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Author
Series
Smartest kid in the universe volume 1
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
When seventh-grader Jake McQuade mistakes the world's first ingestible knowledge pills for jelly beans, he suddenly knows all about physics and geometry and can speak Swahili (though Spanish would be a lot more useful)--but his sort-of girlfriend Grace thinks they can use his new found brilliance to save their middle school from the new principal, who is conspiring to get it shut down.
12 year old Jake's middle school is about to be shut down--unless...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Six kids on the run must face a villain who threatens the future of human existence . . . but winning comes at a high price.
Six children have escaped horrifying government experiments, a childhood in captivity, and a frightening brush with death. Living out in the world for the first time, they yearn to be reunited with Kit and Frannie, the couple who saved their lives. And Max, the leader of the flock, is seized by an overpowering...
Six children have escaped horrifying government experiments, a childhood in captivity, and a frightening brush with death. Living out in the world for the first time, they yearn to be reunited with Kit and Frannie, the couple who saved their lives. And Max, the leader of the flock, is seized by an overpowering...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Survivors of a government-induced apocalypse endure their violent and disease-stricken world while protecting their loved ones; while a century into the future, members of a transformed society determinedly search for the original twelve virals.
5) Enigma
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The highly anticipated twenty-first FBI thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter presents Agents Savich and Sherlock with two baffling mysteries. Working with Agent Cam Wittier (Insidious) and New York-based former Special Forces agent Jack Cabot, they must race against the clock to catch an international criminal and solve the enigma of the man called John Doe. When Agent Dillon Savich saves Kara Moody from a seemingly...
6) Outrage
Author
Series
Singular menace volume 2
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
"Shay Remby and her gang of renegades have struck a blow to the Singular Corporation. In a daring raid, they rescued Shay's brother, Odin, from a covert Singular lab. They also liberated a damaged girl. A girl who literally knows too much. On the surface, Singular's a biotech company creating prosthetics for veterans. But Shay and Odin have discovered that beneath the shiny veneer is a shadow company, malevolently pushing the limits of science and...
7) Orphan #8
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
381, 19 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1919, four-year-old Rachel Rabinowitz is placed in the Hebrew Infant Home where Dr. Mildred Solomon is conducting medical research on the children. Dr. Solomon subjects Rachel to an experimental course of X-ray treatments that establish the doctor's reputation while risking the little girl's health. Now it's 1954, and Rachel is a nurse in the hospice wing of the Old Hebrews Home when elderly Dr. Solomon becomes her patient. Realizing the power...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
After discovering the body of a man buried deep in the Arctic ice, Dr. Kate Philo and her team bring him back to life in their Boston lab, igniting a media firestorm that forces them to decide how far they are willing to go to protect their experiment.
9) Nano
Author
Language
English
Description
Taking a year off from her medical studies and leaving New York City, Pia Grazdani accepts a job at Nanobots, a nanotechnology institute, where she is quickly warned not to investigate the other work done at the facility and not to ask questions about their source of funding.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In Corridors of the Night, nurse Hester Monk and her husband, William, commander of the Thames River Police, do desperate battle with two obsessed scientists who in the name of healing have turned to homicide. The monomaniacal Rand brothers--Magnus, a cunning doctor, and Hamilton, a genius chemist--are utterly ruthless in their pursuit of a cure for the fatal "white-blood disease." In London's Royal Naval Hospital annex, Hester is tending one of the...
11) Seize the night
Author
Language
English
Description
Poet Christopher Snow, a man who cannot stand daylight, teams up with his genetically engineered dog, Orson, to investigate the abduction of children in Moonlight Bay, California. The children are believed to be prisoners in an army base populated by intelligent animals that were produced by scientific experiments. Snow and Orson penetrate the base to search for them. A sequel to Fear Nothing.
12) Amped: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a near-future world where technologically enhanced humans are governed by a strict set of conduct laws, twenty-nine-year-old Owen Gray joins the ranks of a persecuted underclass that is planning to change, or destroy, the world.
13) Show me a sign
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes...
14) The savior
Author
Series
Black dagger brotherhood volume 18
Publisher
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Gallery books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 479 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the venerable history of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, only one male has ever been expelled--but Murhder's insanity gave the Brothers no choice. Haunted by visions of a female he could not save, he nonetheless returns to Caldwell on a mission to right the wrong that ruined him. However, he is not prepared for what he must face in his quest for redemption. Dr. Sarah Watkins, researcher at a biomedical firm, is struggling with the loss of her fellow...
15) Bluebird
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
438 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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 of 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...
Author
Publisher
DC Ink
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
180 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Garfield Logan finally impresses the social elite at his high school, but popularity comes at a price when he undergoes sudden physical changes as the dares from his new friends escalate" --
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
vii, 438 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When young lawyer David Martinez receives an ancient map from his dying grandfather, the mysteries of his past begin to open up before him. The map leads David into the heart of the dangerous Basque mountains, where a genetic curse lies buried and a frightening secret about the Western world's past is hidden. Meanwhile, London journalist Simon Quinn may have found his big break. A wealthy, elderly woman has been murdered in the most horrific fashion,...
18) I am legend
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Robert Neville is the last human survivor in what is left of New York City. A pandemic has left only 1% of the population alive and most of those who survived are no longer human. The infected, now lurking in the shadows, watch Neville's every move. Perhaps mankind's last, best hope, Neville is driven by the only one remaining mission: to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood.
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Language
English
Description
"Three years ago, a collision between a fast-moving freight train and a school bus full of kids led to devastation and grief on an unimaginable scale. But a fresh clue leads San Antonio police detective Amara Alvarez to the unlikely conclusion that one of the children may still be alive. If she's correct, everything law enforcement believes about the accident is a lie. With time running out, Amara must convince others--and herself--that despite all...
20) Feet first
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Series
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
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Description
On the day the orphanage where he has grown up closes, J.D. discovers that he is the son of Frankenstein's monster, so he sets out to find the people that all the mismatched parts that he inherited came from--and do it before Frankenstein's creepy daughter, who wants to outdo her father, can find them.