virus diseases

"Gonzalo, now released from the high school quarantine, travels across a ravaged America looking for his beloved girlfriend Sasha"--Provided by publisher.

The first mistake twelve-year-old Tulah made was allowing her best friend, Nikki, to dare her into auditioning for the school musical, and the second mistake she made was eating the Friday mystery lunch in the school cafeteria; now she finds herself turning into a zombie, with a craving for raw meat, and a body that feels stiff and awkward--but she still has to go through the audition on Thursday, and stage fright will be the least of her problems.

Twelve-year-old accidental zombie Tulah Jones needs a really good reason to avoid joining the cross country team (an impossible activity for a zombie), so her friend Angela suggests that she join the academic bowl team instead. Unfortunately her nemesis Bella Gulosi is the team captain, and with the team going on a weekend retreat and contest Tulah is sure her secret will be discovered.

"A viral disease called 'the wickedness' plagues the world, and sixteen-year-olds Astrid and Natalie are two of the only people immune. The girls live in separate, isolated communities, but recent encounters with wicked people link their stories in unexpected ways"--Provided by publisher.

Killer viruses are just the focus of movies in the experience of most readers, but they're not out of the realm of possibility. Viruses can spread at unbelievably fast rates and with frightening consequences. After reading this inventive volume, young virologists will picture themselves as the hero of their own story. They'll learn how viruses spread, how to avoid contamination, and the best way to battle and perhaps conquer an invisible killer. Science meets science fiction in this motivating look at what happens when deadly viruses rage out of control.

"Once there was a world's end. The forests burned, the lakes and rivers dried up, and the oceans swelled. Then came a plague, and fever spread across the globe. Families died, violence reigned, and man killed man. Next came WICKED, who were looking for an answer. And then they found the perfect boy. The boy's name was Thomas, and Thomas built a maze. Now there are secrets. There are lies. And there are loyalties history could never have foreseen. This is the story of that boy, Thomas, and how he built a maze that only he could tear down"--Provided by publisher.

"Brian and his friends are not part of the cool crowd. They're the misfits, the troublemakers--the ones who jump their high school's electrified fence to skip school regularly. So when the virus breaks out, they're the only ones with a chance of surviving"--Provided by publisher.

Toward the end of World War II Hitler unleashed the Gomorrah virus, which wiped out most of humanity and turned the rest into vampires, except for those who, like seventeen-year-old Sophie Harkness, who carry a genetic mutation that makes them immune--but when her best friend is murdered and attempts are made on her life, Sophie sets out to discover the dark secrets that lie at the heart of Haven, the last refuge of the Immunes.

When a virus deadly to adults infects their high school, brothers David and Will and the other students soon break into gangs that fight each other for survival and the hope of escaping their quarantine.

"Seventeen-year-old Cardinal has escaped the virus that ravaged his town, leaving its victims alive but without their memories"--Provided by publisher.