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There's No Place Like Space: All About Our Solar System (Cat in the Hat's Lrning Libry)

There's No Place Like Space: All About Our Solar System (Cat in the Hat's Lrning Libry)

by Tish Rabe

Blast off for educational fun! Beginning readers and budding astronomers are launched via Seussian sorcery on a wild trip to visit the nine planets in our solar system along with the Cat in the Hat, Thing One, Thing Two, and Dick and Sally.

Our Solar System

by Seymour Simon

Our Solar System was born almost 5 billion years ago at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy. In over fifty dramatic, full-color photographs and an easy-to-read text, award-winning author Seymour Simon takes you on a fascinating tour of the nine planets, dozens of moons, and thousands of asteroids, meteoroids, and comets that travel around our sun. First, Simon explores the star at the center of our Solar System --... (more)

The Magic School Bus Lost In The Solar System (Magic School Bus)

The Magic School Bus Lost In The Solar System (Magic School Bus)

by Joanna Cole

On a special field trip in the magic school bus, Ms. Frizzle's class goes into outer space and visits each planet in the solar system.

The Planets

by Dava Sobel

With her bestsellers Longitude and Galileo's Daughter , Dava Sobel introduced readers to her rare gift for weaving complex scientific concepts into a compelling narrative. Now Sobel brings her full talents to bear on what is perhaps her most ambitious topic to date-the planets of our solar system. Sobel explores the origins and oddities of the planets through the lens of popular culture, from astrology,... (more)

Newton (New Horizons)

by Jean-Pierre Maury

All About Space: Amazing Cosmic Facts (All About)

All About Space: Amazing Cosmic Facts (All About)

by Ian Graham

There are 19 practical projects that help you understand the science of astronomy.

Universe: An Illus Intro

by William J. Kaufmann, Roger A. Freedman

Universe, accompanied by "Starry Night" CD-ROM, is now in its 6th edition and includes many new images taken from the Mars Pathfinder mission and the HST. The book is highly suitable for undergraduate courses in cosmology.

11 Planets: A New View of the Solar System

11 Planets: A New View of the Solar System

by David A. Aguilar

National Geographic proudly presents the essential reference book for what is now officially a NEW AGE in space. In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union redefined the word "planet" and relegated Pluto to the status of a dwarf planet, along with Ceres and Eris. Naturally, National Geographic is there to map out this new view of our solar system. In 11 Planets, David Aguilar, an expert who works on... (more)

Living Planet (Children's Reference)

Mars: From Myth and Mystery to Recent Discoveries

Mars: From Myth and Mystery to Recent Discoveries

by Markus Hotakainen

This book tells the story of Mars since the dawn of mankind's curiosity for celestial wonders and the ancient beliefs through the revolution in our concepts of the cosmos around us in the 1600's to the present day knowledge and beyond, all the way to the futuristic visions of science fiction and terraformed Mars with conditions suitable to Earth life. It also tells the story of Martian “life”: pluralistic view of... (more)

Gardens of the Sun (Gollancz S.F.)

by Paul McAuley

The Quiet War is over. The city states of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn have fallen to the Three Powers Alliance of Greater Brazil, the European Union and the Pacific Community. A century of enlightenment, rational utopianism and exploration of new ways of being human has fallen dark. Outers are herded into prison camps and forced to collaborate in the systematic plundering of their great archives of scientific... (more)

My Brother Is from Outer Space: (The Book of Proof)

My Brother Is from Outer Space: (The Book of Proof)

by Vivian Ostrow

Alex takes on the task of proving that his younger brother, William, is an alien. Although his parents tell him that people in the same family can be very different, Alex is not convinced. His "Weird William" research shows that William talks, learns, plays, and sleeps in a different way from Alex and other humans! Full color.

Factfinder: Earth and Space (Factfinders)

Factfinder: Earth and Space (Factfinders)

Do Stars Have Points (Berger, Melvin. Scholastic Question and Answer Series.)

Do Stars Have Points (Berger, Melvin. Scholastic Question and Answer Series.)

by Melvin Berger, Gilda Berger

Questions and answers explore various aspects of stars and our solar system, including the sun, planets, moons, comets, and asteroids.

Venus : a shrouded mysteryIsaac Asimov

Venus : a shrouded mystery

by Isaac Asimov

Describes the characteristics of the planet Venus and how we discovered them.

Planet Earth (Hot Topics S.)

by Roger Coote

Beyond : a solar system voyage

by Michael Benson

Discover what the solar system looks like up close in this definitive collection of space exploration images. Since the 1960s, NASA has been sending unmanned satellites to explore the planets, moons, and sun. These probes have amassed a stunning visual record of other worlds, revealing not one but scores of new frontiers, from rust-red Mars to Saturn with its ethereal rings. Michael Benson has pulled together the... (more)

THE BOOK OF STARSCLINT TWIST

THE BOOK OF STARS

by CLINT TWIST

Seeing Earth from Spacepatricia Lauber

Seeing Earth from Space

by patricia Lauber

When is a Planet Not a Planet?: The Story of Pluto

When is a Planet Not a Planet?: The Story of Pluto

by Elaine Scott

Space and planets are topics of endless fascination to kids and part of every grade-school curriculum. Yet because of the history-making reassignment of Pluto from “planet” to “dwarf planet” on August 24, 2006, all books on the solar system are now out of date. Enter When is a Planet Not a Planet? The Story of Pluto by Elaine Scott, an esteemed writer of non-fiction for children. Scott is the first to put... (more)

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