Michael Byers
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A novel of ambition and obsession centered on the race to discover Pluto in 1930, pitting an untrained Kansas farm boy against the greatest minds of Harvard at the run-down Lowell Observatory in Arizona.
In 1928, the boy who will discover Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh, is on the family farm, grinding a lens for his own telescope under the immense Kansas sky. In Flagstaff, Arizona, the staff of Lowell Observatory is about to resume the late Percival Lowell's...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories set in the Pacific Northwest. The story, In Spain, One Thousand and Three, describes the sexual reawakening of a mourning widower, while in Settled on the Cranberry Coast, a man meets a girl he once pined for, now a grandmother.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
She's built for speed and loves a challenge! Everyone's best friend Koko is chosen to carry the King of Buffertonia and his dignitaries on a special tour of Chuggington. Koko also gets hooked on a computer game trying to beat Hodge's high score and finds herself in a spot of trouble when her net shooter fails on the tracks! Brewster, Wilson, and Koko learn the importance of teamwork, leadership, how to handle an emergency, and more traintastic life...
7) Mo Willems
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Find out how Mo Willems became a bestselling children's author! Did you know Mo Willems' Pigeon character started out as a doodle in a sketchbook? Explore the life and career of one of today's most popular and cherished children's authors. Full of fact-packed sidebars and direct quotes, this eye-opening biography showcases the influences, talents, and creativity that helped Willems rise to the top of bestsellers lists.
