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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"When massive, intelligent aliens from Mars touch down in Victorian England and threaten to destroy the civilized world, humanity's vaunted knowledge proves to be of little use. First published in 1898, H. G. Wells's masterpiece of speculative fiction has thrilled and delighted generations of readers, spawned countless imitations, and inspired dramatizations by such masters as Orson Welles and Steven Spielberg. The War of the Worlds is a fantasy that...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A young man from Mars comes to Earth & must learn our strange ways. After his arrival on Earth from his home on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith becomes the founder and pastor of a new religious sect and the sensation he creates teaches Earth some unforgettable lessons, including grokking, watersharing, and love. One of the greatest science fiction novels ever published, Stranger in a Strange Land's original manuscript had 60,000 words cut. Here at last,...
5) Martians
Author
Series
Publisher
KidHaven Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Discusses martians and their lasting appeal in film and other popular culture.
7) Mars life
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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; essays, theatrical works, screenplays and teleplays; The Illustrated Mein, Dandelion Wine, The October Country, and numerous other...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Recounts the night before Halloween in 1938 when a fake news broadcast about invading Martians sent radio listeners around the country into a panic, and examines why so many people confused entertainment with reality.
11) Marty
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Marty is an undercover Martian and master of disguises who lives on Earth, but when one of his costumes gives him away an unexpected friend helps him find a place where he can be himself.
12) The evidence
Author
Series
Mars Hill classified volume 1
Publisher
Living Ink Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The call to outer space has been almost as strong as his call to serve God. Now, catapulted into the midst of a global controversy, NASA Commander John Wells faces the ultimate test of both his training and his faith.
15) Singer distance
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In December 1960, Crystal Singer, her boyfriend Rick, and three other MIT grad students take a cross-country road trip from Boston to Arizona to paint a message in the desert. Mars has been silent for thirty years, since the last time Earth solved one of the mathematical proofs the Martian civilization carved onto its surface. The latest proof, which seems to assert contradictory truths about distance, has resisted human understanding for decades....
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Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in huge three-legged machines, incinerating all in their path with a heat ray and spreading noxious toxic gases, the people of the Earth must come to terms with the prospect of the end of human civilization and the beginning of Martian rule.
The film follows an American dock worker who is forced to look after his children,...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
War of the worlds: The residents of a small town are intrigued when a flaming meteor lands in the hills. But, they soon find Martians intend an assault on the Earth, with hundreds of invulnerable ships. The invasion takes place all over the world, all the major cities are destroyed one after one, and even the atomic bomb can't stop them.
When worlds collide: When scientists discover a distant planet is on a catastrophic collision course with Earth,...
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