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1) Year one
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A stunning new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author--an epic of hope and horror, chaos and magic, and a journey that will unite a desperate group of people to fight the battle of their lives... It began on New Year's Eve. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed--and more...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive--and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he...
Author
Series
Passage trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In The Passage and The Twelve, Justin Cronin brilliantly imagined the fall of civilization and humanity's desperate fight to survive. Now all is quiet on the horizon--but does silence promise the nightmare's end or the second coming of unspeakable darkness? At last, this bestselling epic races to its breathtaking finale. The world we knew is gone. What world will rise in its place? The Twelve have been destroyed and the hundred-year reign of darkness...
4) Hunted
Author
Publisher
BookShots, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
140 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Ex-Special Forces officer David Shelley goes undercover to find the person responsible for engaging men from the streets in a high-stakes game in the English countryside.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
After surviving horrific conditions in the Maze, Thomas is entrapped, along with nineteen other boys, in a scientific experiment designed to observe their responses and gather data believed to be essential for the survival of the human race.
Author
Series
The maze runner trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
As the third Trial draws to a close, Thomas and some of his cohorts manage to escape from WICKED, their memories having been restored, only to face new dangers as WICKED claims to be trying to protect the human race from the deadly FLARE virus.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nora Roberts, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the epic Year One returns with Of Blood and Bone, a new tale of terror and magic in a brand new world. They look like an everyday family living an ordinary life. But beyond the edges of this peaceful farm, unimaginable forces of light and dark have been unleashed. Fallon Swift, approaching her thirteenth birthday, barely knows the world that existed before--the city where her parents lived,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
441 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Trisk and her hated rival, Kal, become fugitives after a world-saving experiment gone wrong gives way to the rise of a paranormal species that wages war against a weaker human race.
10) Skylark
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
338 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lark Ainsley has longed to have her magical energy harvested and become an adult, but when she learns she is expected to become the city's power supply, she escapes in search of a wilderness rumored to be inhabited by others like her.
11) Don't look back
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In Don't Look Back, Eve Hardaway, newly single mother of one, is on a trip she's long dreamed of--a rafting and hiking tour through the jungles and mountains of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico. Eve wanders off the trail, to a house in the distance with a menacing man in the yard beyond it, throwing machetes at a human-shaped target. Disturbed by the sight, Eve moves quickly and quietly back to her group, taking care to avoid being seen. As she creeps along,...
13) Black ice
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Britt goes hiking in the Grand Tetons of Wyoming with her ex-boyfriend Calvin, but trouble arises when she is caught in a blizzard, taken hostage by fugitives, finds evidence of murders, and learns whom to trust and whom to love.
14) The road
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged...
17) Carve the mark
Author
Series
Carve the Mark volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Living on a violent planet where everyone develops a unique power meant to shape the future, Akos and Cyra, youths from enemy nations, resent gifts that render them vulnerable to others' control before they become unlikely survival partners.
Author
Series
Undertow novel volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Escaping months of imprisonment by the insane Alpha queen Minerva, Lyric Walker returns to Coney Island to warn the world of the Great Abyss only to encounter a different place where humans and Alpha are working together to rebuild the country.
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
405 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a post-apocalyptic world, thirteen-year-old Eli, part of the most powerful family in the world, keeps noticing problems with the operations of his domed city but his family denies them, while in the surrounding desert, the Outsiders struggle to survive while awaiting a prophesied savior.
20) The underneath
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
313 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
An old hound that has been chained up at his hateful owner's run-down shack and two kittens born underneath the house endure separation, danger, and many other tribulations in their quest to be reunited and free.