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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
A researcher at a pharmaceutical company, Marina Singh journeys into the heart of the Amazonian delta to check on a field team that has been silent for two years--a dangerous assignment that forces Marina to confront the ghosts of her past.
2) The stand
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 72
Language
English
Description
A monumentally devastating plague leaves only a few survivors who, while experiencing dreams of a battle between good and evil, move toward an actual confrontation as they migrate to Boulder, Colorado.
3) Lab Girl
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
An illuminating debut memoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a longtime friendship; and a stunningly fresh look at plants that will forever change how you see the natural world.
4) Partials
Author
Series
Partials sequence volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
In a post-apocalyptic eastern seaboard ravaged by disease and war with a manmade race of people called Partials, the chance at a future rests in the hands of Kira Walker, a sixteen-year-old medic in training.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe she was abandoned, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice?s old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries will provide a clue to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
The compelling story of U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack, a man born out of time. When his experimental aircraft is forced down in Russia and he escapes a Soviet prison camp, he must call upon the ancient skills of his Indian forebears to survive the vast Siberian wilderness. Only one route lies open to Mack: the path of his ancestors, overland to the Bering Strait and across the sea to America. But in pursuit is a legendary tracker, the Yakut native...
7) Gravity
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
An single-celled organism that is harmless on Earth terrorizes a research station in space.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In a novel that reaffirms her reputation as "America's Queen of Suspense," Mary Higgins Clark delivers a gripping tale of deception and tantalizing suspense. Nicholas Spencer, charismatic head of the medical research company Gen-stone, involved in the development of an anticancer vaccine, suddenly disappears. His private plane crashes en route to Puerto Rico, but his body is not found. Early results of the vaccine seemed highly promising. Yet, coinciding...
Author
Series
Helen Bradley mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Helen Bradley is a journalist who uses both spiritual strength and investigative skills to uncover the facts for her articles. Now she has received an urgent request for help. Dr. Kincaid, the director of a prestigious convalescent home, is dead from an apparent heart attack. His widow, however, is convinced that he was murdered. What secrets are lurking behind the polished doors of this medical facility? And who would kill to protect them? Helen's...
10) Simple genius
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"A three-hour drive from Washington, D.C., two clandestine institutions face each other across a heavily guarded river. One is the world's most unusual laboratory, whose goals and funding are a mystery. The other is an elite CIA training camp shrouded in secrecy. Now a man and a woman are about to run a gauntlet between these two puzzle factories, straight into a furious struggle to exploit a potentially world-shattering discovery -- and keep some...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...
12) Seize the night
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
Children in Moonlight Bay, California, are missing and Christopher Snow believes they are still alive and that their disappearances have something to do with clandestine scientific experiments at a nearby abandoned military base.
13) Fear nothing
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
While investigating the death of his mother who was a scientist, Chris Snow discovers she was engaged in secret experiments on a nearby military base, experiments which went wrong and which produced monsters. The next he knows, the monsters come visiting and they are not friendly
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Logan, the adopted daughter of reality television ghosthunters, teams up with Ashley to search for missing teens in Snakebite, Oregon, they find themselves falling for each other as they uncover a hidden evil.
Snakebite, Oregon. The Dark has been waiting for far too long, and it won't stay hidden any longer. Teenagers are disappearing, some turning up dead. All fingers seem to point to TV's most popular ghost hunters who have just returned to...
Author
Series
Dark biology volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventure volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
A hundred and forty years after a British ship wrecks on the way to an Australian penal colony and the survivors discover diamonds on the tropical island where they wash up, Maeve Fletcher, one of their descendants, is stranded on an island in Antarctica with a party of passengers after their cruise ship seemingly abandons them. Dirk Pitt, on an expedition to find the source of a deadly plague that is killing dolphins and seals in the Weddell Sea,...
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