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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
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On an island off Costa Rica there exists a hush-hush colony of giant animals which attracts the attention of two expeditions. The first one, including children, is led by a paleontologist, the other is made up of evil scientists who want to do experiments. The animals rout both without much concern for their motives.
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Alex Rider adventures volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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Recently recruited and trained as a special agent by M16, the British secret service, 14-year-old West Londoner Alex Rider is sent to infiltrate an ulta-private school where the rich and powerful send their uncontrollable, rebellious sons. What he discovers in the mountaintop fortress of the campus are enough armed guards to repel an invasion-and new classmates who have become eerie copies of each other in their compliantattitudes and actions.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human. Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants...
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Star Wars novels. Thrawn trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 23
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Five years after the events of Return to the Jedi, the fragile New Republic reels from the attacks of Grand Admiral Thrawn and his army of clone soldiers.
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Similars volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 16
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After discovering that her best friend, Oliver, is still alive, Emma is reeling. She had to leave Levi, Oliver's genetic copy and the boy she loves, on the island with Gravelle, his deranged creator. Emma's also dealing with discovering who she really is after learning that she's also a clone. As she starts a new year at Darkwood, Emma isolates herself from the other clones and Oliver, but when more of Gravelle's plot is revealed, Emma and her friends...
9) Kiln people
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"Thanks to the new technology of imprinting, people in a near-future America can copy their personalities into animated clay bodies (called "dittos" or "golems"), which last a single day. Albert Morris, private investigator, is his own sidekick as he attempts to uncover the murderer of a prominent imprinting research scientist."--Amazon.com
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Remembrance of Earth's past volume 4
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"In the midst of an interstellar war, Yun Tianming found himself on the front lines. Riddled with cancer, he chose to end his life, only to find himself flash frozen and launched into space where the Trisolaran First Fleet awaited. Captured and tortured beyond endurance for decades, Yun eventually succumbed to helping the aliens subjugate humanity in order to save Earth from complete destruction. Granted a healthy clone body by the Trisolarans, Yun...
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Appears on list
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On a remote jungle island, genetic engineers have created a dinosaur game park. ...But as always there is a dark side to the fantasy and after a catastrophe destroys the park's defence systems, the scientists and tourists are left fighting for survival... -- Cover.
12) Popular clone
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Clone chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
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Twelve-year-old Fisher Bas, a science-loving bully magnet, clones himself, only to discover that his double is infinitely cooler than himself.
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Cotten Stone mysteries volume 1
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-- , run out and buy this book! Modern technology mixed with mythology make for a fast read. This globe-trotting adventure story with biblical undertones will keep you hooked!"—Nancy J. Cohen, author of the Bad Hair Day mystery series
14) The similars
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Similars volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
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Six new students join the elite junior class of Darkwood Academy, and they happen to be exact clones of students already attending. Dubbed "the Similars," the clones are all anyone can talk about. When Emmaline Chance meets Levi--the clone of her best friend Oliver who died over the summer--her heat breaks all over again. Soon, however, Emmaline is pulled deeper into the Similar's clique, and begins to learn some troubling secrets about her boarding...