A Surprise for Pluto

A Surprise for Pluto PDF Author: Disney Book Group
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
ISBN: 1484756983
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20

Book Description
One sunny morning, Mickey got a splendid idea: he would spend the day building a tree house with his friends! Right away, Mickey and the gang get to work sawing, hammering, and painting boards for the tree house. When Mickey's nephews Morty and Ferdie come home from the park with Pluto, they excitedly scramble up the rope ladder and into the tree house. But how will poor Pluto climb up the rope and join in the fun? Don't miss this heartwarming tale as Mickey and his friends work together to build the best tree house ever!

Pluto Gets the Call

Pluto Gets the Call PDF Author: Adam Rex
Publisher: Beach Lane Books
ISBN: 1534414533
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
Pluto gets a call from Earth telling him he isn’t a planet anymore, so he sets out on a journey through the solar system to find out why in this funny and fact-filled romp that’s perfect for fans of The Scrambled States of America. Pluto loves being a planet. That is, until the day he gets a call from some Earth scientists telling him he isn’t a planet anymore! You probably wanted to meet a real planet, huh? So, Pluto takes the reader on a hilarious and informative journey through the solar system to introduce the other planets and commiserate about his situation along the way. Younger readers will be so busy laughing over Pluto’s interactions with the other planets, asteroids, moons, and even the sun, they won’t even realize just how much they’re learning about our solar system!

Pluto's Secret

Pluto's Secret PDF Author: Margaret Weitekamp
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1613124961
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44

Book Description
People, children especially, have been baffled, bewildered, and even outraged by the fact that Pluto is no longer called a planet. Through whimsical artwork and an entertaining dialogue format, Pluto’s Secret explains the true story of this distant world. Providing a history of the small, icy world from its discovery and naming to its recent reclassification, this book presents a fascinating look at how scientists organize and classify our solar system as they gain new insights into how it works and what types of things exist within it. The book includes a glossary and bibliography. Praise for Pluto's Secret "Pairing a lighthearted narrative in a hand-lettered†“style typeface with informally drawn cartoon illustrations, this lively tale of astronomical revelations begins with the search for Planet X.†? —Kirkus Reviews "This picture book offers a fresh, positive perspective on Pluto, showing that its change of status is not a demotion but a correction." —Booklist "Light-hearted imagining of a gregarious Pluto.†? —Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books "Fun reading... The book provides a factual history of our faraway 'dwarf,' and on its companion icy worlds, and on the discovery of Kuiper-like bands around other stars." —School Library Journal Award New York Public Library’s annual Children’s Books list: 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing 2013

Dispatches from Pluto

Dispatches from Pluto PDF Author: Richard Grant
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476709645
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
New Yorkers Grant and his girlfriend Mariah decided on a whim to buy an old plantation house in the Mississippi Delta. This is their journey of discovery to a remote, isolated strip of land, three miles beyond the tiny community of Pluto. They learn to hunt, grow their own food, and fend off alligators, snakes, and varmints galore. They befriend an array of unforgettable local characters, capture the rich, extraordinary culture of the Delta, and delve deeply into the Delta's lingering racial tensions. As the nomadic Grant learns to settle down, he falls not just for his girlfriend but for the beguiling place they now call home.

A Place for Pluto

A Place for Pluto PDF Author: Stef Wade
Publisher: Capstone Editions
ISBN: 168446093X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 16

Book Description
Shocked to be stripped of his planet status, Pluto goes on a quest to find his place in the universe. Includes educational materials.

Chasing New Horizons

Chasing New Horizons PDF Author: Alan Stern
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 125009898X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364

Book Description
Called "spellbinding" (Scientific American) and "thrilling...a future classic of popular science" (PW), the up close, inside story of the greatest space exploration project of our time, New Horizons’ mission to Pluto, as shared with David Grinspoon by mission leader Alan Stern and other key players. On July 14, 2015, something amazing happened. More than 3 billion miles from Earth, a small NASA spacecraft called New Horizons screamed past Pluto at more than 32,000 miles per hour, focusing its instruments on the long mysterious icy worlds of the Pluto system, and then, just as quickly, continued on its journey out into the beyond. Nothing like this has occurred in a generation—a raw exploration of new worlds unparalleled since NASA’s Voyager missions to Uranus and Neptune—and nothing quite like it is planned to happen ever again. The photos that New Horizons sent back to Earth graced the front pages of newspapers on all 7 continents, and NASA’s website for the mission received more than 2 billion hits in the days surrounding the flyby. At a time when so many think that our most historic achievements are in the past, the most distant planetary exploration ever attempted not only succeeded in 2015 but made history and captured the world’s imagination. How did this happen? Chasing New Horizons is the story of the men and women behind this amazing mission: of their decades-long commitment and persistence; of the political fights within and outside of NASA; of the sheer human ingenuity it took to design, build, and fly the mission; and of the plans for New Horizons’ next encounter, 1 billion miles past Pluto in 2019. Told from the insider’s perspective of mission leader Dr. Alan Stern and others on New Horizons, and including two stunning 16-page full-color inserts of images, Chasing New Horizons is a riveting account of scientific discovery, and of how much we humans can achieve when people focused on a dream work together toward their incredible goal.

Where's Pluto's Ball?

Where's Pluto's Ball? PDF Author: Thea Feldman
Publisher: Disney Press
ISBN: 9781423110132
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The hunt is on! Join the Sensational Six as they run, leap, and fly, in search of Pluto's lost ball. Young readers will have fun using the included Toodles wheel to choose the correct Mouseketool for each obstacle that the friends face on their search. MICKEY MOUSE CLUBHOUSE IS HUGE!: The premiere of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse delivered the highest ratings ever for a Playhouse Disney series premiere among Kids 2-5, Girls 2-5,Households, and Total Viewers. It also premiered at #1 among all basic cable networks in its time period for Kids 2-5. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse shows no signs of slowing down as it settles in to its first season. It is the number one show among preschoolers!

How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming

How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming PDF Author: Mike Brown
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0385531109
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
The solar system most of us grew up with included nine planets, with Mercury closest to the sun and Pluto at the outer edge. Then, in 2005, astronomer Mike Brown made the discovery of a lifetime: a tenth planet, Eris, slightly bigger than Pluto. But instead of adding one more planet to our solar system, Brown’s find ignited a firestorm of controversy that culminated in the demotion of Pluto from real planet to the newly coined category of “dwarf” planet. Suddenly Brown was receiving hate mail from schoolchildren and being bombarded by TV reporters—all because of the discovery he had spent years searching for and a lifetime dreaming about. A heartfelt and personal journey filled with both humor and drama, How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming is the book for anyone, young or old, who has ever imagined exploring the universe—and who among us hasn’t?

Rethinking War And Peace

Rethinking War And Peace PDF Author: Diana Francis
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
An entirely modern argument for the irrelevance of war as a goal in international affairs.

Dr. Dee Dee Dynamo's Mission to Pluto

Dr. Dee Dee Dynamo's Mission to Pluto PDF Author: Oneeka Williams
Publisher: Mascot Books
ISBN: 9781620861851
Category : Pluto (Dwarf planet)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Dee Dee, a girl surgeon with special powers, travels to Pluto to perform a surgical operation that will allow Pluto to regain its status as a planet.