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Author
Series
Mortality doctrine volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Michael and his friends, Sarah and Bryson, must stop the Mortality Doctrine and those behind it now as the fate of humanity is in the balance"--
Author
Series
Mortality doctrine volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Michael is a skilled internet gamer in a world of advanced technology. When a cyber-terrorist begins to threaten players, Michael is called upon to seek him and his secrets out.
Author
Series
Mortality doctrine volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Michael and his friends, Sarah and Bryson, are still being chased by a cyber-terrorist. And now the government is after them, too"--
4) Insignia
Author
Series
Insignia trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tom, a fourteen-year-old genius at virtual reality games, is recruited by the United States Military to begin training at the Pentagon Spire as a Combatant in World War III, controlling the mechanized drones that do the actual fighting off-planet.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
"Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people (or at least they can meet their avatars), and for protagonist Wade Watts it certainly beats passing the time in his grim, poverty-stricken real life. Along with millions of...
6) Catalyst
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tom Raines and his friends return to the Spire for their third year as superhuman government weapons, but the rules have been changed and Tom's training is put to the test.
7) Vortex
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
"While serving as a superhuman government weapon during World War III, teenager Tom Raine's loyalties are tested by corruption and nefarious enemies"--
9) Dragon ring
Author
Publisher
Flying Pen Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"Nadine is a special young woman. She is the daughter of the man who transformed the small nation of Guatemala into the world's largest and most powerful corporation. Nadine is an expert at virtual-reality applications, and when she goes undercover to find her father's killers, she discovers a power within the Earth that can transform civilization - or destroy entire cities. She must face the juggernaut of corporate greed and secrecy to stop an experiment...
10) Girl gone viral
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"The inventive and hauntingly timely story of a seventeen-year-old coder's catapult to stardom, reminiscent of The Social Network with a Ready Player One twist. For seventeen-year-old Opal Hopper, code is magic. She can build entire worlds from scratch -- shimmering lakes, Mars craters, any virtual experience her heart desires. But she can't code her dad back into her life. When he disappeared after her tenth birthday, leaving only a cryptic note,...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
These are the first words Kiva's best friend Seth says, after three years of silence. Kiva thought she was growing up in ancient Alexandria. That's what she and all her classmates had been led to believe by their parents. It turns out she was living in virtual reality, in a sleep chamber in deep space, and three years ago, Seth woke up. Now it's her turn to join him. Together, Kiva and Seth must take an escape shuttle to search for the engine part...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"John Chu is a "sherpa"--a paid guide to online role-playing games like the popular Call to Wizardry. For a fee, he and his crew will provide you with a top-flight character equipped with the best weapons and armor, and take you dragon-slaying in the Realms of Asgarth, hunting rogue starships in the Alpha Sector, or battling hordes of undead in the zombie apocalypse" --
John Chu is a "sherpa"-- a paid guide to online role-playing games like Call...
13) Otherworld
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"After the newest set of virtual reality gear hits the market, Simon can't wait to test it out. But, when his friend Katherine suddenly disappears after being seen with men from the same gaming company, Simon must decide how far in the game he's willing to go to save her"--
Author
Publisher
Tachyon
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Eliza McKay is an Extractionist: an expert in the virtual reality space where people's minds are uploaded as digital personas. When rich or important people get stuck in the Swim for reasons that are sleazy, illegal, or merely unlucky--it's McKay's job to quietly extract them. And McKay's job just got a lot more dangerous. After McKay repels an attack on her Swim persona, hired thugs break into her house to try to hack her cybernetic implants directly....
15) The reality bug
Author
Series
Pendragon series volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In his pursuit of the evil Saint Dane, Bobby finds himself on the planet Veelox, whose inhabitants have retired to their own dream worlds.
Series
In the land of Leadale volume 1
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When Keina Kagami s life support accidentally gets cut off, she suddenly finds herself in the body of the high elf Cayna, her avatar in the VRMMORPG known as Leadale. But two hundred years seem to have passed from when she last logged in, and as she seizes this second chance at life in a world both familiar and strange, she ll have to figure out for herself just how much has changed in all that time&"-- provided by publisher.
17) Stealing worlds
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Sura Neelin is on the run from her creditors, from her past, and her father's murderers. She can't get a job, she can't get a place to live, she can't even walk down the street: the total surveillance society that is mid-21st century America means that every camera and every pair of smart glasses is her enemy. But Sura might have a chance in the alternate reality of the games. People can disappear in the LARP game worlds, into the alternate economy...
18) Strange exit
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Lake seeks the secret heart of the computer simulation that safeguards passengers aboard a ship orbiting a post-apocalyptic Earth, on a quest that will either save or destroy them all.
Author
Series
Under the never sky trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"In their effort to reach the fabled Still Blue, Aria and Perry will have to rescue Cinder, defeat Sable and Hess, and unite the Dwellers and the Outsiders once and for all"--
Author
Series
Demi-Monde volume 2
Publisher
Jo Fletcher Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The Demi-Monde is a high realism computer simulation, designed to train the military for operations in places like Iraq and Afghanistan without the risk of real life death. The simulation is peppered with computer recreated psychopaths, providing a mix of racial, sexual and religious intolerances and perpetual internecine strife. Ella Thomas was sent into this veritable virtual Cyber Hell on Earth to rescue Norma Williams, the President's daughter,...
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