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Series
Wizard for hire volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After fourteen-year-old Ozzy's scientist parents are kidnapped, Ozzy's only help may be a classified ad that says "Wizards for hire."
2) Specials
Author
Series
Uglies volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When she is turned into a super-modelesque super-fighting machine, Tally, a former ugly, is ordered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid in a carefully engineered world of perfection where she refuses to play by the rules.
Author
Series
Unknown assassin volume 3
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After breaking free of The Program, Boy Nobody is on a mission of his own to reclaim his life and rescue his friend Howard from the secret organization that has turned him and other orphaned children into trained assassins--but he has no idea who, if anyone, he can trust, or what the consequences will be if he succeeds in bringing down The Program.
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English
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Presents the third volume in C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, in which brilliant and brave philologist Dr. Elwin Ransom amasses forces to fight against a sinister technocratic organization, secretly controlled by humanity's mortal enemies, that is plotting to "recondition" society.
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English
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Description
First came the news that a flying saucer had landed in Iowa. Then came the announcement that the whole thing was a hoax. End of story. Case closed.
Except that two agents of the most secret intelligence agency in the US government were on the scene and disappeared without reporting in, as did four other agents who were sent in. As a result, the head of the agency and his two top agents went in, and they managed to get out with their discovery:
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
The basis for the blockbuster motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island by New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane is a gripping and atmospheric psychological thriller where nothing is quite what it seems. The New York Times calls Shutter Island, "Startlingly original." The Washington Post raves, "Brilliantly conceived and executed." A masterwork of suspense and surprise from the author of Mystic...
8) Candor
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
For a fee, "model teen" Oscar Banks has been secretly--and selectively-- sabotaging the subliminal messages that program the behavior of the residents of Candor, Florida, until his attraction to a rebellious new girl threatens to expose his subterfuge.
9) Pretties
Author
Series
Uglies volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Finally surgically transformed into a "pretty, " sixteen-year-old Tally, now gorgeous and programmed to think only happy thoughts, is plagued by tangled memories of living in the Smoke, a rebel colony of "ugly" runaways hiding from the Special Circumstances authorities.
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Language
English
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Description
"Scientists thought we were safe from invasion. The distance between stars is so great that it seemed impossible for even the most advanced civilizations to send a large spaceship from one star system to another. But now, a species - a planet - other than our own has found a way. An unassuming probe from another star system lands in an empty corner of New York City and drills into the ground underneath, drawing electricity from the power lines to...
11) The messengers
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Series
Greystone secrets volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told from separate viewpoints, as evil forces from the parallel world invade their home, the Greystones, their doubles, and friends must return to the alternate dimension to save both worlds.
Author
Series
Captain Underpants volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
The future of all humanity is at stake in the final color installment in this New York Times bestselling series by Dav Pilkey, the author and illustrator of Dog Man!George and Harold, and their doubles, Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold, have a good thing going. Two of them go to school, while the other two hide in the tree house and play video games all day — then they switch! But it turns out there's something rotten...
13) The Program
Author
Series
The Program. Main series volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When suicide becomes a worldwide epidemic, the only known cure is The Program, a treatment in which painful memories are erased, a fate worse than death to seventeen-year-old Sloane who knows that The Program will steal memories of her dead brother and boyfriend.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
From her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in 1942, eleven-year-old Milada is taken with other blond, blue-eyed children to a school in Poland to be trained as "proper Germans" for adoption by German families, but all the while she remembers her true name and history.
Author
Series
Werepenguin volume 1
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Some stories are about happy, adorable penguins who form families, learn to dance, or make friends. This is not one of those stories. All orphan Bolt Wattle has ever wanted was to find his true family. When a mysterious baron in far-off Brugaria sends for Bolt, he wonders if he's getting closer to finding his long-lost parents. But Baron Chordata appears to be a twelve-year-old boy who wears tuxedos all the time, shouts at everyone, and forbids Bolt...
Author
Series
Captain Underpants volume 12
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
205 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
George and Harold and their doubles, Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold, have been taking turns going to school, but when the doubles fall prey to their gym teacher, Mr. Meaner, and his method of mind control that turns students into attentive, obedient, perfect children, it is up to original George and Harold to strike back.
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Language
English
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Description
As seen in the HBO docuseries THE VOW: The shocking and subversive memoir of a 12-year-NXIVM-member-turned-whistleblower, and her inspiring true story of abuse, escape, and redemption.
"'Master, would you brand me? It would be an honor.' From the second I climb onto the table, acutely aware that I am lying in the sweat of my sisters, I will have blocked that out. Lying there completely naked, I am at my most vulnerable but determined to prove my...
18) Bluebird
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 1946 Eva arrives in New York City, from the rubble of Berlin, supposedly looking for a new life, but actually seeking justice against the Nazis that "escaped" with the help of the CIA; one in particular, the doctor who knows who Eva really is, becauseher identity is the product Project Bluebird, an experiment of the concentration camps involving brainwashing and mind control, which both the Americans and the Soviets would like access to--and Eva...
19) Zero sum game
Author
Series
Cas Russell novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Cas Russell is good at math ... The vector calculus blazing through her head lets her smash through armed men twice her size and dodge every bullet in a gunfight, and she'll take any job for the right price. As far as Cas knows, she's the only person around with a superpower--until she discovers someone with a power even more dangerous than her own. Someone who can reach directly into people's minds and twist their brains into Moebius strips. Someone...
20) Middle ground
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 2060, seventeen-year-old Maddie is sent to a Los Angeles detention center and subjected to brainwashing to get her to accept a world in which nearly all personal interaction is done online.
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