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1) The passage
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 50
Language
English
Description
An epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival, The Passage is the story of Amy -- abandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions. But Special Agent Brad Wolgast, the lawman sent to track her down, is disarmed by the curiously quiet girl and risks everything to save her. As the experiment goes nightmarishly wrong, Wolgast secures her escape...
2) Zone one
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English
Description
Mark Spitz and his squad of three "sweepers" move through Zone One of lower Manhattan, a walled-off enclave scheduled for resettlement in the aftermath of a zombie plague. The great masses of the undead have been violently dispatched by a Marine detachment. It falls to Spitz and his fellows to take care of the handful that remain, as well as a second-tier of the infected known as "stragglers": zombies who have bypassed the cannibalistic urges of their...
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Series
Maze runner volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Description
As the third Trial draws to a close, Thomas and some of his cohorts manage to escape from WICKED, their memories having been restored, only to face new dangers as WICKED claims to be trying to protect the human race from the deadly FLARE virus.
4) The twelve
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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.
5) Fuzzy mud
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
"Two middle-grade kids take a shortcut home from school and discover what looks like fuzzy mud but is actually a substance with the potential to wreak havoc on the entire world"--
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Dirk Pitt adventure volume 25
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English
Description
The murders of a team of United Nations scientists in El Salvador. A deadly collision in the waterways off the city of Detroit. An attack by tomb raiders on an archaeological site along the banks of the Nile. Is there a link between these violent events? The answer may lie in the tale of an Egyptian princess forced to flee the armies of her father three thousand years ago. NUMA Director Dirk Pitt travels to Scotland in search of answers about the...
8) MaddAddam
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Series
MaddAddam trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testamants—this final volume of the internationally celebrated MaddAddam trilogy "has brought the previous two books together in a fitting and joyous conclusion that’s an epic not only of an imagined future but of our own past" (The New York Times Book Review).
The Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of the population. Toby...
The Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of the population. Toby...
9) Amazonia
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English
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When the lone survivor of a scientific expedition into the Amazon stumbles out of the jungle to die mysteriously in a small village--a man who had only one arm when he went in but two when he came out--the government asks Nathan Rand, the son of the expedition's leader, to try and retrace his father's footsteps and discover what happened.
10) 12.21
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English
Description
Two weeks before the end of the world predicted by the ancient, Maya calendar, Dr. Gabriel Stanton receives a call from a hospital resident alerting him to the presence of a patient whose every symptom confounds and terrifies him. Meanwhile, Chel Manu, a Guatemalan American researcher at the Getty Museum, finds herself in possession of an illegal ancient artifact: a priceless codex from a lost city of her ancestors. This record seems to hold the...
11) White
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In White, Thomas and his true love must race to stave off a war and a virus that are simultaneously ravaging two worlds' populations. As time runs out in their search for a cure, suddenly a possible solution is found. Yet its ramifications are far more crushing than anyone could ever imagine-a price that may be too high to pay in either world. This final installment brings the series to a close in a completely unexpected manner, filled with final...
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Lake Wobegon books volume 11
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English
Description
A mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurized cheese made by a Norwegian bachelor farmer, the effect of which is episodic loss of social inhibition. Mayor Alice, Father Wilmer, Pastor Liz, the Bunsens and Krebsbachs, formerly taciturn elders, burst into political rants, inappropriate confessions, and rhapsodic proclamations, while their teenagers watch in amazement. Meanwhile, a wealthy outsider...
13) Red
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Red centers around the heroic rescue attempts of Thomas Hunter to save both worlds. With the devastating realization that he has unleashed death into both worlds, he now must figure out how to undo this evil-while trying to save his true love. From meeting with world powers in one world to leading a small band of mighty warriors in the great forests of the other world, Thomas is determined to change the history of two realities-or sacrifice all in...
14) Pandemic
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"New York Times bestselling author Robin Cook takes on the cutting-edge world of gene modification in this pulse-pounding new medical thriller. When an unidentified, seemingly healthy young woman collapses suddenly on the New York City subway and dies upon reaching the hospital, her case is an eerie reminder for veteran medical examiner Jack Stapleton of the 1918 flu pandemic. Fearful of a repeat on the one hundredth anniversary of the nightmarish...
17) Seizure
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Series
Virals novel volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Description
Tory Brennan and her Virals friends work to prevent the financially strapped Loggerhead Island Research Institute's imminent shutdown, an effort that leads them to investigate an old Charleston buried treasure legend.
18) A heartbeat away
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On the night of the State of the Union address, President Allaire must quarantine everyone in the Capitol building because a terrorist group has released a deadly, contagious virus into the building. The only expert who might be able to help is virologist Griffin Rhodes, currently imprisoned for alleged terrorist acts himself, including the theft of that same virus.
19) The kill order
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Language
English
Description
'Before WICKED was formed, before the Glade was built, before Thomas entered the Maze, sun flares hit the earth and mankind fell to disease. Mark and Trina were there when it happened, and they survived. But surviving the sun flares was easy compared to what came next. Now a disease of rage and lunacy races across the eastern United States, and there's something suspicious about its origin. Worse yet, it's mutating, and all evidence suggests that...