It’s summertime again, and the Fort Worth Public Library is encouraging adventurous readers of all ages to go through the “Summer Time Machine,” the theme for the 2008 Summer Reading Program. When The Book zaps Fred, Sam and Joe into the future, they find themselves face to face with dangerous Sellbots, outrageously expensive pizza slices and their own great-grandchildren. She wants them to travel to the 1500s and help the great Leonardo da Vinci find the secret to happiness that will help restore meaning to his life. When a mad dictator threatens to destroy the world in a nuclear war, Charles Wallace must travel into the bodies of four different people from the past to keep the evil leader from being born. A nameless adventurer builds a time machine that takes him to the year 802,801, where he meets a peaceful, childlike race called the Eloi and the monsters who appear to serve them, the Morlocks.

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