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1) Messenger
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
Author
Series
Ready player novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
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...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage comes a riveting novel about a group of survivors on a hidden island utopia-where the truth isn't what it seems. Founded by the mysterious genius known as the Designer, the archipelago of Prospera lies hidden from the horrors of a deteriorating outside world. In this island paradise, Prospera's lucky citizens enjoy long, fulfilling lives until the monitors embedded in their forearms, meant...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
On an island in whose strict society only useful objects are named and the unnamed are ignored or forbidden, thirteen-year-old Medford encounters an unusual and powerful creature, half-man, half-goat, and together they attempt to bring some changes to the community.
5) Fruitlands
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Fictional diary entries recount the true-life efforts of Louisa May Alcott's family to establish a utopian community known as Fruitlands in Massachusetts in 1843.
6) Seed
Author
Publisher
RP Teens
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Pearl has grown up in a cult community, all under the watchful eye of Papa S.
Seed is an isolated community under the watchful eye of Papa S. At fifteen, Pearl is finally old enough to be chosen as Papa S.'s companion. The arrival of a new family into the Seed community-- particularly the teenage son, Ellis-- only complicates the life and lifestyle that Pearl has depended upon as safe and constant. Ellis he seems to have a lot of...
Author
Series
Ready player novels volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
"A 1980s cultural assessment of the fantastical future of online behavior continues the story that began in the internationally best-selling futuristic novel, Ready Player One, that inspired a blockbuster Steven Spielberg film"--
Days after winning control of OASIS, the immersive virtual reality environment in which most of humanity chooses to live, Wade Watts discovers a world-changing technological advancement and draws the attention of a merciless...
Author
Series
Hainish series volume 1
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
Description
Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Urras, to challenge the comlex structures of life and living, and ignite the fires of change.
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Relates events in author Louisa May Alcott's tenth year, 1843, when her family moved from Boston to a farm where, along with an odd assortment of idealists, they try to establish a community based on equality and love.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"There's no such thing as the life you're "supposed" to have... You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened. In Tom Barren's 2016, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars, moving sidewalks, and moon bases, where avocados never go bad and punk rock never existed. because it wasn't necessary. Except Tom just can't seem to find his place in this dazzling, idealistic world, and that's before...
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