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Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the role that collisions with meteors, comets, and asteroids have played in the history of Earth and other planets in the solar system and examines what is being done to protect Earth from future collisions.
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old aspiring geologist Henry Bower investigates the meteorite that crash lands in the hayfield, discovering a rock that will change his family, his town, and even himself.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
150 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a meteorite crashes into a fifth-grade classroom at Lincoln School in Oak Park, Illinois, the genie inside agrees to grant the class a Christmas wish--if they can agree on one within an hour.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
76 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Asteroids come in all shapes and sizes--and hit our planet in them, too. But what happens if a catastrophically large one approaches earth? By looking on the ground at historical asteroid craters and present-day falls, and up into space for the big ones yet to come, a wide variety of scientists are trying to figure out how to track asteroids--and how to avoid devastating impacts in the future."--
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Middle schooler Liberty likes to make her own maps of the stars, in fact she is obsessed with them, especially since her family is falling apart; her parents are getting divorced, her nine-year-old sister will barely leave the house and carries a stuffed tiger at all times, her father is suffering from depression, but will not talk about it, and the brothers down the street, once friends, have turned into bullies--so when a tiny meteorite literally...
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