Beth Johnson
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Description
H.G. Wells' "scientific romance," published first in serial form and then as a book in 1898, attained perhaps its greatest fame in another form, the infamous realistic 1939 radio broadcast "Invasion from Mars" by Orson Welles. It was also made into an early 1950s science fiction adventure movie. Stover (emeritus, Illinois Institute of Technology) describes Wells' story as "a prophecy of startling originality foreseeing the coming of totalitarianism...
Author
Series
Publisher
Townsend Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Blima Weisstuch and her husband's life experiences in Poland during the Holocaust from 1936 to 1947. This story is taken from a longer work, My Mother's Shoes, written by Blima's daughter, Shirley Russak Wachtel