Books with title Out Of This World

With 300 fabulous images, 50 fantastic projects, and lots of fascinating scientific information, this is simply the most out-of-this world introduction to astronomy a child can have. "An excellent introduction to astronomy...outstanding background information ...Spectacular color photos and other graphics, useful charts, and graphs augment the text."--School Library Journal, starred review What are stars? Why does the moon change shape? Budding astronomers will find answers to all their questions about the night sky--and far more--in these 50 eye-opening activities. Three-hundred color photos and illustrations, some from NASA's magnificent collection, help kids soar out into the solar system and get their bearings among the stars. Youngsters will learn to use binoculars and telescopes, and how to chart their viewing highlights in a stargazing notebook. A photographic trip to the moon will inspire kids to map its many phases, calculate a person's lunar weight, and find out what happens during an eclipse. Voyaging farther out also reveals why the other planets wouldn't make a good home for humans, and will help children understand why Earth is avery special place. A Selection of the Children's Book-of-the-Month Club and the Scholastic Book Club.

In this sequel to "On All Hallows' Eve" Meg (now in eighth grade) and her sister, Sue (now in seventh) embark on a life-and-death adventure on two planes: that of the everyday waking world, and that of some deep dream level linked to it in a mysterious and frightening way. Christmas Eve, and Meg is having nightmares of being drawn closer each night to a menacing dark hole. The night she reachest it, a hand reaches through the hole and a boy cries for help. At first, she tries to stay awake, reluctant to put herself in danger. When her conscience kicks in and she decides to try to help the boy, Sue provides a novel way for her to do it. As a result, Meg meets her idol, Morgan le Fay, along with a crusty old mariner named Peter Saltifer. She acquires a virtual flying ship called Lady Buscarle, and makes for herself a virtual refuge: a small terrace garden in Tintagel Castle in Cornwall, England. Meanwhile, on the waking level, the boy - Gavin - is lying in a coma. Meg steals in to the hospital to see him, and learning that he hasn't long to live, redoubles her efforts to save him....

James Bradley's quiet predictable life is about to be turned upside down. James attends the elite private school Davenport Academy, and is being forced to follow in his father's successful footsteps. And no matter what James may say, he is forced to be on this path. One summer day, as he is mowing the lawn of his best friend's grandmother, he is accosted by a mysterious violent killer. The only way for him to survive is to be rescued by the beautiful captive trapped inside a great glass mirror. With her own magic failing, the captive Soleil, whisks James to another parallel world where untold adventures await. James is the reluctant savior of this wondrous place. Here he learns about the balance of dark and light forces, and that balance is about to tip permanently in the wrong direction James and Soleil escape from a mountainside prison, and desperately try to find more people from Soleil's magical tribe -- the more tribesmen that are together, the stronger the magic. Unfortunately, they discover a genocidal attempt to fracture the tribe - even physical dismemberment to weaken the only resistance standing in the way. James and Soleil recover the still-living severed head of her aunt who proves to be wise and helpful. She helps the two young people learn about their magic, their connection, and their growing love for one another while trying to find pieces of her own body to restore her power. But can two people from different dimensions hope to have a peaceful relationship? Will the resistance hold? Not in This World.

Some of the coolest science information in our world is out of it, in space. From how the celestial bodies move around our solar system to peoples ability to travel in it, space science is endlessly fascinating. Its also an incredible vehicle for physics learning. In this book, readers learn about space, light and sound, machines, and forces in an engaging format that introduces each new concept with a real-life, surprising fact. Colorful photographs and understandable language present STEM curriculum topics in a new way, sure to draw readers in with their gravitational pull.

Some of the coolest science information in our world is out of it, in space. From how the celestial bodies move around our solar system to peoples ability to travel in it, space science is endlessly fascinating. Its also an incredible vehicle for physics learning. In this book, readers learn about space, light and sound, machines, and forces in an engaging format that introduces each new concept with a real-life, surprising fact. Colorful photographs and understandable language present STEM curriculum topics in a new way, sure to draw readers in with their gravitational pull.

What makes "Out of the World" extraordinary is Snodgrass' relentless pursuit of play in the theater of her own fantastically absurd universe. Fierce and fluorescent, her poetry pierces as it lures and lulls the reader into bliss. It doesn't wobble or stagnate. Doesn't wait to be heard. When you open this book, sit with a plate of dinner rolls. Be thankful for the Appalachian foothills and dogs in space. For the wrens and language that is full of bones. -- Neil de la Flor Author of Almost Dorothy "Out of the World" deploys a lexicon of words that shift even as they are written, othering themselves through space and repetition as they resist the cage of syntax. Like Laika the space dog, the poems are encapsulated, thrust forward, tormented into a visionary reconciliation of equestrian madness and radiant knowledge, a vision unsettled by semantics and catastrophe. This book demands attention of the kind paid to spiders: how they narrate their bodies with words spun from stars. "Out of the World" speaks of "cadence that is an imbalance of light" and asks us to listen to a "breached dream; wholly disheartened, wholly alive." -- Patti White author of Chain Link Fence