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Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
187 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Description
In a series of messages placed in her grandmother's ancestral jar, a seventh century princess and future ruler of the Korean kingdom of Silla vents her frustration at not being permitted to study astronomy because she is a girl.
5) Life on Mars
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
231 pages ; 22 cm
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
388 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Description
Amateur astronomer Hannah Gardner Price has lived all twenty-four years of her life according to the principles of the Nantucket Quaker community in which she was raised. Then she meets Isaac Martin, a young, dark-skinned whaler from the Azores who, like herself, has ambitions beyond his expected station in life. Drawn to his intellectual curiosity and honest manner, Hannah agrees to take Isaac on as a student. But when their shared interest in the...
Author
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
"The Amalgam spans the nearly entire galaxy, and is composed of innumerable beings from a wild variety of races, some human or near it, some entirely other. The one place that they cannot go is the bulge, the bright, hot center of the galaxy. There dwell the Aloof, who for millions of years have deflected any and all attempts to communicate with or visit them. So when Rakesh is offered an opportunity to travel within their sphere, in search of a lost...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Inc./LucasBooks
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
320 p. ;
Description
On the planet Tython, the ancient Je?daii order was founded. And at the feet of its wise Masters, Lanoree Brock learned the mysteries and methods of the Force?and found her calling as one of its most powerful disciples. But as strongly as the Force flowed within Lanoree and her parents, it remained absent in her brother, who grew to despise and shun the Je?daii, and whose training in its ancient ways ended in tragedy. Now, from her solitary life as...
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"Nine-year-old Julian almost died when he was born and he believes that he has a special connection to the universe because of that, and he wants to make his two moms and his sister (who turned into a black hole of discontentment when she turned fourteen) happy because he is convinced that soon he will die and travel to the dog star--but now they have moved to Maine and he resolves to also use his "uni-sense" ability to help Mr. X, their neighbor,...
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