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1) Wool
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In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. In a society full of regulations meant to protect the community, Sheriff Holston, unexpectedly breaks the greatest taboo of all: he asks to go outside. An unlikely candidate is appointed to replace him: Juliette, a mechanic with no training in law, whose special knack is fixing machines. Now Juliette is about to be entrusted with fixing her silo,...
2) Shift
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In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms 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...
3) Dust
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Armed with secret knowledge, Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18 and her crew set out to rescue a world she hates but now understands better -- the world of the Silos with its rigid rules and terrible consequences for disobedience. This is the last installment in the trilogy that began with Wool and was followed by Shift.
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Pub. Date
2019.
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Six months after vanishing into an underground silo with sixty others, Wynter and Chase emerge to find the area abandoned. There is no sign of Noah and the rest of the group that was supposed to greet them when they emerged--the same people Wynter was counting on to help her locate the IV antibiotics her gravely ill friend, Julie, needs in order to live. As the clock ticks down on Julie's life, Wynter and Chase embark on a desperate search for medicine...
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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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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
In Underland, Macfarland 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...
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Unorthodox Chronicles volume 2
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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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Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
In Secrets Underground, history buff Elizabeth MacLeod takes readers deep down, down, down below the earth's surface, and introduces them to a completely different world-sometimes terrifying, often baffing, and always fascinating.
Discover:
• the Civil War secrets carefully concealed in Organ Cave, West Virginia
• the top-secret equipment that lies deep below Grand Central Terminal in New York City
• the network of tunnels in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan,...
10) Underground
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Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Pulp paintings and rhyming text spotlight the underground world of burrowing, tunneling, and digging animals. Includes "Creature Identification" page.
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"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...
12) Tunnels
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Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 20
Description
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.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2003
Description
On his way to dinner with his fiancee, Richard Mayhew helps a mysterious wounded girl lying on the sidewalk. The next day, he discovers his actions have erased him from existence and he is now consigned to the underground world of London Below.
14) Dogs prelude
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Viz Media
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Haunted by their pasts and driven by their search for truth, four individuals struggle to survive in a dangerous dystopian urban world.
15) Escape the Rooms
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021
Description
The last thing Jack expected when he bungee-jumped at the fairground was to plummet into a maze of underground rooms, full of traps, puzzles and some weird and wonderful people. Alongside a mysterious girl called Cally, he must find the keys to unlock each room and find his way home: facing hundreds of tiny yet ferocious lions, a revolting game of Would You Rather and some mind-blowing riddles on the way.
16) Paris Catacombs
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Publisher
Bellwether Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about the Paris Catacombs. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
Long ago, the cemeteries of Paris were overflowing with dead bodies. The solution? Dig up the bones and move them to quarries beneath the city. Now the dark tunnels are artfully lined with bones and skulls, but visitors notice more than the décor....
17) Freefall
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Series
Tunnels volume 3
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 25
Description
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.
18) Level 7
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University of Wisconsin Press
Pub. Date
©2004
Description
Level 7 is the diary of Officer X-127, who is assigned to stand guard at the Push Buttons, a machine devised to activate the atomic destruction of the enemy, in the country's deepest bomb shelter. Four thousand feet underground, Level 7 has been built to withstand the most devastating attack and to be self-sufficient for 500 years. Selected according to a psychological profile that assures their willingness to destroy all life on Earth, those who...
20) Spiral
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Series
Tunnels volume 5
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
Description
The outer crust is under attack by the subterranean Styx who are turning ordinary humans into walking bombs and incubators for their eggs, and only Will Burrows and his band of retired commandos stand in their way--but the Styx also have problems of their own.
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