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The First Men in the Moon' chronicles humanity's first faltering steps to the stars. The story uses a human-meets-alien adventure to juxtapose two characters whose temperaments personify the extremes of scientific endeavour - the disinterested researcher and the seeker after fame and fortune. Wells' description of spaceflight, including weightlessness, low-gravity gymnastics on the moon and re-entry angles for returning spacecraft, have all proved...
2) Moon Man
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English
Description
The man in the moon outwits the police in several escapades on Earth with the help of his waxing and waning powers and the friendship of a 300-year-old scientist.
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English
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"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets"--
8) Mooncake
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English
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One fine summer evening, a hungry bear decides that he would like to taste a piece of the moon and builds a rocketship to get there.
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English
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High up in the sky, the Moon has spent her whole life watching the happenings of Earth below, from dinosaurs roaming to planes taking flight, hoping for a visitor, until one day in 1969 when a spaceship soars from Earth. Includes Earth timeline and a history of space exploration.
11) Penguinaut!
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Orville is a little penguin who lives in a zoo and dreams of big adventures, like going to the Moon; the other animals are skeptical, but Orville is determined, so he builds a spaceship and sets out all by himself--and discovers that real adventures are best when they are shared with friends.
13) A kite for Moon
Author
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A young boy, seeing that Moon is lonely, sends up a kite to cheer her then, after growing up and learning many things, he becomes the first human to visit her. Dedicated to Neil Armstrong and written in recognition of the fiftieth anniversary of the first U.S. moon landing.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
351, 4 p. : ill., plans, facsimiles, photos. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 2019, teens Mia, Antoine, and Midori are selected by lottery to join experienced astronauts on a NASA mission to the once top-secret moon base, DARLAH 2, while in a Florida nursing home, a former astronaut struggles to warn someone of the terrible danger there.
15) Stark's crusade
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Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
263 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
17) Can't sleep
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Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The moon comforts bedtime fears.
18) Moondance
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Series
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English
Description
Bear fulfills his dream of dancing with the moon.
19) Moongame
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Series
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English
Description
During a game of hide-and-seek, Moon hides behind a cloud, leaving Bear worried his friend is lost.
20) Space boy
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having decided not to go to bed because his home is too noisy, Nicholas flies his spaceship to the Moon, where he enjoys a snack, takes a moonwalk, and enjoys the quiet--until he realizes what he is missing at home.
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