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Provides access to the printed True Book series in the form of eBooks. There are also accompanying videos and other activities to supplement the books. This is a great resource for elementary students, in grades 3 to 6, doing research on science or social studies topics.
1) Red Rising
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
A tale set in a bleak future society torn by class divisions follows the experiences of secret revolutionary Darrow, who after witnessing his wife's execution by an oppressive government joins a revolutionary cell and attempts to infiltrate an elite military academy.
2) Golden son
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"With shades of The Hunger Games, Ender's Game, and Game of Thrones, debut author Pierce Brown's genre-defying epic Red Rising hit the ground running and wasted no time becoming a sensation. Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future built on lies. Now fully embedded among the Gold ruling class, Darrow continues his work...
3) Morning star
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
"The conclusion of the Red Rising trilogy. Born a lowly Red in the mines of Mars, Darrow lost his beloved wife to the treacherous Gold overlords. Vowing to fight for the future that his wife believed in, Darrow joins a secret revolutionary group and is remade into a Gold so that he can infiltrate the ruling class and bring them down from the inside. Now, after years of hiding amongst the Golds, Darrow is finally ready to declare open revolution and...
Author
Series
Hainish series volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
A human emissary sent to the world of Winter to bring it into a galactic civilization must find a way to bridge the gulf between his outlook and that of the natives, who can change gender at will.
Author
Series
Space Odyssey series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
The mysteries of the monoliths are revealed in this inspired conclusion to the Hugo Award–winning Space Odyssey series—“there are marvels aplenty” (The New York Times).
On an ill-fated mission to Jupiter in 2001, the mutinous supercomputer HAL sent crewmembers David Bowman and Frank Poole into the frozen void of space. Bowman’s strange transformation into a Star Child is traced through...
On an ill-fated mission to Jupiter in 2001, the mutinous supercomputer HAL sent crewmembers David Bowman and Frank Poole into the frozen void of space. Bowman’s strange transformation into a Star Child is traced through...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
On an island off Costa Rica there exists a hush-hush colony of giant animals which attracts the attention of two expeditions. The first one, including children, is led by a paleontologist, the other is made up of evil scientists who want to do experiments. The animals rout both without much concern for their motives.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Appears on list
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Description
The sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to save both humanity and the earth, Ryland Grace is hurtled into the depths of space when he must conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
9) The telling
Author
Series
Hainish series volume 8
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a world in which ancient beliefs and customs are banned, Sutty journeys deep into the countryside and discovers the Telling, the old faith of the Akans, a banned religion that teaches her about the meaning of her own existence.
10) Armada: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF READY PLAYER ONE It's just another day of high school for Zack Lightman. He's daydreaming through another boring math class, with just one more month to go until graduation and freedom--if he can make it that long without getting suspended again. Then he glances out his classroom window and spots the flying saucer. At first, Zack thinks he's going crazy. A minute later, he's sure of it. Because the UFO...
11) Children of Dune
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
On the planet of Aurakis, men, nature, and time attend the messianic and evolutionary growth of Leto and his twin sister Ghanima, children and successors of the mighty Muad'Dib.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. But Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former tenant of her body refusing...
Author
Series
Robopocalypse novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Two decades into the future humans are battling for their very survival when a powerful AI computer goes rogue, and all the machines on earth rebel against their human controllers.
Author
Series
Under the never sky trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Hoping to be reunited after months of separation, Aria and Perry are met with hostility by Dweller-resenting Tides before a Aether storm threatens the tribe's existence, forcing Aria to consider leaving Perry to save both their lives.
Author
Series
Under the never sky trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"In their effort to reach the fabled Still Blue, Aria and Perry will have to rescue Cinder, defeat Sable and Hess, and unite the Dwellers and the Outsiders once and for all"--
16) Station eleven
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
One snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during a production of "King Lear." Jeevan Chaudhary, a paparazzo-turned-EMT, is in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named Kirsten Raymonde watches in horror as Jeevan performs CPR, pumping Arthur's chest as the curtain drops, but Arthur is dead. That same night, as Jeevan walks home from the theater, a terrible flu begins to spread. Hospitals are flooded...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 47
Language
English
Description
During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira Navárez finds an alien relic. At first delighted, her elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move. As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact is not at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very limits of what it means to be human. Now Earth and its colonies stand...
Author
Series
Maze runner trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
After surviving horrific conditions in the Maze, Thomas is entrapped, along with nineteen other boys, in a scientific experiment designed to observe their responses and gather data believed to be essential for the survival of the human race. The group has two weeks to cross through the Scorch -- the most burned-out section of the world. And the observers will continuously adjust the variables and stack the odds against them.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"'Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?' A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive...
20) 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"--
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