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"From the internationally bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change. One morning, a man wakes up to find himself transformed. Overnight, Anders's skin has turned dark, and the reflection in the mirror seems a stranger to him. At first he shares his secret only with Oona, an old friend turned new lover. Soon, reports of similar events begin to surface. Across the land, people are awakening...
2) Partials
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Series
Partials sequence volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
HL 810L
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English
Description
"In a post-apocalyptic eastern seaboard ravaged by disease and war with a manmade race of people called Partials, the chance at a future rests in the hands of Kira Walker, a sixteen-year-old medic in training"--
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"Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world. Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, Matilda has ferried the last of humanity...
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Justin C. Key has long been obsessed with monsters. Reading R.L. Stine's Goosebumps as a kid, he imagined himself battling monsters and mayhem to a triumphant end. But when watching Scream 2, in which the movie's only Black couple is promptly killed off, he realized that the Black and Brown characters in his favorite genre were almost always the victim or villain--if they were portrayed at all. In The World Wasn't Ready for You, Key expands and subverts...
5) Riot baby
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English
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""Riot Baby bursts at the seams of story with so much fire, passion and power that in the end it turns what we call a narrative into something different altogether."-Marlon James. Rooted in foundational loss and the hope that can live in anger, Riot Baby is both a global dystopian narrative and an intimate family story with quietly devastating things to say about love, fury, and the black American experience. Ella and Kev are brother and sister,...
6) Gone wolf
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Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
700L
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English
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"In the future, a Black girl known only as Inmate Eleven is kept confined--to be used as a biological match for the president's son, should he fall ill. She is called a Blue--the color of sadness. She lives in a small-small room with her dog, who is going wolf more often--he's pacing and imagining he's free. Inmate Eleven wants to go wolf too, she wants to know why she feels so Blue and what is beyond her small-small room. In the present, Imogen lives...
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Ethan Fairmont volume 1
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
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Sixth-grader and self-proclaimed genius inventor, Ethan Fairmont, along with his ex-best friend Kareem, and new-kid Juan Carlos stumble across an extraterrestrial visitor they name Cheese, who is stuck on Earth in need of serious repairs, spicy snacks, and total secrecy.
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Series
Record keeper volume 1
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English
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After World War III, Earth is in ruins, and the final armies have come to a reluctant truce. Everyone must obey the law - in every way - or risk shattering the fragile peace and endangering the entire human race.
9) Fragments
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Series
Partials sequence volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
920L
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English
Description
"With the Help of Samm and Heron, Kira sets out on a desperate search for clues as to who she is, while Marcus and the remaining human population gear up for war with the Paritals"-- Provided by publisher.
10) Survive the Dome
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English
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"A high school junior teams up with a hacker during a police brutality protest to shut down a device that creates an impenetrable dome around Baltimore that is keeping the residents in and information from going out"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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"A neurodiverse twelve-year-old girl is shown an amazing new technology that gives her another chance to talk to the best friend she lost. But she soon discovers the corporation behind the science hides dark secrets that only she can expose"--
13) Alien superstar
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Series
Alien superstar volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Buddy Burger escapes his home planet, lands in Hollywood, and is cast in a new television series, but must pretend his six eyes and suction-cup feet are the costume and his human skin, real.
14) Nomansland
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Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
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Description
Living under a strict code of conduct in an all-female community 500 years after the earth's destruction, a sensitive teenaged girl raised to be a hunter discovers forbidden relics from the Time Before.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 570L
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English
Description
Artemisia (Sia) Martinez's mother was deported to Mexico by ICE and disappeared in the Sonoran Desert trying to make it back to her American family; Sia believes that she was as-good-as murdered by ICE and the sheriff in their small Arizona town on the edge of the national park, and wants revenge against him and his son, Jeremy--but her search for the truth will uncover many more secrets than she counted on.
16) Worldshaker
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Col Porpentine is being groomed as the next Commander of Worldshaker, a juggernaut where elite families live on the upper decks while the Filthies toil below, but when he meets Riff, a Filthy girl on the run, he discovers how ignorant he is of his home and its residents.
17) The seed of Cain
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Series
Record keeper volume 2
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English
Description
"General Arika Cobane, beloved leader of the worker rebellion, makes a bold-but illegal-move to ensure the people's freedom. When her scheme fails and her co-conspirator hangs for treason, Arika-overworked and overwrought-blacks out. When she awakens, everything has changed. She's been stripped of her rank and power and the new leader of the Kongo, Kira Swan, is a charismatic traitor bent on consigning the Kongo under the guise of peace. Desperate,...
Author
Series
Ignite the stars volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Criminal mastermind and unrivaled pilot Ia Cōcha and her allies make unpredictable choices as they fight to keep darkness from eclipsing the skies.
20) Team player
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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High school senior, starting quarterback, and team co-captain Danny struggles with the changes that come when an android athlete joins Fitzgerald High's previously human-only football team.
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