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81) The emissary
Author
Publisher
New Directions Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly. Mumei lives with his grandfather Yoshiro, who worries about him constantly. They carry on a day-to-day routine in what could be viewed as a post-Fukushima time, with all the children born ancient--frail and gray-haired, yet incredibly compassionate and wise....
82) The broken path
Author
Series
Survivors volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
"Lucky and the rest of his Pack encounter another group of dogs that has survived the Big Growl--and these new dogs may be their most dangerous enemies yet"--
83) Kingdom come
Author
Publisher
Liveright Pub
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
An unemployed advertising executive investigates why the deranged man who shot his father in a shopping mall was released without being charged.
84) The endless lake
Author
Series
Survivors volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Lucky and his Pack were able to defeat Terror's dogs. But their new world still holds many dangers. Now the Pack has come to the edge of a strange lake that seems to stretch on forever, and Lucky discovers that there is barely enough food to survive. As winter approaches and the dogs struggle for prey and shelter, Alpha makes it clear that his own needs come before the rest of the Pack. Meanwhile, the Fierce Dogs are determined to destroy Alpha's...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Bea's five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away, consumed by the smog and pollution of the overdeveloped metropolis that most of the population now calls home. If they stay in the city, Agnes will die. There is only one alternative: the Wilderness State, the last swath of untouched, protected land, where people have always been forbidden. Bea, Agnes, and eighteen others volunteer to live in the Wilderness State, guinea pigs in an experiment...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He's been given...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Description
What if you aren't the Chosen One? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever the heck this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you're like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again. Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week's end of the world, and sometimes...
88) Goliath
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the 2050s, Earth has begun to empty. Those with the means and the privilege have departed the great cities of the United States for the more comfortable confines of space colonies. Those left behind salvage what they can from the collapsing infrastructure. As they eke out an existence, their neighborhoods are being cannibalized. Brick by brick, their houses are sent to the colonies, what was once a home now a quaint reminder for the colonists...
89) When she woke
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In the future, abortion has become a crime as a series of events threatens the existence of the United States. One woman wakes up to discover that her skin color has been changed to red as punishment for having the procedure done. Now she must embark on a dangerous journey in order to find refuge from a hostile and threatening society.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A smoldering debut about an insular community on an island at the end of the world and the girls who start to question the rules that bind them.
Just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, ten men and their families colonized an island off the coast. They built a radical society of ancestor worship, controlled breeding, and the strict rationing of knowledge and history. Only the Wanderers-- chosen male descendants of the original ten--...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Full of indelible characters and darkly comic twists, the stories in Kate Folk's debut collection are perfectly pitched for the madness of our modern moment. A ward for a mysterious bone-melting disorder is the scene of a perilous love triangle. A curtain of void obliterates the globe at a steady pace, leaving one woman to decide whom she wants to spend eternity with. A woman navigates finding a partner while beautiful humanoid robots called "blots"...
93) Day zero
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
It was a day like any other. Except it was our last ... As Pounce ponders his suddenly uncertain future, the pieces are falling into place for a robot revolution that will eradicate humankind. His owners, Ezra's parents, are a well-intentioned but oblivious pair of educators who are entirely disconnected from life outside their small, affluent, gated community. Spending most nights drunk and happy as society crumbles around them, they watch in disbelieving...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
What if the end times allowed people to see and build the world anew? This is the landscape that Kimi Eisele creates in her surprising and original debut novel. Evoking the spirit of such monumental love stories as Cold Mountain and the creative vision of novels like Station Eleven, The Lightest Object in the Universe tells the story of what happens after the global economy collapses and the electrical grid goes down. In this new world, Carson, on...
95) The Testing
Author
Series
Testing volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Isn't that what they say? But how close is too close when they may be one and the same? The Seven Stages War left much of the planet a charred wasteland. The future belongs to the next generation's chosen few who must rebuild it. But to enter this elite group, candidates must first pass The Testing -- their one chance at a college education and a rewarding career. Cia Vale is honored to be chosen as...
96) Blackfish City
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Language
English
Description
After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, complete with geothermal heating and sustainable energy. Now crime and corruption have set in, the contradictions of incredible wealth alongside poverty are spawning unrest, and a new disease called "the breaks" is ravaging the population. When a strange new visitor arrives--a woman riding an orca, with a polar bear...
97) Believe me
Author
Series
Shatter me volume 6.5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"It's been two weeks since Juliette and Warner toppled The Reestablishment for good. Everyone at the Sanctuary is working round the clock to stabilize the world in the aftermath. Warner is thinking about more than politics. Since Juliette accepted his proposal, he's been eager for the two of them to officially begin their lives together. But it's been hard to find peace and joy amidst so much chaos. Even Juliette is distracted by all they have to...
98) The road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
In this postapocalyptic novel, a father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. They sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they...
99) Judgment called
Author
Series
Psy mind volume 3
Publisher
Wasteland Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Set in near-future America, The School for Good Mothers introduces readers to a government-run reform program where bad mothers are retrained using robot doll children with artificial intelligence. Protagonist Frida Liu, a 39-year-old Chinese-American single mother in Philadelphia, loses custody of her 18-month-old daughter, Harriet, after she leaves Harriet home alone for two hours on one very bad day. To regain custody, Frida must spend a year...
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