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Author
Publisher
Four Walls Eight Windows
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Sergeant Raymond Shaw returns home from the Korean War to an uproarious welcome from the press and his fellow Americans. Little does anyone realize, not even Shaw himself, that Communist conspirators have planted a secret trigger in his unconscious mind that is intended to allow them to use him as an assassin.
2) Feed
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island's Ashcliffe Hospital in search of an escaped mental patient, but uncover true wickedness as Ashcliffe's mysterious patient treatments propel them to the brink of insanity. Made into a Motion Picture.
Author
Series
Captain Underpants volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
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.
5) Specials
Author
Series
Uglies volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After being captured and surgically transformed into a "special," teenaged Tally Youngblood, now a government agent programmed to protect society from outside threats, is ordered to eliminate the rebel colony New Smoke, Tally's former home.
6) Pretties
Author
Series
Uglies volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Tally Youngblood never felt like the other Pretties--she almost didn't become one. But Tally isn't the only one who feels like she's missing a part of herself. After uncovering sinister clues about the Pretty surgery, she stumbles upon a possible cure for Pretty-mindedness and a possible escape from the city. But the cure could have deadly consequences.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Morgan Finney, a biotechnology tycoon, is a shy, highly intelligent but socially awkward and emotionally fragile man. It was his wife, Jenny, with whom he connected and who enabled him to connect with others. When Jenny dies of complications during a surgery led by Dr. Rita Wu, Finney's grief turns to rage. He vows to kill Rita just as he believes she killed his wife. But first he will systematically destroy her life. Aided by a mysterious man named...
Author
Series
Unknown assassin volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Teen assassin Boy Nobody is sent on a mission to assassinate the head of a domestic terrorism cell, but his mission turns up more questions about his job than answers"--
9) Game over
Author
Series
Daniel X volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In Tokyo, fifteen-year-old Daniel X faces two of the most dangerous aliens on the planet, who are plotting to use video games to control children and turn them into an army of doom.
10) The complication
Author
Series
The Program. Main series volume 4
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Tatum Masterson has no memory of being in The Program, but when she starts experiencing crashbacks she knows something terrible happened last summer, and with help of the boyfriend she lost, Tatum digs into the past and future of The Program and its handlers, and discovers the true cost of a cure.
11) Drought
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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.
12) The special ones
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"When four young people are taken against their will to become part of a cult, they are worshipped by their followers and become lost in their new reality--but what happens if they rebel against the one holding them captive?"--
After four young people are held captive in a remote farmhouse to become the Special Ones of a cult, Esther, one of the kidnapped girls, knows she is a fake and plays along until she sees her chance to escape.
13) Candor
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Tim Rackley novels volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Tim Rackley rescues a Hollywood executive's daughter from a cult whose specialty is mind control
15) I am the traitor
Author
Series
Unknown assassin volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
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.
Author
Series
Elizabeth Chase mysteries volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Something tells psychic investigator Elizabeth Chase to stay away from the search for her boyfriend's ex-fiancee who disappeared two years earlier into the cult-like Bliss Project, but is not until she poses as an initiate in the community that Elizabeth realizes how much she should have listened to her instincts.
Author
Publisher
Pyr, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"What if the pandemic you thought would kill you made you more intelligent instead? In the Amazon jungle, a disease is spreading. To those who survive, it grants enhanced communication, memory, and pattern recognition. But the miracle may be the sinister survival mechanism of a fungal organism, manipulating the infected into serving it. Paul Johns, a mycologist, is convinced the fungal host is the next stage of human evolution, while his brother...
Author
Series
Crime travelers volume 2
Publisher
Flying Solo Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Lucas Benes is yet again a boy on a mission. After sabotaging a mass kidnapping in Paris, Lucas Benes faces a new and perilous threat from Siba Gپnerro and her anything-but-good Good Company. When a briefcase-toting kid from the Falkland Islands joins the New Resistance Spy School, 14-year-old Lucas learns the truth about his mother and becomes a boy on a mission. Lucas and friends speed in and around Rome--from the Colosseum to the Vatican--until...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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.