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41) Double helix
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering.
44) The truth teller
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
47) Power game
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan is "one of the best storytellers around" (RT Book Reviews). Find out why as two lovers surrounded by greed and corruption discover there's no telling whom you can trust--or who will come out on top ... When members of a United Nations joint security force are taken hostage by radical terrorists in Indonesia, Captain Ezekiel Fortunes is called to lead the rescue team. Part of a classified government...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Although the current debate about agricultural biotechnology is often narrowly focused on molecular biotechnology (molecular genetic modification), the technological application of biology in agriculture predates the advent of molecular biology. For more than 10,000 years humans have been manipulating the traits of animals and plants (Mazoyer and Roundart, 2006; Thompson, 2009) by manipulating their genes and, thereby their genomes (the specific...
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 8
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Description
One last chance ... for Max, Fang, and Dylan ... before it all ends. "Nevermore" is one last incredible, explosive adventure with an astonishing ending that no one could have seen coming.
56) The sky inside
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Martin, a genetically-engineered boy living in the perfectly ordered world of HM1, finds himself questioning the citizens' acceptance of the world around them when children begin to disappear, including Martin's little sister, and no one is willing to search for them, forcing Martin to set out on a dangerous mission to escape the suburb and explore the world outside, looking for answers.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
A minor road accident landed county prosecutor Katie DeMaio in Westlake Hospital. That night, from her window, she thought she saw a man load a woman's body into the trunk of a car ... or was it just a sleeping pill induced nightmare? At work the next day, Katie began investigating a suicide that looked more like murder. Initial evidence pointed elsewhere, but medical examiner Richard Carroll saw a trail leading to Dr. Edgar Highley. He suspected...
60) Friday
Author
Publisher
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Description
A beautiful interplanetary agent, a glorious product of genetic engineering, operates from and over a near-future Earth.