Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A master storyteller and visionary champion of creative freedom, Ray Bradbury is one of the most beloved and influential writers of our time. In books that look forward to astonishing futures and backward to evanescent realms of memory, he elevated speculative fiction from the pages of the pulps to the vital center of American literary culture. This definitive Library of America edition gathers his novels and story cycles of the 1950s and 1960s for...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
The strange and wonderful tale of man’s experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonishing visions. Now part of the Voyager Classics collection. The Martian Chronicles tells the story of humanity’s repeated attempts to colonize the red planet. The first men were few. Most succumbed to a disease they called the Great Loneliness when they saw their home planet dwindle to the size of a fist. They felt they had never been born. Those...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
The carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour of a chill Midwestern October eve. Ushering in Halloween a week before its time, a calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. Young boyhood companions James Nightshade and Will Halloway are the first to heed its call. From a place of safety, they watch a midway come to spectral life, their emotions a riot of eagerness, trepidation, bravado,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Includes a novel and two short stories.
Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Join the shadowy Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud as he takes eight trick-or-treaters on an unforgettable journey to find their missing friend, Pip. Travel through space and time, from the tombs of ancient Egypt to the gargoyles of Notre-Dame Cathedral, all the way to the cemeteries of Mexico on el DiÌ?a de Los Muertos, the Day of the Dead. Is Pip still alive? And if so, can his friends save him from a ghastly fate before it's too late?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A journalist bearing terrible news leaps from a still-moving train into a small town of wonderful, impossible secrets... The doomed crew of a starship follows their blind, mad captain on a quest into deepest space to joust with destiny, eternity, and God Himself... Now and Forever is a bold new work from an incomparable artist whose stories have reshaped America's literary landscape. Two bewitching novellas-each distinctly different, yet uniquely...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
GN 510L
Language
English
Description
As could only occur with Bradbury's full cooperation in this authorized adaptation, Hamilton has created a striking work of art that uniquely captures Montag's awakening to the evil of government-controlled thought and the inestimable value of philosophy, theology, and literature. --From publisher's description.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Welcome to a land Ray Bradbury calls "the Undiscovered Country" of his imagination--that vast territory of ideas, concepts, notions and conceits where the stories you now hold were born. America's premier living author of short fiction, Bradbury has spent many lifetimes in this remarkable place--strolling through empty, shadow-washed fields at midnight; exploring long-forgotten rooms gathering dust behind doors bolted years ago to keep strangers locked...
15) Farewell summer
Author
Series
Green Town volume 03
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Celebrating the final days of summer, thirteen-year-old Douglas Spaulding and his friends declare war on the stuffy older set of their community, an effort for which the boys plot to stop the courthouse building clock as a means of staying young forever.
18) S is for space
Author
Pub. Date
1966.
Language
English
Description
A collection of the author's science fiction and fantasy stories. Grades 6 and up.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Twenty-one tales. In The Very Gentle Murders, two very old people scheme to murder each other, while Last Rites is on a man who travels back in time to comfort big name writers not famous in their day to assure them they will be so after their death.--
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Honoring the 100th birthday of Ray Bradbury, renowned author of Fahrenheit 451, this new, definitive collection of the master's less well-known crime fiction features classic stories and rare gems, a number of which became episodes of ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS and THE RAY BRADBURY THEATER, including the tale Bradbury called 'one of the best stories in any field that I have ever written'"--
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request