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Series
Maximum Ride volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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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.
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English
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What would modern war be like if the front-line foot soldiers were not our sons and daughters, but genetically engineered animals with superhuman strength and speed, and just enough intelligence to understand commands and follow them blindly?
This is exactly the weapon being-developed at a base in the desert by a top-secret government agency.
Attorney Herman Strockmire, a rumpled man with a very big but defective heart, champion of lost legal causes...
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Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
John Scalzi's eagerly anticipated sequel to the extraordinary Old Man's War
The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF's toughest operations. They're young, they're fast and strong, and they're totally without normal human qualms.
The universe is a dangerous place for humanity-and it's about to become far more dangerous....
5) Ender's game
Author
Series
Ender Wiggin volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
After the Earth is twice attacked by aliens, the world government begins breeding military geniuses, one of whom is Ender Wiggin.
7) Toys
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
James Bond and Jason Bourne have just been topped! A battle for the world is set into unstoppable motion and Hays Baker is the only one who can save it. Hays Baker and his wife Lizbeth possess super-human strength, extraordinary intelligence, stunning looks, a sex life to die for, and two beautiful children. Of course they do--they're Elites, endowed at birth with the very best that the world can offer. The only problem in their perfect world: humans...
8) Reckoning
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Series
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When the powerful families who control the Board bring their battle for supremacy to Port Authority, Falise Taglioni is chosen to ensure her family emerges triumphant, while the inhabitants of Port Authority, genetically altered, tough and self-reliant, prepare to defend their planet.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Martin lives in a "perfect world" under the protective dome of suburb HM1, where every year a new generation of genetically-engineered children is shipped out to meet their parents. And it's all about to come crashing down because a stranger has come
10) Altered
Author
Series
Altered series volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Anna finds herself on the run from her father's enigmatic Agency, along with the four teen boys the Agency had been experimenting on, as they try to make sense of erased memories, secret identities, and genetic alteration.
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "bird kids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose.
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Series
Maximum Ride volume 4
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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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
13) Goliath
Author
Series
Leviathan trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Alek and Deryn encounter obstacles on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek's throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love.
14) Behemoth
Author
Series
Leviathan trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Continues the story of Austrian Prince Alek who, in an alternate 1914 Europe, eludes the Germans by traveling in the Leviathan to Constantinople, where he faces a whole new kind of genetically engineered warships.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
The memorable story begun in When the Wind Blows continues in this thrilling novel, and it's one that really soars! Frannie O'Neil, a Colorado veterinarian, knows a terrible secret that will change the history of the world. Kit Harrison, an FBI agent under suspension, has seen things that no one in his right mind would believe. A twelve-year-old girl named Max and five other incredible children have powers we can only dream of. These children can...
16) Leviathan
Author
Series
Leviathan trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the Briti
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
In a dark future America that has devolved into unending civil wars, orphans Mahlia and Mouse barely escape the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities, but their fragile safety is soon threatened and Mahlia will have to risk everything if she is to save Mouse, as he once saved her.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future-of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
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.
20) Chimera
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Series
Parasitology volume 3
Language
English
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Description
The worm has turned. This is the point at which the world could no long afford to pretend that nothing was wrong. The end began in a thousand places at the same time, sending little cracks through the foundation of mankind's casual dominion over the Earth. It was born of hubris, and it started slowly, only to gather in both speed and strength as the days went by. September 13, 2027: Timestamp 18:21 The Outbreak has spread, tearing apart the foundations...
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