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H. G. Wells
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Format: Book
Grade Level: 6 and Up (ages 11 and up)
ISBN: 0486295060
Page Count: 160
Dimensions: 5 3/16 x 8 1/4
Imaginative, highly readable novel that helped launch the science-fiction genre exploits the concept of interplanetary travel with its gripping account of hostile invaders from Mars who use deadly heat rays to decimate all life in their path. Energetic, intense, and strikingly original.

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