Just Right: Searching for the Goldilocks Planet
Just Right: Searching for the Goldilocks Planet
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Just Right: Searching for the Goldilocks Planet

Written by Curtis Manley & illustrated by Jessica Lanan
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5 - 9
Reading age
48
Page count
1080L
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Jan 29, 2019
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Do you wonder if humansare the only beings who wonderif they are alone in the universe?Our sun is a star.In the night sky are all kinds of stars, and orbiting those starsare planets like the ones in our own solar system. Could those planets have lifelike we do on Earth? Planet Earth is not too big, not too small, not too hot, and not too cold. It’s just right.Our very own Goldilocks planet . . . . Follow a young girlas she explores these questionsin this gorgeous book about the wondrous searchfor another Goldilocks planet.

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9781250155337
    Publication Date
    January 29, 2019
    Publisher
    Roaring Brook Press
    Page Count
    48
    Reading Age
    5 - 9 years
    Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
    2018944875
    Lexile® Level
    1080L
    Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
    ~Z
    ATOS® Book Level
    5.5
    Accelerated Reader® Points
    0.5
    Accelerated Reader Quiz
    501969
    Accelerated Reader Interest Level
    LG

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