Title:
Moon / Stewart Ross.
ISBN:
9780545127325
Personal Author:
Edition:
First American edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Scholastic, 2009.
Physical Description:
128 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
General Note:
Gift of Kappa Delta Pi, Alpha Delta Omega Chapter International Honor Society in Education.
"Originally published by Oxford University Press 2009.
Includes index.
Contents:
Countdown ; Liftoff! ; The Moon ; Moonlight ; How it All Began ; Ancient Explanations ; Toward Science ; Into Orbit! ; What's in a Name? ; Spacemen ; Muslim Foundations ; Moon Gods ; Moon Goddesses ; Moon Worship ; Science's Revolution ; Moon Probes ; Apollo - The Tragedy ; Newton's Moon ; Hey Diddle Diddle! ; Man in the Moon ; Creation ; Moon Men! The Mighty Saturn ; Moon Movies ; Moon Horror ; On Target ; The Changing Moon ; Moonlit Love ; Eclipse ; The Pioneers ; Time and Tide ; Moon Music ; Zero Hour
Moon Song ; Moon Matter ; Here We Come! ; The Eagle Has Landed ! ; Moon Map ; The White Beauty ; One Small Step ; Dramatic Moon ; Lunar Atmosphere ; Men from Earth ; Lunar Gravity ; Lunacy ; Homeward Bound ; The Dark Side ; Splashdown! ; The Moon as a Symbol ; Art and Science ; Painted Moon ; Return to the Moon ; Living on the Moon ; Unseen Influence ; Lunar Dating ; Moonbeams ; Moon Info ; Moon Dates ; Moon Sites.
Summary:
This special book written to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing combines the story of the preparation, journey, arrival, and landing of Apollo 11 with scientific information about the Moon and its influence on our culture through music, theater, literature, and more.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 7.7 4.0 134963.
Reading Counts RC 3-5 9.3 7 Quiz: 46976.
Corporate Subject:
Audience:
1040L Lexile
OCLC Number:
ocn264041902
Availability:
Rosemount - Robert Trail~1
