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1) Chaos
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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The four heroic young Forest Guard recruits embark on their last mission to recover the Lost Books of History before the Dark One enleashes their power to enslave humanity.
Author
Series
Under their skin volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old twins Nick and Eryn investigate why their mother and new stepfather are keeping secrets, why they are forbidden to meet their stepsiblings, and, most important, why their lives are in danger." --
Author
Series
Ashfall series (Pittacus Lore) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old half-alien Sydney Chambers leaves Earth to seek his long-missing father, and unearths a devastating, centuries-old secret about humanity.
5) Orphaned
Author
Series
Ape quartet volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Snub is a young female gorilla, somewhat jealous because her mother is occupied with a new baby, curious of the world around her, a world that is being reshaped by shaking ground and mountains that bleed fire, and most terrifyingly by a new form of predator that walks on two legs; when her mother is killed Snub finds herself in charge of her baby brother--and accompanied by one of the not-gorillas, a very young female who has been orphaned by the...
Author
Series
Under their skin volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old twins Nick and Eryn and their robot stepsiblings, Jackson and Ava, try to save humanity from killer robots.
7) The bear
Author
Language
English
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Description
"In an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches the girl how to fish and hunt, the secrets of the seasons and the stars. He is preparing her for an adulthood in harmony with nature, for they are the last two left. But when the girl suddenly finds herself alone in an unknown...
Author
Series
Ashfall series (Pittacus Lore) volume 2
Language
English
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Description
We have waited generations for you... Syd Chambers knows that there's life on other planets because he's descended from it. His father was from a distant world called Denza and has been missing - presumed dead - for years. When Syd discovers a device his father left behind that shows not only that he's alive, but where he is, Syd must set out on a mission of his own. But along the way, he discovers a deadly, unbearable secret that could destroy Denza,...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Death Doesn't Bargain is the second historical fantasy audiobook in New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon's Deadman's Cross series. In this chilling audiobook, deadmen tell their tales, and every soul is damned or redeemed by the final choices they make.
The Deadmen are back...
But so are the demons who have broken free of their eternal prison and are bent on mankind's destruction. The worst of the lot is
10) Salvation
Author
Series
Salvation sequence volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"In 2204, humanity is expanding into the wider galaxy in leaps and bounds. Cutting-edge technology of linked jump gates has rendered most forms of transportation--including starships--virtually obsolete. Every place on earth, every distant planet humankind has settled, is now merely a step away from any other. And all seems wonderful--until a crashed alien spaceship of unknown origin is found on a newly-located world eighty-nine light years from Earth,...
11) Salvation lost
Author
Series
Salvation sequence volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The comparative utopia of twenty-third century Earth is about to go dreadfully awry when a seemingly benign alien race is abruptly revealed to be one of the worst threats humanity has ever faced. Driven by an intense religious extremism, the Olyix are determined to bring everyone to their version of god as they see it. But they may have met their match in humanity, who are not about to go gently into that good night or spend the rest of their days...
12) The last human
Author
Series
Last human volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After machines take control of Earth, following the extinction of humans, twelve-year-old robot XR 935A confronts its prejudices about humans and begins to reconsider its own existence within robot society after discovering and befriending a twelve-year-old human girl.--
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Most days, Sarya doesn't feel like the most terrifying creature in the galaxy. Most days, she's got other things on her mind. Like hiding her identity among the hundreds of alien species roaming the corridors of Watertower Station. Or making sure her adoptive mother doesn't casually eviscerate one of their neighbors. Again. And most days, she can almost accept that she'll never know the truth--that she'll never know why humanity was deemed too dangerous...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After a year on Mars, a young boy and his family migrate to the planet Choom, but the inhabitants of Choom, the Zhuri, who look like giant mosquitoes, don't really like humans and it up to the boy and his family to change their minds if they hope to survive.
15) Into the light
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Series
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English
Description
"The Shongairi conquered Earth. In mere minutes, half the human race died, and its cities lay in shattered ruins. But the Shongairi didn't expect the survivors' tenacity. And, crucially, they didn't know that Earth harbored two species of intelligent, tool-using bipeds. One of them was us. The other, long-lived and lethal, was hiding in the mountains of eastern Europe, the subject of fantasy and legend. When they emerged and made alliance with humankind,...
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Language
English
Description
"In the twelve stories collected in Certain American States, Catherine Lacey, the award-winning author of the acclaimed novels Nobody Is Ever Missing and The Answers, picks apart the minutiae of the human condition with the skill of a surgeon, giving life to a collection of ordinary people seeking -- and failing to find -- the extraordinary in their lives. The characters in Certain American States are continually coming to terms with their place in...
17) The human son
Author
Publisher
Solaris, an imprint of Rebellion Publishing, Ltd
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"It is 500 years in the future and Earth is no longer populated by humans. The new guardians of Earth, the genetically engineered Erta, have reversed climate change. They are now faced with a dilemma; if they reintroduce the rebellious and violent Homo Sapiens, all of their work will be undone. They decide to raise one final child; a sole human to help decide if humanity should again inherit the Earth. But the quiet and clinical Ima finds that there...
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Mavis's friend Hank has a problem. He is a Frankenstein monster, which means that his body comes apart in pieces. His friends think it is hilarious, but Hank is tired of being a monster and wishes he was normal. Mavis tries to help him make his wish come true, but turns him into a human by mistake! Everyone at Hotel Transylvania is terrified of humans! If she can't find a way to turn him back into a monster--and fast--he'll have to leave the hotel...
Author
Series
Courtyards of the Others volume 8
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In this engrossing and gripping fantasy set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Others series, an inn owner and her friends must find a killer-before it's too late.... Crowbones will gitcha if you don't watch out! Deep in the territory controlled by the Others-shape-shifters, vampires, and even deadlier paranormal beings-Vicki DeVine has made a new life for herself running The Jumble, a rustic resort. When she decides to host a gathering...