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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Captain Underpants volume 12
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
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.
3) 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
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.
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) Fire
Author
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.
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...
8) 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.
Author
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.
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Defines "cult," describes the recruitment and persuasion strategies of cult leaders and members, and explains how to help survivors escape and recover, providing details on specific groups and discussing similarities between cults and terrorist organizations.
12) 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.
13) Memory Hackers
Publisher
PBS : Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Explores recent discoveries about memories.
14) 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.
15) I am the mission
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"--
16) 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
Series
Tripods trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Young Will Parker and his companions make a perilous journey toward an outpost of freedom where they hope to escape from the ruling Tripods, who capture mature human beings and make them docile, obedient servants. Long ago, the Tripods -- huge, three-legged machines -- descended upon Earth and took control. Now people unquestioningly accept the Tripods' power. They have no control over their thoughts or their lives. But for a brief time in each person's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Inc
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
The world of uglies, set in our not - so - distant future, is a complex place filled with bubbly technology and lingo, yet bogus rules about status and appearance. Westerfield's bestselling series has a huge fan base, many of whom write him asking questions about the world of Uglies. This guide to the series peels back the layers of the world, history, people, and places.
19) Sleep no more
Author
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...
20) 36 hours
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
James Garner stars as an American intelligence officer who, on the eve of D-Day, is brainwashed by the Nazis into revealing the secrets of the Normandy Invasion.