Dilloway, Margaret
Summary: Struggling with grief over her uncle's death, twelve-year-old amateur astronomer Tuesday Beals makes a discovery that could save her favorite astronomy spots in Zion National Park from the threat of a new housing development.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPubishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DILErnshaw, Shea
Summary: An illness cursing the land forces seventeen-year-old Vega, the Last Astronomer, to venture across the wilderness to discover the stars message that will save her people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ERNFoxe, Steve
Summary: Mr. Kazarian's evil cousin Kronkhold has a black hole generator, and it is up to the alien librarian and the four students who know his secret to stop Kronkhold before his device swallows Earth, and the rest of the solar system--and get back to Earth in time for TJ, Dani, Shea, and Walden to make their class presentation on Albert Einstein.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FOXEves, Rosalyn
Summary: Elizabeth Bertelsen dreams of becoming an astronomer, but for her such dreams are as unreachable as the stars she so deeply adores. As a Mormon girl, her duty is to her family and, in a not too far away future, to the man who will choose to marry her. When she unexpectedly finds herself in Colorado, she is tempted by the total eclipse of the sun that is about to happen-- and maybe even meeting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC EVEMartens, J. D.
Summary: "Robert Miller must work together with North Korean scientists to find a way to keep the larger comet fragment from hitting Earth. Major Winter joins him as his bodyguard, leaving Jeremy and Anna to fend for themselves at his mansion. Janice has plans of her own up on the Ark, while Dustin and Karina realize that Israel is less hospitable now that the Earth's temperature has returned to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: EPIC Escape, an imprint of EPIC Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MARMartens, J. D.
Summary: "Dustin and Karina struggle to survive in Europe, while Jeremy returns to Houston with renewed vigor to help stop the comet. Meanwhile, the United States Government tries to find out more about a terrorist organization, the Soldiers of God. While Suri recovers from a terrorist attack, Robert struggles to work without his "partner in science." With the impact only months away, will they be able...
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Publisher / Publication Date: EPIC Escape, an imprint of EPIC Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MARBoyle, Keri Claiborne
Summary: "Jordie loves space. She can't believe it when she finds a black hole in her desk. But when the black hole starts snarfing everything in sight--including her dog--she realizes the black hole needs to go home. "--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BOYHolman, Sheri.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC HOLMartens, J. D.
Summary: "Jeremy and Anna encounter many difficulties in the new apocalyptic United States. Dustin and Karina also find themselves returning to their home country as Seed Ambassadors for Global See Vault. Meanwhile, Robert and Major Winter are finding out that it will be much harder to leave North Korea than they had anticipated ... Will civilization rise again after coming to the brink of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: EPIC Escape, an imprint of EPIC Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MARMartens, J. D.
Summary: "After the comet's fracture, the world braces for one of the fragments to land somewhere on the Eurasian Plate. While humanity struggles to survive under these new onerous circumstances, Robert and his team must find a way--with limited resources--to stop the other comet fragments from hitting Earth. Hopefully, the new Vishnu spacecraft captained by Dr. Nia Rhodes will help keep Earth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: EPIC Escape, an imprint of EPIC Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MARSummary: On the night of an astronomical anomaly, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. Part cerebral sci-fi and part relationship drama, a tightly focused, intimately shot film that quickly ratchets up with tension and mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: DVD TCFF COHSummary: Adam is a handsome but intriguing young man who has Asperger's syndrome and has led a sheltered existence. Then he meets his new neighbor, Beth. She is a beautiful, cosmopolitan young woman who pulls him into the outside world, with funny, touching and entirely unexpected results. Their implausible and enigmatic relationship reveals just how far two people from different realities can stretch...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LETScheele, Kyle
Summary: When pizzeria owner's son requests a pizza with everything, his father helps him add sauce, a house, penguins, and more, until they accidentally create a pizza black hole.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books, LLC 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHWolf, Allan
Summary: Violet and her family venture to a local park to partake in some late-night stargazing. Telescope and space book in tow, Violet is ready to explore and discover the night sky for herself, wherever that may lead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WOLZahn, Timothy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZAHBrown, Jordan
Summary: When Jet, Sydney, and Sean have a sleepover in Jet's backyard, they try out Sean's new telescope and explore the night sky.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE BROCham, Jorge
Summary: "Oliver has a lot going on starting his first year of middle school--new friends, new classes, new everything. But at least there's one thing that still makes sense: science! Determined to be an astrophysicist one day, Oliver explains everything he learns--like how the sun burps, how ghost particles fly through you, the uncanny similarities between Mercury and cafeteria meatballs, and most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHAO'Connor, Jane
Summary: When a rainstorm prevents Nancy and her best friend, Robert, from getting to the planetarium the night of a class field trip, she has a brilliant idea for making things better.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE OCOStutzman, Jonathan
Summary: Eating too much pie causes Llama to rip his dancing pants, opening a black hole and threatening the entire universe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STUCuevas, Michelle
Summary: "Eleven-year-old Stella Rodriguez finds herself in possession of a strange new pet that swallows up everything in sight when a black hole decides to follow her home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CUESummary: Monte and his baby daughter are the last survivors of a damned and dangerous mission to deep space. The crew, death row inmates led by a doctor with sinister motives, has vanished. As the mystery of what happened onboard the ship is unraveled, father and daughter must rely on each other to survive as they hurtle toward the oblivion of a black hole.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI HIGEgan, Greg
Summary: Taraxippus is coming ; a black hole one-tenth the mass of the sun that will change the solar system forever. Matt and his friends board a mobile aquaculture rig, self-sustaining in food, power, and fresh water.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2019