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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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
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Mars was a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in waves... Each wave different, and each wave stronger. The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America's most beloved authors. In a much-celebrated literary career that has spanned six decades, he has produced an astonishing body of work: unforgettable novels, including Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes;...
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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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