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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Invasive techniques are used to strip Cal Strople of his old identity so he can be trained as an assassin. Yet fleeting memories remind him of a woman he loves, unbroken loyalties, and the need for survival. His search for truth takes him from the woods of Hungary to the streets of New York.
3) 1984
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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A dictatorship called Big Brother rules the people in a collectivist society where Winston Smith works in the Ministry of Truth. Winston joins the underground where he becomes involved in a forbidden love affair.
4) 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.
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Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A mysterious blue owl from the Middle Kingdom known as the Striga slowly gains control over Coryn's mind and institutes a harsh new regime that begins to control the learning at the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, where the Band fights to break through to Coryn and force him to acknowledge the Striga's harmful influence.
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Series
October Daye novels volume 17
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"October is very happy with her life as the second daughter of her pureblood parents, Amandine and Simon Torquill. Born to be the changeling handmaid to her beloved sister August, she spends her days working in her family’s tower, serving as August’s companion, and waiting for the day when her sister sets up a household of her own. Everything is right in October’s Faerie. Everything is perfect. Everything is a lie. October has been pulled from...
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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...
8) Cult classic
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Publisher
MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author and Thurber Prize finalist Sloane Crosley, Cult Classic is a twisted mystery on the metaphysics of modern love, memory, and mind control in the city"--
One night in New York City's Chinatown, a woman is at a work reunion dinner with former colleagues when she excuses herself to buy a pack of cigarettes. On her way back, she runs into a former boyfriend. And then another. And . . . another. Nothing is quite...
Author
Series
Nancy Drew Files volume 80
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When Nancy and Bess Marvin visit Ned Nickerson at Emerson College, they become involved in an experiment in mind control and terror.
10) Fire
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"She is the last of her kind... It is not a peaceful time in the Dells. In King City, the young King Nash is clinging to the throne, while rebel lords in the north and south build armies to unseat him. War is coming. And the mountains and forest are filled with spies and thieves. This is where Fire lives, a girl whose beauty is impossibly irresistible and who can control the minds of everyone around her."--Publisher's description.
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She was one of the FBI's top agents until she became the nation's most-wanted fugitive. Now Jane Hawk may be all that stands between a free nation and its enslavement by a powerful secret society's terrifying mind-control technology. She couldn't save her husband, or the others whose lives have been destroyed, but equipped with superior tactical and survival skills -- and the fury born of a broken heart and a hunger for justice -- Jane has struck...
12) Mindbend
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Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1985
Language
English
Description
Against the advice of his well-wishers, future doctor Adam Schonberg takes up a job with a giant drug firm. Slowly Adam begins to suspect the hideous evil associated with the company which threatens his own wife's pregnancy.
Author
Series
Daniel X volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2012.
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.
14) The Glass Box
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
From award-winning author J. Michael Straczynski, “The Glass Box” is a hard-hitting, fast paced sci-fi novel about the choices we make and the ramifications we face. Perfect for fans of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest” and “Dark Matter” by Blake Crouch.
Half-Cuban, half-Irish, all resistance, Riley Diaz was born to fight back.
When she's incarcerated under the authority of a shadowy new defense act, Riley is sent to one of a growing...
15) Reflex
Author
Series
Jumper volume 2
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Davy thinks he's alone...what if he isn't? When Davy was a young teen, he discovered that he was capable of teleportation. At first, it was only when he was terrified and in horrible danger. Later, he learned to control his ability, and went to work for a secret government agency. Now, a mysterious group of people has taken Davy captive. They don't want to hire him, and they don't have any hope of appealing to him to help them. What they want is to...
Author
Publisher
Naiad Press
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
"Jude Alta has her music, her friends, and the love of smart, sexy Toni Dilano. Yet, There is an inexplicable void in her life. She visits her dying friend Rosalie, whose disposition of her vast property is awaited by several concerned factions -- including the inhabitants of nearby Circle Edge, a secluded and mysterious feminist community. Eagerly welcomed by this community, Jude finds herself entranced by the beauty of her surroundings, by the charismatic...
Author
Series
A Possession novel volume 3
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Jag, Zenn, Vi, and the rest of the resistance are determined to take down the Thinkers, but there is a traitor among them, who could cost them their cause--and their lives"--
Author
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"To the rest of the world, he was the little boy who went missing on the Fourth of July. To me, he was everything. My heart hasn't been the same since he disappeared, but I've learned to build my life around that missing piece. Twenty-two years later, the last thing I expect is for that missing piece to come back. His name is Oliver Lynch, and this is his story. This is our story."--Back cover
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Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In Freedom, where Thinkers rule and Rules should never be broken, Raine, daughter of the Director, is expected to spy on her roommate, Vi, and report back to him in case heavy brainwashing is not enough to prevent Vi from remembering the secrets he is anxious to keep hidden.