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1) The war of the worlds

Author

Wells, H. G

Series

Smart Pop
Timeless Classics
New York Review Books classics
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Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Appears on list

Adult - Author Birthday's List

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, eComic

Description

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H.G. Wells' "scientific romance," published first in serial form and then as a book in 1898, attained perhaps its greatest fame in another form, the infamous realistic 1939 radio broadcast "Invasion from Mars" by Orson Welles. It was also made into an early 1950s science fiction adventure movie. Stover (emeritus, Illinois Institute of Technology) describes Wells' story as "a prophecy of startling originality foreseeing the coming of totalitarianism...

2) Old possum's book of practical cats

Author

Eliot, T. S

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

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T. S. Eliot's playful cat poems were originally composed for his godchildren, with Eliot posing as Old Possum himself, and later inspired the legendary musical "Cats." Now with vibrant illustrations by the award-winning Axel Scheffler.

3) Ascending peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : interviews

Author

Gorey, Edward

Publisher

Harcourt

Pub. Date

c2001

Edition

1st ed.

Physical Desc

xxi, 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Language

English

4) The house with a clock in its walls

Author

Bellairs, John

Series

Lewis Barnavelt series volume 1

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6

Lexile measure

800L

Language

English

Description

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A boy goes to live with his magician uncle in a mansion that has a clock hidden in the walls which is ticking off the minutes until doomsday.

5) Rumpelstiltskin: a tale told long ago

Author

Grimm, Jacob

Publisher

Four Winds Press

Pub. Date

c1973

Physical Desc

1 v. : ill.

Language

English

6) The vengeance of the witch-finder

Author

Bellairs, John

Series

Lewis Barnavelt series volume 5

Publisher

Dial Books for Young Readers

Pub. Date

c1993

Edition

1st ed.

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6

Physical Desc

153 p. ; 22 cm.

Language

English

Description

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In 1951, while visiting a distant cousin in the English countryside, thirteen-year-old Lewis Barnavelt accidentally unleashes demonic forces and summons the ghost of an evil wizard bent on killing the Barnavelt family.