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Author
Series
Maze runner trilogy volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Reveals how Thomas and WICKED built the Maze against the backdrop of an apocalyptic world.
The forests burned, the lakes and rivers dried up, and the oceans swelled. Then came a plague. Families died, violence reigned, and man killed man. Next came WICKED, who were looking for an answer. And then they found the perfect boy: Thomas, who built a maze. Now there are secrets. There are lies. And there are loyalties history could never have foreseen.
3) The living
Author
Series
The living volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
After an earthquake destroys California and a tsunami wrecks the luxury cruise ship where he is a summer employee, high schooler Shy confronts another deadly surprise.
Author
Series
Maze runner trilogy volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mark struggles to make sense of his new, post-disaster world in this prequel to The Maze Runner"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Life as we knew it volume 4
Publisher
Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Jon Evans is one of the lucky ones--until he realizes that escaping his safe haven may be the only way to truly survive"--
6) Promise
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Author
Series
Without warning volume 2
Publisher
Del Ray/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Traces the harrowing reconstruction of the United States after most of its population is killed by a natural disaster, an effort lead by President James Kipper and challenged by pirates, freebooters, and a rogue governor of Texas.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
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.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
While on vacation in Africa, an earthquake strikes leaving lawyer Emma Tupper stranded for six months, and when she finally returns home she finds that her boyfriend, friends, and family have given her up for dead and she must find a way to rebuild her life.
Author
Series
Life as we knew it volume 2
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After a meteor hits the moon and sets off a series of horrific climate changes, seventeen-year-old Alex Morales must take care of his sisters alone in the chaos of New York City.
12) Sky on fire
Author
Series
Monument 14 volume 2
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Originally trapped together, the survivors split into two groups, one group making a run on a school bus to the Denver airport hoping to reunite with their parents.
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"2040-2045: In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds. Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this perilous rescue work when, out of the blue, Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father and inventor of the original Stepper device, Willis Linsay. He tells her he is planning a fantastic voyage across the Long Mars and wants her...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Ryan Kelly spends plenty of time at The Bridge--the oldest bookstore in historic downtown Franklin, Tennessee--remembering the times he and Molly Allen--who moved to Portland--once spent there, and now, with the bookstore in deep financial trouble, it will take a miracle to keep tragedy from unfolding.
Author
Series
Imager portfolio volume 5
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Quaeryt's prestigious new rank and marriage to Vaelora are threatened by a devastating volcanic eruption in the old capital of Telaryn, where he is challenged to restore order in the face of chaos, corruption, and an invasion by a would-be conqueror.
16) Savage drift
Author
Series
Monument 14 volume 3
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The survivors of the Monument 14 have finally made it to the safety of a Canadian refugee camp, but Josie, separated from the group and trapped in a brutal prison camp for exposed Type Os, may lose hope unless her lost love Niko and his companions Astrid, Dean and Jake can rescue her.
Author
Publisher
Harperteen
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Milo's high school career has gone relatively smoothly, so he figures he's overdue for an Epic Teenage Disaster. He never thought that when Marcos returns to their Florida highschool for the first time since freshman year, resolving their feelings for each other will trigger actual natural disasters which could become an extintion-level event.
18) Aftershock
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, Amy and her estranged half sister, Mara, journey through the aftermath of a massive earthquake in search of their parents."--
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old Avery plans to end her life but changes her mind when she learns an asteroid is heading towards Earth, and with nine days left to live, long held secrets begin to come out and Avery finally begins to heal.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Newt has been to hell and back with his friends. The Glade. The Maze. The Scorch. The inner halls of WICKED. But now he has a burden that can't be shared with Thomas and the other, the Flare. And Newt can't bear the thought of his friends watching him descend into madness as he succumbs to the virus. Leaving only a note, Newt departs the Berg before the Gladers return from their mission into Denver, Colorado. From there, he experiences the gritty...
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