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Each ScienceFlix unit will help your child hone literacy skills while bolstering his or her understanding of important science, technology, and engineering concepts. Rich multimedia, science news, careers, hands-on experiments, and projects offer a number of different ways to engage with the content.
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1) Toys
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Animosity between the genetically engineered Elites and their human subjects is fierce, and many rebels fight back against Elite rule. Hays Baker is a high-ranking agent in the Elite forces and at the forefront of keeping the humans under control. However, Hays is unknowingly hiding a secret that will make him the greatest threat to the Elite regime, and their number one target.
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a short stay with an FBI agent who gives them a chance to attend school and live a normal life, the six genetically-altered, winged youths head toward Florida and Max's ultimate destiny--to save the world, whether she wants to or not.
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "birdkids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose.
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 6
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Max and the Flock discover an unscrupulous scientist who is experimenting on humans in an effort to "improve" the human race, they decide that they must try to stop him, in spite of Angel's prediction about Fang dying.
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
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 7
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Out in the world for the first time since escaping horrifying government experiments, six children make their way toward the Lake House in the hope of being reunited with Kit and Frannie, a couple who once saved their lives.
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When millions of fish start dying off the coast of Hawaii and something is destroying hundreds of ships, the government enlists the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--to help get to the bottom of the disaster before it is too late.
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants to auction them off to the highest bidder.
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Maximum Ride and her broken flock roam a postapocalyptic world, searching for answers to what happened"--
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 8
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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.
13) Ender's game
Author
Series
Ender Wiggin volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Child-hero Ender Wiggin must fight a desperate battle against a deadly alien race if mankind is to survive.
14) Goliath
Author
Series
Leviathan trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alek and Deryn encounter obstacles on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek's throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love.
15) Upgrade: a novel
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books, [2022]
Pub. Date
2022
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...
16) Leviathan
Author
Series
Leviathan trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
While grieving her husband's murder, a young Colorado veterinarian meets a troubled FBI agent and begins to uncover the world's most sinister secrets in this thriller from James Patterson.
Frannie O'Neill is a young and talented veterinarian living in Colorado. Plagued by the mysterious murder of her husband, Frannie throws herself into her work, but it is not long before another bizarre murder occurs and Kit Harrison, a troubled and unconventional...
Frannie O'Neill is a young and talented veterinarian living in Colorado. Plagued by the mysterious murder of her husband, Frannie throws herself into her work, but it is not long before another bizarre murder occurs and Kit Harrison, a troubled and unconventional...
18) Wither
Author
Series
Chemical Garden trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world.
19) Fever
Author
Series
Chemical Garden trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In a future where genetic engineering has cured humanity of all diseases and defects but has also produced a virus that kills all females by age twenty and all males by the age twenty-five, teenaged Rhine escapes her forced marriage and journeys back to New York to find her twin brother.
20) Behemoth
Author
Series
Leviathan trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Continues the story of Austrian Prince Alek who, in an alternate 1914 Europe, eludes the Germans by traveling in the Leviathan to Constantinople, where he faces a whole new kind of genetically-engineered warships.
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