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1) Divergent
Author
Series
Divergent trilogy volume 1
Description
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
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Series
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
viii, 369 pages : map ; 24 cm
Description
Rudi Mackenzie has won the battle that expelled the enemy from the new High Kingdom of Montival. Now he must free the people who live in the state once known as Idaho from occupation by the legions of the Church Universal and Triumphant and pursue them to their lair over the mountains. There he will finally confront the forces behind the Church, The Powers of the Void. Yet even a victory will not end the conflict forever. The Powers of the Void are...
3) The giver
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Series
Appears on list
Description
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
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Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, H.G. Wells, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Chapter Book, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Classics-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original classic. These classics...
Author
Series
Great library volume 5
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
The corrupt leadership of the Great Library has fallen. But with the Archivist plotting his return to power, and the Library under siege from outside empires and kingdoms, its future is uncertain. Jess Brightwell and his friends must come together as never before, to forge a new future for the Great Library . . . or see everything it stood for crumble.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, complete with geothermal heating and sustainable energy. The city's denizens have become accustomed to a roughshod new way of living, however, the city is starting to fray along the edges-crime and corruption have set in, the contradictions of incredible wealth alongside direst poverty are spawning unrest, and a new...
7) The trees
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
488 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Description
The trees arrive in the night: thundering up through the ground, transforming streets and towns into shadowy forest. Buildings are destroyed. Broken bodies, still wrapped in tattered bed linen, hang among the twitching leaves. Adrien Thomas has never been much of a hero. But when he realizes that no help is coming, he ventures out into this unrecognizable world. Michelle, his wife, is across the sea in Ireland and he has no way of knowing whether...
Author
Series
Skyship Academy volume 1
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
376 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
In 2095 when a fifteen-year-old slacker discovers that he has the power to control Pearls, fragments of space debris that are a dying Earth's most important energy source, government forces work to capture him.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Emma wakes in a hospital, with no memory of what came before. Her husband, Declan, a powerful, seductive man, provides her with new memories, but her dreams contradict his stories, showing her a past life she can't believe possible: memories of war, of a camp where girls are trained to be wives, of love for another man. Something inside her tells her not to speak of this, but she does not know why. She only knows she is at war with herself. Suppressing...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
421 pages : color illustration ; 22 cm
Description
After a deadly Fly Flu spreads throughout the world, survivors Nico, her dog, young artist Kit, and the mysterious Deliverer roam the earth, seeking to evade the Flies and find a place where life and love can thrive again.
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Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"From the beloved award-winning author of Native Speaker and The Surrendered, a highly provocative, deeply affecting story of one woman's legendary quest in a shocking, future America. On Such a Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee's elegance of prose, his masterly storytelling, and his long-standing interests in identity, culture, work, and love, and lifts them to a new plane. Stepping from the realistic and historical territories of his previous work, Lee...
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HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
477 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
Living in a world where everyone is willingly addicted to The Feed, a technology that instantly connects everyone to news, information, and the thoughts and feelings of others, Tom must help his family survive when The Feed collapses, decimating modern society.
Author
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
396 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Welcome to the City Unspoken, where Gods and Mortals come to die. Contrary to popular wisdom, death is not the end, nor is it a passage to some transcendent afterlife. Those who die merely awake as themselves on one of a million worlds, where they are fated to live until they die again, and wake up somewhere new. All are born only once, but die many times. until they come at last to the City Unspoken, where the gateway to True Death can be found....
14) Postsingular
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Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
320 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
It all begins next year in California. A maladjusted computer industry billionaire and a somewhat crazy US President initiate a radical transformation of the world through sentient nanotechnology; sort of the equivalent of biological artificial intelligence. At first, they succeed, but their plans are reversed by Chu, an autistic boy. The next time it isn't so easy to stop them.
Most of the story takes place in a world after a heretofore unimaginable...
15) Extras
Author
Series
Uglies volume 4
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
417 pages ; 19 cm.
Description
After rebel Tally Youngblood brings down the uglies/pretties/specials regime, fame, instead of beauty, becomes the new world order, and fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse embarks on a dangerous plan to boost her popularity ranking.
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiv, 285 pages ; 22 cm
Description
A collection of four pre-Divergent stories plus three additional scenes from Divergent, all told from Tobias's point of view, that follow Tobias's transfer from Abnegation to Dauntless, his Dauntless initiation, the first clues that a foul plan is brewing in the leadership of two factions, and the weeks after he meets Tris Prior.
Author
Series
Galactic empire volume 3
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired Chicago tailor in 1949 Chicago. Trapped in an incredible future he could barely comprehend, the unlikely time traveler would soon become a pawn in a desperate conspiracy to bring down the Empire in a twist of agony and death: a mad plan to restore Earth's tarnished glory by ending human life on every other world.--
18) Riot baby
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"Rooted in foundational loss and the hope that can live in anger, Riot Baby is both a global dystopian narrative and an intimate family story with quietly devastating things to say about love, fury, and the black American experience. Ella and Kev are brother and sister, both gifted with extraordinary power. Their childhoods are defined and destroyed by structural racism and brutality. Their futures might alter the world. When Kev is incarcerated for...
19) UnWholly
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
402 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"Thanks to Connor, Lev, and Risa, and their high-profile revolt at Happy Jack Harvest Camp, people can no longer turn a blind eye to unwinding. Ridding society of troublesome teens and, in the same stroke, providing much-needed tissues for transplant might be convenient, but its morality has finally been brought into question. However, unwinding has become big business, and there are powerful political and corporate interests that want to see it not...
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Series
Fire sermon volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"The Hunger Games meets Cormac McCarthy's The Road in this richly imagined first novel in a new post-apocalyptic trilogy by award-winning poet Francesca Haig. Four hundred years in the future, the Earth has turned primitive following a nuclear fire that has laid waste to civilization and nature. Though the radiation fallout has ended, for some unknowable reason every person is born with a twin. Of each pair, one is an Alpha--physically perfect in...
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