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1) 1984
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
A chilling portrait of a totalitarian society under the ever-watchful gaze of Big Brother, where love, privacy, and individuality are banned. The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's nightmare vision from 1949 of the world we are becoming is timelier that ever. 1984 is the great modern classic of a 'negative utopia' - a startlingly original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing
2) 1984
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Español
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"'El Hermano Mayor te vigila', advierten los carteles que cubren las paredes de Londres. La libertad de expresión ha desaparecido y a los ciudadanos de un 'lugar que alguna vez fue llamado Inglaterra' no se les permite ejercer el pensamiento crítico. Se habla entre susurros, fingiendo las expresiones, y se vive con un temor constante a la Policía del Pensamiento. En ese contexto, Winston Smith, funcionario del Ministerio de la Verdad, recibe el...
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Series
Marsco saga volume 1
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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After a cataclysmic world war, 2092 finds a megacorporation controlling the planet. Anti-technology Luddites are rising up, and military officers are plotting a revolution.
4) Animal farm
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In his story of downtrodden society of overworked, mistreated animals and their quest to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality, George Orwell gave us one of the most scathing satiric fables every written. As ferociously fresh as it was more than a half century ago, Animal Farm is a parable about would-be liberators everywhere. As we witness the rise and bloody fall of the revolutionary animals through the lens of our own history, we...
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Marsco saga volume 2
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"Humanity is controlled by Marsco, a megacorporation whose authoritarian regime extends past Earth into the planet's growing space colonies. All computer access, most space travel and commerce fall under Marsco's control. After the events of The Marsco Dissident, the corporation's enemies and allies have regrouped to consider their options. For Martin Herriff, the relative calm offers an opportunity to complete work on the first interstellar spaceship-a...
6) The gift
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After escaping imprisonment by the totalitarian regime known as the New Order, siblings Wisty and Whit Allgood, who possess magical powers, establish themselves as leaders of the Resistance, a hidden community of teenagers like themselves, hunted by the state and determined to defy its ban on the arts, magic, and all other forms of creativity.
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Marsco saga volume 3
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"The Marsco Sustainability Project continues The Marsco Saga. Fifty years have passed since the escape ship, the Sirius Odyssey II, secretly left Earth's solar system heading for a distant, habitable planet. During a routine check of her crew in cryogenic stasis, Zot Grizotti, the ship's hiberman, discovers that Sirius has been reprogrammed to head back to Earth. Tessa Miller, Mei-Ling Shanghai, and Zot now face returning to the Marsco world, a world...
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English
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"What might life be like in twenty-five to thirty years? If you've been paying attention, you've seen signs that Christian persecution may be coming. This is the story of Rhys, a young Christian man living twenty-five years from now under totalitarian rule. He was raised in a small town, in a happy Christian household. Rhys's parents were true believers and true followers of God. They worked diligently to instill that same faith in Rhys from a young...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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"Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television ٢family.٣ But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a...
10) The registry
Author
Series
Registry novels volume 1
Language
English
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In a new America where girls are raised to be brides and auctioned off to the highest bidder, Mia refuses to succumb to this life and, along with two friends, makes a run for it to Mexico where a free--if uncertain--future awaits.
11) Brave new world
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Huxley's classic prophetic novel describes the socialized horrors of a futuristic utopia devoid of individual freedom.
13) The fire
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Whit and Wisty Allgood have led the resistance against a totalitarian regime that has banned all forms of creativity and executed their parents, but even the growing strength of the siblings' magic has not been able to stop the evil dictator, and they must somehow prepare for an imminent showdown.
14) V for vendetta
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English
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Set in a futurist totalitarian England, a country without freedom or faith, a mysterious man in a white porcelain mask strikes back against the oppressive overlords on behalf of the voiceless. Armed with only knives and his wits, V, as he's called, aims to bring about change in this horrific new world. His only ally? A young woman named Evey Hammond. And she is in for much more than she ever bargained for.
A visionary graphic novel that defines sophisticated...
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Shadow children volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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In a future where the law limits a family to only two children, third-born Luke has been in hiding for the entire twelve years of his life, until he enters boarding school under an assumed name and is forced to face his fears.
16) The red chapel
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning film, a trio of Danish comedians, who call themselves "The red chapel," pretend to be regime sympathizers and mount an absurd variety show in Pyongyang. The result is an unconventional, hilarious and damning peek into a totalitarian regime.
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English
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"Whoever controls our memories controls the future. Janelle Monáe and an incredible array of talented collaborating creators have written a collection of tales comprising the bold vision and powerful themes that have made Monáe such a compelling and celebrated storyteller. Dirty Computer introduced a world in which thoughts-as a means of self-conception-could be controlled or erased by a select few. And whether human, A.I., or other, your life and...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Orwell's best-known work of unrelenting dystopian realism warns against totalitarianism. The story is told from the point of view of Winston Smith, a functionary of the Ministry of Truth whose work involved the "correction" of all records each time the "Big Brother" decided that the truth had changed.
20) The August 5
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Language
English
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Tommy Shore, one of the twin sons of the chief administrator of Seahaven, learns to his dismay that the government has been keeping secrets, and when he joins up with some rebels at the Seminary, he must go against everything his father stands for.
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