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1) Red Rising
Author
Series
Red rising novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations...
2) Morning star
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
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Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive the cutthroat rivalries that breed Society's mightiest warriors, climbed the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution that will tear the hierarchy apart...
3) Ignite me
Author
Series
Shatter me (Mafi) volume 3
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
With Omega Point destroyed, Juliette doesn't know if the rebels, her friends, or even Adam are alive. But that won't keep her from trying to take down The Reestablishment once and for all. Now she must rely on Warner, the handsome commander of Sector 45. The one person she never thought she could trust. The same person who saved her life. He promises to help Juliette master her powers and save their dying world ... but that's not all he wants with...
4) Crossed
Author
Series
Matched trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
20130312
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In search of a future that may not exist and faced with the decision of who to share it with, Cassia journeys to the Outer Provinces in pursuit of Ky--taken by the Society to his certain death--only to find that he has escaped, leaving a series of clues in his wake. Cassia's quest leads her to question much of what she holds dear, even as she finds glimmers of a different life across the border
5) Golden son
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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"With shades of The Hunger Games, Ender's Game, and Game of Thrones, debut author Pierce Brown's genre-defying epic Red Rising hit the ground running and wasted no time becoming a sensation. Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future built on lies. Now fully embedded among the Gold ruling class, Darrow continues his work...
6) Glass sword
Author
Series
Red queen (Victoria Aveyard) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Mare's blood is red -- the colour of common folk -- but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from the prince and friend who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of her kind. Pursued by the Silver king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red and Silver fighters...
Author
Series
Darkest minds novels volume 4
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Accused of committing a horrifying act, Zu goes on the run, forming an uncomfortable alliance with two mysterious Psi who she's not sure she can trust in order to clear her name and expose the evils underlying the country's recovery.
8) Dune
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
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This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence. The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the...
Author
Series
Red queen (Victoria Aveyard) volume 4
Publisher
Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
Victory comes at a price. Mare Barrow learned this all too well when Calś betrayal nearly destroyed her. Now determined to protect her heartánd secure freedom for Reds and newbloods like herḾare resolves to overthrow the kingdom of Norta once and for all . . . starting with the crown on Mavenś head. But no battle is won alone, and before the Reds may rise as one, Mare must side with the boy who broke her heart in order to defeat the boy who almost...
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Series
Crazy House volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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The revolution is about to get even crazier. Twin sisters Becca and Cassie barely escaped the Crazy House alive. Now they are trained, skilled fighters who fear nothing, not even the all-powerful United. Together the sisters hold the key to defeating the despotic government and freeing the people of the former United States. But to win this war, will the girls have to become the very thing they've sworn to hate?
11) Blackfish City
Author
Publisher
Ecco Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Miller gives us an incisive and beautifully written story of love, revenge, and the power (and failure) of family in a scarily plausible future. Blackfish CityBlackfish City is a remarkably urgent₇and ultimately very hopeful₇novel about political corruption, organized crime, technology run amok, the consequences of climate change, gender identity, and the unifying power of human connection.
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Lan's last remnant of her mother--and the fallen Hin dynasty of her ancestors--is a symbol seared onto her wrist, which, if the mysterious boy she encounters is to be trusted, may be the key to freeing her people by mastering the ancient, forgotten art of practitioning.
13) The fire
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Whit and Wisty Allgood have led the resistance against a totalitarian regime that has banned all forms of creativity and executed their parents, but even the growing strength of the siblings' magic has not been able to stop the evil dictator, and they must somehow prepare for an imminent showdown.
14) Awaken
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Maddie lives in a world where everything is done on the computer. Work, school, even dating can be done from home, and people do not venture out. Maddie plays soccer, and likes physicality and camaraderie of team sports, but for the most part, she's okay with the solitary digital life - until she meets Justin. Justin likes being with people. He enjoys the physical closeness of face-to-face interactions. People aren't meant to be alone, he tells her....
15) Crossed
Author
Series
Matched trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
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Seventeen-year-old Cassia sacrifices everything and heads to the Outer Provinces in search of Ky, where she is confronted with shocking revelations about Society and the promise of rebellion.
16) The gilded cage
Author
Series
Prison healer novels volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Kiva Meridan is a survivor. Not only did she survive Zalindov Prison, but also the deadly Trial by Ordeal. Now, Kiva's purpose goes beyond survival to vengeance. For the past ten years, her only goal was to reunite with her family and destroy the people responsible for ruining their lives. But now that she has escaped Zalindov, her mission has become more complicated than ever. As Kiva settles into her new life in the capital, she discovers she wasn't...
17) Swipe
Author
Series
Swipe series volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In a world where everyone must be Marked in order to gain citizenship and participate in society, a group of youngsters who questions the system struggles to identify the true enemy--while pursuing a group of Markless teenagers.
18) Humans, bow down
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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The Great War is over. The Robots have won. The humans who survived have two choices--they can submit and serve the vicious rulers they created or be banished to the Reserve, a desolate, unforgiving landscape where it's a crime to be human. And the robots aren't content--following the orders of their soulless leader, they're planning to conquer humanity's last refuge. With nothing left to lose, Six, a feisty, determined young woman whose family was...
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English
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After Wisconsin graduate student Mildred Fish marries brilliant German economist Arvid Harnack, she accompanies him to his German homeland, where a promising future awaits. In the thriving intellectual culture of 1930s Berlin, the newlyweds create a rich new life filled with love, friendships, and rewarding work--but the rise of a malevolent new political faction inexorably changes their fate. As Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party wield violence and...
20) Words on fire
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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In 1893 twelve-year-old Audra lives on a farm in Lithuania, and tries to avoid the Cossack soldiers who enforce the Russian decrees that ban Lithuanian books, religion, culture, and even the language; but when the soldiers invade the farm Audra is the only one who escapes and, unsure of what has happened to her parents, she embarks on a dangerous journey, carrying the smuggled Lithuanian books that fuel the growing resistance movement, unsure of who...