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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"June and Day have sacrificed so much for the people of the Republic--and each other--and now their country is on the brink of a new existence. Just when a peace treaty is imminent, a plague outbreak causes panic in the Colonies, and war threatens the Republic's border cities"--
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Sigma Force novels volume 4
Language
English
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An elite scientific military force must combat a plague beyond any cure—a scourge that turns all of nature against mankind in this nail-biting new thriller from James Rollins, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sigma Force series.
From the depths of the Indian Ocean, a horrific plague has arisen to devastate humankind – unknown, unstoppable...and merely a harbinger of the doom that is to follow.
Operatives
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Eighteen-year-old Anna Frith tells the story of her remote English village, Eyam, which was infected by the plague in 1666 and where, persuaded by their vicar, the townspeople decided to quarantine themselves.
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Underland chronicles volume 3
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Gregor and his younger sister, Boots, return to the Underland beneath New York City to find the cure for a terrible plague that threatens the life of their mother, as well as the lives of the people, bats, and rats who populate the Underland.
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Joe Rush thrillers volume 2
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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"When authorities in Alaska receive a disturbing call from a teenage girl, their investigation leads them to discover an entire family of researchers dead. Joe Rush is called to help examine the bodies. On the surface, it looks like a brutal murder/suicide. But the situation is nowhere near that simple--nor is it over. Upon closer investigation, Rush discovers the terrifying truth. The research team has fallen victim to something that seems impossible...
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Publisher
Perennial/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st Perennial ed.
Language
English
Description
The Black Death was the fourteenth century's equivalent of a nuclear war. It wiped out one-third of Europe's population, takingmillion lives. And yet, most of what we know about it is wrong. The details of the Plague etched in the minds of terrified schoolchildren - the hideous black welts, the high fever, and the awful end by respiratory failure - are more or less accurate. But what the Plague really was and how it made history remain shrouded in...
7) The plague
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Chaos prevails when the bubonic plague strikes the Algerian coastal city of Oran. A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature.
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Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Traces the efforts of doctors to halt the spread of the plague during the 1900 outbreak in San Francisco, discussing how political leaders tried to keep the epidemic from being publicized and the scientists working to unlock the secrets of the disease.
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Constellation trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Abel, an advanced cyborg, goes to a hidden planet to rescue teenaged soldier Noemi, but they find themselves fighting against Abel's deranged creator who is plotting to destroy Noemi's world by using service robots to release a plague.
10) The Black Death
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Series
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
An illustrated introduction that describes the history of the Black Death pandemic in the 1300s, and discusses the causes, spread, symptoms observed, treatment techniques, and the outcome of the devastation.
11) Chasing secrets
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lizzie and her secret friend Noah, who is hiding in her house, plan to rescue Noah's father from the quarantined Chinatown, and save everyone they love from contracting the plague that is spreading in 1900 San Francisco.
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Give the dark my love volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, seventeen-year-old alchemy student Nedra turns to dark magic when a deadly plague sweeps through her homeland leaving her new friend, Grey, to pull her from the darkness.
Nedra Brysstain left the rural, northern territories of Lunar Island to attend the prestigious Yugen Academy with only one goal in mind: learn the trade of medicinal alchemy. She's a scholarship student matriculating with the children of Lunar Island's wealthiest...
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Series
Gone novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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A deadly, flu-like epidemic and a plague of flesh-eating creatures threaten the lives of the children at Perdido Beach while Sam, Astrid, Caine, and Diana each struggle with doubts and uncertainties.
15) The Black Death
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Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Describes the 1347-1351 outbreak of plague in Europe, known as the Black Death, which killed one out of three people and changed the course of European history.
16) Breach
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Fleeing a devastating plague on Earth, an interstellar ark comes under attack from a shape-shifting alien force intent on slaughtering what's left of humanity.
17) This mortal coil
Author
Series
Mortal coil series volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"In a world where people are implanted with technology to recode their DNA, gene-hacking genius Cat must decrypt her late father's message concealing a vaccine to a horrifying plague"--
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
14th century Crusaders returns to a homeland devastated by the Black Plague. A beleaguered church, deeming sorcery the culprit of the plague, commands two knights to transport an accused witch to a remote abbey, where monks will perform a ritual in hopes of ending the pestilence.
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"A sweeping look at how the major transformations in history--from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism--have been shaped not by humans but by germs. According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their brains and brawn, collectively bending the arc of history. But in this revelatory book, professor Jonathan Kennedy argues that the myth of human exceptionalism overstates the role that we play in social...
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