stars

Night after night, a girl speaks to a dying star and, inspired by its resilience, follows her dream to reach the star someday.

"Stars give off light in space. Some stars are forming, and others are dying. [This book] . . . reveals the . . . details of stars"--Provided by publisher.

Middle-schooler Alma Lucas goes on a quest to return a fallen star to the sky, and along the way discovers friendship, magic, and the strength of her own soul.

"Ivy Mae Bloom is almost thirteen years old...She desperately wants a place to put down roots, but it's her mama's job as a fallen star to tend the magic underpinning the world...After Ivy steals Mama's entire supply of wish jars in the hopes of finding a place to call home, disaster strands her family in Whistling Ridge, North Carolina...Ivy falls for Whistling Ridge immediately; she just needs to convince her parents to stay"--Provided by publisher.

"Ancient people from many different cultures all looked up and imagined pictures in the sky by 'drawing' a line from one star to another, like a connect-the-dots puzzle. These star pictures--constellations--represented myths and legends from the various cultures that still fascinate us. [The] author relates many of the . . . constellation stories and explains what stars actually are: how they formed, why they die, and how they're grouped into constellation families"--Provided by publisher.

This book provides a key to the cosmos for the curious, the busy and the bewildered. It offers a complete introduction to the heavens through the tales of these celestial superstars and tells the intriguing, inspiring and sometimes just plain odd story of how stargazers unravelled the mysteries of the universe. 'Watch the stars, and from them learn' - advice from Albert Einstein, a chap who knew a thing or two. But where do you even start? Look up on a clear, dark evening and you'll be confronted by thousands of stars, scattered apparently at random. Okay, you can always learn the patterns of the constellations and even the names of individual stars, but what does that tell you about the Universe itself? If only there was some way of focusing on the important ones... The cosmos is a big place, with even the closest stars so far away that the idea of visiting them is a distant dream.

In a dark, rainy, lonely world a girl's wish brings a star to earth, but its light fades until her acts of kindness make the star spark and flame.

Text and photographs provide an introduction to stars.

Curious George learns about stars.

Does life exist somewhere other than Earth? How many planets are outside our galaxy? What happens when stars crash into each other? For a long time, people believed Earth was the only planet in the galaxy. Now we know the universe is much bigger. Budding astronomers will learn all about planets, stars, and galaxies, from what's already known to what scientists are still hoping to find out.