War of the Worlds

Science Fiction (fiction), Trade Book, Lexile 1170

Martians with a thirst for human blood invade Planet Earth and begin a crushing campaign to enslave the human species. It doesn't take long before the highly-evolved, tentacled, heat-ray-blasting aliens take control and dominate the human race. All efforts to battle the invaders in their invulnerable tripods are futile. Humans are too weak to destroy them. A lucky accident, though, in the form of an invisible bacteria no longer a threat to people, might bring salvation to humanity and its planet.