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3) Golden son
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Series
Red rising novels volume 2
Red Rising trilogy volume 2
Red rising saga volume 2
Thorndike Press large print core
Red Rising trilogy volume 2
Red rising saga volume 2
Thorndike Press large print core
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 21
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English
Description
"Now fully embedded among the Gold ruling class, Darrow continues his work to bring down Society from within."--
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
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English
Description
Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind's expansion beyond the solar system in The Precipice.
Once, Dan Randolph was one of the richest men on Earth. Now the planet is spiraling into environmental disaster, with floods and earthquakes destroying the lives of millions. Randolph knows the energy and natural resources of space can save Earth's economy, but the price may be the loss of the only thing he has left--the company...
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Series
Shadow series (Orson Scott Card) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
The Ender Saga continues with Shadow of the Giant, which parallels the events of Ender's Game from a different character's point of view.
Bean's past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children's gang, and then to help make that
8) The 100
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Series
The 100 series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"When 100 juvenile delinquents are sent on a mission to recolonize Earth, they get a second chance at freedom, friendship, and love, as they fight to survive in a dangerous new world"--
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Series
System Divine volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
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Description
As Laterre stands on the brink of war, Marcellus, Chatine, and Alouette must rush to stop The General from gaining access to a weapon that would mean complete control of the planet.
10) Morning star
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Red Rising thrilled readers and announced the presence of a talented new author. Golden Son changed the game and took the story of Darrow to the next level. Now comes the exhilarating conclusion to the Red Rising Trilogy.
11) The secret river
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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In 1806 William Thornhill, an illiterate English bargeman and a man of quick temper but deep compassion, steals a load of wood and, as a part of his lenient sentence, is deported, along with his beloved wife, Sal, to the New South Wales colony in what would become Australia. The Secret River is the tale of William and Sal's deep love for their small, exotic corner of the new world, and William's gradual realization that if he wants to make a home...
12) The disasters
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Nax and a handful of other space Academy washouts are the only surviving pilots after the school is hijacked by terrorists, but in order to spread the truth about the attack, Nax and his fellow failures must execute a dangerous heist.--
13) Angelmass
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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Deep in space lies the black hole known as Angelmass, so called because it emits enigmatic particles with the unusual ability to render humans calm, reasonable, and incapable of lying-which would normally be seen as a good thing. But not by everyone. For while Empyrean human colonies on the edge of the galaxy utilize the power of the "angels," the Earth-based Pax empire views the emissions as a threat that could be used to subvert humanity. Academic...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Bound for humanity's new colony planet, seventeen-year-old Andra wakes up from a cryogenic sleep 1,000 years later than scheduled, forcing her to navigate an unfamiliar planet where technology is considered magic and its practitioners revered as deities.
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Series
System Divine volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
"This sweeping reimagining of Les Misérables tells the story of three teens from very different backgrounds who are thrown together amidst the looming threat of revolution on the French planet-colony of Laterre"--
16) Crossfire
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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In the early nineties, Nancy Kress took the SF world by storm with her multiple award-winning novella, "Beggars in Spain," which became the basis for her extremely successful Sleepless Trilogy (comprising Beggars in Spain, Beggars and Choosers, and Beggars Ride). Since then she has written more than a dozen novels, including the well-received Probability Trilogy, which Booklist praised saying "Kress's characterizations are as sound as ever, but many...
17) Zoe's tale
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Series
Old Man's War universe volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history?
I ask because it's what I have to do. I'm Zoe Boutin Perry: A colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. Holy icon to a race of aliens. A player (and a pawn) in a interstellar chess match to save humanity, or to see it fall. Witness to history. Friend. Daughter. Human. Seventeen years old.
Everyone on Earth knows the tale I am part of. But you don't know my tale: How I did what I did -...
18) Crucible
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Description
Now comes a brand new science fiction epic.
It began with Crossfire: a far-future novel of planetary colonization and alien first contact. Jake Holman, a man trying to escape a dark past, brought together a diverse group of thousands to settle on a new world. But instead the humans found themselves caught in the crossfire of a galaxy-spanning war between two disparate species: agressive, militaristic humanoids known as Furs and passive, plantlike...
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Series
Temeraire volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Description
A dazzling blend of military history, high-flying fantasy, and edge-of-your-seat adventure, Naomi Novik's Temeraire novels, set in an alternate Napoleonic era in which intelligent dragons have been harnessed as weapons of war, are more than just perennial bestsellers-they are a worldwide phenomenon. Now, in Tongues of Serpents, Naomi Novik is back, along with the dragon Temeraire and his rider and friend, Captain Will Laurence. Convicted of treason...
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Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English