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1) The Road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
A man and his young son traverse a blasted American landscape, covered with the ashes of the late world. The man can still remember the time before but not the boy. There is nothing for them except survival, and the precious last vestiges of their own humanity. At once brutal and tender, despairing and hopeful, spare of language and profoundly moving, The Road is a fierce and haunting meditation on the tenuous divide between civilization and savagery,...
2) Fear
Author
Series
Gone novels volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 16
Formats
Description
As the young residents of Perdido Beach begin to better comprehend the truths of who they are and their relationships to one another, the Darkness finds a new way to be born, bringing their understanding of fear to a new level.
Author
Series
Zombie chasers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
Zack Clarke's sleepover turns into chaos when Zombies invade.
4) Poppy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
A hoot owl, Ocax, rules Dimwood Forest and promises to protect the mice as long as they ask his permission to move about. Poppy is a deer mouse under the owl's protection, but when her fiance is killed by Ocax she defies the owl and begins a journey to a new place. Poppy wants to find a place where her family can live away from Ocax, but she has to do it without Ocax catching her.
5) The storm
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Ruby's fight for survival continues in a post-apocalyptic world where the rain is deadly.
Author
Series
Last kids on Earth volume 9
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
To get the answers he seeks about his powerful Cosmic Hand, which might be able to stop the inevitable from happening, Jack must travel farther than he’s ever been--he must go to the monster dimension.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
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When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Gameknight999 finds himself teleported into the digital world of the game "Minecraft" and discovers some of its best-kept secrets, but to survive from zombies and spiders, he must learn to make friends and work as a part of a team.
Author
Series
Autumn novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
"A disease of unimaginable ferocity has torn across the face of the planet, leaving billions dead. A small group of survivors shelter in the remains of a devastated city, hiding in terror as the full effects of the horrific infection start to become clear. The sudden appearance of a company of soldiers again threatens the survivors' fragile existence. Do they bring with them hope, help, and answers, or more pain, fear, and suffering?"--P. [4] of cover....
10) Sludgment day
Author
Series
Zombie chasers volume 3
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
With the zombie antidote in hand, Zack Clarke and his team of zombie chasers embark on a wild cross-country road trip to end the undead apocalypse once and for all.
11) Monster
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Description
It's been four years since the invisible dome that was created by an alien virus appeared over Perdido Beach. Inside the dome, animals began to mutate and the teens remaining the dome developed dangerous powers. Now the dome has disappeared, but meteors are hitting the Earth with an even deadlier virus. Humans all over the world will mutate into monsters and as some teens begin to turn into heroes, they find that others are out of control and that...
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"America faces a full-scale socioeconomic collapse in the near future. The stock market plummets, hyperinflation cripples commerce and the mounting crisis passes the tipping point. Practically overnight, the fragile chains of supply and high-technology infrastructure fall, and wholesale rioting and looting grip every major city. As hordes of refugees and looters pour out of the cities, a small group of friends living in the Midwest desperately tries...
Author
Series
Not a drop to drink volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
In a barren land, a teen named Lucy and her adoptive mother Lynn are forced to leave the community they know and search the vast countryside for a new home.
14) The rising
Author
Series
Darkness rising volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
Maya and her friends feel like the St. Clouds and the Cabal have hunted them to the ends of the Earth, and there is nowhere left to hide. With no help from the outside--the rest of the world thinks they are already dead--Maya follows the clues of a name and a phone-number, her only source of hope to find answers about their supernatural abilities and why they cannot seem to control them.
16) Far North
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
After the destruction of their floatplane, sixteen-year-old Gabe and his Dene friend, Raymond, struggle to survive a winter in the wilderness of the Northwest Territories of Canada.
Author
Series
Gone novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
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Description
As conditions worsen in the FAYZ, where supernatural forces have trapped children under the age of fifteen and resources are running out, it becomes tempting to heed the words of a prophet who says that only death will set them free.
Author
Series
Hunger Games trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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"In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward...
19) The capture
Author
Series
Prey trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"Fourteen escaped and found their way to a new territory, but Book, Hope, and Cat can't settle into their new free life knowing the rest of the Less thanks and Sisters are still imprisoned. Now the Teens must retrace their steps to save the others and destroy the compound. But the path back is filled with even more heart-pounding danger--as motives are questioned and relationships tested"--
Author
Series
Not a drop to drink volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
In a barren world where water is a precious resource, Lynn protects a pond on her property from other people and wildlife alike, preserving every drop for her own use. When large groups of people begin approaching and leave threatening messages, however, Lynn realizes they will stop at nothing to obtain her water, and she will have to fight with all she has to protect it.