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Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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With more than 3.5 million copies sold, the City of Ember books are modern-day classics. Lina and Doon's heart-pounding journey to save their people has captivated readers around the world, and the four adventures are bound together here for the very first time!
Escape the Dark. Discover the Adventure.
The city of Ember was built as a last refuge for the human race. But now with terrifying blackouts sweeping through the streets, Lina...
Escape the Dark. Discover the Adventure.
The city of Ember was built as a last refuge for the human race. But now with terrifying blackouts sweeping through the streets, Lina...
Author
Series
Books of Ember volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.
Author
Series
Books of Ember volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.
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Series
Dragons of Ember City volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Drake, Li, and Runa are three young dragons in Ember City, where a dragon's spark is their special power and every dragon's spark is unique. Ember is a city that burns brightest when its citizens use their sparks to help each other and their community. The more they use their spark, the brighter Ember City glows and provides for all its dragons. Can Drake, Li, and Runa learn to get along after uncovering their powers?
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When a roamer trades them an ancient book with only a few pages remaining, Lina and Doon return to Ember to seek the machine the book seems to describe in hopes that it will get their new community, Sparks, through the winter.
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Series
Books of Ember volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
While visiting the small town of Yonwood, North Carolina, eleven-year-old Nickie makes some decisions about how to identify both good and evil when she witnesses the townspeople's reactions to the apocalyptic visions of one of their neighbors.
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Series
Greystone secrets volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"What makes you 'you'? Chess has always been the protector of his younger siblings, Emma loves math, and Finn acts silly so he will be adored. They've been a happy family, the three of them and their mom. But everything changes when reports of three kidnapped children--who share the same first and middle names and exact birth dates--reach the Greystone family. This bizarre coincidence makes them wonder: Who exactly are these strangers? Before Chess,...
10) The deceivers
Author
Series
Greystone secrets volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Told from separate viewpoints, as Finn, Emma, and Chess Greystone and Natalie Mayhew, ages eight to thirteen, continue their quest to rescue their mothers they must return to the alternate dimension where truth is illegal." --
Author
Series
Books of Ember volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Having escaped to the Unknown Regions, Lina and the others seek help from the village people of Sparks.
12) Wolf brother
Author
Series
Chronicles of ancient darkness volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
6,000 years in the past, twelve-year-old Tarak and his guide, a wolf cub, set out on a dangerous journey to fulfill an oath the boy made to his dying father--to travel to the Mountain of the World Spirit seeking a way to destroy a demon-possessed bear that threatens all the clans.
13) Forgotten city
Author
Series
Forgotten city volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen years ago, the world ended. A deadly chemical called Waste began to spread across the globe, leaving devastation in its wake. Millions died. Cities fell into chaos. Anything the Waste didn't kill, it mutated into threatening new forms. Kobi has always believed he and his dad were the only survivors. But when his dad goes missing, Kobi follows his trail--and discovers a conspiracy even deadlier than the Waste itself. Non stop action, chilling...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Since her father's death in a factory in the Dragonfly territories, thirteen-year-old Piper has eked out a living as a scrapper in Merrow Kingdom, but the arrival of a mysterious girl sends her on a dangerous journey to distant lands.
15) The scavengers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
With a neighbors help, twelve-year-old Ford Falcon learns to survive in the harsh world outside the Bubble Cities by scavenging for items to use or trade--skills she needs when her parents unexpectedly go missing.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When her beloved mama falls ill from the ever-creeping mold overtaking their world, twelve-year-old fairy Canary Mossheart, armed with only a bucket and a prayer, sets out to find a magical, underground lake with healing powers but instead finds a terrifying secret.
17) Omega City
Author
Series
Omega City volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Determined to prove her conspiracy theorist father's beliefs about lost Cold War technology, Gillian, her skeptical brother, and their friends journey to the ruins of a vast doomsday bunker before they are confronted by dangerous adversaries.
18) Lost Horizon
Author
Series
Forgotten city volume 2
Language
English
Description
This gripping sequel to Forgotten City is a twist-filled survival adventure that's Mad Max for tweens.
Everything Kobi once believed was a lie. Not only are there other survivors of the Waste that devastated the world thirteen years ago, but beyond the wasteland of Old Seattle lies a gleaming new city where thousands are desperate for a cure.
To put an end to the Waste-and bring justice to those responsible–Kobi and his new friends will have...
19) The last lie
Author
Series
List (Forde) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the rebels are captured Letta goes on the run, still striving to preserve language while the vicious new ruler of Ark plans to eliminate it once and for all.
20) The Orb of Terra
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Series
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of "City of Ember" "A Wrinkle in Time" and "Star Wars", this family adventure is a high stakes space race to save our world from an invading force before it is too late.-Book 3-Will Ian's quest to find his destiny away from Jupiter lead to Earth's untimely demise?
As he struggles with his identity, Ian Castillo helps one of Earth's greatest scientific minds, Dr. Nikola Tesla, make the scientific discovery of a lifetime: a strange...