Rash, Andy
Summary: "After hearing about the total solar eclipse happening in two months, a boy makes a plan with his father to go see it. They drive to the perfect campsite, not wanting to miss the couple of minutes when the sun will be completely hidden by the moon. When the moment happens, being together makes it even more special. Based on a trip that author-illustrator Andy Rash took with his son to see the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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Summary: Learn about the history of eclipse discoveries and how technology helps scientists study eclipses today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2018
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Summary: To the Chicome people, an eclipse is a time of terror. When darkness falls, the barrier separating the heavens and the earth becomes unstable. Then come the ravening Tzitzimime--the star demons who thirst for human blood. Mayana and Ahkin know the full extent of the coming danger, but they must gather support or the Chicome Empire is doomed. As the eclipse nears, many maneuver for power in this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FORClose, F. E.
Summary: On August 21st, over one hundred million people will gather across the USA to witness the most-watched total solar eclipse in history. Eclipse: Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon, by popular science author Frank Close, describes the spellbinding allure of this beautiful natural phenomenon. The book explains why eclipses happen, reveals their role in history, literature and myth, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sci Space CloseFraknoi, Andrew
Summary: This illustrated book is a fun way to get young astronomers ready for August 2017, when millions of North Americans will have the rare chance to witness a solar eclipse. The book tells how two curious children and their grandparents re-create eclipses in their living room using a lamp, a tennis ball, two Hula Hoops, and Ping-Pong balls. Later, in the backyard and around the house, the family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Science Teachers Association 2017
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 523.7 FRADvorak, John (John J.)
Summary: "Both entertaining and authoritative, Mask of the Sun reveals the humanism behind the science of both lunar and solar eclipses. With insightful detail and vividly accessible prose, Dvorak provides explanations as to how and why eclipses occur--as well as insight into the forthcoming eclipse of 2017 that will be visible across North America"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 523 DVOHoult, Janet Cameron
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Publisher / Publication Date: Outskirts Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 HOUBetts, Bruce
Summary: "The year 2024 is set to have multiple solar and lunar eclipses. But what do you know about eclipses? With engaging diagrams and photos, readers will learn all about eclipses in an approachable way"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2024
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Summary: "Just in time for the third North American total solar eclipse of the twenty-first century, this book explains how to safely observe solar eclipses, how long eclipses last, and why they result in a blackout period during the day"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 523.7 RAUWhitethorne, Baje.
Summary: Explaining a solar eclipse, a Navajo tells his grandson that when the sun dies the children of Mother Earth are called from the four directions to repaint the universe in all the colors of the rainbow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salina Bookshelf 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WHISandberg, Jayme
Summary: "The proud but forgetful center of our solar system is anxious about the upcoming total solar eclipse. Will Earthlings get hurt looking at it? What will they think when Sun's dependable light suddenly vanishes in the middle of the day? How could Moon betray their stellar friendship? Sun tries to calm its nerves with the help of Comet Delivery and sends letters to Earth and Moon. When totality...
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Publisher / Publication Date: It's All Stories 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SANMass, Wendy
Summary: Ally, Bree, and Jack meet at the one place the Great Eclipse can be seen in totality, each carrying the burden of different personal problems, which become dim when compared to the task they embark upon and the friendship they find.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2008
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Summary: "In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world. Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and is set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship, Xiala, is a disgraced Teek whose song can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Roanhorse 2021Gates, S. James (Sylvester James)
Summary: "In 1916, a nearly unknown German-born theoretical physicist named Albert Einstein had developed his theory of relativity, but hadn't yet been able to prove it. The only way to do that was through the clear view and measurement of a solar eclipse. In Mayof 1919, one of the longest total solar eclipses of the 20th century was visible for almost seven minutes in the Southern Hemisphere"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.11 GATRao, Joe.
Summary: "Did you know that comets are sometimes called "hairy stars?" Or that if you saw a sunset on the moon, the sun would look white because the moon doesn't have an atmosphere? You'll learn this and much more as you become an expert on the objects in the sky"--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JSpace RaoSwinarski, Claire
Summary: It's summer in Moose Junction, and twelve-year-old Abby McCourt should be excited about the approaching solar eclipse--especially because she's obsessed with astronomy--but she's not. After the incident at the Memorial Day barbecue, nothing has been the same. Her friends avoid her. Her parents are stressed. And the one person she felt closest to--her older sister Blair--has been sent to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SWIDunlop, Storm
Summary: "A comprehensive month-by-month handbook to the stars and constellations visible from North America in 2019, this practical guidebook is both an easy introduction to astronomy and a useful reference for seasoned stargazers. Features include: Advice on where to start looking and how to navigate ths sky; Easy-to-use star and constellation maps for each month with descriptions of what you will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books, Ltd. 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523 DUNFox, Kate Allen
Summary: "Sky gazers experience a total solar eclipse in this descriptive picture book about the wonders of this phenomenon"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Summary: "Willow Davis is a genie. And, as a genie, she grants only the most sincere wishes. But something strange is going on because suddenly anytime anyone says "I wish," Willow grants that wish. This means big problems for Jeanie and Willow. Can the girls figure out the problem? Or is there something more...out-of-this-world going on?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2021
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Summary: In 1919, British scientists led extraordinary expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein's revolutionary new theory of general relativity in what became the century's most celebrated scientific experiment. The result ushered in a new era and made Einstein a global celebrity by confirming his dramatic prediction that the path of light rays would be bent by gravity. Today,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.11 KENRoanhorse, Rebecca
Summary: "The great city of Tova is shattered. The sun is held within the smothering grip of the Crow God's eclipse, but a comet that marks the death of a ruler and heralds the rise of a new order is imminent. The Meridian: a land where magic has been codified and the worship of gods suppressed. How do you live when legends come to life, and the faith you had is rewarded? As sea captain Xiala is swept...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction RoanhorseRoanhorse, Rebecca
Summary: "The great city of Tova is shattered. The sun is held within the smothering grip of the Crow God's eclipse, but a comet that marks the death of a ruler and heralds the rise of a new order is imminent. As sea captain Xiala is swept up in the chaos and currents of change, she finds an unexpected ally in the former Priest of Knives. For the Clan Matriarchs of Tova, tense alliances form as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROACuevas, Adrianna
Summary: "A Cuban American boy must use his secret ability to communicate with animals to save the inhabitants of his town when they are threatened by a tule vieja, a witch that transforms into animals"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1999