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1) Messenger
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Description
Immersing himself in the OASIS, a mid-21st-century technological virtual utopia, to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's super-wealthy creator, who has promised that the winner will be his heir.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts discovers in Halliday's vaults a technological advancement that will change the world and make the OASIS a thousand times more wonderous, and addictive. With it comes a new riddle, a new quest, and a dangerous new rival.
Author
Series
Terra Ignota volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the twenty-fifth century Mycroft and Carlyle stumble on a boy that can effortlessly make his wishes come true, including bringing inanimate objects to life.
Author
Series
Just city novels volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
In a community planned by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, Simmea is one of ten thousand children and a few hundred adult teachers from throughout history who must make their way in a community shared by Sokrates and the human manifestation of Apollo.
Author
Language
English
Description
A ferryman, gently shepherding the people of Prospera through the retirement process when the monitors embedded in their forearms fall below 10 percent, Proctor Bennet, of the Department of Social Contracts, receives a disturbing and cryptic message from his father, while The Support Staff, who keep Prospera running, organize a revolution that causes Proctor to question everything he once believed.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Forced to flee a small North Carolina town when the neighbors suspect they are aliens, sixth-grader Meggie Blue and her family leave Earth and arrive in Fashion City, where individuality is punished and the greatest crime is being "grossly unique."
Although Meggie Blue seems to be an average sixth-grader she is abnormally frightened when residents of her small, North Carolina town become fixated on aliens and soon she and her family are forced to...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After losing their child, a husband and wife construct a separate society, where everyone can feel loved and wanted, but when others hear about the place and want in, it doesn’t take long for problems to develop, for conflicts to surface, and for the children to crave life beyond this place.
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