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1) The XY
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
She's been taught to fear him. He's been taught to fear her. What if they're both wrong? In River's world, XYs are a relic of the past, along with things like war and violence. Thanks to the Global Agreements, River's life is simple, safe, and peaceful...until she comes across a body in the road one day. A body that is definitely male, definitely still alive. River isn't prepared for this. There's nothing in the Agreements about how to deal with...
2) Nomansland
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Formats
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.
3) Fever Crumb
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer, although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought. But at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present.
4) Curfew
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Think The Handmaid's Tale but with the women in charge, set in a world where all men are electronically tagged and placed under strict curfew, and the murder investigation threatening to undo it all. Imagine a near-future Britain in which women dominate workplaces, public spaces, and government. Where the gender pay gap no longer exists and motherhood opens doors instead of closing them. Where women are no longer afraid to walk home alone, to cross...
5) Above World
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
In a future of high technology and genetic modification the Coral Kampii, like legendary mermaids, live isolated from the Above World, but when the devices that allows them to breathe underwater start to fail, thirteen-year-old Aluna and her friend Hoku go to that forbidden place to find help.
6) Requiem moon
Author
Series
Scarlet odyssey volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Salo's queen has finally accepted his desire to be a mystic despite taboos concerning men's use of magic. But her acceptance is not support; it is strategy. Under a disguise of the queen's making, Salo enters Jungle City as a pilgrim to the Red Temple, only to find a magical barrier barring his entrance. Left at the mercy of the warring political factions that run the city, Salo faces a series of obstacles wrought by an unseen hand, knowing he cannot...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Reminiscent of the works of Margaret Atwood, Shirley Jackson, and Octavia Butler, a biting social commentary from the acclaimed author of Lakewood that speaks to our times--a piercing dystopian novel about the unbreakable bond between a young woman and her mysterious mother, set in a world in which witches are real and single women are closely monitored" --
Josephine Thomas has heard every conceivable theory about her mother's disappearance fourteen...
8) White stag
Author
Series
Permafrost volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the last child in a family of daughters, seventeen-year-old Janneke was raised to be the male heir. While her sisters were becoming wives and mothers, she was taught to hunt, track, and fight. On the day her village was burned to the ground, Janneke -- as the only survivor -- was taken captive by the malicious Lydian and eventually sent to work for his nephew, Soren. Janneke's survival in the court of merciless monsters has come at the cost of...
9) The beauty
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Somewhere away from the cities and towns, in the Valley of the Rocks, a society of men and boys gather around the fire each night to listen to their history recounted by Nate, the storyteller. Requested most often by the group is the tale of the death of all women. they are the last generation. One evening, Nate bring back new secrets from the woods; peculiar mushrooms are growing from the ground where the women's bodies lie buried. These are the...
Author
Language
English
Description
As startling and provocative as his famous Stranger in a Strange Land, here is Heinlein's grand masterpiece about a man supremely talented, immensely old, and obscenely wealthy who discovers that money can buy everything.
Johann Sebastian Bach Smith was immensely rich—and very old. Though his mind was still keen, his body was worn out. His solution was to have surgeons transplant his brain into a new body. The operation was a great success—but
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Language
English
Description
"Francis Saxover and Diana Brackley, two biochemists investigating a rare lichen, separately discover that it has a remarkable property: It slows the aging process almost to a halt. Francis, realizing the horrifying implications of an ever-youthful wealthy elite, decides to keep his findings a secret. But the younger and more daring Diana sees an opportunity to overturn the male status quo and free women from the career-versus-children binary-in short,...
12) The parlor
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The Parlor is a futuristic novel that explores a world in which males and females live completely separated in order to achieve permanent peace and prosperity. Readers dive into this progressive society through the eyes of Andrea, an eighteen-year-old girl who is about to come face to face with a man for the first time in a mandatory meeting. Once Andrea meets a male, she discovers that this civilization isn't as perfect as it seems from his point...
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