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1) The plague
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
Chaos prevails when the bubonic plague strikes the Algerian coastal city of Oran. A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature.
Author
Series
Star Wars galaxy of fear volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Despite a warning form an anonymous contact, Hoole and Tash visit the planet Gobindi, where they hear rumors of a secret Imperial Base and a plot to spread a terrible virus across the sgalaxy, and Tash discovers a bump on her arm.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Description
When the plague visits an isolated village in the English countryside, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666, as she and her fellow villagers endure a self-imposed quarantine to keep the disease from spreading. As death reaches into every household and villagers turn from prayers to murderous witch-hunting, Anna must find the strength to confront
...4) Illuminae
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Language
English
Description
"The planet Kerenza is attacked, and Kady and Ezra find themselves on a space fleet fleeing the enemy, while their ship's artificial intelligence system and a deadly plague may be the end of them all"--
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 322
Lexile measure
1500L
Language
English
Description
One hundred tales told in ten days by seven ladies and three young men.
Author
Series
Underland chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Gregor and his younger sister, Boots, return to the Underworld beneath New York City to find the cure for a terrible plague that threatens the life of their mother, as well as the lives of the people, bats, and rats who populate the underworld.
8) Champion
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
"June and Day have sacrificed so much for the people of the Republic--and each other--and now their country is on the brink of a new existence. Just when a peace treaty is imminent, a plague outbreak causes panic in the Colonies, and war threatens the Republic's border cities"--
Author
Series
Black tide rising volume 3
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"With the world consumed by a devastating plague, what was once a band of desperate survivors bobbing on the Atlantic ocean has now become Wolf Squadron, the only hope for the salvation of the human race. Banding together the remains of the US Navy, WolfSquadron, and its leader Steve Smith, plans to retake the mainland from the infected, starting with North America. The next step: produce a vaccine. But to do that, forces led by Smith's terrifyingly...
12) Sacred fire
Author
Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
As aids spreads, fanned by an even more deadly virus, the U.S. is transformed into a virtual police state. Men are forced to wear anti-sex implants, women are forbidden to bear children and the country gets a new government agency: the Federal Bureau of Biological Supervision. The novel follows a group of men and women who rebel.
13) Earth abides
Author
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
"First published in 1949 and the winner of the inaugural International Fantasy Award in 1951, Earth Abides went on to become one of the most influential science-fiction novels of the twentieth century. It remains a fresh, provocative story of apocalyptic pandemic, societal collapse, and rebirth"--
"When a plague of unprecedented virulence sweeps the globe, the human race is all but wiped out. In the aftermath, as the great machine of civilization...
17) Legend
Author
Series
Legend novel volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
Description
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-old Day--a famous criminal, and prodigy June--the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
19) Bubonic plague
Author
Publisher
KidHaven Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines the history, causes, and effects of the bubonic plague in fourteenth-century Europe, and the possibility of a recurrence.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
On discovering a deadly virus, a woman scientist is told to keep quiet and to give her company time to prepare an antidote, so when the virus strikes they will have a monopoly. She refuses and the company resorts to violence. Fortunately, she meets Lieutenant Paris of the Seattle police.