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1) The invasion
Author
Series
Animorphs. Main series volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The Earth is being invaded, but no one knows about it. When Jake, Rachel, Tobias, Cassie, and Marco stumble upon a downed alien spaceship and its dying pilot, they're given an incredible power - they can transform into any animal they touch. With it, they become Animorphs, the unlikely champions in a secret war for the planet. And the enemies they're fighting could be anyone...even the people closest to them.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The great viral plague had left a small group of survivors clinging to life amidst a world transformed into a nightmare. Led by the mysterious, charismatic Amy, they go on the attack, leading an insurrection against the virals--the first offensives of the Second Viral War--infiltrating a dozen hives, each presided over by one of the original Twelve. Their secret weapon: Alicia, transformed at the end of book one into a half human, half viral--but...
3) 1984
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
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.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
As imminent conflict brews between the powerful Trade Federation and the peaceful planet of Naboo, Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi travel to Naboo to warn the Queen of the galactic fallout which is to follow. Eventually, Naboo is invaded forcing the Jedis to evacuate the planet with the Queen and her court. They travel to the desert planet of Tatooine where they meet a slave boy called Anakin Skywalker who is evidently one...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
A uge sea monster has attacked and wrecked several ships from beneath the sea. Professor Aronnax bravely joins a mission to hunt down the beast. He goes aboard the Nautilus, a secret submarine helmed by the mysterious Captain Nemo. At first, the mission is exciting, as Nemo takes Aronnax on a voyage around the underwater world. But when things start to go wrong, Aronnax finds there's no escape from the Nautilus. He is now Captain Nemo's captive -...
7) The Matrix
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Computer hacker realizes the world is a hoax, an elaborate deception spun by all-powerful machines of artificial intelligence that control us.
In an anti-utopian future, the real world as we know it is nothing more than a computer construct created by an all-powerful artificial intelligence. A small group of humans has found a way out of the construct and are now fighting for the future of the human race.
Author
Series
Joseph Bridgeman novels volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Still haunted by the disappearance of his little sister, Amy, over twenty years ago, Joseph Bridgeman's life has fallen apart. When a friend talks him into seeing hypnotherapist Alexia Finch to help with his insomnia, Joseph accidentally discovers he can time travel. His first trip only takes him back a few minutes, but his new-found ability gives him something he hasn't felt for the longest time: hope. Joseph sets out to travel back to the night...
9) The Martian
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a bad storm blows across Mars Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead and left behind. Now stuck on a hostile planet he must find a way to signal to Earth and in the meantime, survive on limited supplies.
10) Puro
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
Description
Pressia, living with her grandfather in rubble after the apocalypse in a world in which she must either join the militia or become a live target, meets Partridge, a boy who escaped the apocalypse unharmed and has been living in the Dome, where he and the other Pures are kept safe, and together they set out to find Partridge's mother, who may still be alive.
11) K-Pax
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
A stranger claiming to be from another planet mystifies psychiatrists and scientists.
Series
Transformers volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shia LaBeouf returns as Sam Witwicky in Transformers: Dark of the Moon. When a mysterious event from Earth's past erupts into the present day it threatens to bring a war to Earth so big that the Transformers alone will not be able to save us.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Mondadori, S.A
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
Hace dos semanas la abuela de Scarlet desaparecio sin dejar rastro. Ella sospecha que la han secuestrado, asi que cuando la policia renuncia repentinamente a seguir con la investigacion, toma la decision de continuar la busqueda por su cuenta, aunque esto implique introducirse en los bajos fondos de su ciudad. Alli tropieza con Wolf, un feroz luchador callejero que quiere ponerle las cosas dificiles. Pero Scarlet no es el tipo de chica que se amedrenta...
14) Interworld
Author
Series
Interworld novel volume 01
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
Description
At nearly fifteen years of age, Joey Harker learns that he is a Walker, able to travel between dimensions, and soon joins a team of different versions of himself, each from another dimension, to fight the evil forces striving to conquer all the worlds.
15) Divergente
Author
Publisher
Molino
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
Español
Description
In a future Chicago, Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she does not fit into any one group.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The adventure begins when a strange Icelander parchment is uncovered in an old bookstore and reaches a fevered pitch that never lets up as Professor Lidenbrock, his nephew Axel, and their guide, Hans, journey to the center of the earth. From the moment they reach the extinct volcano of the Mountain of Sneffels and make their treacherous descent, their chances of reaching the surface alive again become very slim, as they encounter boiling seas, serpent-like...
Author
Publisher
Fantascy
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
Un laboratorio misterioso. Un siniestro científico. Una historia secreta. Si quieres conocer por fin la verdad sobre la madre de Once, prepárate para esta emocionante precuela de la exitosa serie Stranger Things. Verano de 1969. La guerra causa conmoción entre los jóvenes estadounidenses. Terry Ives, la estudiante de un tranquilo campus universitario en el corazón de Indiana, no puede estar más lejos del frente de Vietnam y de las protestas...
19) Johnny Mnemonic
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Keanu Reeves is a space-age courier who's plugged in, turned on, and buffed up to deliver the most important data of the 21st century wet-wired directly into his brain.
20) Logan's Run
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
Description
In the 23rd century, humans forsake the ravaged outer environment by living in a vast, bubbled metropolis. There, computerized servo-mechanisms provide all needs and everyone can pursue endless hedonism. Endless, that is, until Lastday. That's when anyone who's 30 must submit to Carrousel, a soaring, spinning trip to eternity and supposed rebirth. Logan 5, a Sandman authorized to terminate Runners fleeing Carrousel, decides to become a Runner himself...