Michael Crichton
1) Prey
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
HL 600L
Language
English
Description
In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles-micro-robots-has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive. It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour. Every attempt to destroy it has failed. And we are the prey.
Author
Series
Jurassic Park volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Appears on list
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
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Harry Benson suffers from violent seizures. Electrodes are placed deep in his brain, sending monitored soothing pulses to its pleasure canyons. The operation is a success-until Benson discovers how to get the pulses with increasing frequency. He escapes from the hospital, a homicidal maniac with a deadly agenda.
4) Micro
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Description
Three men are found dead in the locked second floor office of a Honolulu building, with no sign of struggle except ultra-fine, razor-sharp cuts covering their bodies. The only clue left behind is a tiny bladed robot, nearly unrecognizable to the human eye. In the lush forests of Oahu, an advance in micro-robotics has put unheard-of resources at the fingertips of science; trillions of previously unknown micro-organisms, tens of thousands of species...
5) Airframe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Cruising 35,000 feet above the earth, a twin-engine commercial jet encounters an accident that leaves 3 dead, 56 wounded, and the cabin in shambles. What happened? With a multi-billion-dollar company-saving deal on the line, Casey Singleton is sent by her hard-driving boss to uncover the mysterious circumstances that led to the disaster before more people die. But someone doesn't want her to find the truth.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Diver James McGregor is used to exploring sunken ships. But there's something strange about the wreck of the Grave Descend. No one aboard tells quite the same story about what happened. Then there's the mysterious cargo they were carrying... In one of the most beautiful places on Earth, a sinister plot is about to unfold. And if McGregor's not careful, he may find himself in over his head."--Publisher.
7) Congo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
On an expedition to return Amy, his talking gorilla, to her home in the Congo, Professor Peter Elliot is joined by others who hope to find a legendary diamond mine guarded by mutant gorillas.
8) Sphere
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel is discovered resting on the ocean floor. Rushed to the scene is a group of American scientists who descend together into the depths of the sea to investigate this astonishing discovery. What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanations. It is a spaceship.
Author
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Description
In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive?...
10) Travels
Author
Language
English
Description
"Fueled by a powerful curiosity and the need to see, feel, and hear firsthand and close-up, Michael Crichton experienced adventures as compelling as those he created in his books and films. When Crichton ... began to feel isolated in his own life, he decided to widen his horizons. He tracked wild animals in the jungles of Rwanda. He climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mayan pyramids. He trekked across a landslide in Pakistan. He swam amid sharks in Tahiti....
11) A new collection
Author
Publisher
Wings Books
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Contains three of Crichton's previously published novels: Congo, set deep in the jungle near the legendary ruins of a lost city; Sphere, set a thousand feet below the surface of the South Pacific, and Eaters of the Deadset in Bagdad in 922 A.D. All three novels transform fears of the unknown into moments of believable adventure and unbelievable suspense.
12) Disclosure
Author
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
Tom Sanders, an up-and-coming executive at Seattle computer firm DigiCom, expects to be appointed vice president. Instead, his former lover Meredith Johnson is given the job. To make matters worse, Johnson attempts to seduce him, and when he rejects her, she accuses him of sexual harassment. As Sanders scrambles to save his career and his reputation, he uncovers an electronic trail into DigiCom's secrets ...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
A military satellite launched to collect organisms in the upper atmosphere comes down in Arizona. Within a few hours, almost everyone in a nearby town is dead. A team of scientists is assembled to investigate.
Author
Publisher
Wings Books
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
The Andromeda strain: Top scientists race against time to avert a biomedical disaster when a contaminate research satellite crashes. The terminal man: The effort to cure a man's mental disease creates a human time bomb with an overwhelming urge to kill. The great train robbery: Edward Pierce masterminds the disappearance of gold from two invulnerable safes in route from London to Paris; set in Victorian England.
16) Rising sun
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
During the grand opening celebration of the new American headquarters of an immense Japanese conglomerate, the dead body of a beautiful woman is found. The investigation begins, and immediately becomes a headlong chase through a twisting maze of industrial intrigue and a violent business battle that takes no prisoners.