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Summary: When eleven-year-old Stella Rodriguez shows up at NASA to request that her recording be included in Carl Sagan's Golden Record, something unexpected happens: A black hole follows her home, and sets out to live in her house as a pet. The black hole swallows everything he touches, which is challenging to say the least - but also turns out to be a convenient way to get rid of those items that Stella doesn't want around. Soon the ugly sweaters...
6) Eclipse
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Scholastic Press
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English
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"A boy and his dad experience a total solar eclipse in this heartwarming picture book by author and illustrator Andy Rash. After hearing about the total solar eclipse happening in two months, a boy makes a plan with his father to go see it." -Provided by Publisher
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Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPubishers
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First edition.
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English
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Publisher Annotation: 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....
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Series
Choose your own adventure volume 97
Publisher
Gareth Stevens
Language
English
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The reader's decisions control the course of an adventure in which two spaceships travel to investigate a black hole.
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Publisher
Little Brown & Co
Edition
1st revised ed.
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English
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Ally, Bree, and Jack meet at the one place the Great Eclipse can be seen in totality, each carrying the burden of different personal problems, which become dim when compared to the task they embark upon and the friendship they find.
13) Life on Mars
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
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English
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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.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Edition
First edition.
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English
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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.
15) Space pup
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Publisher
Chooseco Llc
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English
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"Have you ever read a book that's about you? This books is. Your best friends are your dog Homer and your cat Zogg. But there's a secret about them that no one knows but you: Zogg to Paris for two weeks, you're not sure if you can leave Homer and Zogg all alone. They had big plans to take you to outer space this summer. SPACE?! So what will you do? Should you let Squarks and diamond-covered mice teach you about different life-forms in the UNiverse?...
17) Where I live
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Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
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English
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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.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Edition
First edition.
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English
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In this magical romance, an illness cursing the land forces a teen girl astronomer to venture across the wilderness in search of the stars' message that will, hopefully, save them all. When all is lost, look to the stars. Vega has lived in the valley her whole life--forbidden by her mother to leave the safety of its borders because of the unknown threats waiting for her in the wilds beyond. But when Vega sees an omen in the sky--one she cannot ignore--she's...
20) The stars
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Series
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Aldana Libros/Greystone Kids
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English
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A dazzling story about love-for the stars, and for one another-between two young people, set in the multicultural city of Montréal. Every day, Yakov takes his sisters to the park. He's supposed to look after them, but their games are boring, so he reads about space and dreams of becoming an astronaut instead. His father, though, has other plans: he wants Yakov to take over his grocery store when he grows up. Yakov's world changes when at the park...
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