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81) Control
Author
Publisher
Dial Books/Penguin
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In 2150, when genetic manipulation has been outlawed, seventeen-year-old Zelia must rescue her kidnapped sister with the help of a band of outcasts with mutated genes.
Author
Publisher
Tor/Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Matrix meets an Afro-futuristic retelling of Persephone set in a science fiction underworld of aliens, refugees, and genetic engineering in Jennifer Marie Brissett's Destroyer of Light. Having destroyed Earth, the alien conquerors resettle the remains of humanity on the planet of Eleusis. In the three habitable areas of the planet--Day, Dusk, and Night--the haves and have nots, criminals and dissidents, and former alien conquerors irrevocably...
Author
Series
Mercenary librarians volume 1
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Nina is an information broker with a mission--she and her team of mercenary librarians use their knowledge to save the hopeless in a crumbling America. Knox is the bitter, battle-weary captain of the Silver Devils. His squad of supersoldiers went AWOL to avoid slaughtering innocents, and now he's fighting to survive. They're on a deadly collision course, and the passion that flares between them only makes it more dangerous. They could burn down the...
85) Star split
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 3038, thirteen-year-old Darci uncovers an underground movement to save the human race from genetic enhancement technology.
86) Imago
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Since a nuclear war decimated the human population, the remaining humans began to rebuild their future by interbreeding with an alien race -- the Oankali -- who saved them from near-certain extinction. The Oankalis' greatest skill lies in the species' ability to constantly adapt and evolve, a process that is guided by their third sex, the ooloi, who are able to read and mutate genetic code. Now, for the first time in the humans' relationship with...
87) Un mundo feliz
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
Clásico imponente de la sátira distópica, BRAVE NEW WORLD es una visión brillante y aterradora de una sociedad sin alma y de un hombre que descubre los costos humanos de la conformidad sin sentido. Cientos de años en el futuro, los Controladores del Mundo han creado una civilización ideal. Sus miembros, moldeados por la ingeniería genética y el condicionamiento conductual, son productivos y están contentos con los roles que se les han asignado...
88) The trials
Author
Series
Project paper doll volume 3
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Ariane Tucker has finally escaped GTX, the research facility that created her from human and extraterrestrial DNA. But life on the run is complicated"--
Author
Series
Neptune Project volume 2
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Nere and her friends, all genetically engineered to survive in the ocean, go on a rescue mission"--
90) Dark inheritance
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Tor Dot Com
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In a long-ago war, the all-powerful A.I. ruler of the Voluntary State of Tennessee--Athena Parthenus, Queen of Reason--invaded and decimated the American Southeast. Possessing the ability to infect and corrupt the surrounding environment with nanotechnology, she transformed flora, fauna, and the very ground itself into bio-mechanical weapons of war. Marcia, a former captain from Kentucky, experienced first-hand the terrifying, mind-twisting capabilities...
Author
Publisher
Tor.com
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Gene-edited human clans have scattered throughout the galaxy, adapting themselves to environments as severe as the desert and the sea. Atuale, the daughter of a Sea-Clan lord, sparked a war by choosing her land-dwelling love and rejecting her place among her people. Now her husband and his clan are dying of a virulent plague, and Atuale's sole hope for finding a cure is to travel off-planet. The one person she can turn to for help is the black-market...
Author
Series
Assassin bug thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
All Bob Dillon ever wanted was a truck with a big fiberglass bug on the roof. All he had to do was survive half a dozen assassination attempts, pull a $10 million con on a Bolivian drug lord, and then fall off the face of the earth with his family and his new best friend, Klaus. Six years later, they surface in Oregon where they continue Bob's work creating an all-natural means of pest control.
94) Brave new girl
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In a world where everyone is the same, Trigger 17 convinces Dahlia 16 that she is unique but this proves that both are flawed, which could lead to dire consequences for their entire genomes.
95) Tool of war
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In a future beset with rising seas, corporate government, and constant civil war, a bioengineered half-man/half-beast super-soldier who calls himself Tool breaks his conditioning to overcome his genetically enhanced sense of loyalty to the corporation that created him and seeks revenge against his old masters.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Jimmy Coates is in France with friends and family, hiding from NJ7, the British secret intelligence agency that designed and programmed him, when he learns that there is another genetically-programmed assassin--a new enemy whose mission is to return Jimmy to London.
Author
Publisher
Doppelhouse Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The world as we know it is over. Man's reign on earth has come to an end, and the reign of the animals has begun. The indifferently wise Cyrus Golden the Lion rules the three-city state that is now what remains of Europe. Yet, other forces stir while the king of beasts sleeps--the last struggling human resistance, the Atlanteans with their mysterious undersea plans; the factions of Badger, Fox and Lynx within the empire itself; and, in the jungles...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a dark future America that has devolved into unending civil wars, orphans Mahlia and Mouse barely escape the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities, but their fragile safety is soon threatened and Mahlia will have to risk everything if she is to save Mouse, as he once saved her.
99) Horizon
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Determined to stop the maniacal Karl Strand's war, Aluna and Hoku plan to pose as Upgraders and infiltrate the army but find not everything is as it seems and the friends are pulled apart by conflicting alliances.
100) Mirage
Author
Series
Above World volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The desert is no place for ocean-dwelling Kampii like Aluna and Hoku, especially now that Aluna has secretly started growing her tail.