Pluto: From Planet to Dwarf (True Books: Space) [Paperback]

Elaine Landau (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up | Series: True Books: Space

Ideal for today's young investigative reader, each A True Book includes lively sidebars, a glossary and index, plus a comprehensive "To Find Out More" section listing books, organizations, and Internet sites. A staple of library collections since the 1950s, the new A True Book series is the definitive nonfiction series for elementary school readers.

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Elaine Landau is the author of several nonfiction books for children. --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 7 and up
  
• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: Children's Press(CT) (March 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0531147940
• ISBN-13: 978-0531147948
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 6.9 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #138,913 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #34 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Children's Books > Science, Nature & How It Works > Astronomy & Space > Astronomy
  • #64 in Books > Children's Books > Science, Nature & How It Works > Astronomy & Space > Astronomy

More About the Author

I'm a children's book author and writing coach who loves both children and books. I've never been much of a fiction fan, I've spent my time both reading and writing nonfiction. I live in tropical Miami with my husband and son who are nonfiction lovers as well.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Learn how Pluto lost its ninth planet status and was dubbed a dwarf planet!, May 25, 2009

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This review is from: Pluto: From Planet to Dwarf (True Books: Space) (Paperback)

In every "True Book" there are two true or false questions in the front. Only one of them is true and you'll have to read the entire book to find out the answer, but naturally you'll have a great time doing it. When your parents were growing up, they were taught that there were nine planets, but astronomers, using their up to date technology and telescopes, decided otherwise. Pluto is a dwarf planet. There are only eight planets in our solar system. Once you read about it in this book you can stump all kinds of grownups when you ask them the number of planets or ask them to name them!

Pluto is approximately "3.6 billion miles (5.8 billion kilometers) from Earth." This dwarf planet, unlike earth, has no oxygen and is very cold. No spacecraft has ever visited this far away place, but a ship called New Horizons is scheduled to arrive there in 2015. Perhaps then many of our questions will be answered. In this book you will learn about our solar system and Pluto's place in it, the climate, how it rotates on its tilted axis, scientific theories about it, how astronomers proved it was not a planet and its moons. Did you know that "one year on Pluto equals about 248 Earth years?" There are so many interesting facts you can learn in this book!

This is one of the more interesting True Books about planets, or in Pluto's case, a dwarf planet. This series of books will fascinate the reader and nudge the young space cadet to read even more. In this book there are informative sidebars, full color photographs, illustrations, interesting facts scattered throughout the text, an index, important words, statistics and additional recommended book and web sites to explore. Who discovered Pluto? Guess you'd better read this book to find out!