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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Heartbroken after her best friend and soul mate, Fang, leaves her flock, Maximum Ride begins to believe the evil scientists trying to convince her she needs to save the world, and that Dylan, the newest member of her flock, is her perfect mate.
22) Altar of Eden
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 398 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Pregnant veterinarian Maura Kelly, along with U.S. Marshall Jack Menard, risks everything, including the life of her unborn child, to unravel the mystery of a smuggler's cache of mutated animals, a puzzle that involves fractal intelligence, stem-cell research, and a secret history of the Book of Genesis.
23) Power game
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Find out why as two lovers surrounded by greed and corruption discover there's no telling whom you can trust--or who will come out on top... When members of a United Nations joint security force are taken hostage by radical terrorists in Indonesia, Captain Ezekiel Fortunes is called to lead the rescue team. Part of a classified government experiment, Zeke is a supersoldier with enhanced abilities. He can see better and run faster than the enemy,...
24) The dysasters
Author
Series
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U. S. edition.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Adoptive daughter of a gifted scientist, Foster Stewart doesn't live a "normal" life, (not that she'd want to). But controlling cloud formations and seeing airwaves aren't things most eighteen-year-olds can do. Small town star quarterback and quintessential dreamy boy next door, Tate "Nighthawk" Taylor has never thought much about his extra abilities. Sure, his night vision comes in handy during games, but who wouldn't want that extra edge? From the...
25) The water planet
Author
Series
AstroNuts volume mission 2
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
219 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
On their second mission to find another habitable planet, the four mutant animals, LaserShark, AstroWolf, SmartHawk, and StinkBug, splash land on the Water Planet, run by some suspiciously friendly clams, who are very eager to swap planets--and if the AstroNuts can stop arguing among themselves they may find out why before it is too late.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
405 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The time has come for Max,Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel to face their ultimate enemy and, despite many obstacles, try to save the world from a sinister plan to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race.
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 8
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
One last chance . . . for Max, Fang, and Dylan . . . before it all ends. "Nevermore" is one last incredible, explosive adventure with an astonishing ending that no one could have seen coming.
28) Immortal rising
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Stephanie McGill was attacked and turned when she was just a teenager. Worse, her abilities are unlike any other immortal. Now thirteen years later, with the help of her adopted Argeneau family, Steph has carved out a new--if not lonely--life for herself. Until a new neighbor arrives... Thorne is also one-of-a-kind. The result of a genetic experiment, he's not an immortal, but he's not mortal either. He's looking for a place to hide, to get some...
29) The Plant Planet
Author
Series
Astronuts volume 1
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
211 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Carbon dioxide is out of control on Earth, and the fate of humankind rests in the paws of four experimental, untested Animal Astronauts (AlphaWolf, SmartHawk, LaserShark, and StinkBug) who are seeking another habitable planet; first destination is the Plant Planet which at first looks perfect, except that the abundant plant life can think for itself--and it thinks that it really does not like the AstroNuts.
Author
Series
Astronuts volume 3
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
570L
Physical Desc
233 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
So far the AstroNuts have failed to find a suitable planet, but NNASA has come up with a new plan: send the four animal astronauts back through time on Earth where they are to contact early homo sapiens and somehow set them on a path to a sustainable future--trouble is, humans seem inferior to many of the other species (especially the wolves), so the AstroNuts come up with a Survival of the Fittest Olympics, hoping that with a little help the humans...
Author
Series
Mercenary Librarians volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Nina is an information broker with a mission--she and her team of mercenary librarians use their knowledge to save the hopeless in a crumbling America. Knox is the bitter, battle-weary captain of the Silver Devils. His squad of supersoldiers went AWOL to avoid slaughtering innocents, and now he's fighting to survive. They're on a deadly collision course, and the passion that flares between them only makes it more dangerous. They could burn down the...
32) The Firefly code
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Mori and her friends live a normal life on Firefly Lane in Old Harmonie, a utopian community where every kid knows he or she is genetically engineered to be better and smarter, but when a strangely perfect new girl named Ilana moves in, the friends begin to question the only world they have ever known.
33) Parasite
Author
Series
Parasitology volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Genetically engineered tapeworms that protect most of the human populace from illness, boost everyone's immune system, and even secrete designer drugs begin to change and want out of human bodies they occupy.
35) I am the walrus
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Noah Prime discovers he can exhibit the traits and access the abilities of animals and must use them to fight back against those who are hunting him." -- Provided by publisher.
38) Upgrade: a novel
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books, [2022]
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"An ordinary man undergoes a startling transformation--and fears that all of humanity may be next--in the mindblowing new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion Logan Ramsay can feel his brain... changing. And his body too. He's becoming something other than himself. Maybe even something other than human. As he sets out to discover who did this to him, and why, his transformation threatens everything--his...
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a near future where most adults are connected to the multiweb through neural implants, a twelve-year-old uncovers a corporate plot to genetically manipulate her classmates, and her scientist mother may be involved in the conspiracy.