Author: William Sleator Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1466827432 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 132
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When eleven-year-old Tycho discovers that the mysterious egg-shaped object he dug up in his garden is a time travel device, he can't resist using his newfound power. Soon he is jumping back and forth in time, mostly to play tricks on his bossy older brothers and sister. But every time he uses the device, he notices that things are different when he gets back—and the futures he visits are getting darker and scarier. Then Tycho comes face-to-face with the most terrible thing of all: his grown-up self. Can Tycho prevent the terrible future he sees from coming true? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: William Sleator Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0765352389 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 130
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When he finds an ancient, egg-shaped object with which he travels back and forth in time, eleven-year-old Tycho grapples with several terrible futures he sees for himself and his family.
Author: William Sleator Publisher: Turtleback Books ISBN: 9780606343268 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
When he finds an ancient, egg-shaped object with which he travels back and forth in time, eleven-year-old Tycho grapples with several terrible futures he sees for himself and his family.
Author: William Sleator Publisher: Turtleback Books ISBN: 9780808566151 Category : Science fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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For use in schools and libraries only. A teenager becomes interested in a strange board game called "Interstellar Pig," the obsession of his new and unusual neighbors, and he soon stumbles into a nightmare when he discovers that the game is real.
Author: William Sleator Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0140345809 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 177
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This chilling, suspenseful indictment of mind control is a classic of science fiction and will haunt readers long after the last page is turned. One by one, five sixteen-year-old orphans are brought to a strange building. It is not a prison, not a hospital; it has no walls, no ceiling, no floor. Nothing but endless flights of stairs leading nowhere--except back to a strange red machine. The five must learn to love the machine and let it rule their lives. But will they let it kill their souls? "An intensely suspenseful page-turner." --School Library Journal "A riveting suspense novel with an anti-behaviorist message that works . . . because it emerges only slowly from the chilling events." --Kirkus Reviews
Author: William Sleator Publisher: ISBN: 9780140381740 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 196
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Three years of bad luck have passed since Dom's sister lost a valuable jade necklace on her way to Thailand. When his family travels there, he is determined to recover the necklace and appease the vengeful spirit. When Dom meets Lek, an English-speaking Thai his age, he thinks he's got the solution. But Lek has something with supernatural owers, too -- powers that can be deadly."Riveting. Vintage Sleator."-- The Horn Book William Sleator is the author of many enormously popular science fiction and suspense thrillers for young adults, including The Spirit House , the prequel to this novel.
Author: William Sleator Publisher: Harry N. Abrams ISBN: 9780810993600 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 292
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Seventeen-year-old Nick buys a used cell phone only to call his girlfriend, but strange and desperate people keep calling--one of them a denizen of Hell--begging for or demanding his help.
Author: Leigh Grossman Publisher: Wildside Press LLC ISBN: 1434440354 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 7287
Book Description
A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!
Author: Jennifer Stevens Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 0313040923 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 172
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This volume, one in the Undergraduate Companion series, focuses on American and British writers for children and young adults and is addressed to students in both English and Education classes. It provides both print and free online sources. Most undergraduates do not possess the research skills necessary to evaluate Web sites. This volume will address their needs by providing pathfinders to works by, about, and related to key writers of children's and young adult fiction. Included are entries for 185 British and American writers and writing teams, most from the 20th century. Young adult and adult. Grades 9 and up.
Author: William Sleator
Author: William Sleator
Author: William Sleator
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Author: William Sleator
Author: William Sleator
Author: William Sleator
Author: William Sleator
Author: Leigh Grossman
Author: Jennifer Stevens