Book
Something Wicked This Way Comes
by Ray Bradbury
- Published
- 1962
- Genre
- SciFi/Fantasy
- Publisher
- Demco Media
- Pages
- 293
- Words
- 62392
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/248596.Something_Wicked_This_Way_Comes?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_31
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 4.8
- AR interest level
- UG — upper grades, 9–12
- Lexile
- 820L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 14–18
- Ambleside year
- Year 11 onwards · ages 16–19
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
For those who still dream and remember, for those yet to experience the hypnotic power of its dark poetry, step inside. The show is about to begin. Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. A calliope’s shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. Two boys will discover the secret of its smoke, mazes, and mirrors; two friends who will soon know all too well the heavy cost of wishes…and the stuff of nightmares.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780606217620
- ISBN-10
- 0606217622
Tags
CarnivalFantasy/Imagination-WishesFictionHorror