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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In a novel that reaffirms her reputation as "America's Queen of Suspense," Mary Higgins Clark delivers a gripping tale of deception and tantalizing suspense. Nicholas Spencer, charismatic head of the medical research company Gen-stone, involved in the development of an anticancer vaccine, suddenly disappears. His private plane crashes en route to Puerto Rico, but his body is not found. Early results of the vaccine seemed highly promising. Yet, coinciding...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
Vogel Pharmaceutical sends pharmacologist Marina Singh to Amazonian Brazil to locate elusive employee Dr. Annick Swenson, who was once Singh's professor. While investigating the status of Swenson's fertility-drug research, Singh also hopes to uncover the fate of colleague Anders Eckman, whom Swenson reported dead.
3) Fear nothing
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Description
While investigating the death of his mother who was a scientist, Chris Snow discovers she was engaged in secret experiments on a nearby military base, experiments which went wrong and which produced monsters. The next he knows, the monsters come visiting and they are not friendly.
4) Medusa
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
For seven books, Clive Cussler has dazzled readers with the spine--tingling adventures of Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the Numa Special Assignment Team , but in Medusa, the NUMA team faces what may be its most perilous mission of all.
Author
Series
(Dean Ray),Moonlight Bay volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Moonlight Bay, California is a peaceful, picturesque small town until children begin disappearing. The police aren't much help since they've been corrupted behind the shuttered walls of adjacent military base, Fort Wyvern. Christopher Snow is convinced that the children are alive and that their disappearances have to do with secret research conducted deep within Fort Wyvern. But there are extremely violent and powerful forces protecting Fort Wyvern,...
Author
Series
Dark biology volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
1110L
Language
English
Description
“The bard of biological weapons captures the drama of the front lines.”—Richard Danzig, former secretary of the navy
The first major bioterror event in the United States-the anthrax attacks in October 2001-was a clarion call for scientists who work with “hot” agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons. In The Demon in the Freezer, his first nonfiction...
The first major bioterror event in the United States-the anthrax attacks in October 2001-was a clarion call for scientists who work with “hot” agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons. In The Demon in the Freezer, his first nonfiction...
7) Lost city
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Kurt Austin and the NUMA team have their work cut out for them when people are killed trying to harvest an enzyme that affects longevity that was found at the bottom of the Atlantic, while scientists in a remote Greek village are disappearing one by one, and a body turns up frozen high in the Alps.
8) Partials
Author
Series
Partials sequence volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Language
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"--
9) Lab girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
1240L
Language
English
Description
Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. She tells about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his classroom's labs; about how she found a sanctuary in science, and the disappointments, triumphs and exhilarating discoveries of scientific work. Yet at the core of this book is the story of a relationship Jahren forged with Bill, who...
10) Arrowsmith
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 29
Lexile measure
1160L
Language
English
Description
"Arrowsmith is a novel by American author Sinclair Lewis, which won him the Pulitzer Prize …which Lewis declined. Arrowsmith is an early major novel dealing with the culture of science. It was written in the period after the reforms of medical education flowing from the Flexner Report on Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1910, which had called on medical schools...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
1140L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...
13) The stand
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 72
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides -- or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old...
14) Gravity
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
"Emma Watson, a brilliant research physician, has been training for the mission of a lifetime: to study living beings in space. Jack McCallum, Emma's estranged husband, has shared her dream of space travel, but a medical condition has grounded and embittered him. He must watch from the sidelines as his wife prepares for her first mission to the International Space Station. Once aboard the space station, however, things start to go terribly wrong....
15) Trojan odyssey
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Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Underwater adventurer Dirk Pitt and the NUMA crew investigate a black tide infesting the ocean off Nicaragua, a study complicated by the discovery of a mysterious artifact, a powerful storm, and a conspiracy.
16) Placebo junkies
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teenaged Audie pushes her mind and body to the breaking point when she participates in a series of clinical drug trials for cash.
17) Longitude :the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1320L
Language
English
Description
Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day -- and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of lives, and the increasing fortunes of nations, hung on a resolution. The quest for a solution had occupied scientists...
18) Simple genius
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A three-hour drive from Washington, D.C., two clandestine institutions face each other across a heavily guarded river. One is the world's most unusual laboratory, whose goals and funding are a mystery. The other is an elite CIA training camp shrouded in secrecy. Now a man and a woman are about to run a gauntlet between these two puzzle factories, straight into a furious struggle to exploit a potentially world-shattering discovery--and keep some other...
19) Runaway Max
Author
Series
Stranger things volume 03
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Don't miss this gripping, emotional prequel to the hit Netflix series, Stranger Things! The never-before-told backstory of the beloved Dig Dug maven, Max Mayfield, written by New York Times bestselling author Brenna Yovanoff. This must-read novel explores Max's past--the good and the bad--as well as how she came to find her newfound sense of home in Hawkins, Indiana"--
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