Fourteen-year-old Brady and his cousin Quinn love extreme sports, but nothing could prepare them for the aftermath of Brady's close encounter with a meteorite after it crashes into his Black Hills, South Dakota, bedroom.
Meet three brilliant, determined early astronomers who used their observations and mathematical understandings to prove Earth's true position in relation to the Sun.
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.
"A[n] ... exploration of seven cosmic catastrophes that could hit Earth and any of the other 20 billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy."--Provided by publisher.
An illustrated introduction to astronomy portrayed through one hundred facts, colorful images and cartoons, and describing planets, mapping the stars, telescopes, and more.
