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Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Four centuries in the future, the world is rich, nanomachines watch the health of the wealthy and manufacture food and gadgets for everybody but no Utopia, as we see in the lives of five very different people." -- Jacket.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
"A 1980s cultural assessment of the fantastical future of online behavior continues the story that began in the internationally best-selling futuristic novel, Ready Player One, that inspired a blockbuster Steven Spielberg film"--
Days after winning control of OASIS, the immersive virtual reality environment in which most of humanity chooses to live, Wade Watts discovers a world-changing technological advancement and draws the attention of a merciless...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarpercollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Blood, Bullets, and Bones provides young readers with a fresh and fascinating look at the ever-evolving science of forensics. Since the introduction of DNA testing, forensic science has been in the forefront of the public's imagination, thanks especially to popular television shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. But forensic analysis has been practiced for thousands of years. Ancient Chinese detectives studied dead bodies for signs of foul...
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A freshman at MIT, seventeen-year-old Mei Lu tries to live up to her Taiwanese parents' expectations, but no amount of tradition, obligation, or guilt prevent her from hiding several truths--that she is a germaphobe who cannot become a doctor, she prefers dancing to biology, she decides to reconnect with her estranged older brother, and she is dating a Japanese boy. Can she find a way to be herself, before her web of lies unravels?
6) Double Digit
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Digit attends MIT, where she hopes to lead a normal life. But Jonas Furnace, the ecoterrorist she foiled before, knows where she is, and he's gunning for her"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Zoe Baxter has spent 10 years trying to get pregnant, and after multiple miscarriages and infertility issues, it looks like her dream is about to come true. But a terrible turn of events leads to a nightmare--one that takes away her unborn baby and breaks apart her marriage to Max. Includes a CD of original songs created especially for this novel.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.9 - AR Pts: 39
Language
English
Formats
Description
Examines America's surprising loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11 and the global environmental crisis, and shows how the solutions to these two problems are linked-- we can restore the world and revive America at the same time.
10) Resist
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Alina, Quinn, and Bea, now outlaws and outcasts, make their way to the last enclave of the Resistance but once there, they discover they can count on no one but each other and may, in fact, have to betray those they considered allies.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The teenage phenoms behind the viral video game Tampon Run share the story of their experience at Girls Who Code and their rise to fame, plus a look at starts-ups, women in tech, and the power of coding. This book includes bonus content to help you get started coding.
12) Rampage
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Teen activist Shay and her brother Odin are closing in on Singular Corp. and ready to shut down the evil conglomerate once and for all"--
13) Breathe
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"In a barren land, a shimmering glass dome houses the survivors of the Switch, the period when oxygen levels plunged and the green world withered. A state lottery meant a lucky few won safety, while the rest suffocated in the thin air. And now Alina, Quinn, and Bea--an unlikely trio, each with their own agendas, their own longings and fears--walk straight into the heart of danger. With two days' worth of oxygen in their tanks, they leave the dome....
14) The takedown
Author
Publisher
Freeform
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"In this near-future mystery, Kyla Cheng, the smartest, hottest, most popular student at her Brooklyn high school, gets taken down a peg by a faked sex tape that goes viral"--
15) Beta
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"On a futuristic island paradise where humans are served by enslaved clones, a sixteen-year-old clone named Elysia seeks her own freedom"--
16) Uncaged
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When an animal rights action at a research lab goes wrong, a terrible secret is exposed, and Shay must find her brother Odin before the researchers at Singular Corp can silence both of them"--
17) Emergent
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Elysia's finally learned that she has a soul and although she knows it hurts Zhara, her First, that Alexander has chosen her as his life mate, Elysia can't give him up and instead takes her place fighting by his side in the revolution of clones and humans against Denesme's twisted regime.
18) Waste of space
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Cram ten hormonal teens into a spaceship and blast off: that's the premise for the ill-conceived reality show Waste of Space. The kids who are cast know everything about drama--and nothing about the fact that the production is fake"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1993, c1982
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Discusses the achievements of the ancient Chinese in astronomy, medicine, science, and engineering, as well as such influential Chinese inventions as paper, printing, gun powder, and the compass.
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