H. G. Wells
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 920L
Language
English
Description
Having devoted his studies to optics and refraction, an impulsive scientist named Griffin has rendered himself invisible. Unable to reverse the effects, his struggle to survive grows desperate until he realizes that there are benefits to living out of the public eye. Increasingly isolated, he soon spirals into a life of crime and degenerates into madness. He can't see that he has become his own worst enemy. Exploring the loss of identity and the willful...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
HL 620L
Language
English
Description
In the Time Traveller's miraculous new machine, we will be carried from a Victorian dinner table to 802,701 AD, when the Earth is divided between the gentle, ineffective Eloi, and the ape-like Morlocks; forward again by a million years or so to glimpse a dying world of blood-red beaches and menacing shapes; and on again to the last days of our planet, a remote twilight where nothing moves but darkness and a cold wind.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
HL 1170L
Language
English
Description
As life on Mars becomes impossible, Martians and their terrifying machines invade the earth. Find yourself caught in the middle of an alien invasion in the late 1800s in this collectible hardcover edition of the thrilling science fiction classic. A classic science fiction novel, The War of the Worlds tells the story of the martian invasion of Planet Earth. This late–nineteenth century novel plays on the mood of the period in which it was written—a...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
An abridged version of the science fiction novel about the scientist who invents a time machine and uses it to travel to the year 802,701 A.D., where he discovers the childlike Eloi and the hideous underground Morlocks.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On a cold day in February, a stranger arrives in the village of Iping. He wears gloves and dark glasses, even inside, and his face is covered in bandages. Soon crimes occur that cannot be explained, and the townspeople realize the unthinkable truth: the strange man is invisible--and he is slowly going mad.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 560L
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of H.G. Wells' story in which a scientist invents a machine that carries him into the future. While there, he meets a race of gentle humans and evil underground creatures. Even worse, his time machine, his only chance to escape, is trapped deep inside the Morlock caverns.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
H.G. Wells's classic tale of war between humans and Martians imagines the horror and destruction of alien invasion. When the Martians need a new home planet, they send an army to take over Earth for their own needs. Chaos spreads as the Martians fighting machines and red plants make their way toward London. Mans fight to preserve their planet has been adapted for young readers in the Calico Illustrated Classics adaptation of Wells's The War of the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 530L
Language
English
Description
Graphic novel adaptation of H.G. Wells' The invisible man in which, late one night, a man covered in bandages wanders into a village. The villagers soon grow suspicious of the stranger. When the villagers attempt to arrest him, the stranger suddenly reveals his secret--he is invisible.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
An illustrated retelling of H.G. Wells's classic tale in which, late one night, a man covered in bandages wanders into a village. The villagers soon grow suspicious of the stranger. When the villagers attempt to arrest him, the stranger suddenly reveals his secret--he is invisible.
15) The time machine
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"An intrepid adventurer, known simply as the Time Traveler, meets his friends for dinner one night. During the conversation, he baffles them with his wild ideas about moving forward or backward in time. His claims are met with disbelief. Even when he proves his theory with a real-life experiment, his associates simply claim that he is a trickster-a magician"-Publisher.