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Summary Of Nethergrave By Gloria Skurzynski
“Nethergrave” by Gloria Skurzynski is about a boy named Jeremy, who leaves the real world to enter a new world where he'll never be alone. In the real world, Jeremy often felt abandoned. “The Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury is about a man name Eckles who uses a company to travel to the past so he can hunt a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Both stories deal with time travel. In both stories, both main characters are affected.

Both "Nethergrave" and "The Sound of Thunder" are scientific fiction stories. When Eckles stepped on the butterfly in the past in the story "The Sound of Thunder", it affected his death. In the "Nethergrave" Jeremy the other world didn't impact his life, in fact, Jeremy chose the other world over the real world. Jeremy felt more

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