Spinning Through the Universe

Spinning Through the Universe
Title Spinning Through the Universe PDF eBook
Author Helen Frost
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Pages 112
Release 2004-04-01
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 9780374371593

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Engrossing tales from the fifth grade Every child is like A little world with ever-changing weather, Nights and mornings. And somehow, here we are, Spinning through the universe together. Unforgettable students in this fifth-grade classroom reveal their private feelings about birth and death, a missing bicycle and a first kiss, as well as their thoughts about recess, report cards, fitting in, and family. Using a rich array of traditional poetic forms, such as sonnets, sestinas, and acrostics, Helen Frost interweaves the stories of the kids in Room 214 and their teacher. A final section giving detailed analyses of the twenty-two forms will be of special interest.

Room 214: A Year in Poems

Room 214: A Year in Poems
Title Room 214: A Year in Poems PDF eBook
Author Helen Frost
Publisher Square Fish
Pages 115
Release 2016-09-06
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 125013515X

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Engrossing tales from the fifth grade Every child is like A little world with ever-changing weather, Nights and mornings. And somehow, here we are, Spinning through the universe together. Unforgettable students in this fifth-grade classroom reveal their private feelings about birth and death, a missing bicycle and a first kiss, as well as their thoughts about recess, report cards, fitting in, and family. Using a rich array of traditional poetic forms, such as sonnets, sestinas, and acrostics, Helen Frost interweaves the stories of the kids in Room 214 and their teacher. A final section giving detailed analyses of the twenty-two forms will be of special interest.

Spinning in Space

Spinning in Space
Title Spinning in Space PDF eBook
Author Dana Meachen Rau
Publisher Capstone
Pages 14
Release 2006
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 1404811389

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A very basic introduction to the planets of our solar system.

The Solar System

The Solar System
Title The Solar System PDF eBook
Author Claire Bampton
Publisher Reader's Digest Children's Books
Pages 0
Release 1999-03
Genre Solar system
ISBN 9781575842837

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Kids explore the spatial environment when they journey through the solar system and acquire important facts on the Sun, the nine planets, and their Moons. Full color. 4 spreads.

Keesha's House

Keesha's House
Title Keesha's House PDF eBook
Author Helen Frost
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Pages 136
Release 2016-09-06
Genre Young Adult Fiction
ISBN 1466896329

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An unforgettable narrative collage told in poems Keesha has found a safe place to live, and other kids gravitate to her house when they just can't make it on their own. They are Stephie – pregnant, trying to make the right decisions for herself and those she cares about; Jason – Stephie's boyfriend, torn between his responsibility to Stephie and the baby and the promise of a college basketball career; Dontay – in foster care while his parents are in prison, feeling unwanted both inside and outside the system; Carmen – arrested on a DUI charge, waiting in a juvenile detention center for a judge to hear her case; Harris – disowned by his father after disclosing that he's gay, living in his car, and taking care of himself; Katie – angry at her mother's loyalty to an abusive stepfather, losing herself in long hours of work and school. Stretching the boundaries of traditional poetic forms – sestinas and sonnets – Helen Frost's extraordinary debut novel for young adults weaves together the stories of these seven teenagers as they courageously struggle to hold their lives together and overcome their difficulties. Keesha's House is a 2004 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Spin

Spin
Title Spin PDF eBook
Author Robert Charles Wilson
Publisher Hachette UK
Pages 359
Release 2011-09-29
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0575117508

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One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big Blackout. It would shape their lives. The effect is worldwide. The sun is now a featureless disk - a heat source, rather than an astronomical object. The moon is gone, but tides remain. Not only have the world's artificial satellites fallen out of orbit, their recovered remains are pitted and aged, as though they'd been in space far longer than their known lifespans. As Tyler, Jason, and Diane grow up, space probe reveals a bizarre truth: The barrier is artificial, generated by huge alien artifacts. Time is passing faster outside the barrier than inside - more than a hundred million years per day on Earth. At this rate, the death throes of the sun are only about forty years in our future. Jason, now a promising young scientist, devotes his life to working against this slow-moving apocalypse. Diane throws herself into hedonism, marrying a sinister cult leader who's forged a new religion out of the fears of the masses. Earth sends terraforming machines to Mars to let the onrush of time do its work, turning the planet green. Next they send humans...and immediately get back an emissary with thousands of years of stories to tell about the settling of Mars. Then Earth's probes reveal that an identical barrier has appeared around Mars. Jason, desperate, seeds near space with self-replicating machines that will scatter copies of themselves outward from the sun - and report back on what they find. Life on Earth is about to get much, much stranger.

Spinning Worlds

Spinning Worlds
Title Spinning Worlds PDF eBook
Author Michael Carroll
Publisher Chariot Victor Publishing
Pages 32
Release 1996
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 9781564765710

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Examines, in brief text and illustrations, the characteristics of the planets in our solar system.