Stark, Ulf
Summary: Tonight Dad wants to show his son something very special: the universe. Of course, they can't possibly embark on such a daring adventure unprepared, so they wrap up warm, gather provisions, and then off they go. It's a long walk, but eventually they get there. Along the way, they learn that sometimes the journey is more important than the destination, and sometimes the biggest lessons happen...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gecko Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STAHernandez, Carlos Alberto
Summary: "When Sal Vidnon meets Gabi Real for the first time, it isn't under the best of circumstances. Sal is in the principal's office for the third time in three days, and it's still the first week of school. Gabi, student council president and editor of the school paper, is there to support her friend Yasmany, who just picked a fight with Sal. She is determined to prove that, somehow, Sal planted a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: "Abby really doesn't want to do her homework. So she creates a black hole to swallow it up... but the black hole turns into a baby universe!"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC ZELHernandez, Carlos Alberto Pablo
Summary: In order to heal after his mother's death, thirteen-year-old Sal learns to reach into time and space to retrieve things--and people--from other universes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2019
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT SF Hernandez 2019Scheele, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books, LLC 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHHawking, Lucy.
Summary: Follows the adventures of a young boy and his neighbor friend as they travel through a computer portal into outer space, where they explore such mysteries as black holes and the origins of the universe, while trying to evade an evil scientist.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HAWLightman, Alan P.
Summary: God, or Mr. g, lives in the Void with his aunt and uncle, while he creates space and time through trial and error as his rival Belhor questions his choices as the universe grows.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIGGreenburg, J. C. (Judith C.)
Summary: When Uncle Al is kidnapped by Dr. Kron-Tox and sent to prehistoric times, Andrew, his cousin Judy, and Thudd the robot try to use Uncle Al's latest invention, the Time-A-Tron, to rescue him, and learn firsthand about the origins of the universe.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE GREMass, Wendy
Summary: Joss, the seventh son of the Supreme Overlord of the Universe, must team up with a human girl to re-create Earth, when the planet is accidentally erased from existence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2013
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MASJayawardhana, Ray
Summary: When a father and daughter look out at the moon, the father finds a connection between his child and the cosmos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Make Me A World 2020
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Summary: A rhymed view of the interrelatedness and belonging of all things and creatures in the universe, from the stars, to the sea, to a mouse, to a child.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC LINBauer, Marion Dane
Summary: "Since the beginning, humans have created stories about the universe. From early mythology to modern-day science is a long journey, yet 95 percent of the world "out there" remains a mystery. What will we believe tomorrow? Marion Dane Bauer's glowing poetry combines with Hari & Deepti's intricate cut-paper illustrations, dazzling with light and shadow, to celebrate an active, vital, changing,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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Summary: In this cumulative, rhyming story, a young boy takes a nighttime ride from the distant stars in the Milky Way galaxy to his cozy bed, as his blanket becomes a rocket, a plane, and a skateboard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE REIWeis, Margaret.
Summary: Haplo the Patryn explores the four elemental realms and finds information about the long-ago sundering that split them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1993
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SF WEIWeis, Margaret.
Summary: An assassin and the royal child he has been hired to kill form an unlikely and unstable alliance as the plots of human sorcerers, elven pirates, and dwarf revolutionaries threaten to overwhelm the airborne kingdoms of Arianus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1990
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Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JENSummary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CLIDowell, Frances O'Roark.
Summary: Middle-schooler Isabelle Bean follows a mouse's squeak into a closet and falls into a parallel universe where the children believe she is the witch they have feared for years, finally come to devour them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2010