Under the Dome (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781439148501)

Don't miss the "harrowing" (The Washington Post) #1 New York Times bestselling thriller from Stephen King that inspired the hit television series, following the apocalyptic scenario of a town cut off from the rest of the world.

On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand is severed as the dome comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when -- or if -- it will go away.

Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens -- town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician's assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing -- even murder -- to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn't just short. It's running out.

Author: Stephen King
ISBN-10: 1439148503
ISBN-13: 9781439148501
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Language: English
Published: 11/10/2009
Pages: 1088
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.15lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 2.30d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.1
Point Value: 50
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 135687 / Under the Dome

Award: Colorado Blue Spruce Award - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 07/15/2009 pg. 62
Booklist 08/01/2009 pg. 10
Library Journal 09/01/2009 pg. 107
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2009
Publishers Weekly 09/14/2009 pg. 24
Time 09/21/2009 pg. 90
Entertainment Weekly 11/06/2009 pg. 32
New York Times Book Review 11/08/2009 pg. 1
People Weekly 11/16/2009 pg. 51
New York Times Book Review 11/15/2009 pg. 26
Entertainment Weekly 12/04/2009 pg. 98
People Weekly 12/28/2009 pg. 68
BookPage 11/01/2009