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Scientific & Biomedical
The Andromeda
strain by Michael
Crichton.
For five days,
American scientists struggle to identify and control a deadly new form of life.
The cobra
event by Richard Preston.
Dr. Alice Austen,
an officer with the Epidemic Intelligence Service branch of the Centers for
Disease Control, goes to New York to investigate the hideous and mysterious
death of a seventeen-year-old girl, and uncovers a terrorist plot involving the
use of biological weapons.
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Reading Level - 6.2
Dr. Franklin's
island by Ann Halam.
When their plane
crashes over the Pacific Ocean, three science students are left stranded on a
tropical island and then imprisoned by a doctor who is performing horrifying
experiments on humans involving the transfer of animal genes.
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Double helix by Nancy Werlin.
Eighteen-year-old
Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for
a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering.
Accelerated
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The stand by Stephen King.
It's 1985 and a
deadly 'superflu' practically wipes out the population of the U.S. Gradually
survivors trail across a wasteland of horror and death to congregate in two
zones, one the embodiment of good, the other the embodiment of evil.
Accelerated
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Mutation by Robin Cook.
Ob/gyn and
biomolecular researcher Dr. Victor Frank attempts to create a superior being,
his son, in a dangerous experiment.
Contagion by Robin Cook.
Dr. John
Stapleton, embittered by the deaths of his wife and daughters in a plane crash
and the loss of his ophthalmology practice to AmeriCare, retrains for a career
in forensic pathology where he uncovers a plot by the health care giant to kill
off its more costly subscribers.
Terminal by Robin Cook.
Third year
medical student Sean Murphy goes to a renowned cancer treatment center and
discovers the horror of their remarkable cures.
The hot zone by Richard Preston.
Tells the
dramatic story of U.S. Army scientists and soldiers who worked to stop the
outbreak of a deadly and extremely contagious virus in 1989.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 7.3