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1) Animal farm
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A political satire in which the animals take over running the farm, but find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In a future totalitarian state where books are banned and destroyed by the government, Guy Montag, a fireman in charge of burning books, meets a revolutionary schoolteacher who dares to read and a girl who tells him of a past when people did not live in fear.
3) The fire
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Whit and Wisty Allgood have led the resistance against the regime that executed their parents, but even the growing strength of the siblings' magic has not been able to stop the dictator, and they must somehow prepare for a showdown.
Author
Publisher
Encounter Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"Some years ago, the author, Jay Nordlinger, was in Albania. He was there to give a talk under State Department auspices. Albania was about ten years beyond the collapse of Communism. For almost 40 years, the country had been ruled by one of the most brutal dictators in history: Enver Hoxha. Nordlinger wondered whether this dictator had had children. He had indeed: three of them. And they were still in Albania, with their 3 million fellow citizens....
5) The kiss
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"For the first time in their lives, Wisty and Whit Allgood find themselves at odds as Wisty is drawn to a mysterious and magical stranger named Heath"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, inhabited by genetically modified citizens and an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged
...Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A twisted tale of unintended consequences unfolds! History abounds with examples of government officials making decisions, well-intentioned or otherwise, that harm others. Unfortunately, these unintended consequences are never anticipated, and rarely considered once they occur. As the Tuttle twins find in their latest adventure, central planning can ruin people's lives. Nobel prize-winning economist F.A. Hayek's famous book The Road to Serfdom comes...
Author
Series
Iron codex volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
In an alternate 1950s, mechanically gifted fifteen-year-old Aoife Grayson, whose family has a history of going mad at sixteen, must leave the totalitarian city of Lovecraft and venture into the world of magic to solve the mystery of her brother's disappearance and the mysteries surrounding her father and the Land of Thorn.
9) The Lost
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Detective Tom Moon and his multi-talented team face off against an international crime ring looking to seize control of America's most vibrant city, Miami. The city of Miami is Detective Tom Moon's backyard. He's always kept it local, attending University of Miami on a football scholarship, and, as a Miami PD officer, protecting the city's most vulnerable. Now, as the new leader of an FBI task force called Operation Guardian, it's his mission to combat...
10) Rebel Seoul
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In 2199 in the Neo State of Korea, eighteen-year-old Jaewon is partnered with supersoldier Tera, but their evolving love is threatened when Jaewon must choose among conflicting loyalties--to the totalitarian government that promises to end all war, the nationalist rebels his father followed, or the crime syndicate staging a coup.
2199, the Neo State of Korea, after the Great War. Jaewon is rising in the Academy ranks when he is partnered with supersoldier...
Author
Series
Iron codex volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Aoife Grayson continues to discover hidden secrets about herself as she journeys to find the Nightmare Clock, fix the gates she's broken, and save her missing mother"--
Author
Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
©1997
Language
English
Description
Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology-terms often bandied about but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti's trademark.
Parenti shows how "rational fascism" renders service to capitalism, how corporate power undermines democracy, and how revolutions are a mass empowerment against the forces of exploitative privilege....
13) V for vendetta
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Rebellion brews in a fictitious 1990's post-war London.
14) The prince
Author
Series
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
THE PRINCE (Italian: Il Principe) is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (About Principalities). However, the printed version was not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death. This was done with the permission of the Medici pope Clement VII, but "long before...
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