Ray Bradbury
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction...
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Mars was a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in waves... Each wave different, and each wave stronger.
The Martian Chronicles
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
...Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Presents two novellas, including Somewhere a Band Is Playing, in which a young writer discovers that all is not as it seems in a nostalgic community, and Leviathan '99, in which Ishmael Hunnicut Jones prepares for a first interstellar hunt.
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
viii, 148 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Career fireman Guy Montag, who works for a totalitarian regime burning books, awakens to the dark aspects of government-controlled thought and the value of philosophy, theology, and literature.