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Meteor! is a 1987 children's picture book by author Patricia Polacco. Polacco is well known for writing and illustrating stories depicting events from her childhood in Michigan. Meteor! was published in 1987 by The Trumpet Club, commonly known for publications of children's books from grades PreK-6. [1]
It includes: a guide to get a book club started, an entertainment section for book club meeting ideas (menus, themes, favors, movie combos), book reviews (by me and my mom the owners of the site, and our visitors who contribute), blog page for an online book of the month club, a kids corner discussing children's book clubs and books, facts and ...
It is often simply called a book club, a term that may cause confusion with a book sales club. Other terms include reading group, book group, and book discussion group. Book discussion clubs may meet in private homes, libraries, bookstores, online forums, pubs, and cafés, or restaurants, sometimes over meals or drinks.
Maximum meteor activity is expected to peak between 10 a.m. ET to 1 p.m. ET (15 to 18 Coordinated Universal Time) on January 3, which favors Alaska, Hawaii and far eastern Asia, said Bob Lunsford ...
In Charles Sheffield's 1995 novel The Ganymede Club, war breaks out over trade disputes, [16] and in the Asteroid Wars subseries of Ben Bova's Grand Tour series, starting with the 2001 novel The Precipice, different factions compete for control of the resources in the asteroid belt, [3] [5] [16] while Chris Bunch's 2002 novel Star Risk, Ltd ...
The club typically meets from 7 to 8 p.m. every third Thursday of the month at King High School's planetarium. Meetings, which do not include a planetarium show, are free and open to the public.
In 2020, Miss Meteor was a Tor.com Reviewers' Choice book [8] and was included on their "Best Young Adult Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror of 2020" list. [9]The American Library Association included it on their 2021 Rainbow List [10] and their list of the "Best Fiction for Young Adults."
Elma York, a mathematician and former WASP pilot, and her husband Nathaniel, a scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project and later NACA, survive the catastrophe. Many members of Elma’s family are killed by the meteor and resulting tsunamis. Elma calculates that climate change from the disaster will make the Earth uninhabitable within ...