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Book cover for "Pluto gets the call".
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Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date:
©2019
Lexile measure:
510L
Language:
English
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5 stars
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Just after learning that Earth's scientists no longer consider him a planet, an unhappy Pluto takes a visitor from Earth on a tour of the solar system, sharing facts along the way.
Book cover for "Sam makes a splash".
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Pub. Date:
2023
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English
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"Eleven-year-old Sam, who lives with her siblings and mothers in a house on Sunrise Lagoon, tries to come up with a plan to save the family's charter boat business before the summer is over"--
Book cover for "Exploring Pluto and other dwarf planets".
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English
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"Pluto is too big to be an asteroid and too small to be a planet, so scientists call it a dwarf planet. It's so far away from the sun that it gets no warmth at all, so it's covered in a thick layer of ice. Readers learn fun facts such as these as they explore the world of our solar system's dwarf planets"--Publisher's website.
Book cover for "Poguemahone".
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Publisher:
Biblioasis
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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A swirling, psychedelic, bleakly funny fugue by the Booker-shortlisted author of The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto. Una Fogarty, suffering from dementia in a seaside nursing home, would be all alone without her brother Dan, whose epic free-verse monologue tells their family story. Exile from Ireland and immigrant life in England. Their mother's trials as a call girl. Young Una's search for love in a seemingly haunted hippie squat, and the two-timing...
Book cover for "Marina in the middle".
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Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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On a quest to become someone's favorite Ali-O'Connor, ten-year-old middle child Marina enlists Boom, her new neighbor, to help make a documentary about her, but when things do not go according to plan, Marina begins to wonder if she will ever feel like she belongs.
Book cover for "I Know What UFO Did Last Summer".
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Publisher:
Temor Press
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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The alien invasion is upon us! At least, that's what twelve-year-old Marv thinks when a mysterious craft appears in the woods behind his house. If there's one thing he's learned from his trusty alien invasion guidebook, it's that ETs are just as likely to land in your backyard as they are on the front lawn of the White House. A plot to take over the planet is the only logical explanation for what's going on. Why else would a suited pilot chase Marv...
Book cover for "The best American short stories, 1966".
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Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date:
1966
Language:
English
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Contains stories by William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and others.
Book cover for "The Interstellar Age".
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Findaway Voices
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
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Forbidden the Stars At the end of the 21st century, a catastrophic accident in the asteroid belt has left two surveyors dead. There is no trace of their young son, Alex Manez, or of the asteroid itself. On the outer edge of the solar system, the first manned mission to Pluto, led by the youngest female astronaut in NASA history, has led to an historic discovery: there is a marker left there by an alien race for humankind to find. We are not alone!...
Book cover for "A really short history of nearly everything".
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date:
[2009]
Lexile measure:
1190L
Language:
English
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Short, illustrated segments explore the history of science. Examines the "how" and the "who" of scientific discovery. Explores the mysteries of time and space, and how, against all odds, life came to be on the wondrous planet we call home.
Book cover for "Nepantla".
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Publisher:
Nightboat Books
Pub. Date:
[2018]
Language:
English
Book cover for "Energy Revolutions".
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Publisher:
Pluto Press
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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'What's needed is a revolution in how we procure, distribute and use energy. Toke boldly goes further, calling for a revolution in who gets to develop and own our renewable future' Paul Gipe, author of Wind Energy for the Rest of Us 'The future of humankind depends on the choices we make about energy systems. Will Western governments go on prioritising obscene corporate profits at the expense of energy security? David Toke authoritatively demonstrates...
Book cover for "Enough".
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Pluto Press
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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'A pragmatic focus on how much better and fairer our economy would be if fewer resources were controlled by the super-rich' 'Financial Times' 'This, right now, with no excuses, no delays, no equivocation, no loop-holes, no moaning' Danny Dorling 'A concise, sharp book that makes an incontrovertible case for a profound redistribution of wealth; and a rousing call to arms to take on the super-rich and build an economy that works for everyone' Grace...
Book cover for "The Void Calls".
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Publisher:
F.W.P Publishing
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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A sentient station older than the sun ...A torus where time stutters ... A realm haunted by the fading wails of the ripping fabric of space ... A band of hardy fools choose to invade it. From the rubble of humankind's worst wars have emerged a myriad claimants to the decadent civilization that the Powers of Solaria had administered for centuries. Collapsing systems erupt in renewed melees as agents of the underground run amok and infiltrators plague...