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1) Toxic prey
Author
Series
Prey volume 34
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
When a renowned expert in infectious diseases disappears without a trace, Letty Davenport, with the world on high alert, calls in her father, Lucas, to locate him, and when their worst fears are confirmed, they must race against time to stop the virus he created from becoming the perfect weapon.
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
454 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After an undersea lab conducting research on a rare jellyfish known as the blue medusa mysteriously disappears and a bathysphere harboring Joe Zavala is attacked by an underwater vehicle and left helpless on the sea floor, Kurt Austin puts the NUMA team on the case.
Author
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When a new virus surfaces, Lucy and her husband Reed, along with their five closest friends and family, sequester themselves on Reed's family's private island off the coast of Maine where she feels her own grip on reality slipping as tempers flare, strange signs appear and accidents turn deadly.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
409 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A group of teenage hackers has been conned into creating the most devastating virus the world has ever seen, and now it's up to them to take down the shadowy corporation behind it before it's too late"--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
421 pages : color illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After a deadly Fly Flu spreads throughout the world, survivors Nico, her dog, young artist Kit, and the mysterious Deliverer roam the earth, seeking to evade the Flies and find a place where life and love can thrive again.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Simone, seventeen, HIV-positive and in love for the first time, decides that facing potential bullies head-on may be better than protecting her secret.
Author
Series
Passage trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 568 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Survivors of a government-induced apocalypse endure their violent and disease-stricken world while protecting their loved ones; while a century into the future, members of a transformed society determinedly search for the original twelve virals.
8) Inhuman
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Beyond the wall lies the Feral Zone, breached only by the "fetches", who are paid to bring back items that were left behind when the wall went up--but Delaney's father is there and she is being forced to find him and bring him back.
Author
Series
Nerds volume 4
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
xii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a virus infects Arlington, Virginia, home of NERDS headquarters, transforming victims into criminal masterminds, it is up to Flinch to stop its spread by miniaturizing himself and entering the head of the Villain Virus's creator, Heathcliff Hodges.
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.
11) Double blind
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
497 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
When a virus plagues the Navajo reservation on which she grew up, a nurse calling upon her faith in God returns home to Arizona to help find the cause, while trying to uncover the truth about her mother's long-ago death.
12) Terminal
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
xii, 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tory and her comrades must track a new pack of rogue Virals who have brought on the attention of a shadowy government organization intent on learning the secret to their powers.
14) Seizure
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
491 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ever since Tory Brennan and her friends rescued Cooper, a kidnapped wolf pup with a rare strain of canine parvovirus, they've turned from regular kids into a crime-solving pack! But now the very place that brought them together - the Loggerhead Island Research Institute - is out of funding and will have to shut down. That is, unless the Virals can figure out a way to save it!
15) The kill order
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the fateful period after the Earth is decimated by catastrophic solar flares and reveals the stories behind the formation of WICKED, the construction of the Glade, and Thomas' entry into the Maze.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xi, 380 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this propulsive medical thriller--from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author--Dr. Henry Parsons, an unlikely but appealing hero, races to find the origins and cure of a mysterious new killer virus as it brings the world to its knees. At an internment camp in Indonesia, within one week, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When the microbiologist and epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf...
17) Resistant
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Attending a national conference in Atlanta with Welcome, Duncan injures his leg while running. Surgeons manage to save the leg, but the open wound is the perfect breeding ground for a deadly microbial invader committed to eating him alive from the inside out. The germ is resistant to any known antibiotic-- and the government scientist tasked with finding a cure has been kidnapped. A shadowy group known as One Hundred Neighbors has infiltrated our...
18) Contagion
Author
Series
Viral apocalypse volume 1
Publisher
Preternatural Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
418 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a scream. In the remote mountains of northern Alaska, Dr. Riley Middleton and her team of archeologists discover a burial site containing mummified remains dating to the last ice age. None of them notice the warning carved into the entrance or realize that the tomb had been deliberately sealed from the outside until they've already released a virus that turns ordinary people into murderous monsters....
19) Toxic game
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On a rescue mission in the heart of the Indonesian jungle, Dr. Draden Freeman and his GhostWalker team need to extract the wounded as quickly as possible -- or risk spreading a deadly virus unleashed by a terrorist cell. When Draden gets infected, he forces his team to leave him behind. He will not risk exposing anyone else. He intends to find the ones responsible and go out in a blaze of glory. Shylah Cosmo's mission is to track the virus and remain...
20) Fever
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
536 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nico Storm and his father Willem drive a truck filled with essential supplies through a desolate land. They are among the few in South Africa -- and the world, as far as they know -- to have survived a devastating virus which has swept through the country. Their world turned upside down, Nico realizes that his superb marksmanship and cool head mean he is destined to be his father's protector, even though he is still only a boy. But Willem Storm,...