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21) Lo & behold
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 420L
Language
English
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"When you’re named after a 250-year-old tortoise, you grow up believing life is full of possibilities and wonder. But ever since Addie’s family got turned upside down, those things have been harder for her to see. The last thing Addie wants to do is make a new friend, but when her dad’s summer job takes them across the country, she meets Mateo and finds herself caught up in an exciting project. With the help of a virtual reality headset, she’s...
22) Renegade rule
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Series
Language
English
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"The Manhattan Mist have beaten the odds to land themselves in the national championships for Renegade Rule, one of the hottest virtual reality games in existence. But they're in for competition fiercer than they ever imagined, and one team member's entire future could be at stake. Four queer female friends will have to play harder than ever against self-doubt, infighting, romantic distraction, and a slew of other world-class teams if they hope to...
23) Snow crash
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Language
English
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Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's Cosa Nostra Inc., but in the Metaverse he's a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that's striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about infocalypse.
24) Bunny call
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
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Description
When left in darkness, rage festers. Years of frustration with his family culminate in a loathsome vacation for Bob, who plots a sinister prank to frighten his wife and kids. Matt redirects the residual anger over his many failed relationships into a video game, and ends up birthing the horrible consequences. In room 1280 of Heracles Hospital, something evil is keeping a man alive, a man with gruesome burns all over his body and an iron will to live....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday's vaults, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the OASIS 1,000 times more wondrous - and addictive - than even Wade dreamed possible. With it comes a new riddle, and a new quest - a last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize....
26) Aristoi
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Language
English
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Written with care, intelligence, and grace, [Aristoi] depicts a future society based on highly developed computers and biological engineering, the key skills of which are controlled by an elite known as the Aristoi. This world is depicted meticulously and vividly, and so is the near war of all against all that is unleashed when one of the Aristoi falls prey to the corruption of power. A fine, thoughtful work, highly recommended; Williams seems to...
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Series
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English
Description
"Every great city has a soul. Some are ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York? She's got six. When a young man crosses the bridge into New York City, something changes. He doesn't remember who he is, where he's from, or even his own name. But he can feel the pulse of the city, can see its history, can access its magic. And he's not the only one. All across the boroughs, strange things are happening. Something...
28) Vurt
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c1995
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Language
English
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"In modern day Los Angeles, a shadowy faction led by the Governor of California develops the arcane art of combat linguistics, planting the seeds of a future totalitarian empire in Scott Moore's Battle of the Linguist Mages. Isobel is the Queen of the medieval rave-themed VR game Sparkle Dungeon. Her prowess in the game makes her an ideal candidate to learn the secrets of "power morphemes"-unnaturally dense units of meaning that warp perception when...
30) The reality bug
Author
Series
Pendragon series volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
375 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In his ongoing battle to save Earth and its parallel worlds from the demon Saint Dane, fifteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon travels to Veelox, a world whose inhabitants have abandoned their real lives in favor of virtual reality.
Author
Series
Jeremy Logan novels volume 6
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A blockbuster new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child, centered on a dominant tech company-Chrysalis-whose groundbreaking virtual reality technology is redefining the way we live . . . and possibly introducing a catastrophic danger to the world. Like millions of people around the world, Jeremy Logan (famed enigmalogist, or investigator of unexplained things) has grown to rely on his incredible new tech device. Made by...
32) Plastic
Author
Language
English
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Description
"For fans of Interior Chinatown and American War, a surreal, hilarious, and sneakily profound debut novel that casts our current climate of gun violence and environmental destruction in a surprising new mold. Erin is a plastic girl living in a plastic world. Every day she eats a breakfast of boiled chicken, then coveys her articulated body to Tablet Town, where she sells other figurines Smartbodies: wearable tech that allows full, physical immersion...
33) Trading reality
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
390 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
34) Halting state
Author
Series
Halting State volume 1
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
351 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Sergeant Sue Smith is called in to investigate a daring Edinburgh robbery, a crime perpetrated by a band of marauding orcs with a dragon in tow in the virtual reality land of Avalon Four, and discovers that events in the virtual world could have a devastating impact on the real one.
35) Reamde
Author
Series
Dodge novels volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1044 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
When his own high-tech start up turns into a Fortune 500 computer gaming group, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa family who has amassed an illegal fortune, finds the line between fantasy and reality becoming blurred when a virtual war for dominance is triggered.
36) Head on
Author
Series
Lock in novels volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent's head and carry it through the goalposts. With flesh and bone bodies, a sport like this would be impossible. But all the players are “threeps,” robot-like bodies controlled by people with Haden's Syndrome, so anything goes. No one gets hurt, but the brutality is real and the crowds love it..."--Amazon.com....
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Action ed.
Physical Desc
v. : chiefly ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a world where everyone is connected to the virtual Cyber Network, hackers, viruses and other high-tech crimes are a major problem. A sinister organization named World Three has vowed to destroy the network and take over the world. Lan Hikari is a cheerful fifth grader whose artificial intelligence NetNavigator is the superpowered MegaMan. In and out of the Cyber Network, Lan and MegaMan work to thwart World Three's villainous schemes.
38) Otherworld
Author
Series
Otherworld (Jason Segel) volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"After the newest set of virtual reality gear hits the market, Simon can't wait to test it out. But, when his friend Katherine suddenly disappears after being seen with men from the same gaming company, Simon must decide how far in the game he's willing to go to save her"--
Author
Series
Artificial Reality Division novels volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
254 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
40) Catalyst
Author
Series
Insignia trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Tom Raines and his friends return to the Spire for their third year as superhuman government weapons, but the rules have been changed and Tom's training is put to the test"--
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