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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenager Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the Oasis. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines - puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them. But when Wade stumbles upon the first...
Author
Series
MaddAddam trilogy volume 2
Language
English
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From the Publisher: The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners-a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life-has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
As the power outage continues, the Brannings struggle to unite their neighborhood into a functioning community. Together they'll help each other make their homes ready for winter and stand strong against the chaos surrounding them. When two young thieves break into the Brannings' home and clean out the food in their pantry, Jeff Branning tracks them to a filthy apartment and discovers a family of children living alone, stealing to stay alive. The...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Description
"A 1980s cultural assessment of the fantastical future of online behavior continues the story that began in the internationally best-selling futuristic novel, Ready Player One, that inspired a blockbuster Steven Spielberg film"--
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English
Description
"For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, a spellbinding and profoundly prescient debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague-a daring and deeply heartfelt work of mind-bending imagination from a singular new voice. Beginning in 2030, a grieving archaeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased...
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"The highly-anticipated follow--up to William R. Forstchen's New York Times bestsellers, One Second After and One Year After, The Final Day immerses readers once more in the story of our nation's struggle to rebuild itself after an electromagnetic pulse wipes out all electricity and plunges the country into darkness, starvation, and terror. After defeating the designs of the alleged federal government, John Matherson and his community have returned...
7) Forbidden
Author
Series
Books of mortals volume 1
Publisher
Playaway Digital Audio
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Many years have passed since civilization's brush with apocalypse. The world's greatest threats have all been silenced. There is no anger, no hatred, no war. There is only perfect peace ... and fear. But a terrible secret has been closely guarded for centuries: Every single soul walking the earth, though in appearance totally normal, is actually dead, long ago genetically stripped of true humanity. Fleeing pursuit, with only moments to live, a young...
Author
Series
MaddAddam trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Bringing together characters from Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, this thrilling conclusion to Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction trilogy confirms the ultimate endurance of humanity, community, and love. Months after the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of humanity, Toby and Ren have rescued their friend Amanda from the vicious Painballers. They return to the MaddAddamite cob house, which is being fortified against man and...
Author
Series
Books of mortals volume 1
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Many years have passed since civilization's brush with apocalypse. The world's greatest threats have all been silenced. There is no anger, no hatred, no war. There is only perfect peace ... and fear. But a terrible secret has been closely guarded for centuries: Every single soul walking the earth, though in appearance totally normal, is actually dead, long ago genetically stripped of true humanity. Fleeing pursuit, with only moments to live, a young...
10) One year after
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"Months before publication, William R. Forstchen's One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read. Hundreds of thousands of people have read the tale. One Year After is the thrilling follow-up to that smash hit. The story picks up a year after One Second After ends, two years since the detonation of nuclear weapons above the United States brought America to its knees. After suffering starvation, war, and countless...
11) Ashfall
Author
Series
Ashfall trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Tanglewood
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano destroys his city and its surroundings, fifteen-year-old Alex must journey from Cedar Falls, Iowa, to Illinois to find his parents and sister, trying to survive in a transformed landscape and a new society in which all the old rules of living have vanished.
12) The road
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
13) Five years after
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Series
Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Five years after The Final Day, the Republic of New America has all but collapsed into regional powers and the world at large is struggling to remain stable as regional conflicts ravage the post EMP landscape. After several years attempting to lead a quiet life, John Matherson receives the news that the President is dying from a possible assassination attempt, and is asked to step in to negotiate with what appears to be a new military power hidden...
14) The alchemist
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Series
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"In the beleaguered city of Khaim, a lone alchemist seeks a solution to a deadly threat....Every time a spell is cast, a bit of bramble sprouts, sending up tangling vines, bloody thorns, and threatening a poisonous sleep"--From publisher's description on jacket flap.
15) The road
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity.
16) Vesper
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a thirteen-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed father, meets a woman with a secret who will force her to use her wits, strengths, and biohacking abilities to fight for the possibility of having a future.
17) Station eleven
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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"An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, from the author of three highly acclaimed previous novels. One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many millennia later, Taiju frees himself from the petrification and finds himself surrounded by statues. The situation looks grim-until he runs into his science-loving friend Senku! Together they plan to restart civilization with the power of science! Senku, Taiju and Yuzuriha are well on their way to crafting gunpowder when they spot smoke far off in the distance. Convinced that it's a sign of other...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Imagine waking to a world where every last human has been mysteriously turned to stone. One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many millennia later, Taiju frees himself from the petrification and finds himself surrounded by statues. The situation looks grim—until he runs into his science-loving friend Senku! Together they plan to restart civilization with the power of science! Senku and friends continue their quest to procure a sulfa...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Imagine waking to a world where every last human has been mysteriously turned to stone. One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many millennia later, Taiju frees himself from the petrification and finds himself surrounded by statues. The situation looks grim—until he runs into his science-loving friend Senku! Together they plan to restart civilization with the power of science! The Grand Bout Tournament to decide the village chief has...
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