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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, H.G. Wells, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Chapter Book, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Classics-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original classic. These classics...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Originally published in 1864, this classic remains popular today for readers of all ages!
Jules Verne's classic science fiction novel, Journey to the Center of the Earth, takes readers deep below the world's surface and inside the author's inventive, visionary mind.
The story revolves around Professor Otto Lidenbrock, an eccentric German scientist who decodes the cryptic notes of a famous medieval scholar, discovering a map which describes a method...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870. The novel was originally serialized from March 1869 through June 1870 in Pierre-Jules Hetzel's periodical, the Magasin d'Éducation et de Récréation. The deluxe illustrated edition, published by Hetzel in November 1871, included 111 illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou. The book was highly acclaimed, when released and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin--the new guest at The Coach and Horses--is at first assumed to be a shy accident-victim. But the true reason for his disguise is far more chilling: he has developed a process that has made him invisible, and is locked in a struggle to discover the antidote. Forced from the village, and driven to murder, he seeks the aid of an old friend,...
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Witness a chilling tale of ambition and creation gone awry. Dr. Victor Frankenstein, driven by a thirst for knowledge, assembles a grotesque creature from stolen body parts. Horrified by his creation, he abandons it, setting off a chain of tragic events. The lonely and misunderstood creature seeks revenge on its creator, unleashing a haunting battle between man and monster. Shelley's masterpiece delves into themes of ethics, identity, and the consequences...
6) Frankenstein
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Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a grotesque but sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition of the novel was published anonymously in London in 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared on the second edition, published in France...
7) Bloom
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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Odd black plants begin to grow after a downpour. As they spread toxic pollen and begin feeding, three teenagers find themselves immune. They must figure out why before the plants complete their invasion.
8) Exo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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For a century now, Earth has been a peaceful colony of an alien race, and Donovan Reyes is a loyal member of the security forces, while his father is the Prime Liaison--but when a routine search and seizure goes bad Donovan finds himself a captive of the human revolutionary group, Sapience, terrorists who seem to prefer war to alien rule, and killing Donovan just might be the incident they are looking for.
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Mission Multiverse volume 1
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English
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During a school field trip to NASA, middle school band geeks Dev, Austin, Tessa, Isaiah, and Meryl are accidentally sent to an alternate universe where they learn that their own universe's destruction is imminent.
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Roswell Johnson volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Eleven-year-old Roswell Johnson is obsessed with conspiracies about extraterrestrial life, an interest he inherited from his late father, who aptly named Roswell after the infamous UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico. When Roswell is accidentally abducted by aliens, his biggest dream comes true--he learns that aliens are real! But when he discovers Earth is in grave danger, he must join...
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Mission Multiverse volume 2
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English
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Middle-school band geeks Dev, Isaiah, Tessa, Maeve, and Lewis are trapped in a parallel version of Earth as they fight to save their families--and the rest of the multiverse--from the villainous Empyrean One.
12) Cross fire
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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When the peaceful alien-run government decides to simply withdraw from Earth, it seems that the terrorist group Sapience is going to get the "free" Earth it wanted; but Donovan Reyes, member of the security forces, and once a prisoner of Sapience, realizes that freedom comes with a price--other alien races want to strip the planet of its resources, and if anyone is going to survive, what is left of the security forces and Sapience have to work together....
13) Thrive
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Overthrow volume 3
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English
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As the larger alien invasion of Earth begins, a rebel faction contacts Anaya with a plan that would allow humans, hybrids, and cryptogens to work together to stop the invasion, but it's not clear if all the hybrids are united--including Anaya, Petra, and Seth.
14) Hatch
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Overthrow volume 2
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English
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"First the rain brought seeds. Seeds that grew into alien plants that burrowed and strangled and fed. Seth, Anaya, and Petra are strangely immune to the plants' toxins and found a way to combat them. But just as they have their first success, the rain begins again. This rain brings eggs. That hatch into insects. Not small insects. Bird-sized mosquitos that carry disease. Borer worms that can eat through the foundation of a house. Boat-sized water...
15) The Moon platoon
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Space runners volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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In the year 2085, an elite group of kids, including twelve-year-old Benny, is selected for a life-changing trip to the Moon and end up as Earth's only defense against an alien invasion.
16) Son
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Giver quartet volume 4
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
17) Mortal engines
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, a fifteen-year-old apprentice is pushed out of London by the man he most admires and must seek answers in the perilous Out-country, aided by one girl and the memory of another.
18) The relic war
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Daniel Coldstar volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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An epic and funny outer space adventure from acclaimed science fiction author and screenwriter Stel Pavlou!
Below the surface on a forgotten planet, Daniel Coldstar searches for relics from a lost civilization. Daniel has no memory of his past. All he knows is to do his job and fear the masters of the mines.
Until he unearths a relic more powerful than anything he has ever seen. A relic that might help him escape...What follows is an epic outer...
19) The Forgetting
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The Forgetting (Sharon Cameron) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Canaan is a quiet city on an idyllic world, hemmed in by high walls, but every twelve years the town breaks out in a chaos of bloody violence, after which all the people undergo the Forgetting, in which they are left without any trace of memory of themselves, their families, or their lives--but somehow seventeen-year-old Nadia has never forgotten, and she is determined to find out what causes it and how to put a stop to the Forgetting forever.
20) Cog
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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"After an accident leaves him damaged and separated from his scientist caregiver, a young android recruits four robot accomplices and embarks on a cross-country road trip to reunite with her"--Provided by publisher.