Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Stella and her brother Max, of the Brite and Brite Detective Agency, put the mystery of Mayor Pickle's missing Pekingese on hold as they join the astronomy club in researching the problem of invisible dark matter in the universe.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In a series of messages placed in her grandmother's ancestral jar, a seventh century princess and future ruler of the Korean kingdom of Silla vents her frustration at not being permitted to study astronomy because she is a girl.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a rainstorm prevents Nancy and her best friend, Robert, from getting to the planetarium the night of a class field trip, she has a brilliant idea for making things better.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Brady and his cousin Quinn love extreme sports, but nothing could prepare them for the aftermath of Brady's close encounter with a meteorite after it crashes into his Black Hills, South Dakota, bedroom.
8) Life on Mars
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Arcturus Betelgeuse Chambers' quest to find life on other planets seems at an end when his parents decide to move to Las Vegas, but while they look for a house he stays with his neighbor, an astronaut who soon becomes a friend.
Author
Series
Llama book volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
An uproariously cake-obsessed, dancing llama gorges himself silly until he rips his favorite pair of dancing pants, inadvertently opening a black hole that challenges him to save the world, and perhaps fall for a different sweet treat.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Tara, an Indian-American junior at Brierly prep school, feels her world dramatically change when a mirror planet to Earth is discovered and she, in this new era of scientific history, reconsiders her self and possible selves.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Mormon girl Elizabeth is torn between becoming an astronomer and familial duties and faith when she navigates a whole new world of possibility, in this sweeping adventure set in Colorado in the late nineteenth century.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Just before spending her sixteenth summer on Cape Cod, Sarah's boyfriend breaks up with her and, as a scientist whose focus is on winning a scholarship through her study of a comet, she designs an experiment to become more like her older sister to see if she, too, can be popular.
15) Where I live
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In a series of poems, Diana writes about her life, both before and after her father loses his job and she and her family move far away to live with Grandpa Joe.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Join Jet Propulsion and his friends as they explore the solar system in this Level 2 Ready-to-Read based on a popular episode of PBSs hit show Ready Jet Go!Why do stars twinkle in the sky, but planets dont? Jet, Sydney, and Sean are about to find out during the best sleepover ever!This Level 2 Ready-to-Read includes bonus back matter content with lots of fun facts about stars!
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Jordie loves space. She can't believe it when she finds a black hole in her desk. But when the black hole starts snarfing everything in sight--including her dog--she realizes the black hole needs to go home"--
"Jordie is awed by asteroids, perplexed by planets, and mesmerized by moons. She can't believe her luck when she finds a black hole taking up residence in her desk at school. Of course she's keeping it. But when the black hole starts snarfing...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPubishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When life doesn’t make sense, twelve-year-old amateur astronomer Tuesday Beals has always looked to the stars above Zion National Park, where she lives. Her beloved late uncle Ezra taught her astronomy, but now their special stargazing sites are all she has left of him, along with his ashes and a poem that may be a riddle. Then a new housing development next door threatens to ruin the night skies and her favorite astronomy spots. Desperate...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Some might say Julian is sheltered. But he lives large, and his eternal optimism allows him to see infinite possibilities wherever he looks. Despite his optimism, he is anxious about his stressed family falling apart. Even his ability to "uni-sense" what's happening with his sister is gone. If he can make his family focus on the magic in the universe, surely they'll appreciate life again. Now that they are moving from Washington, DC, to rural Maine,...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request