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1) Neverwhere
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
A man goes to the aid of woman pursued by assassins and discovers an alternative City of London, a subterranean, medieval world populated by "people who fell through the cracks" from the real city above. A fantasy tale, replete with demons and wizards. By the author of The Sandman.
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English
Description
In a ruined and toxic landscape, within a giant underground silo hundreds of stories deep, lives a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Then Sheriff Holston, who has unwaveringly upheld the silo's rules for years, breaks the greatest taboo of all: He asks to go outside. His decision unleashes a drastic series of events. His unlikely replacement - Juliette, a mechanic with no training in law, is about to learn how badly...
3) Tunnels
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
When Will Burrows and his friend Chester embark on a quest to find Will's archaeologist father, who has inexplicably disappeared, they are led to a labyrinthine world underneath London, full of sinister inhabitants with evil intentions toward "Topsoilers" like Will and his father.
4) Deeper
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
As young archaeologist Will Burrows continues to search for his lost father in the strange underground world he has discovered beneath the city of London, he stumbles across a sinister plot with terrible implications for the world above.
6) Dust
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Wool introduced the world of the Silo. Shift told the story of its creation. Dust will describe its downfall. Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18, doesn't trust Silo 1, especially its leader, Donald. But in the world of the Silos, there is no black and white -- everything is shades of gray. Donald may not be the monster Juliette thinks he is, and may in fact be key to humanity's continued survival. But can they work together long enough to succeed?"--...
7) Closer
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
Will Burrows believes he is safe at the very center of the earth, in a world that no one knows exists, but the Styx are close behind and will follow him anywhere, while on the surface, Drake and some unlikely allies unearth some critical secrets.
8) Shift
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Series
Language
English
Description
"In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event. At almost the same...
9) Obliteration
Author
Series
Awakened novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Thanks to the heroics of former New York City Mayor Tom Cafferty and his team, the world is once again safe. The villainous Foundation for Human Advancement has been dismantled, the cities of the world are safe from nuclear annihilation, and Cafferty is now on a hunt to decimate every nest of creatures on the planet. When Cafferty enters a nest underneath the Nevada desert, he is horrified to find it completely empty. It can only mean one thing:...
10) Freefall
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
As fourteen-year-old archaeologist Will and his friends plummet down a subterranean pore, they face deadly creatures and discover a strange fungal shelf, which not only reveals artifacts from ancient civilizations, but clues to a lost land at the end of the Earth.
11) Spiral
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
The outer crust is under attack by the subterranean Styx who are turning ordinary humans into walking bombs and incubators for their eggs, and only Will Burrows and his band of retired commandos stand in their way--but the Styx also have problems of their own.
12) Terminal
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
"Styx and their cohorts of deadly Armagi have swept across England, leaving death and devastation in their wake. Only a miracle can save the day and, in the inner world at the centre of the earth, Will and Elliott might just have stumbled upon one as they uncover ancient secrets that are fundamental to all human and Styx life"--
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Series
Hyacinth volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
"When Hyacinth mixes hot and cold water in a sink in London with disastrous results, she learns that the city was built on magical rivers that are now London's sewers--and somehow her family is connected to the magic"--
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Series
Jerry Pardoe and Jamila Patel novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"A young woman is rushed to the hospital with stabbing pains in her stomach. The chief surgeon delivers a living child with the face of an angel and the body of a tentacled monster. The doctors are unanimous that the baby must die. ... Engineer Gemma is plunged into darkness in a tunnel beneath London. Before she escapes, a strange green light illuminates a cluster of ghostly figures. Gemma is certain they were children. ... DC Jerry Pardoe and DS...
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"Beneath the cover of France's most exquisite vineyards, a city of women defy an army during World War I.... Deep within the labyrinth of caves that lies below the lush, rolling vineyards of the Champagne region, an underground city of women and children hums with life. Forced to take shelter from the unrelenting onslaught of German shellfire above, the bravest and most defiant women venture out to pluck sweet grapes for the harvest. But wine is not...
16) The unflushables
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sully Stringfellow, his arch-nemesis Izzy Cisco, friend Moleman, and a league of long-forgotten plumber heroes team up to save Nitro City from mutant creatures in the sewers.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"It's 1959 and a new killer haunts the streets of London, having baffled Scotland Yard. The newspapers call him The Florist because of the rose he brands on his victims. The police have turned yet again to the Inquirers at Miss Brickett's for assistance, and second-year Marion Lane is assigned the case. But she's already dealing with a mystery of her own, having received an unsigned letter warning her that one of the three new recruits should not...
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