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Big deal volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Did you know that the Sun never stops working to keep things here on Earth running smoothly? (That's why it's been Employee of the Month for 4.5 billion years and counting.) Learn about the Sun's big job, from giving Earth day and night to keeping us warm, and much more.
4) Stargazers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tells what stars are, why they twinkle, how constellations were named, how telescopes are used to study stars, and more.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Meet Moon! She's more than just a rock -- she's Earth's rock, her best friend she can always count on. Moon never turns her back on her friend (literally: she's always facing Earth with the same side!). These two will stick together forever.
9) Daring Dozen
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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A gorgeous introduction to the twelve brave men who have left footprints on the moon, just in time to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong took one small step and made history. Over the course of the next five years, twelve lunar explorers, including Alan Shepard and Gene Cernan, touched down on the moon's surface. Author and engineer Suzanne Slade reveals how the Apollo missions (1969-1972)...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Scott wasn't sure what he wanted to be when he grew up. He struggled in school and often got in trouble with his twin brother, Mark. Then one day Scott discovered a book about test pilots and astronauts that set him on a new path. His new focus led him to fly higher and higher, becoming first a pilot and then an astronaut, along with his brother--the first twin astronauts in history. But his greatest accomplishment of all was commanding the International...
12) The Sun
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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This title will cover how and when the Sun formed, what it is, its size, and why it is so important to our solar system and life on Earth. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.
13) Comets
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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This title will cover how comets came to be, what they are made of, where most of them are found, and why we can sometimes see them as beautiful bright streaks in the sky! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.
14) The Moon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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This title will cover how scientists think our moon came to be, what it looks like, its size, its orbit and phases, and how it interacts with Earth. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.
15) Stars
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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This title will cover how stars form, different types of stars, their lifecycle, and the most important star to us--the Sun! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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This title will cover how asteroids and meteoroids came to be, what they are made of, where most of them are found, and what happens when they collide with planets, like Earth! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.
17) The Sun
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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In this completely updated edition of The Sun featuring beautiful full-color photographs, Seymour Simon presents a fascinating introduction to the star that is the center of our Solar System. Young readers will love exploring the wonders of the sun, from the constant nuclear explosions at its core to the sea of boiling gases that forms its surface. Seymour Simon knows how to explain science to kids and make it fun. He was a teacher for more than twenty...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"A biography of astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who helped build a radio telescope that helped her discover pulsars, a new type of star. Some scientists consider it the greatest astronomical discovery of the twentieth century. Despite this achievement, she was overlooked in favor of two male colleagues when the Nobel Prize for physics was awarded. Bell is still working and teaching today, with recognition"--
19) The milky way
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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This title will cover how our galaxy got its start billions of years ago, what it's been doing since then, its size, and everything that is a part of it.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Journey to the Moon on the Apollo 12 mission with astronaut and artist Alan Bean! As a boy, Alan wanted to fly planes. As a young navy pilot, Alan wished he could paint the view from the cockpit. So he took an art class to learn patterns and forms. But no class could prepare him for the beauty of the lunar surface some 240,000 miles from Earth. In 1969, Alan became the fourth man and first artist on the moon. He took dozens of pictures, but none...
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