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Only you can Save Mankind

Pratchett, Terry. Book - 1992 None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4.3 out of 5

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Twelve-year-old Johnny endures tensions between his parents, watches television coverage of the Gulf War, and plays a computer game called Only You Can Save Mankind, in which he is increasingly drawn into the reality of the alien ScreeWee.

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Not For Adults submitted by jaegerla on July 29, 2012, 11:39am This is directed towards younger people that enjoy a little bit of sci-fi. This is pretty much a good book for someone BRAND NEW to science fiction, but no one else should read it. Definitely for the 8-10 year old age set.

For those who liked Star Gate Universe submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on August 17, 2012, 12:51pm Although Sir Terry Pratchett wrote "Only you can save mankind" for teens, I enjoyed it very much as well. I highly recommend it and all of Pratchett's books. The books about Johnny are set on Earth, not the Discworld like so many of Pratchett's other novels.
In this book Johnny learns that his video game is not simply a video game but that he really is going to have to save the world from space aliens. It includes a lot of fun humor for and about teens.

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SERIES
The Johnny Maxwell trilogy
1.



PUBLISHED
New York : HarperCollins, 2004, 1992.
Year Published: 1992
Description: xi, 207 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

READING LEVEL
Lexile: 600

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0060541857
0060541865 (lib. bdg.)

SUBJECTS
Computer games -- Fiction.
War -- Fiction.