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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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Presents Jules Verne's classic novel in which a French professor and his two companions sail above and below the world's oceans as prisoners on the fabulous electric submarine of the deranged Captain Nemo, and includes historical context, explanatory notes, excerpts of criticism, discussion questions, and other study tools.
2) The giver
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.
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Mysterious Benedict Society volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
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When an unexplained blackout engulfs Stonetown, Benedict Society members Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance follow clues on an adventure that threatens to separate them from their families, friends, and even one another.
4) Frankenstein
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
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"When scientist Victor Frankenstein creates a human being from stolen body parts, he instantly hates the ugly monster he has brought into the world. The creature desperately seeks the love of its master, but is rejected. Frankenstein's monster, now friendless and unloved, sets out to destroy its creator, his family and friends. Frankenstein is one of the most famous horror stories ever told, and has brought a chill of fear to generations of readers...
5) Dune
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 28
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"Science fiction's supreme masterpiece, Dune will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, it is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who will become the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib. Paul's noble family is named stewards of Arrakis, whose sands are the only source of a powerful drug called "the spice." After his family is brought down in a traitorous plot, Paul must go undercover to seek revenge, and...
6) Delirium
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Delirium trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
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Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.
7) Mila 2.0
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Mila 2.0 trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
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A teenage girl named Mila must escape from the CIA and rogue operatives when she discovers that she is an experiment in artificial intelligence and that her scientist mother kidnapped her from a secret laboratory when she was found to have human emotions.
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My weird school volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Mr. Docker must be a mad scientist. He does nutty experiments and has an evil, demented, cackling laugh. Plus he invented a car that runs on potatoes! Mr. Docker is the weirdest science teacher ever! Is he trying to take over the world?
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Rama series volume 1
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During the twenty-second century, a space probe's investigation of a mysterious, cylindrical asteroid brings man into contact with an extra-galactic civilization.
11) Space case
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Moon Base Alpha volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
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"Dashiell Gibson, who lives on Moon Base Alpha, has to solve a murder of one of the moon's most prominent doctors."--
12) The genius wars
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
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Fifteen-year-old genius Cadel Piggot Greenaus sets aside his new, crime-free life when his best friend Sonja is attacked, and he crosses oceans and continents trying to track down his nemesis Prosper English, breaking whatever rules he must.
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Time quintet volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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The youngest of the Murry children must travel through time and space in a battle against an evil dictator who would destroy the entire universe.
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Rod Allbright alien adventures volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
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Rod and his bratty cousin Elspeth are snatched into another dimension by the monstrous alien Smorkus Flinders.
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Finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, an Indies Choice Debut Pick, an Amazon Best Book of the Month, and winner of two New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards.
The "haunting . . . impressive" (NYTBR) National Bestseller-imagining the untold human history of the making of the atomic bomb.
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The "haunting . . . impressive" (NYTBR) National Bestseller-imagining the untold human history of the making of the atomic bomb.
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Time quintet volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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With Meg Murry's help, the dragons her six-year-old brother saw in the vegetable garden play an important part in his struggle between life and death.
18) Caught
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The missing volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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When Jonah and Katherine travel to early 1900s Switzerland and Serbia to return Albert Einstein's daughter, Lieserl, to history, her mother Mileva grasps entirely too much about time travel and has no intention of letting her daughter go.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 35
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Witch and Yale historian Diana Bishop discovers an enchanted manuscript, attracting the attention of 1,500-year-old vampire Matthew Clairmont. The orphaned daughter of two powerful witches, Bishop prefers intellect, but relies on magic when her discovery of a palimpsest documenting the origin of supernatural species releases an assortment of undead who threaten, stalk, and harass her. Deep in the stacks of Oxford's Bodleian Library, young scholar...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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In this story inspired by Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," Ana Dakkar, a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world, makes astounding discoveries about her heritage and puts her leadership skills to the test against deadly enemies from a rival school.
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