Jack Finney
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
"Sleep. And when you awake everything you know of the twentieth century will be gone from your mind. Tonight is January 21,1882. There are no such things as automobiles, no planes, computers, television. 'Nuclear' appears in no dictionary. You have never heard the name Richard Nixon." Did illustrator Si Morley really step out of his twentieth-century apartment one night - right into the winter of 1882? The U.S. Government believed it, especially when...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Jack Finney's beloved sequel to his classic, New York Times bestselling illustrated novel Time and Again.
Simon Morley, whose logic-defying trip to the New York City of the 1880s in Time and Again has enchanted readers for twenty-five years, embarks on another trip across the borders of time. This time Reuben Prien at the secret, government-sponsored Project wants Si to leave his home in the 1880s and visit New York...
Simon Morley, whose logic-defying trip to the New York City of the 1880s in Time and Again has enchanted readers for twenty-five years, embarks on another trip across the borders of time. This time Reuben Prien at the secret, government-sponsored Project wants Si to leave his home in the 1880s and visit New York...
Author
Language
English
Description
On a quiet fall evening in the small, peaceful town of Mill Valley, California, Dr. Miles Bennell discovers an insidious, horrifying plot.
Silently, subtly, almost imperceptibly, alien life-forms are taking over the bodies and minds of his neighbors, his friends, his family, the woman he loves—the world as he knows it. Miles knows the invasion is linked to the mysterious seed pods that have been turning up everywhere—and the pod
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Language
English
Description
About Time offers a delightful return to the world of time travel and light comedy that distinguished Jack Finney's all-time classic Time and Again. The protagonists of these twelve stories are well-meaning but at odds with their surroundings and their lives. The time to which they escape-through time travel-doesn't always fulfill their expectations in the way they had hoped, but sometimes, they can still find their dreams.
10) The invasion
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A space shuttle burns up upon reentry causing debris to land across a wide area of the United States. Tucker Kaufman, a member of the CDC, visits one of the crash sites and gets a cut on his hand. Dr. Carol Bennell begins to notice that people are starting to act strange. She turns to her best friend, Dr. Ben Driscoll. He takes a small sample of the material to Dr. Stephen Galeano and they soon learn the substance is not from Earth. Carol's son, Oliver...
Publisher
MGM DVD
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Filmy spores fall from space over San Francisco, and the city blossoms with beautiful new flora. People take the flowers home and as they sleep, the plants creep over them, devouring their bodies and stealing their identities--including their emotions, their uniqueness and their souls.
13) The love letter
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A love letter found in a secret compartment of an antique desk magicaly seals the fate of two young people linked by destiny yet separated by more than one hundred years.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
After getting divorced, a couple discovers they were meant for each other; a bored Army private throws a party without his commanding officer's knowledge; an American diplomat and his beautiful landlady stumble onto a jewel heist and murder; a landlord tries to convice his pretty tenant to dump her fiancé; a married man poses as the husband of a beautiful girl to help her get her inheritance.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When filmy spores fall from space and take root in San Francisco, the city is beautifully transformed by spectacular and exotic flowers. But these lovely extraterrestrial blossoms have gruesome plans for their earthly admirers. These blossoms are going to slowly clone human bodies and then dispose of the originals.