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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"A nail-biting narrative, setting stark human dilemmas against a lush, exotic backdrop."— People
"Extraordinary. . . . Nothing is as it seems, and the ending is as shocking as it's satisfying." — Boston Globe
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett, a provocative and assured novel of morality and miracles, science and sacrifice set in the Amazon rainforest
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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 72
Language
English
Description
"When a man escapes from a biological testing facility, he sets in motion a deadly domino effect, spreading a mutated strain of the flu that will wipe out 99 percent of humanity within a few weeks. The survivors who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge--Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefarious "Dark Man," who delights in...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Formats
Description
The world's premier climatologist, Lonnie Thompson has been risking his career and life on the highest and most remote ice caps along the equator, in search of clues to the history of climate change. His most innovative work has taken place on these mountain glaciers, where he collects ice cores that provide detailed information about climate history, reaching back 750,000 years. To gather significant data Thompson has spent more time in the death...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1990.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 72
Language
English
Description
A monumentally devastating plague leaves only a few survivors who, while experiencing dreams of a battle between good and evil, move toward an actual confrontation as they migrate to Boulder, Colorado.
5) Medusa
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
In the Micronesian islands, a top-secret U.S. government—sponsored undersea lab conducting vital biomedical research on a rare jellyfish known as the Blue Medusa suddenly disappears. At the same time, off Bermuda, a bathysphere is attacked by an underwater vehicle and left helpless a half-mile below the surface, its passengers–including Zavala–left to die. Only Kurt Austin’s heroic measures save them from a watery grave, but...
6) Lab girl
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"An illuminating debut memoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a longtime friendship; and a stunningly fresh look at plants that will forever change how you see the natural world,"--Amazon.com.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In a novel that reaffirms her reputation as "America's Queen of Suspense," Mary Higgins Clark delivers a gripping tale of deception and tantalizing suspense. Nicholas Spencer, charismatic head of the medical research company Gen-stone, involved in the development of an anticancer vaccine, suddenly disappears. His private plane crashes en route to Puerto Rico, but his body is not found. Early results of the vaccine seemed highly promising. Yet, coinciding...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...
9) Partials
Author
Series
Partials sequence volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a post-apocalyptic eastern seaboard ravaged by disease and war with a manmade race of people called Partials, the chance at a future rests in the hands of Kira Walker, a sixteen-year-old medic in training"--Provided by publisher.
10) Fear nothing
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
11) When we wake
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"In 2027, sixteen-year-old Tegan is just like every other girl--playing the guitar, falling in love, and protesting the wrongs of the world with her friends. But then Tegan dies, waking up 100 years in the future as the unknowing first government guinea pig to be cryogenically frozen and successfully revived. Appalling secrets about her new world come to light, and Tegan must choose to either keep her head down or fight for a better future"--Provided...
Author
Series
Publisher
BrightPoint Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Vaccines protect people from getting sick, but scientists must do a lot research to create vaccines. Companies rushed to make a vaccine that would stop the global spread of COVID-19. Finding a COVID-19 Vaccine examines the process of creating and distributing a COVID-19 vaccine"--
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After her mother's death, sixteen-year-old Katie copes with her grief by working in the garden of an old estate, where she becomes intrigued by the story of a reclusive millionaire, while her father, an art restorer, manages in his own way to come to terms with the death of his wife.
20) Placebo junkies
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Teenaged Audie pushes her mind and body to the breaking point when she participates in a series of clinical drug trials for cash.