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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
In futuristic Satellite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill escapes from his abusive orphanage and teams up with three other people who share his unusual ability to see supernatural creatures, and together they determine the nature and purpose of the swarming blue Parasites that are invisible to most humans.
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Series
Left Behind series. Main series volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
As the world's thousands of believers gather in Jerusalem for a stadium rally, the Tribulation Force struggles with their own personal crises. Newspaper reporter Buck Williams and his wife, Chloe, question whether or not they should have a child when the future of the world is so uncertain. Meanwhile, Rayford Steele discovers the shocking truth about his wife, Amanda. Nicolae Carpathia continues his rise to power, forcing believers underground. But...
3) Incarceron
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Series
Incarceron volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 600L
Language
English
Description
In Incarceron, a vast intelligent city-prison sealed off from the outside world and hidden from everybody except the Warden, two young people, Cynthia, the Warden's daughter who is trying to escape an arranged marriage, and Finn, a young prisoner who cannot remember his childhood, join forces to attempt to escape.
4) Cinder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
"The first book in the #1 New York Times- and USA Today-Bestselling Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer like you've never seen it before, now with new cover art! See where the futuristic YA fairytale saga all began, with the tale of a teenage cyborg who must fight for Earth's survival against villains from outer space. Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless...
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Series
Lexile measure
1310L
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English
Description
In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his friends' intense reaction against their society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom. This edition includes the controversial...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Electric cars have been around since the 1880s. New York City had more than 600 electric taxicabs in 1907. Henry Ford's wife drove an electric car rather than her husband's popular Model T. By the 1920s, electric cars died out. People preferred cars with gas engines because they went faster and farther. When gas is burned for fuel, it causes air pollution. Air pollution is causing problems for the planet and for people. Electric cars are making a...
8) The ward
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English
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"Set in a futuristic Manhattan after a catastrophic flood called the Wash Out, sixteen-year-old Ren must race against a conspiracy to find freshwater springs and a cure for the deadly disease that has stricken her sister and many others in the Ward"--
9) The calling
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English
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A tale set two years after the events of The Choosing finds Seers tactical leader Ramko executing increasingly dangerous rescue missions while outmaneuvering a newly appointed Authority President who would infiltrate and destroy the rebels.
10) The returning
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Series
Seer novels (Rachelle Dekker) volume 3
Language
English
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Description
As the Seers send warriors to rescue Elise and bring restoration to the Authority City, ultimate victory in this battle against the powerful forces of evil rests with the strangely powerful girl who has felt forgotten but was never abandoned.
11) The choosing
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"Like all citizens since the Ruining, Carrington Hale knows the importance of this day. But she never expected the moment she'd spent a lifetime preparing for--her Choosing Ceremony--to end in disaster. Ripped from her family, she'll spend her days serving as a Lint, the lowest level of society. She knows it's her duty to follow the true way of the Authority. As Carrington begins this nightmare, rumors of rebellion rattle her beliefs. Though the whispers...
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"At the dawn of a new decade, with temperatures increasing, alarming sea-level rise, and annual fire seasons threatening communities across continents, every decision we make will determine the fate of the planet and the promise of our existence. In this hope-filled exploration of the near future, leading climate advocate and journalist Eric Holthaus draws on the wisdom and work of climatologists, economists, futurists, and activists on the front...
13) Brave new world
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order--all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine”...
14) Landry Park
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a futuristic, fractured United States where the oppressed Rootless handle the raw nuclear material that powers the Gentry's lavish lifestyle, seventeen-year-old Madeline Landry must choose between taking over her father's vast estate or rebelling against everything she has ever known, in the name of justice.
15) The meta-rise
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Series
Bot Wars volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
A boy fights to stop an evil robot from taking over the futuristic world where humans and robots are at war over robot civil rights.
16) Time lottery
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Series
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English
Description
Three individuals are faced with unprecedented and potentially history-changing decisions when asked to choose between a life lived in "Alternity," and the life they've lived in reality thus far.
17) Moving pictures
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Series
Discworld volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
A zany bunch of futuristic actors--Victor, the eternal student; Ginger, the milkmaid; Dibbler, the sausage salesman; and Gaspode, the talking dog--embark on an epic movie project.
18) Ship breaker
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
In a futuristic world, teenager, Nailer, scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
19) Inferno: a novel
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Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon awakens in a hospital in the middle of the night. Disoriented and suffering from a head wound, he recalls nothing of the last thirty-six hours, including how he got there . . . or the origin of the macabre object that his doctors discover hidden in his belongings. Langdon's world soon erupts into chaos, and he finds himself on the run in Florence with a stoic young woman, Sienna Brooks, whose clever maneuvering...
Author
Series
Left Behind series. Main series volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
The lines are drawn between good and evil as Nicolae Carpathia, no longer pretending to be a pacifist, makes his way to the temple and his followers clamor to receive the mark of the beast, while Rayford Steele rallies his team of flying rebels to save believers who must flee to the wilderness.
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