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1) Ender's game
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Once again, Earth is under attack. An alien species is poised for a final assault. The survival of humanity depends on a military genius who can defeat the aliens. But who? Ender Wiggin. Brilliant. Ruthless. Cunning. A tactical and strategic master. And a child. Recruited for military training by the world government, Ender's childhood ends the moment he enters his new home: Battle School. Among the elite recruits Ender proves himself to be a genius...
Author
Series
Maximum Ride novel volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Six unforgettable kids -- with no families, no homes -- are running for their lives. Max Ride and her best friends have the ability to fly. And that's just the beginning of their amazing powers. But they don't know where they come from, who's hunting them, why they are different from all other humans...and if they're meant to save mankind -- or destroy it.
3) Upgrade
Author
Language
English
Description
"An ordinary man undergoes a startling transformation--and fears that all of humanity may be next--in the mindblowing new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion Logan Ramsay can feel his brain... changing. And his body too. He's becoming something other than himself. Maybe even something other than human. As he sets out to discover who did this to him, and why, his transformation threatens everything--his...
4) MaddAddam
Author
Series
MaddAddam trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testamants—this final volume of the internationally celebrated MaddAddam trilogy "has brought the previous two books together in a fitting and joyous conclusion that’s an epic not only of an imagined future but of our own past" (The New York Times Book Review).
The Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of the population. Toby...
The Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of the population. Toby...
6) Leviathan
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn, who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically engineered beasts.
7) Silent rage
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Three doctors turn a man into a mute homicidal maniac, who can regenerate from any wound, no matter how serious. When he starts killing the townspeople, the sheriff tries to stop him. But how can he stop something that cannot be hurt?
8) Splice
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Two young scientists become superstars by splicing different animal DNA to create fantastical new creatures. Ignoring legal and ethical boundaries, the scientists, who are romantically involved, introduce human DNA into their experiment and risk the dawn of a terrifying new era.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.
10) Blade runner
Language
English
Description
In a futuristic Los Angeles of 2019, detective Rick Deckard is a highly rated "Blade Runner" assigned to find and kill illegal cybernetic "replicants", genetic creations with superhuman abilities. Pulled unwillingly out of retirement, Deckard is forced into one last case, six exceptionally dangerous replicants who have escaped from slave labor and made their way into the city, apparently with plans to gain vengeance on the corporate masters who created...
12) Black sheep
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
New Zealand farmer Angus Oldfield genetically modifies his sheep, turning them into flesh-eating killers.