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1) Firestarter
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
You are about to meet the sweetest, most irresistible little girl you've ever known--8-year-old Charlie McGee. She's everything that a proud father like Andy McGee could want--and all that he can fear. For Charlie was born with the most destructive power a human being has ever commanded--and somehow she must be saved from both herself and from those in high places who want to use her as their weapon.
2) The bomb
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
In 1945, when the Americans liberate the Bikini Atoll from the Japanese, fourteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu does not realize that the next year he will lead a desperate effort to save his island home from a much more deadly threat.
Author
Series
Puffin easy-to-read volume Level 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
380L
Language
English
Description
A dog named Sam fetches the wrong things, swims in the wrong places, and keeps everyone in the house awake when he can't go to sleep at night.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-olds Stella and Will, both suffering from cystic fibrosis, realize the only way to stay alive is to stay apart, but their love for each other is slowly pushing the boundaries of physical and emotional safety.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island's Ashcliffe Hospital in search of an escaped mental patient, but uncover true wickedness as Ashcliffe's mysterious patient treatments propel them to the brink of insanity.
6) Testing life
Publisher
Unic Matrix Productions
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Deutsch
Description
This is a story of twenty-five year old Ana Seuss, living on social welfare and part-time work but dreaming of becoming an actress and going to Hollywood. In order to realize her dreams she decides to become a lab rat for a Berlin medical research facility and after much pain and suffering finally finds her way to Hollywood --Container.
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Prescription for Murder delves into the world of pharmaceutical testing where scrupulous scientific ethics may be sorely tested when huge profits await the success of a new drug. Journalist Terry Corcoran (Finbar Lynch) and Maureen Boland (Orla Brady), now editor of a glossy Sunday supplement, uncover corruption linking politicians to big business.
8) X-15
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The courageous pilots of the Air Force's X-15 program are determined to take an experimental rocket 100 miles above the earth at four times the speed of sound.
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Olive Alexander has lived on a ranch in the Jornada del Muerto region of southern New Mexico her entire life. But when World War II begins, the government seizes her family's land for the construction of a new, top secret Army post. While her mother remains behind, Olive is forced to live in nearby Alamogordo with her grandmother and find a place in a new school. When Jo Hawthorne crosses her path, Olive sees a chance for friendship--until...
10) Placebo junkies
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Teenaged Audie pushes her mind and body to the breaking point when she participates in a series of clinical drug trials for cash.
12) Blue sky
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
An Army major assigned to monitor a top-secret nuclear test is thrust into the center of a high-level military conspiracy. The only person who has a chance to save him from the nightmare cover-up is his wife--the wife who has nearly ruined his career with her scandalous behavior.
13) Godzilla
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
From visionary new director Gareth Edwards comes a powerful story of human courage and reconciliation in the face of titanic forces of nature, when the awe-inspiring Godzilla rises to restore balance as humanity stands defenseless.
Author
Publisher
Nube de Tinta
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Stella y Will tienen la misma enfermedad pulmonar, en el mismo hospital. Cuando se enamoran, recuperan la alegría de vivir, per hay una problema: por el peligro de contagio, no pueden acercarse a menos de cinco pies sin arriesgar sus vidas.
16) Godzilla
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Pits Godzilla, the world's most famous monster, against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity's scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A group of smart-talking, wise-cracking toddlers find themselves at the center of a media mogul's experiment to crack the code to baby talk. Now, the toddlers must race against time for the sake of babies everywhere to prevent Biscane from controlling the minds of the world's toddler population with his state-of-the-art satellite system.
18) Fear me not
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Danish
Description
A very depressed father becomes utterly liberated when he takes some experimental anti-depressants. Too bad the experiment is ditched and they try to take his pills away.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Adjusting to the death of his wife hasn't been easy on Baxter Shaw--or on their eight-year-old daughter, Mia. Baxter has left his band and abandoned his dreams to focus on being a single father, but it's not enough: Mia's exhibiting escalating behavioral problems. And neither has been able to face the past head-on...until the past reaches out to them. After surprising results from a DNA test, Baxter and Mia journey to southeastern Spain to connect...
20) Control
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Lee Ray Oliver, a violent sociopath, is granted a second chance at life when Dr. Copeland, a pioneering scientist, offers him an experimental behavioral drug that promises to suppress his violent nature. When Lee Ray's newfound life begins, he is continually haunted by his murderous past. Searching for redemption, he falls in love with Teresa, his beautiful yet cautious co-worker. Life begins to take on new meaning until the experimental drug starts...