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1) Fuzzy mud
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"Two middle-grade kids take a shortcut home from school and discover what looks like fuzzy mud but is actually a substance with the potential to wreak havoc on the entire world"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
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The great viral plague had left a small group of survivors clinging to life amidst a world transformed into a nightmare. Led by the mysterious, charismatic Amy, they go on the attack, leading an insurrection against the virals--the first offensives of the Second Viral War--infiltrating a dozen hives, each presided over by one of the original Twelve. Their secret weapon: Alicia, transformed at the end of book one into a half human, half viral--but...
4) The hot zone
Author
Series
Dark biology volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 16
Description
A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this virus. The book tells this dramatic story, giving an account of the appearance of rare and lethal viruses and their "crashes" into the human race.
5) Gravity
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Description
A young NASA doctor must combat a lethal microbe that is multiplying in the deadliest of environments: Space.
6) Red
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
Description
Never before has an entire trilogy been released in less than a year. This second installment finds Thomas Hunter facing the devastating realization that he has helped unleash death in two parallel worlds. He must now discover how to defeat this evil--while trying to save his true love.
7) The Passage
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 50
Description
First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fear - of darkness, of death, of a fate far worse.
8) Toxic prey
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
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Description
Lucas Davenport and his daughter, Letty, team up to track down a dangerous scientist whose latest project could endanger the entire world, in this latest thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford. Gaia is dying. That, at least, is what Dr. Lionel Scott believes. A renowned expert in tropical and infectious diseases, Scott has witnessed the devastating impact of illness and turmoil at critical scale. Society as it exists is...
10) Guts
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
"Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. It soon becomes clear that Raina's tummy trouble isn't going away... and it coincides with her worries about food, school, and changing friendships. What's going...
11) White
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Some say that the world hangs in the balance of every choice we make. Now, the fate of two worlds hangs in the balance of the choices of one man, an unlikely hero who may not survive the next twenty-four hours. The adrenaline-laced trilogy that began with Black and Red now races to an unbelievable conclusion with White. In White, Thomas Hunter struggles to stave off a war and a virus that are simultaneously ravaging two worlds' populations. Meanwhile,...
13) Feed
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
14) The stand
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 72
Description
This story tells an apocalyptic vision of the world, when a deadly virus runs amok around the globe. But that lethal virus is almost benign compared to the satanic force gathering minions from those still alive to destroy humanity and create a world populated by evil.
15) Cell: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
Description
Civilization doesn't end with a bang or a whimper. It ends with a call on your cell phone. What happens on the afternoon of October 1 came to be known as the Pulse, a signal sent though every operating cell phone that turns its user into something...well, something less than human. Savage, murderous, unthinking-and on a wanton rampage. Terrorist act? Cyber prank gone haywire? It really doesn't matter, not to the people who avoided the technological...
16) 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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"Women everywhere are birthing a new vision of women's health and wellness, and of identity. Central to this vision is that we trust what we know in our bones, that our bodies are our allies, and that they will always point us in the direction we need to go next." Like mind-body medicine pioneers Deepak Chopra and Bernie Siegel, Dr. Christiane Northrup has long been convinced of the connection between emotional suffering and physical illness. In her...
Author
Series
Llama Llama (Picture books) volume 6
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Llama Llama doesn't want to share his toys with his new neighbors. But when fighting leads to broken toys and tears, Llama learns that it's better to share"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
"A homeless man in Boston, an Army Major in California, and a teenage girl in Atlanta all die suddenly and painfully - each a victim of an unknown doomsday virus. For three days, a team of scientists in a U.S. government laboratory has been frantically trying to unlock the virus's secrets. When the leading researcher from that lab, Lt. Col. Jonathan Smith, returns from overseas, he barely survives a series of well-orchestrated attempts made on his...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Most kids love chocolate, but few of them know that its main ingredient, the cocoa bean, comes from a tree that grows in tropical rain forests. Dual-layer text describes the life cycle of the tree, emphasizing its botanical structures and highlighting the interdependence of the plant and animals such as the pollen-sucking midge, brain-eating coffin fly, and aphid-munching anole lizard. Two wise-cracking bookworms offer meta-textual commentary and...