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In this "brilliantly written" book, the author of Brave New World reflects on his dystopian classic-and its echoes in the real world decades later (Kirkus Reviews).
Written almost thirty years after the publication of Aldous Huxley's groundbreaking dystopian novel, Brave New World Revisited compares the "future" of 1958 with his vision of it from the early 1930s. Touching on subjects as diverse as world population, drugs, subliminal suggestion,...
22) The program
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Series
The Program. Main series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Sloane knows better than to cry in front of anyone. With suicide now an international epidemic, one outburst could land her in The Program, the only proven course of treatment. Sloanes parents have already lost one child; Sloane knows theyll do anything to keep her alive. She also knows that everyone whos been through The Program returns as a blank slate. Because their depression is gone-but so are their memories.
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When his army unit is ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saves his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, Major Ben Marco, is knocked unconscious. Using the incident for political gain, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, but Marco is haunted by dreams of what really happened in Iraq. As Marco investigates, the story begins to unravel. He begins to figure that the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed...
24) SPHDZ book #2!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
The campaign to save the earth from being turned off is going well, but Michael K. must enlist fellow fifth-graders Venus and TJ to help hide the SPHDZ from Agent Umber, especially when they become involved in a school play.
25) The messengers
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Series
Greystone secrets volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Told from separate viewpoints, as evil forces from the parallel world invade their home, the Greystones, their doubles, and friends must return to the alternate dimension to save both worlds.
26) Candor
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
For a fee, "model teen" Oscar Banks has been secretly--and selectively-- sabotaging the subliminal messages that program the behavior of the residents of Candor, Florida, until his attraction to a rebellious new girl threatens to expose his subterfuge.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future-of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Huxley's most enduring...
28) Under the knife
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Morgan Finney, a biotechnology tycoon, is a shy, highly intelligent but socially awkward and emotionally fragile man. It was his wife, Jenny, with whom he connected and who enabled him to connect with others. When Jenny dies of complications during a surgery led by Dr. Rita Wu, Finney's grief turns to rage. He vows to kill Rita just as he believes she killed his wife. But first he will systematically destroy her life. Aided by a mysterious man named...
29) Drought
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
For a fee, "model teen" Oscar Banks has been secretly--and selectively-- sabotaging the subliminal messages that program the behavior of the residents of Candor, Florida, until his attraction to a rebellious new girl threatens to expose his subterfuge.
30) I am the mission
Author
Series
Unknown assassin volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"Teen assassin Boy Nobody is sent on a mission to assassinate the head of a domestic terrorism cell, but his mission turns up more questions about his job than answers"--
31) Bluebird
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 17
Formats
Description
In 1946 Eva arrives in New York City, from the rubble of Berlin, supposedly looking for a new life, but actually seeking justice against the Nazis that "escaped" with the help of the CIA; one in particular, the doctor who knows who Eva really is, because her identity is the product Project Bluebird, an experiment of the concentration camps involving brainwashing and mind control, which both the Americans and the Soviets would like access to--and Eva...
32) Wizard for hire
Author
Series
Wizard for hire volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
After fourteen-year-old Ozzy's scientist parents are kidnapped, Ozzy's only help may be a classified ad that says "Wizards for hire."
Author
Series
Captain Underpants volume 12
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
George and Harold, and their doubles, Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold, have a good thing going. Two of them go to school, while the other two hide in the tree house and play video games all day-then they switch! But when their malicious gym teacher, Mr Meaner, creates a method of mind control that turns their fellow students into attentive, obedient, perfect children, the future of all humanity will be in their hands!
34) I am the traitor
Author
Series
Unknown assassin volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
After breaking free of The Program, Boy Nobody is on a mission of his own to reclaim his life and rescue his friend Howard from the secret organization that has turned him and other orphaned children into trained assassins--but he has no idea who, if anyone, he can trust, or what the consequences will be if he succeeds in bringing down The Program.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
From her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in 1942, eleven-year-old Milada is taken with other blond, blue-eyed children to a school in Poland to be trained as "proper Germans" for adoption by German families, but all the while she remembers her true name and history.
36) 36 hours
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
James Garner stars as an American intelligence officer who, on the eve of D-Day, is brainwashed by the Nazis into revealing the secrets of the Normandy Invasion.
Pub. Date
2004, 1962
Description
A U.S. Army platoon, captured in the Korean conflict, is whisked to Manchuria for three nightmarish days of experimental drug-and-hypnosis-induced conditioning to carry out the orders of the enemy upon release. When a decorated Korean War veteran who has been brainwashed starts to commit political assassinations, his old military commander begins to suspect and must stop him.
38) The complication
Author
Series
The Program. Main series volume 4
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Seventeen-year-old Tatum Masterson has no memory of being in The Program, but when she starts experiencing crashbacks she knows something terrible happened last summer, and with help of the boyfriend she lost, Tatum digs into the past and future of The Program and its handlers, and discovers the true cost of a cure.
40) The Whisper
Author
Series
The Roar volume 2
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Members of an elite squadron of mutants, the telepathic twins, Ellie and Mika have specialized skills that will enable them to steal the top-secret formula for an age-reversing drug developed by rebel scientists on the wild side of The Wall. Juiced by these potent pills, the cadaver-like Gorman foresees a future in which he'll be forever young - released from the machinery that now supports him. Unless the twins have a master plan of their own: to...