Middle School Reads!

by Ilsa Bick Lexile:  730 Genre:  Science Fiction The Changed are continuing to grow and take over the world.  Alex is fighting for her life - against adults, the survivors, and the Changed.  She doesn't know who to trust.  All she wants to do is find out whether or not Tom is still alive.  If she can find Tom, she might be able to survive.

by Dayna Lorentz Lexile:  ??? Genre:  Realistic Fiction Shay, Marco, Lexi, Ryan, and Ginger have been living in a quarantined mall for two weeks. Conditions are rapidly deteriorating and people are getting desperate.  Lexi's mom is desperately trying to hold things together, but is having less and less success in contacting the outside world. And then the power goes out and the mall is plunged into darkness.  Security is over taken and now gangs of teenagers have taken over.  Is this the end or is there still a way out?

by Dayna Lorentz Lexile:  710 Genre:  Realistic Fiction It has been 7 days since thousands of shoppers have been trapped in the mall with no real access to the outside world.  No one understands what is happening...only that people are dying rapidly from a mysterious flu.  The government has left, leaving Lexi's mom, the senator, in charge of trying to enforce law and order.  Supplies are dwindling and people are getting impatient.  No one is sure who they can trust.  Lexi, Ryan, Marco, and Shay, all teenagers, begin to emerge as leaders in the uncertainty.  But even they are unsure of what is going to happen next.

by Mike Mullin Lexile:  ??? Genre:  Science Fiction Alex and Darla's struggle to survive in the third book in the Ashfall trilogy.  With dwindling resources and food supplies, Alex and Darla decide to found a town of their own where they will be in charge of how to protect and govern themselves.  So Speranta is born...a strange mix of refugees from all over Illinois.  Somehow they must all learn to work together if any of them are to survive.

by Mike Mullin Lexile:  730 Genre:  Science Fiction Alex and Darla are trying to make sense of the world in which they now find themselves living. The volcanic eruption at Yellowstone National Park has changed the midwest into a dark and cold battlefield.  They seem to be in the midst of an eternal winter and people are willing to do anything to survive.  Alex and Darla promise that they will stay together no matter what.