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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 11
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War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells first serialised in 1897 in the UK by Pearson's Magazine and in the US by Cosmopolitan magazine. The novel's first appearance in hardcover was in 1898 from publisher William Heinemann of London. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is the first-person narrative of both...
2) Mars life
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Grand tour of the solar system volume 15
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Jamie Waterman discovered the cliff dwelling on Mars, and the fact that an intelligent race lived on the red planet sixty-five million years ago, only to be driven into extinction by the crash of a giant meteor. Now the exploration of Mars is itself under threat of extinction, as the ultraconservative New Morality movement gains control of the U.S. government and cuts off all funding for the Mars program. Meanwhile, Carter Carleton, an anthropologist...
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"The original 20th century landmark science fiction thriller that played on the paranoia and Communist threat invading Atomic Age America in the 1950s. A young boy is awakened during a storm to witness a flying saucer land in the field behind his home. No one will believe his story as, one by one, the townspeople are captured and put under the control of sinister forces from the planet Mars"--Container.
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Adventures of Arabella Ashby volume 3
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Arabella is now a hero, but her new status brings attention that could threaten all she holds dear, in this final cosmic adventure.
Finally and truly husband and wife, Arabella Ashby and Capt. Prakash Singh are lauded as heroes in England after defeating Napoleon at the Battle of Venus. When they are invited to the Brighton palace of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, a Martian- and Venusian-inspired architectural marvel, the mechanically-bent...
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Ray, a dockworker, has his children for their weekend visitation when a series of strange lighting storms hit his neighborhood. He soon discovers that a fleet of death-ray robotic spaceships have emerged nearby, and are part of an all out alien invasion of the Earth. As he transports his children from New York to Boston in an attempt to find safety at his ex-in-law's house, he finds that he must learn to become the protector and provider he never...
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