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1) Toys
Author
Language
English
Description
Animosity between the genetically engineered Elites and their human subjects is fierce, and many rebels fight back against Elite rule. Hays Baker is a high-ranking agent in the Elite forces and at the forefront of keeping the humans under control. However, Hays is unknowingly hiding a secret that will make him the greatest threat to the Elite regime, and their number one target.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Moscow has resurrected the mammoth. But someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out again. Dr. Damira Khismatullina, an expert in elephant behavior, was brutally murdered trying to defend the world's last elephants from the brutal ivory trade. Now, her digitized consciousness has been downloaded into the mind of a mammoth. As the herd's new matriarch, can Damira help fend off poachers long enough for the species to take...
3) Black dove
Author
Language
English
Description
"In a tall and narrow house, on a stained and busy street, live twelve-year-old Oliver and his father, a story-loving writer. Haunted by the ghost of his alcoholic mother, Oliver finds comfort in his father's impromptu tales: the Black Dove, an elusive flower that gives strength; the girl who consumes it as she battles attackers and yearns for happier realms. Stories where lonely souls keep searching despite their losses and grief. Running from a...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
I’m embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there in the open, right there in front of me, but it still took me so long to see the person I had married. It took me so long to hate him. Martine is a genetically cloned replica made from Evelyn Caldwell’s award-winning research. She’s patient and gentle and obedient. She’s everything Evelyn swore she’d never be. And she’s having an affair with Evelyn’s...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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2023 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 4 & 5
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Elementary
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Middle Grade
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Elementary
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Middle Grade
Description
In a near future where most adults are connected to the multiweb through neural implants, a twelve-year-old uncovers a corporate plot to genetically manipulate her classmates, and her scientist mother may be involved in the conspiracy.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Two Berkeley scientists explore the potential of a revolutionary genetics technology capable of easily and affordably manipulating DNA in human embryos to prevent specific diseases, addressing key concerns about related ethical and societal repercussions.
Author
Publisher
Current
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"How scientists are closer than ever to not only uncovering the mystery of how life was created, but to replicating that moment Within the first billion years after this planet formed, a spark of life spontaneously ignited, turning inanimate chemicals into what we now would recognize as a living thing: a cell. Four billion years later, science has catalogued more than a million species. Science writer Adam Rutherford shows how unprecedented advances...
8) Splintered
Author
Series
Spliced volume 2
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Jimi Corcoran continues her fight for survival and equality in a near-future world where teenagers have animal DNA spliced into their own"--
All Jimi wants is pick up the pieces of her life and move on. She never intended to uncover a conspiracy, or become a hero for chimera rights-- she just wanted to protect her best friend, Del. But now she's a public figure, and she can't quite shake the spotlight. . . or her suspicion that...
9) Double helix
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering.
10) Sever
Author
Series
Chemical Garden trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, teenaged Rhine finds hope for a brighter future from a surprising source.
12) Wake up missing
Author
Publisher
Walker Books for Toung Readers, an imprint of Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
After a concussion that effects her balance, memory, and other abilities, twelve-year-old Kat goes to I-Can, the "Miracle Clinic in the Swamp," where she joins forces with other patients to expose plot that endangers them all.
13) Adaptation
Author
Series
Adaptation (Malinda Lo) volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a series of plane crashes caused by birds, seventeen-year-old Reese and her debate-team partner, David, receive medical treatment at a secret government facility and become tangled in a conspiracy that is, according to Reese's friend, Julian, connected with aliens and UFOs.
14) Wither
Author
Series
Chemical Garden trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world.
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The author tells stories about medical breakthroughs. The stories are based on in-depth interviews with both patients who have benefited from the breakthroughs and the scientists who were responsible for them"--
"From mRNA vaccines to gene therapies, the next frontier of medical innovation is here. In Building Breakthroughs, Raju Prasad tells the story of important advancements in biotechnology and medical innovation from gene therapies to mRNA...
16) This mortal coil
Author
Series
Mortal coil series volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Catarina Agatta is a hacker. She can cripple mainframes and crash through firewalls, but that's not what makes her special. In Cat's world, people are implanted with technology to recode their DNA, allowing them to change their bodies in any way they want. And Cat happens to be a gene-hacking genius. That's no surprise, since Cat's father is Dr. Lachlan Agatta, a legendary geneticist who may be the last hope for defeating a plague that has brought...
Author
Series
AstroNuts volume 3
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
So far the AstroNuts have failed to find a suitable planet, but NNASA has come up with a new plan: send the the four animal astronauts back through time on Earth where they are to contact early homo sapiens and somehow set them on a path to a sustainable future--trouble is, humans seem inferior to many of the other species (especially the wolves), so the AstroNuts come up with a Survival of the Fittest Olympics, hoping that with a little help the...
18) Invasive
Author
Series
Zer0s volume 2
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
On the isolated Kolohe Atoll in the middle of the Pacific ocean, a charismatic billionaire employs a team of scientists to conduct cutting-edge research that he hopes will change the world. In a cabin on a remote lake in the Adirondacks, FBI futurist Hannah Stander finds a barely recognizable human body, which appears to have been skinned alive by thousands of genetically engineered ants. Hannah's investigation leads to Kolohe, where the scientists...
19) The nemesis
Author
Series
Diabolic trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Three years ago, Tyrus Domitrian shocked the galaxy by killing the woman he swore to love forever. The woman for whom he upended the Empire. The woman with whom he wanted to build a new and brighter future. Now, the once-idealistic heir apparent has become the cruel Emperor Tyrus, wielding his authority with an iron fist, capable of destroying planets with a single word, controlling all technology with a simple thought. He has bent the Grandiloquy...
20) The empress
Author
Series
Diabolic trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Nemesis, the Diabolic, and Tyrus face new challenges and old enemies as Tyrus ascends to the throne, and the two struggle to prove Nemesis' humanity to those who oppose her position as Empress and keep them from full power over the galaxy"--
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