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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
740L
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English
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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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
680L
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English
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A classic collection of stories -- all told on the skin of a man -- from the author of Fahrenheit 451. If El Greco had painted miniatures in his prime, no bigger than your hand, infinitely detailed, with his sulphurous colour and exquisite human anatomy, perhaps he might have used this man's body for his art! Yet the Illustrated Man has tried to burn the illustrations off. He's tried sandpaper, acid, and a knife. Because, as the sun sets, the pictures...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
890L
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English
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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...
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Everyman's library volume 326
Lexile measure
840L
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English
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A collection of one hundred Bradbury stories from the past four decades includes the Martian stories, tales of magical nostalgia, celebrated fantasies, and six stories appearing in a book for the first time.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
880L
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English
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"Ray Bradbury's moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels. Dandelion Wine stands out in the Bradbury literary canon as the author's most deeply personal work, a semi-autobiographical recollection of a magical small-town summer in 1928. Twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding knows Green Town, Illinois, is as vast and deep as the whole wide world that lies beyond the city limits. It is a pair of brand-new tennis...
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Travel on an unpredictable and unforgettable literary journey. Find a horrified mother who gives birth to a strange blue pyramid. Encounter an amazing Electrical Grandmother who comes to live with a grieving family. Meet an old parrot who learned over long evenings to imitate the voice of Ernest Hemingway, and becomes the last link to the last link to the great man. Each of these magnificent creations has something to tell us about our own humanity-and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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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.--
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With his disarmingly simple style and complex imagination, Ray Bradbury has seized the minds of American readers for decades.
This collection showcases thirty-two of Bradbury's most famous tales in which he lays bare the depths of the human soul. The thrilling title story, A Sound of Thunder, tells of a hunter sent on safari -- sixty million years in the past. But all it takes is one wrong step in the prehistoric jungle to stamp out the life of...
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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...
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Ray Bradbury is a modern cultural treasure. His disarming simplicity of style underlies a towering body of work unmatched in metaphorical power by any other American storyteller. And here, presented in a new trade edition, are thirty-two of his most famous tales--prime examples of the poignant and mysterious poetry, which Bradbury uniquely uncovers in the depths of the human soul, the otherworldly portraits of outré fascination which spring from...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
820L
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English
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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,...
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Grandmasterof American Letters Ray Bradbury presents the 16 vintage stories and novellasthat informed and prefigured the creation of his dystopian classic, Fahrenheit451 . Collecting rare and unknown tales as well as notable early triumphs, A Pleasure to Burn offers an unparalleled window into Bradbury's creative process, and a unique glimpse at the evolution of one of the greatest works of20 th century American literature. Absolutely essential for...
20) Fahrenheit 451
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Español
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Fahrenheit 451 ofrece la historia de un sombrío y horroroso futuro. Montag, el protagonista, pertenece a una extraña brigada de bomberos cuya misión, paradójicamente, no es la de sofocar incendios sino la de provocarlos para quemar libros. Porque en el país de Montag está prohibido pensar. Porque leer impide ser ingenuamente feliz, y en el país de Montag hay que ser feliz a la fuerza.
Fahrenheit 451 offers the story of a bleak and horrifying...
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