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1) Cinder
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.
Author
Series
Lorien Legacies volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
After facing off with the Mogadorian ruler and almost being annihilated, the Garde go into hiding. They must learn to master their Legacies and learn to work together as a team. When they receive a sign from Number Five -- a crop circle in the shape of a Loric symbol -- they know they are close to being reunited. But could it be a trap? Time is running out, and the only thing they know for certain is that they have to get to Five before it's too late....
3) Blood moon
Author
Series
The rising volume 2
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The action-packed follow up to The Rising, from acclaimed thriller-suspense novelists Heather Graham and Jon Land, this is Blood Moon. The recipient of RWA's Lifetime Achievement Award and ITW's ThrillerMaster Award, Heather Graham is at the pinnacle of her career. Now she's teamed up with USA Today bestselling author Jon Land to continue the story of high school seniors Alex Chin and Samantha Dixon. They may have managed to win a major battle against...
Author
Publisher
Walt Disney/Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[c2009]
Language
English
Description
Jack Bruno is a Las Vegas cab driver. Scientist Dr. Alex Friedman is one of his passengers. She is giving speeches about legitimate scientific theories of UFOs and outer space. The next day Jack notices Sara and Seth sitting in the back seat of his cab. He takes them to a run down house in the middle of nowhere, where they must obtain an object. Meanwhile, Major Henry Burke is searching for information pertaining to two aliens that landed days earlier....
5) The 5th wave
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Cassie Sullivan is trying to survive a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion, while trying to save her five-year-old brother Sam from a training camp that was created by the Others (the aliens).
Author
Series
Lorien Legacies volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a Spanish convent, seventeen-year-old Marina longs to join forces with her fellow Loriens to prepare for battle with the Mogadorians who destroyed their home planet, while in the United States, John, Six, and Sam elude authorities who think John is a terrorist.
7) Can of worms
Author
Publisher
Avon/HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Bullied and unhappy at school, thirteen-year-old Mike, who has always thought that he might be an alien, sends a distress call into space asking to be rescued from the ignorance and cruelty of his life on Earth.
Author
Series
5th wave volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Cassie Sullivan and her companions lived through the Others' four waves of destruction. Now, with the human race nearly exterminated and the 5th Wave rolling across the landscape, they face a choice: brace for winter and hope for Evan Walker's return, or set out in search of other survivors before the enemy closes in"--
9) Cress
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this third book in the bestselling Lunar Chronicles series, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they're plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and prevent her army from invading Earth. Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl trapped on a satellite since childhood who's only ever had her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made Cress an excellent hacker. Unfortunately, she's being...
10) Winter
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cinder and her allies are joined in the plot to overthrow Queen Levana by the queen's stepdaughter, Winter, who has long been defying her evil stepmother's wishes by harboring feelings for her personal guard whom she is forbidden from marrying.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Ruby, a Black girl who loves studying insects, accidentally captures an alien bug, but when the creature escapes and starts wreaking havoc around the neighborhood, it is up to Ruby and her rag-tag group of friends to find this new invasive species before the feds do.
Author
Series
Lorien Legacies volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Garde, broken and divided, discover that the Mogadorians have commenced their ultimate invasion plans and will stop at nothing to thwart it.
Author
Series
Daniel X novels volume 1
Publisher
Books on Tape
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Daniel has followed in his parents' footsteps as the Alien Hunter, exterminating beings on The List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma, but when he faces his first of the top ten outlaws, the very existence of Earth and another planet are at stake.
15) Weird kid
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Jake Foster, a shapeshifting alien of goo disguised as a human, and his spunky friend Agnes investigate the mysterious takeover of their neighbors by "imblobsters" and uncover the reason Jake is losing control of his ability to keep his human shape.
16) The last star
Author
Series
5th Wave volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
As the true agenda of the Others is revealed, Cassie, Ringer, Zombie, and the rest of the humans realize they've been betrayed and must decide what's worth saving in what appear to be Earth's final days.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Collects three stories, including "The Killer's Wife," in which Detective McGrath encourages a relationship with a suspect's wife in order to locate six missing girls.
The House Next Door (with Susan DiLallo): Married mother of three Laura Sherman was thrilled when her new neighbor invited her on some errands. But a few quick tasks became a long lunch-and now things could go too far with a man who isn't what he seems....
The Killer's Wife (with...
18) The life below
Author
Series
Final six volume 2
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Naomi and her fellow teen astronauts investigate the fate of their predecessors on the Europa colony, back on a deteriorating Earth, Leo works with a renegade scientist to warn the crew about hostile extraterrestrials.
Leaving Earth behind is hard, but what's ahead, on Europa, could be worse. The International Space Training Camp continues to hide the truth about what happened to the last group of astronauts who attempted a similar colonization...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Nikola Kross's world is turned upside down when her father is abducted by aliens and she is suddenly transported to a special boarding school for geniuses, but things get even stranger when she realizes she has certain abilities that puther entire school in grave danger.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a desperate attempt for survival, a peaceful civilization on a faraway planet besieged by a dark lord sends its most precious gift across the cosmos into the lunchbox of Tommy Pepper, sixth grader, of Plymouth, Massachusetts.