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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Includes a novel and two short stories.
Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are...
2) Blue gold
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Earth us a paradox - a fertile world three-quarters covered with water, yet in danger of running dry. Overuse and pollution have drained most of its fresh water, and scientist Francesca Carval's brilliant formula for desalination has vanished with her plane over South America. But when Kurt Austin and his NUMA team come across a pod of dead whales, their investigation takes them to the Venezuelan jungle where a cadre is bent on controlling the world's...
Author
Series
Mortality doctrine volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Path survivor Michael continues VirtNet Security's efforts to stop cyber-terrorist Kaine from completing his Mortality Doctrine plot to conquer humanity with controlling tangent mind technology.
Author
Series
Dark gravity sequence volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Desperately searching for the other Concentrators that are fatally disrupting Earth's orbit, Eleanor and her companions are labeled as terrorists by G.E.T. forces that would eliminate all but a few select people.
5) Directive 51
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Seemingly random events simultaneously occurring around the world are in fact connected as part of a radical group's plan to destroy modern civilization--a plan that will eliminate America's top government personnel, leaving the nation no choice but to implement its emergency contingency program ... Directive 51.
6) Exo
Author
Series
Exo volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
For a century now, Earth has been a peaceful colony of an alien race, and Donovan Reyes is a loyal member of the security forces, while his father is the Prime Liaison--but when a routine search and seizure goes bad Donovan finds himself a captive of the human revolutionary group, Sapience, terrorists who seem to prefer war to alien rule, and killing Donovan just might be the incident they are looking for.
Donovan Reyes is a loyal member of an alien...
7) The adjacent
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
“One of the master illusionists of our time.” —Wired
“A head-spinning blast of blurred reality . . . jaw-dropping.” —NPR
“Completely fascinating.” —San Francisco Book Review
Set against “a kaleidoscopic backdrop of Earth’s past, present, and future”, this time-hopping science fiction novel is a moving meditation on...
“A head-spinning blast of blurred reality . . . jaw-dropping.” —NPR
“Completely fascinating.” —San Francisco Book Review
Set against “a kaleidoscopic backdrop of Earth’s past, present, and future”, this time-hopping science fiction novel is a moving meditation on...
9) Cross fire
Author
Series
Exo volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the peaceful alien-run government decides to simply withdraw from Earth, it seems that the terrorist group Sapience is going to get the "free" Earth it wanted; but Donovan Reyes, member of the security forces, and once a prisoner of Sapience, realizes that freedom comes with a price--other alien races want to strip the planet of its resources, and if anyone is going to survive, what is left of the security forces and Sapience have to work together....
Author
Series
Overwatch volume 01
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the technologically advanced African city of Numbani, in the not-so-distant future, humans live in harmony with humanoid robots known as omnics. But when a terrorist tries to shatter that unity, a hero named Efi Oladele rises! This action-packed novel is an all-new, original story straight from the minds of the Overwatch game team!
11) London eye
Author
Series
Toxic city volume 01
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Hunger Games meets the X-Men in an exciting postapocalyptic debut.
Two years after London is struck by a devastating terrorist attack, it is cut off from the world, protected by a military force known as Choppers. The rest of Britain believes that the city is now a toxic, uninhabited wasteland.
But Jack and his friends—some of whom lost family on what has become known as Doomsday—know that the reality is very different....
Two years after London is struck by a devastating terrorist attack, it is cut off from the world, protected by a military force known as Choppers. The rest of Britain believes that the city is now a toxic, uninhabited wasteland.
But Jack and his friends—some of whom lost family on what has become known as Doomsday—know that the reality is very different....
12) Blackout
Author
Series
Blackout volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
"A mysterious virus is spreading through America, infecting teenagers with incredible powers--and a group of four teens are about to find their lives intertwined in a web of danger and catastrophic destruction"--Provided by publisher.
13) The disasters
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Nax and a handful of other space Academy washouts are the only surviving pilots after the school is hijacked by terrorists, but in order to spread the truth about the attack, Nax and his fellow failures must execute a dangerous heist.--
14) Twelve days
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Language
English
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Description
Around the world, leaders and notorious criminals alike are mysteriously dying. A terrorist group promises a series of deaths within two months. And against the backdrop of the apocalypse, the lives of a small shattered family and a broken soldier are transformed in the bustling city of Atlanta.
15) Synapse
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Language
English
Description
Thirty years in the future. When Kestrel Hathaway, a pastor in Cincinnati, witnesses a terror attack, she's drawn into a world of conspiracies and lies that she and Jordan, her cognizant robot, have to untangle before it's too late. With the help of counterterrorism agent Nick Vernon, she needs to stop a second, more brutal attack, that could leave thousands dead. And the clock is ticking.... -- adapted from back cover
"From the critically-acclaimed...
16) Brain Jack
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a near-future New York City, seventeen-year-old computer genius Sam Wilson manages to hack into the world's telecommunications company network and sets off a chain of events that have a profound effect on human activity throughout the world.
17) Forced bonds
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Series
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English
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"They say to keep your friends close but your enemies closer; what if they're one and the same? The stable foundation I thought I built in the Sanctuary has been ripped away, and I find myself by the front lines of the war against the Resistance. I might have my Bonds on my side, but there are darker schemes in motion. Can I prove myself and turn the tide to protect our most vulnerable, or am I nothing more than the monster they've always claimed?...
18) Near enemy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
When hit man, Spademan is about to close the deal to snuff out Lesser, Lesser comes back from the limn claiming that terrorists are planning to attack New York again. It has been toxic since it was decimated by a dirty bomb years ago. The only safe haven is the limnosphere but you need to be rich enough to buy in, which most people aren't. This warning sends Spademan down a dark path of unsavory characters and startling revelations.
19) The eye of minds
Author
Series
Mortality doctrine volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
"Michael is a skilled internet gamer in a world of advanced technology. When a cyber-terrorist begins to threaten players, Michael is called upon to seek him and his secrets out"--
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Series
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English
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An investigation into the sudden deaths of rare whales sends National Underwater Marine Agency crew leader Kurt Austin to the Mexican coast, where he and his crew stumble upon a white goddess legend and an eco-extortionist set on controlling the world's fresh-water supply.
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