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22) The resistance
Author
Series
Declaration trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In a future England where young people, or "Surpluses," are heavily regulated and everyone takes a drug called Longevity, a member of the Underground infiltrates the Pincent Pharma manufacturing plant and uncovers horrific acts being committed in an attempt to create eternal youth.
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Cora Saros is trying her best to join the family business of theft and intergalactic smuggling. Unfortunately, she's a total disaster, and after landing herself in prison following an attempted heist gone very wrong, she strikes a bargain with the prison warden: He'll expunge her record if she brings back a long-lost treasure rumored to grant immortality. Assembling a crew from her collection of misfit cellmates, Cora takes off after the fabled prize....
26) Tiger's voyage
Author
Series
Publisher
Splinter
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
With a head-to-head battle against the villainous Lokesh behind her, Kelsey confronts a new heartbreak: after his ordeal, her beloved Ren suffers from amnesia and no longer knows who she!is. As she, Ren, and Kishan continue toward their goal of breaking the curse by challenging five cunning and duplicitous dragons, the two tiger princes once again vie for her affections--leaving Kelsey more confused than ever. This fast-paced novel includes a smartphone...
Publisher
Poh Kim Video Pte. Ltd
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Korean
Description
In ancient times, Kim Shin is an unbeatable general in wars, but the young King is jealous of Kim Shin and kills him. Kim Shin becomes Dokkaebi, possessing an immortal life. At first, he thinks that he is blessed, but he realizes that he is cursed. Closer to the present day, Kim Shin has waited 900 years for a human bride to end his immortal life. One night, he saves a dying pregnant woman who is destined to die. Meanwhile, the Grim Reaper is unable...
Author
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Humanity is on the verge of discovering immortality. As a result, the avatar of Death is cast down to Earth to live a mortal life in Mumbai as twenty-something Laila Starr. Struggling with her newfound mortality, Laila has found a way to be placed in the time and place where the creator of immortality will be born. Will Laila take her chance to stop mankind from permanently altering the cycle of life, or will death really become a thing of the past?...
29) Re-coil
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Carter Langston is murdered whilst salvaging a derelict vessel--a major inconvenience as he's downloaded into a brand-new body on the space station where he backed up, several weeks' journey away. But events quickly slip out of control when an assassin breaks into the medbay and tries to finish the job. Death no longer holds sway over a humanity that has spread across the solar system: consciousness can be placed in a new body, or coil, straight after...
30) Ever
Author
Series
Ella enchanted volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Kezi and Olus, Akkan god of the winds, fall in love and together try to change her fate--to be sacrificed to a Hyte god because of a rash promise her father made--through a series of quests that might make her immortal.
31) Tuck everlasting
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
This work is a fantasy children's novel that explores the concept of immortality and the reasons why it might not be as desirable as it appears to be. Doomed to -- or blessed with -- eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is...
Author
Series
Pandava volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Children's New Books: June 2022 Middle Grade Fiction
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Formats
Description
The Pandavas call on old friends, make new allies, and face fearsome trials as they embark on a mission to stop the Sleeper from accessing the nectar of immortality, but ultimately Aru must decide who deserves immortality--the devas or the asuras--and an unexpected answer comes from an unexpected place.
33) Forever: a novel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
Moving from Ireland to New York City in 1741, Cormac O'Connor witnesses the city's transformation into a thriving metropolis while he explores the mysteries of time, loss, and love.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
©2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Lured to their sick Uncle Silas's home under the pretense of becoming heirs to his vast fortune, cousins Adele, Isabella, and Milo soon learn that the old man has a diabolical plan to prevent his own death.
Author
Series
Secret volume 1
Publisher
Diquesí
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Español
Description
Aquí tienes la historia de un secreto, pero también encontrarás entre sus páginas una historia secreta. Los intrépidos investigadores, Casandra --una superviviente siempre en alerta-- y Max-Ernest --un chico incapaz de salirse de la lógica--, descubren por casualidad La Sinfonía de los Olores --una caja repleta de pequeños tubos de cristal llenos de ingredientes aromáticos. Es entonces cuando se ven envueltos, sin querer, en la misteriosa...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"One cold, crisp night, Jack Sommers was faced with a choice--live forever according to the ancient, magical rules of Gaia, or die. Jack chose to live, and in exchange, he became a Winter. Like the other Seasons, each year Jack must hunt and kill the one before him. Gaia's rules are pretty straightforward. Winter kills Autumn. Autumn kills Summer. Summer kills Spring. And Spring kills Winter. Which means that Jack kills Amber. Amber kills Julio. Julio...
Author
Series
Goddess test novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
About to be crowned Queen of the Underworld, the immortal Kate Winters must save Henry from the depths of Tartarus. But in order to navigate the endless caverns of the Underworld, Kate must enlist the help of the one person who is the greatest threat to her future: Henry's first wife, Persephone.
Author
Series
Wind-up garden volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Twins imbued with incredible magic and near-immortality will do anything to keep their family safe-even if it tears the siblings apart-in the first book of a mythic epic fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls. Rhea and her twin brother, Lexos, have spent an eternity helping their father rule their small, unstable country, using their control over the seasons, tides, and stars to keep the people in line. For a hundred years,...
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