex-best friend lives near the field, that doesn't mean she has to drive past her house and try to catch a glimpse of her. Why would Beth do that and risk dredging up painful memories? She hasn't seen Flora for twelve years. She doesn't want to see her today--or ever again. But she can't resist. She parks outside the open gates...
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Series
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”...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Language
English
Description
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis' parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents -- telekinesis and telepathy -- who got to this place the same...
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