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1) 96 miles
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"During a massive blackout in rural Nevada, two brothers struggle to survive without their self-reliance-obsessed dad and without enough water to cross the desert for help"--OCLC.
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English
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Amanda and Clay head to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they've rented for the week. The houseowners, Ruth and G. H., arrive in the middle of the night in a panic. They say a sudden blackout has swept the city: the TV and internet are down, and no cell phone service. Is the vacation...
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Michael Havel was flying over Idaho en route to the holiday home of his passengers when the plane's engines inexplicably died, forcing a less than perfect landing in the wilderness. And, as Michael leads his charges to safety, he begins to realize that the engine failure was not an isolated incident.Juniper Mackenzie was singing and playing guitar in a pub when her small Oregon town was thrust into darkness. Cars refused to start. Phones were silent....
5) Blackout
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When a busy family's activities come to a halt because of a blackout, they find they enjoy spending time together and not being too busy for once.
6) Lights out
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When a storm causes a neighborhood blackout, Sofia and her father come up with a plan for the perfect family night without electricity.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Sparks fly when Lucy Patterson and Owen Buckley meet on an elevator rendered useless by a New York City blackout. After they're rescued, they spend the night wandering the darkened streets and marveling at the rare appearance of stars above Manhattan. But once the power is back, so is reality. Over the next year, as the two teenagers leave the city and they travel farther away from each other geographically, they stay connected emotionally.
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Gansett Island volume 23
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English
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An island-wide power failure has thrust Gansett into darkness. We'll take this opportunity to catch up with each of the couples we've come to know and love, and meet a few new characters who'll appear in upcoming books. It's the heart of summer, and things are getting hot on Gansett Island!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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When the electricity goes out, twelve-year-old Eddie and his friends set out to investigate what is going on when they make the startling discovery that they are the only ones left in their neighborhood--and perhaps the only people left anywhere.
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"It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people, dinner, an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The retired physics professor and her husband and her former student waiting for the couple who will join them from what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. The conversation ranges from a survey telescope in North-central Chile to a favorite brand of bourbon to Einstein's 1912 Manuscript on the Special Theory of Relativity. Then something...
11) Aurora: a novel
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English
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"Aurora is suspenseful storytelling--both large scale and small--at its finest"--
In Aurora, Illinois, Aubrey Wheeler is just trying to get by after her semi-criminal ex-husband split, leaving behind his unruly teenage son. Then the lights go out, not just in Aurora but across the globe. A solar storm has knocked out power almost everywhere. Suddenly, all problems are local, very local, and Aubrey must assume the mantle of fierce protector of her...
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"In this young adult novel, a teenage girl sets out by foot to find her autistic brother in the aftermath of a catastrophic power outage"--
The blackout has been going on for three weeks, but to Alex it feels like a year. Her brother, who has autism, was removed from the house, something Alex blames herself for. So when her best friend, Anthony, asks her to trek to another town to figure out the truth about the blackout, Alex says yes. On a journey...
13) Total power
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Mitch Rapp novels volume 19
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"When Mitch Rapp captures ISIS's top technology expert, he reveals he was on his way to meet a man who claims to have the ability to bring down America's power grid. Rapp is determined to eliminate this shadowy figure, but the CIA's trap fails. The Agency is still trying to determine what went wrong when ISIS operatives help this cyber terrorist do what he said he could -- plunge the country into darkness. With no concept of how this unprecedented...
14) The alliance
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Series
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English
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When Leora Ebersole sees the small plane crash in her Old Order Mennonite community, she has no idea it's a foreshadowing of things to come. When the young pilot, Moses Hughes, regains consciousness, they realize his instruments were destroyed by the same power outage that killed the electricity at the community store, where Englischers are stranded with dead cell phones and cars that won't start. Moses offers a sobering theory, but no one can know...
15) Fight for power
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Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"In a world gone dark, life goes on for Adam and his fortified neighborhood--but the trade-offs made for safety and security are increasingly wrenching and questionable"--
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Series
Rule of three trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
Description
"A teen's suburban neighborhood bands together for its own survival in a world stricken by a catastrophic blackout"--
17) The big dark
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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What would you do if every spark of electricity suddenly vanished, as if somebody had flipped a switch on the entire planet? Cars won't start, the heat shuts off, there's no water in your faucet, and your radio, TV, and flashlight go dark. Everyone in Charlie's small town is baffled. But as time passes, lawlessness erupts and takes an ugly turn. When the market and pharmacy are torched by an anti-Semitic arsonist, Charlie realizes his mother will...
18) Zap!
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-olds Luis and Maura investigate the cause of a long-term, city-wide power outage in Hampton, New Jersey. Includes facts about electric power and instructions for assembling an emergency kit.
19) Will to survive
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
Description
"Here is the gripping conclusion to an acclaimed trilogy about one suburban neighborhood's existence after a global blackout. Teenager Adam Daley has killed again. It had to be done, part of him knows that, but murder changes a person. It can certainly change a kid who's already grown up too quickly, too harshly, in the wake of the catastrophic global shutdown four months ago. In the name of safety and survival, Adam and his neighbors have turned...
20) Fourth dimension
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Publisher
Penguin Teen, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers, a Penguin Random House Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
While preparing for a long weekend camping with her mother and brother, fifteen-year-old Emma becomes concerned when a series of power outages escalate to a massive blackout that halts travel and communication.
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