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2) Illuminae
Author
Series
Illuminae files volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"The planet Kerenza is attacked, and Kady and Ezra find themselves on a space fleet fleeing the enemy, while their ship's artificial intelligence system and a deadly plague may be the end of them all"--
3) Plague
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Explores plague in detail, covering its history, its current existence in the world, and the impact it could have on the future.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"June and Day have sacrificed so much for the people of the Republic--and each other--and now their country is on the brink of a new existence. Just when a peace treaty is imminent, a plague outbreak causes panic in the Colonies, and war threatens the Republic's border cities"--
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"When a rare mental disorder begins to consume his small-town neighbors, a young psychiatrist digs up the past for clues to the epidemic's bone-chilling source in this brilliant supernatural horror debut. Convinced that evil spirits have overtaken his daughter, a desperate father introduces her to Nat Thayer, a young psychiatrist in their sleepy blue-blooded Massachusetts college town. Thayer quickly diagnoses the girl with Cotard Delusion, an obscure...
6) The plague
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Chaos prevails when the bubonic plague strikes the Algerian coastal city of Oran. A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature.
7) Cinder
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping look at how the major transformations in history--from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism--have been shaped not by humans but by germs. According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their brains and brawn, collectively bending the arc of history. But in this revelatory book, professor Jonathan Kennedy argues that the myth of human exceptionalism overstates the role that we play in social...
10) Legend
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-old Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
Author
Series
Give the dark my love volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nedra Brysstain left the rural, northern territories of Lunar Island to attend the prestigious Yugen Academy with only one goal in mind: learn the trade of medicinal alchemy. She's a scholarship student matriculating with the children of Lunar Island's wealthiest and most powerful families. Greggori "Grey" Astor is taken by the brilliant and stubborn Nedra. She is deeply invested in her studies because a deadly plague has been sweeping through the...
13) The Black Death
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The Black Death sounds like the name of a creepy movie, but it was an actual historical event. It was the term for the pandemic of plague throughout Europe and Asia in the 14th century. Before it was over, tens of millions of people had died. Readers will be enthralled--and perhaps disgusted!--to learn of the disturbing details of this gruesome disease and how it spread. They'll learn how people coped, how the world changed, and that plague still...
Author
Series
Remade volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
After annihilating all of humanity except for those in three refugee communities, the virus approaches the remaining humans with a choice that will ultimately decide their fate.
Author
Publisher
Raintree
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Presents a history of the Black Death, describing its origins in China, its rapid spread through Europe between 1347 and 1353, the impact of depopulation on the European economies, and the periodic outbreaks that continued until the the discovery of antibiotics in the twentieth century.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His passing on March 6, 1900, would have been unremarkable if a city health officer hadn’t noticed a swollen black lymph node on his groin―a sign of bubonic plague. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown while doctors examined Wong’s tissue for telltale bacteria. If the devastating disease was not contained, San...
Author
Series
Gone novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
A deadly, flu-like epidemic and a plague of flesh-eating creatures threaten the lives of the children at Perdido Beach while Sam, Astrid, Caine, and Diana each struggle with doubts and uncertainties.
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