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1) Last light
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Birmingham, Alabama, has lost all power. Its streets are jammed with cars that won't start, its airport engulfed in flames from burning planes. All communications-cell phones, computers, even radios-are silent. Every home and business is dark. Is it a natural disaster . . . a terrorist attack . . . or something far worse? In the face of a crisis that sweeps an entire high-tech planet back to a time before electricity, the Branning family faces a choice....
2) Night light
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
As the power outage continues, the Brannings struggle to bring their neighborhood together into a functioning community where everyone helps each other make their homes ready for winter, and fight the crime that is running rampant among them.
4) The passage
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 50
Language
English
Description
A security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment that only six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte can stop.
5) Anathem
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Raz, a mathematician, is among a cohort of secluded scientists and philosophers who are called upon to save the world from impending catastrophe.
Author
Series
MaddAddam Trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
When a natural disaster predicted by God's Gardeners leader Adam One obliterates most human life, two survivors trapped inside respective establishments that metaphorically represent paradise and hell wonder if any of their loved ones have survived, while the outside world is overcome by gene-spliced life forms.
7) Nation
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a devastating tsunami destroys all that they have ever known, Mau, an island boy, and Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, together with a small band of refugees, set about rebuilding their community and all the things that are important in their lives.
Author
Language
English
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Description
On a warm May night in San Francisco, the Ritz-Carlton ballroom shimmers with crystal and silver as a glittering, celebrity-studded crowd gathers for a charity dinner dance. The evening is perfect–until, just minutes before midnight, the room begins to sway. Glass shatters. And as the lights go out, people begin to scream….
In the earthquake’s aftermath, the lives of four strangers will converge.… Sarah Sloane, the beautiful...
In the earthquake’s aftermath, the lives of four strangers will converge.… Sarah Sloane, the beautiful...
11) Tides of fire
Author
Series
Sigma Force novel volume 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
"To stop the world from burning, it's up to Sigma Force to uncover a secret buried at the heart of our planet. The Titan Project--an international research station off the coast of Australia--discovers a thriving zone of life in an otherwise dead sea. The area teems with a strange bioluminescent coral that defies science, yet holds great promise for the future. But the loss of a military submarine in the area triggers a brutal attack and sets in motion...
12) The road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity.
13) Ashes, ashes
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a future Manhattan devastated by environmental catastrophes and epidemics, sixteen-year-old Lucy survives alone until vicious hounds target her and force her to join Aidan and his band, but soon they learn that she is the target of Sweepers, who kidnap and infect people with plague.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When an earthquake creates a tsunami while thirteen-year-old Kyle is babysitting his sister during a family vacation at a Pacific Coast resort, he tries to save himself, his sister, and a boy who has bullied him for years.
15) Sky on Fire
Author
Series
Monument 14 volume 2
Publisher
Square Fish/Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A group of survivors, originally trapped together in a superstore by a series of escalating disasters, has split in two -- one group heading to Denver airport on a repaired school bus, the other remaining in the Sanctuary trying to rebuild the community they lost. But the world outside is dark and filled with dangerous chemicals that turn people into bloodthirsty monsters.
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Language
English
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Description
What began as a fairytale honeymoon in 1857 for John and Laura Foster aboard the steamship SS Vandervere becomes a nightmare when a hurricane causes their ship to sink into the murky depths of the Atlantic. Laura finds herself with the other women and children aboard a sailing ship while John and a hundred other men drift on the open sea on anything they could grab as the Vandervere went down. Suspecting her John is gone but still daring to hope for...
17) Emma's river
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1852, Emma, her pregnant mother and her pony board the steamboat Sally May to meet her father in St. Joseph, Missouri, but when the ship suddenly explodes in a fiery blaze, Emma and all onboard must fight for their survival in the icy waters of the Missouri River.
18) The forsaken
Author
Series
Survivor chronicles volume 3
Language
English
Description
New friendships will be forged, answers will be found, and lives will be lost as the survivors journey deeper into unfamiliar and treacherous areas. With new dangers arising every day, they find themselves face with only one conclusion; sometimes the end of everything they know is just the beginning of something more.
19) The long Mars
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocations as populations flee Datum Earth to myraid Long Earth worlds. Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father and inventor of the original Stepper device, Willis Linsay. He tells her he is planning a fantastice voyage across the Long Mars and wants her to accompany him. U.S. Navy Commander Maggie Kauffman has embarked on an incredible journey of her own,...
20) The divide
Author
Series
Survivor chronicles volume 2
Language
English
Description
In less than a day everything they've ever known has vanished and the world is in chaos. Uncertain where to turn and who to trust in this strange new world, they must band together in an attempt to survive. However, they slowly begin to realize it's not only the crumbling Earth, and treacherous people around them that are a threat, but also something unseen and even more lethal.
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