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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Can a virtual reality headset help change the way twelve-year-old Addie looks at things?
Introducing an unforgettable graphic novel about connection, friendship, and the wonder all around us from New York Times bestselling author Wendy Mass and debut illustrator Gabi Mendez.
When you’re named after a 250-year-old tortoise, you grow up believing life is full of possibilities and wonder. But ever since Addie’s family...
Introducing an unforgettable graphic novel about connection, friendship, and the wonder all around us from New York Times bestselling author Wendy Mass and debut illustrator Gabi Mendez.
When you’re named after a 250-year-old tortoise, you grow up believing life is full of possibilities and wonder. But ever since Addie’s family...
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Gavilan Robie was a man who lived a very private life-under any of a number of names and faces, many of whom had acquaintances and friends-but only a very few people were acquaintances of Gavilan Robie. Robie was a hunter, once a member of the clandestine Action Rescue Commitee, now freelance. And, when he's hired by a powerful multi-national corporation to find an employee kidnapped by terrorists, he finds himself in over his head. He will need every...
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"Bullied at school and home, Ash finds respite from his unhappy life in virtual reality games. One night, he spends his meager savings to help a stranger, who thanks him with a copy of an old fantasy game called The Glass Realm. While exploring the game, Ash meets a seemingly humble shopkeeper named Ruby. But from the start, Ruby seems different than the other townsfolk--especially when she and Ash stumble across an in-game quest designed not for...
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How achievable are the virtual experiences seen in The Matrix, Tron, and James Cameron's Avatar? Do our brains know where "reality" ends and "virtual" begins? In Infinite Reality, Jim Blascovich and Jeremy Bailenson, two pioneering experts in the field of virtual reality, reveal how the human brain behaves in virtual environments and examine where radical new developments in digital technology will lead us in five, fifty, and five hundred years.
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Virtual reality is able to effectively blur the line between reality and illusion, pushing the limits of our imagination and granting us access to any experience imaginable. With well-crafted simulations, these experiences, which are so immersive that the brain believes they're real, are already widely available with a VR headset and will only become more accessible and commonplace. But how does this new medium affect its users, and does it have a...
9) Mexico
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
810L
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English
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"Engaging images accompany information about Mexico. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"-- Provided by publisher Print Book, English, 2022.
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Alex Rider adventures volume 14
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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When Nightshade kidnaps his best friend, teen spy Alex Rider must enter the world of virtual reality gaming where the lines between what's real and what's digital are deliberately being blurred by a ruthless enemy.
11) Winter
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English
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The Demi-Monde, a computer-simulated military training world, begins bleeding into the real world when the U.S. president's daughter becomes trapped inside and enlists the assistance of a reluctant teenager to escape.
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Bounders volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 660L
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English
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"Jasper and his friends are sent as ambassadors to the underwater planet of Earth Force's shady new allies, the Alkalinians"--
14) Jellyfish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to jellyfish. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"-- Provided by publisher.
15) Past crimes
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"Welcome to Earth+. The year is 2037, and nearly all human interactions have migrated to the virtual world. Now, true crime fans don't just listen to podcasts or watch documentaries -- they participate in hyper-realistic simulations and hunt for clues to solve the most famous and gruesome crimes in history. Criminal entertainment is a multibillion-dollar industry, and at the forefront is Past Crimes: known by its millions of fans as the Disneyland...
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"Readers of Cool Careers In Science will discover ten cutting-edge science, technology, and engineering careers, and dozens of subspecialties and will also learn why these careers are some of the most exciting, best paying, and fastest growing occupations in the world"--
20) Bubble world
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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After sixteen-year-old Fresia learns--and tells her friends--that their perfect life on a luxurious tropical island is not real, she is banished from her virtual world to the "mainland," where people are ugly, school is hard, and families are dysfunctional.
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