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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
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"An exuberantly realized, exciting, and sweet-natured cyber-quest. Cline's imaginative and rollicking coming-of-age geek saga has a smash-hit vibe."--Booklist, starred review
"Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A virtualist is a doctor who specializes in virtual medicine. She uses tools like VR headsets, spatial acoustics, haptic feedback, and even olfactory mimicry to induce reactions in patients' bodies that help treat a variety of physiological and psychological conditions, from chronic pain, to compulsive behavior, without the use of pharmaceuticals or surgical techniques. Virtualists don't exist yet, but after reading VRx they just might. In recent...
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English
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"We're living through what is arguably one of the most exciting, confusing, and powerful social moments in the history of humanity, the shift from the Digital Age to the Virtual Age. This shift is being driven by technology, and the people who are leading it are the ones who know it best: the Virtual Natives. This book will introduce you to the Virtual Native cohort and mindset, decipher their socio-cultural and economic experiences, and unpack their...
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English
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On the shores of Puget Sound, a band of virtual reality researchers is building an empty white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a cathedral. In a war-torn Mediterranean city, an American is held hostage in another empty white room. These two remote places will be linked by the power of the imagination.
5) Black water
Author
Series
Pendragon series volume 5
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious plague threatens to wipe out the inhabitants of Eelong, fifteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon must decide whether to risk getting the antidote and, thereby, endangering himself, his friends, and the future of every other being in Halla.
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Series
Mortality doctrine volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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"Michael and his friends, Sarah and Bryson, must stop the Mortality Doctrine and those behind it now as the fate of humanity is in the balance"--
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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The series depicts a future in which Earth is dominated by a race of self-aware machines that was spawned from the creation of artificial intelligence early in the 21st century. At one point conflict arose between mankind and machines, and the machines rebelled against their creators. Mankind attempted to block out the machines' source of solar power by covering the sky in thick, stormy clouds. A massive war emerged between the two adversaries which...
Author
Series
Otherland volume 1
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 48
Language
English
Description
In a strange world of the near future, where virtual reality encompasses all aspects of society and boundaries are limited only by the power of the imagination, a dark conspiracy involving the world's most powerful individuals threatens to destroy everything.
Author
Series
Mortality doctrine volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
"Michael and his friends, Sarah and Bryson, are still being chased by a cyber-terrorist. And now the government is after them, too"--
10) The eye of minds
Author
Series
Mortality doctrine volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
"Michael is a skilled internet gamer in a world of advanced technology. When a cyber-terrorist begins to threaten players, Michael is called upon to seek him and his secret's out"--
11) Otaku
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English
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"Ditchtown. A city of skyscrapers, built atop the drowned bones of old Miami. A prison of steel, filled with unbelievers. A dumping ground for strays, runaways, and malcontents. Within these towering monoliths, Ashley Akachi is a young woman trying her best to cope with a brother who's slipping away, a mother who's already gone, and angry young men who want her put in her place. Ditchtown, however, is not the only world Ash inhabits. Within Infinite...
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The year is 2046. Haruyuki Arita is a young boy who finds himself on the lowest social runs of his school. Ashamed of his miserable life, Haruyuki can only cope by indulging in virtual games. But that all changes when Kuroyukihime, the most popular girl in school. Introduces him to a mysterious program called Brain Burst and a virtual reality called the Accel World.
Publisher
Viz Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The year is 2046. Portable devices known as Neurolinkers have enabled mankind to oversee their daily life within virtual reality networks. But the advancements in technology have yet to provide a solution for the growing number of victims of bullying.
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Language
English
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Dewey Jenkins wants to have the top science project in class to avoid summer school and win a state-of-the-art virtual reality video game, but after his friend Ferg accidentally breaks the console, they accidentally trigger the device, finding themselves transported inside a video game.
16) The matrix
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A computer hacker discovers that reality is nothing more than an elaborate facade called the Matrix, created by super-intelligent robots that have enslaved mankind and are using their bodies as a power source.
Author
Series
Team Chu volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Competitive siblings Sadie and Clip Chu must set aside their differences and work together when they get stuck in a virtual reality laser tag game"--
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English
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John Chu is a "sherpa"--a paid guide to online role-playing games like the popular Call to Wizardry. For a fee, he and his crew will provide you with a top-flight character equipped with the best weapons and armor, and take you dragon-slaying in the Realms of Asgarth, hunting rogue starships in the Alpha Sector, or battling hordes of undead in the zombie apocalypse
19) Snow crash
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
In twenty-first-century America, a teenaged computer hacker finds himself fighting a computer virus that battles virtual reality technology and a deadly drug that turns humans into zombies.
20) Free guy
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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A bank teller, who discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, decides to become the hero of his own story, one he rewrites himself. Now in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who saves his world his way, before it is too late.
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