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A riveting novel about electricity, skateboarding, blindness, friendship, and the hope for something new. In Portland, Oregon, three high school friends—Leon, Chris, and Kayla—skateboard beneath the Burnside Bridge, study languages and classical music, and try to avoid the superficiality they witness in the world around them. The only adult they suspect might hold secrets worth knowing is Natalie—a strange, forgetful woman who hires them
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Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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"In the underground city of Caverna the world's most skilled craftsmen toil in the darkness to create delicacies beyond compare - wines that can remove memories, cheeses that can make you hallucinate and perfumes that convince you to trust the wearer, even as they slit your throat. The people of Caverna are more ordinary, but for one thing: their faces are as blank as untouched snow. Expressions must be learned, and only the famous Facesmiths can...
3) Neverwhere
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"Richard Mayhew is a young London businessman with a good heart whose life is changed forever when he stops to help a bleeding girl--an act of kindness that plunges him into a world he never dreamed existed. Slipping through the cracks of reality, Richard lands in Neverwhere--a London of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth. Neverwhere is home to Door, the mysterious girl...
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"Wool introduced the world of the Silo. Shift told the story of its creation. Dust will describe its downfall. Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18, doesn't trust Silo 1, especially its leader, Donald. But in the world of the Silos, there is no black and white -- everything is shades of gray. Donald may not be the monster Juliette thinks he is, and may in fact be key to humanity's continued survival. But can they work together long enough to succeed?"--...
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W.W. Norton & Company
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English
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"In Underland, Macfarlane delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. He takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through 'deep time'--the dizzying expanses of geologic time that stretch away from the present--he moves from the birth of the universe...
6) Wool
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Silo series volume 1
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English
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In a ruined and toxic landscape, within a giant underground silo hundreds of stories deep, lives a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Then Sheriff Holston, who has unwaveringly upheld the silo's rules for years, breaks the greatest taboo of all: He asks to go outside. His decision unleashes a drastic series of events. His unlikely replacement - Juliette, a mechanic with no training in law, is about to learn how badly...
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Books of Ember volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions
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Books of Ember volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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When a roamer trades them an ancient book with only a few pages remaining, Lina and Doon return to Ember to seek the machine the book seems to describe in hopes that it will get their new community, Sparks, through the winter
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2013
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English
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In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platform that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event. At almost the same...
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Imagine a world without suffering, hunger, or inequality-- one in which every person has a job and a purpose. Twenty-four-year-old Natasha Wiley is among the youngest generation of citizens living in America-5, a high-tech, underground utopia where everyone lifes in peace and every conceivable need is provided for. America-Five is one of many settlements established after a global catastrophe known as the Storm radically altered the course of the...
12) Long past dues
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Unorthodox chronicles volume 2
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English
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"Grimsby, the newest Auditor in the magical Department of Unorthodox Affairs, finds himself in hot water when he intercepts a friend's case in this fast-paced and thrilling urban fantasy. Against all odds, Grimshaw Griswald Grimsby has become an Auditor, enforcing laws about magic for Boston's Department of Unorthodox Affairs. But Grimsby soon realizes the daily grind of his job is far removed from the glamour he imagined. Overlooked for every exciting...
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2020.
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English
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"Beneath the cover of France's most exquisite vineyards, a city of women defy an army during World War I.... Deep within the labyrinth of caves that lies below the lush, rolling vineyards of the Champagne region, an underground city of women and children hums with life. Forced to take shelter from the unrelenting onslaught of German shellfire above, the bravest and most defiant women venture out to pluck sweet grapes for the harvest. But wine is not...
15) Tunnels
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Tunnels volume 1
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Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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When Will Burrows and his friend Chester embark on a quest to find Will's archaeologist father, who has inexplicably disappeared, they are led to a labyrinthine world underneath London, full of sinister inhabitants with evil intentions toward "Topsoilers" like Will and his father
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Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2004
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English
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In the future, most of humanity lives in massive underground bunkers, producing weapons for the nuclear war they've fled. Constantly bombarded by patriotic propaganda, the citizens of these industrial anthills believe they are waiting for the day when the war will be over and they can return aboveground. But when Nick St. James, president of one anthill, makes an unauthorized trip to the surface, what he finds is more shocking than anything he could...
17) Freefall
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Tunnels volume 3
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Chicken House/Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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As fourteen-year-old archaeologist Will and his friends plummet down a subterranean pore, they face deadly creatures and discover a strange fungal shelf, which not only reveals artifacts from ancient civilizations, but clues to a lost land at the end of the Earth.
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Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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A visual and anecdotal exploration of the curious worlds hidden beneath our feet, including ancient cities, salt mine cathedrals, underground amusement parks, and more. From bone-filled catacombs to sculpted salt churches to hand-carved cave complexes large enough to house 20,000 people, Underground Worlds is packed with more than 50 unusual destinations that take some digging to find. Award-winning travel writer David Farley revels in the unexpected,...
19) The great stink
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Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2005
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English
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Returning home from the battlefields of 1855 Crimea, William May struggles to recover from his experiences by working on London's new sewer system, a job that is compromised by a murder accusation that strains his tenuous hold on sanity
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Questar
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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If you've got a secret--or something valuable to hide--there's no better way to conceal it than going underground. Dig deep and discover a priceless hoard of Saxon gold, the hiding place for Nazi loot, the possible hiding place for the holy grail, an underground city, secret war tunnels, and the remarkable top secret alternative home for the US government in case of nuclear attack.
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