Terry Pratchetts Johnny And The Bomb

Download or read book Johnny and the Bomb written by Terry Pratchett and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the pen of Sir Terry Pratchett, beloved and bestselling author of the Discworld fantasy series, comes time-travel adventure that mixes outrageous humor and nail-biting suspense! Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell has a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. This has never been more true than when he finds himself in his hometown on May 21, 1941, over forty years before his birth! An accidental time traveler, Johnny knows his history. He knows England is at war, and he knows that on this day German bombs will fall on the town. It happened. It's history. And as Johnny and his friends quickly discover, tampering with history can have unpredictable—and drastic—effects on the future. But letting history take its course means letting people die. What if Johnny warns someone and changes history? What will happen to the future? If Johnny uses his knowledge to save innocent lives by being in the right place at the right time, is he doing the right thing? Read more of Johnny Maxwell's adventures in Only You Can Save Mankind and Johnny and the Dead!

Download or read book Johnny and the Dead written by Terry Pratchett and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell suddenly starts seeing and talking to ghosts, he and his friends become involved in a battle to save the local cemetery.

Download or read book The Bromeliad written by Terry Pratchett and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilariously inventive, witty and highly original,The Bromeliadis the enormously popular Terry Pratchett’s magnificent trilogy of tales about a race of little people struggling to survive in a world of humans.

Download or read book Only You Can Save Mankind written by Terry Pratchett and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the pen of Sir Terry Pratchett, beloved and bestselling author of the Discworld fantasy series, comes a reality-bending tale of virtual heroism that will leaves readers breathless from laughter, and suspense. The alien spaceship is in his sights. His finger is on the Fire button. Johnny Maxwell is about to set the new high score on the computer game Only You Can Save Mankind. Suddenly: We wish to talk. Huh? We surrender. The aliens aren't supposed to surrender -- they're supposed to die! Now what is Johnny going to do with a fleet of alien prisoners who know their rights under the international rules of war and are demanding safe-conduct? It's hard enough trying to save Mankind from the Galactic Hordes. It's even harder trying to save the Galactic Hordes from Mankind. But it's just a game, isn't it? Isn't it...? Read more of Johnny Maxwell's adventures in Johnny and the Dead and Johnny and the Bomb!

Download or read book Johnny Maxwell Trilogy written by Terry Pratchett and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a computer game in which the aliens want Johnny to negotiate a peace treaty for them, to the inhabitants of a cemetery who are just discovering how much fun being alive can be, to the time of the Blitz, join Johnny Maxwell and his friends in these three terrific tales from the master of comic fantasy. ONLY YOU CAN SAVE MANKIND - Shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Award JHNNY AND THE DEAD - Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal;A Writers' Guild Award Winner; Also televised by LWT for ITV JOHNNY AND THE BOMB - Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal; Shortlisted for the Children's Book Award; Smarties Prize Silver Medal Winner

Download or read book Terry Pratchett's Johnny and the Bomb written by Terry Pratchett and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terry Pratchett's time travel adventure has its young teen hero, Johnny Maxwell, and his friends confronted with their own bomb-stricken street in WWII. Can they change history and avert the catastrophe? A complete musical performance pack for young people to perform and everyone to enjoy!

Download or read book Nation written by Terry Pratchett and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award * Michael L. Printz Medal honor winner From the pen of Sir Terry Pratchett, author of the beloved and bestselling Discworld fantasy series, comes an epic adventure of survival that mixes hope, humor, and humanity. When a giant wave destroys his village, Mau is the only one left. Daphne—a traveler from the other side of the globe—is the sole survivor of a shipwreck. Separated by language and customs, the two are united by catastrophe. Slowly, they are joined by other refugees. And as they struggle to protect the small band, Mau and Daphne defy ancestral spirits, challenge death himself, and uncover a long-hidden secret that literally turns the world upside down. Sir Terry also received a prestigious Printz Honor from the American Library Association for his novel Dodger.