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1) Brainwashed!
Author
Series
Disaster diaries volume 3
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"A new evil genius has arisen, planning world domination with his homemade brainwashing device! Are Sam, Arty and Emmie brave enough to save the day?"--
2) Spaceheadz
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
On his first day at Brooklyn's P.S. 858, fifth-grader Michael K. is teamed with two very strange students, and while he gradually comes to believe they are aliens who need his help, he has trouble convincing anyone else of the truth.
Author
Series
Greystone secrets volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told from separate viewpoints, as evil forces from the parallel world invade their home, the Greystones, their doubles, and friends must return to the alternate dimension to save both worlds.
4) Any second
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped, abused, and brainwashed for five years, Elian is stopped in his mission to bomb a mall by Maya, who has crippling anxiety, and neither one will ever be the same again.--
5) Cult classic
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author and Thurber Prize finalist Sloane Crosley, Cult Classic is a twisted mystery on the metaphysics of modern love, memory, and mind control in the city"--
One night in New York City's Chinatown, a woman is at a work reunion dinner with former colleagues when she excuses herself to buy a pack of cigarettes. On her way back, she runs into a former boyfriend. And then another. And . . . another. Nothing is quite...
6) Daddy Love
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Publishers Group West
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Kidnapping a latest victim in a string of young boys he tortures and rapes, a self-styled preacher confines the child in a small box and gradually brainwashes him over subsequent years into believing that they are father and son, while the boy's mother, who was savagely injured during the abduction, clings to hope that her son is alive.
7) The Program
Author
Series
The Program. Main series volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When suicide becomes a worldwide epidemic, the only known cure is The Program, a treatment in which painful memories are erased, a fate worse than death to seventeen-year-old Sloane who knows that The Program will steal memories of her dead brother and boyfriend.
Author
Series
Elixir fixers volume 4
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Sasha's father sells magic potions. There's only one problem-- his potions don't work. Sasha knows they don't work-- they can't work! Magic isn't real! But everyone in town buys Papa's potions, so Sasha has to take magic into her own hands. When greedy Vadim Gentry asks for a potion of persuasion, Sasha is suspicious. But it's not until he slips it into Papa's tea and orders him to sell the shop that Sasha sees the problem: If Papa says no, everyone...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
With a mysterious new principal and fifth-grade graduation fast approaching, will Michael K. and his friends be able to find the missing Brainwave before the chief of the Anti-Alien Agency uses it to destroy a planet?
10) Bluebird
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 1946 Eva arrives in New York City, from the rubble of Berlin, supposedly looking for a new life, but actually seeking justice against the Nazis that "escaped" with the help of the CIA; one in particular, the doctor who knows who Eva really is, because her identity is the product Project Bluebird, an experiment of the concentration camps involving brainwashing and mind control, which both the Americans and the Soviets would like access to--and Eva...
11) Unleashed
Author
Series
Jinxed (McCulloch) volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Armed with their companioneering and coding skills and accompanied by their loyal bakus, Lacey Chu and her friends attempt a rescue mission deep in the heart of a sinister transnational tech corporation.
12) Dotwav
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Hacker Ani Lee is researching a strange .wav file, while Joe Dyson, an operative working for a secret teen division of British Inteligence, is looking into the disappearance of a friend caught up in the underground music scene. Their investigations intertwine.
13) Godslayers
Author
Series
Gearbreakers volume 2
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Eris and Sona are pitted against each other in the ongoing war between Godolia and the Badlands"--
Author
Publisher
RP Kids
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A quirky, radio-drama inspired middle grade novel [inspired by] WHYY children's podcast Eleanor Amplified, following a tenacious investigative reporter on her latest adventure to get the whole story and save Union City from evil"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Spy penguins volume 2
Publisher
Feiwel and friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Jackson, code-named Secret Agent 00Zero, and his inventor-friend, Quigley, both penguins, must prove Uncle Bryn is innocent of robbery before the Frosty Bureau of Investigation locks him away forever.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Father is a prophet. Infallible. The Chosen One. Seventeen-year-old Piper will do anything for Father... until the day the government raids the compound and separates her from her siblings, from all of Father's followers-- even Caspian, the boy she loves. Desperate to escape deprogramming after being rescued from the cult, Piper wants to rejoin her family. She's living with a woman They claim is her real mother-- and Piper plans to escape. -- adapted...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In his stories, Saunders explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. Wickedly funny, unsentimental, and perfectly tuned, the stories challenge and surprise as they encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality. -- adapted from back cover
"The 'best short story writer in English' (Time) is back with a masterful collection...
18) The complication
Author
Series
The Program. Main series volume 4
Publisher
Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Tatum Masterson has no memory of being in The Program, but when she starts experiencing crashbacks she knows something terrible happened last summer, and with help of the boyfriend she lost, Tatum digs into the past and future of The Program and its handlers, and discovers the true cost of a cure.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Disrupt and push back against capitalism and white supremacy. In this book, Tricia Hersey, aka The Nap Bishop, encourages us to connect to the liberating power of rest, daydreaming, and naps as a foundation for healing and justice. What would it be like to live in a well-rested world? Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitalism, we subject our bodies and minds to work at an unrealistic, damaging,...
Author
Series
Captain Underpants volume 12
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
George and Harold, and their doubles, Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold, have a good thing going. Two of them go to school, while the other two hide in the tree house and play video games all day-then they switch! But when their malicious gym teacher, Mr Meaner, creates a method of mind control that turns their fellow students into attentive, obedient, perfect children, the future of all humanity will be in their hands!
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