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Sierra View Library - Children's Nonfiction
J 523.8 MIT 2003
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Description

Presents facts about stars, nebulas, galaxies, and constellations and recounts the Greek myths that provided widely-known names for ten constellations, from Andromeda to Pegasus.

2) Coyote places the stars

Author

Taylor, Harriet Peck

Publisher

Bradbury Press

Pub. Date

c1993

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

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Spanish Springs Library - Children's Nonfiction
J 398.297 TAY 1993
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Description

Coyote arranges the stars in the shapes of his animal friends.

3) Coyote and the sky: how the sun, moon, and stars began

Author

Garcia, Emmett Shkeme

Publisher

University of New Mexico Press

Pub. Date

c2006

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

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North Valleys Library - Children's Nonfiction
J 398.297 GAR 2006
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4) The star-bearer: a creation myth from ancient Egypt

Author

Hofmeyr, Dianne

Publisher

Farrar Straus Giroux

Pub. Date

c2001

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

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Northwest Reno Library - Children's Nonfiction
J 299.31 HOF 2001
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Sparks Library - Children's Nonfiction
J 299.31 HOF 2001
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5) Knights of the Zodiac: 108 stars of darkness

Author

Kurumada, Masami

Series

Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac volume 19
Shonen Jump manga
Saint Seiya Knights of the Zodiac volume 19

Publisher

Viz Media

Pub. Date

[2007]

Language

English

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North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
741.5 KUR 1986 V.19
1 available

Description

When shrouded figures invade Sanctuary, Seiya races to stop them. He's shocked to recognize the invaders as friends and comrades who fell in battle. Now denizens of the underworld, the former Gold Knights have become Specters, grim warriors of Hades. They've pledged themselves to Hades--and vowed to take Athena's head. And the Specter horde is led by none other that Aries Shion, the long-ago Master of Sanctuary!

6) They dance in the sky: Native American star myths

Author

Monroe, Jean Guard

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin

Pub. Date

[1987]

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 5

Language

English

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Duncan/Traner Community Library - Children's Nonfiction
J 398.297 MON 1987
1 available

Description

A collection of legends about the stars from various North American Indian cultures, including explanations of the Milky Way and constellations such as the Big Dipper.