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2) Ender's game
Author
Series
Ender volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Out in the world for the first time since escaping horrifying government experiments, six children make their way toward the Lake House in the hope of being reunited with Kit and Frannie, a couple who once saved their lives.
Author
Series
Jurassic Park volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
"MOVIE TIE-IN"
5) Double helix
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
252 p.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Aldous Huxley's tour de force, "Brave New World" is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future--where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, it remains remarkably relevant to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying entertainment.
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 4
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants to auction them off to the highest bidder.
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After a short stay with an FBI agent who gives them a chance to attend school and live a normal life, the six genetically-altered, winged youths head toward Florida and Max's ultimate destiny--to save the world, whether she wants to or not.
11) Altar of Eden
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 398 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pregnant veterinarian Maura Kelly, along with U.S. Marshall Jack Menard, risks everything to unravel the mystery of a smuggler's cache of mutated animals, a puzzle that involves fractal intelligence, stem cell research, and a secret history of the Book of Genesis.
12) Upgrade: a novel
Author
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"An ordinary man undergoes a startling transformation--and fears that all of humanity may be next--in the mindblowing new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion Logan Ramsay can feel his brain... changing. And his body too. He's becoming something other than himself. Maybe even something other than human. As he sets out to discover who did this to him, and why, his transformation threatens everything--his...
13) City of the Dead
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
For Hawk, being a hero weighs heavily on her wings.
In the City of the Dead, life happens in the shadows. That's why a war is brewing against an enemy no one can see.
Hawk and Maximum Ride never back down from a conflict, or from each other, and they argue more than they agree.
But as the dead begin to outnumber the living, a mother's experience and a daughter's instinct can make one powerful arsenal.
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
405 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The time has come for Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel to face their ultimate enemy and, despite many obstacles, try to save the world from a sinister plan to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race.
Author
Series
DAW book collectors volume no. 1688
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Phoenix was grown and raised among other genetic experiments in New York's Tower 7. She is an 'accelerated woman'--only two years old but with the body and mind of an adult, Phoenix's abilities far exceed those of a normal human. Still innocent and inexperienced in the ways of the world, she is content living in her room speed reading e-books, running on her treadmill, and basking in the love of Saeed, another biologically altered human of Tower...
16) Crocodile tears
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
388 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Alex Rider does battle with a charity broker con artist who has invested millions of dollars in a form of genetically modified corn that can release an airborne strain of virus capable of knocking out an entire country in one day.
Author
Series
Maximum ride volume 6
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
309 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Max and the Flock discover an unscrupulous scientist who is experimenting on humans in an effort to "improve" the human race, they decide that they must try to stop him, in spite of Angel's prediction about Fang dying.
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
409 p.
Language
English
Description
After a short stay with an FBI agent who gives them a chance to attend school and live a normal life, the six genetically altered, winged youths head toward Florida and Max's ultimate destiny - to save the world, whether she wants to or not.
19) Fever
Author
Series
Chemical garden volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster BFYR pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a future where genetic engineering has cured humanity of all diseases and defects but has also produced a virus that kills all females by age twenty and all males by the age twenty-five, teenaged Rhine escapes her forced marriage and journeys back to New York to find her twin brother.
20) Wither
Author
Series
Chemical garden volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster BFYR pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
364 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world.