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21) Noche antigua
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Noche antigua combina varios relatos de la tradición oral, como el del conejo y el tlacuache, así como una rivalidad inventada entre ambos que sirve para contar lo que sucede en la noche, tras la milpa: las andanzas de un afanoso conejo y un audaz tlacuache que van y vienen por el campo provocando que la luna cambie de apariencia y que la noche se transforme en día. Este álbum silente está inspirado en el complejo y monumental pensamiento mesoamericano...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Under the glow of a shimmering Moon, creatures great and small are wide awake: hunting, exploring, fending off predators, and building families. As the Moon changes phases, these animals adapt their behavior to match its waxing and waning. With the soothing rhythm of a bedtime story and the scientific wonder of a nature doc, comes a celebration of the moon and all the creatures who rely on its light to find their way home.
23) Artemisa
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
Español
Description
Augmenting her limited income by smuggling contraband to survive on the Moon's wealthy city of Artemis, Jazz agrees to commit what seems to be a perfect, lucrative crime, only to find herself embroiled in a conspiracy for control of the city.
Aumentando sus ingresos limitados mediante el contrabando de contrabando para sobrevivir en la rica ciudad de la Luna de Artemisa, Jazz acepta cometer lo que parece ser un crimen perfecto y lucrativo, solo para...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Here is the story of the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon -- a story of leaving and returning during the summer of 1969, and a story of home, seen whole, from far away by steady astronauts in their great machines.
Author
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Limited
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
A veces el espacio es un lugar bastante solitario, y por eso a la Luna le gusta observar a la gente de la Tierra. Pero hay un problema: cuando sale el Sol, todos se alegran de verlo, mientras que, cuando sale la Luna todos se van a dormir. Esto entristece mucho a la Luna, así que una noche desaparece...¿Dónde estará la Luna? ¡Ayuda a Lucy a encontrar a su amiga!
26) Spaced out
Author
Series
Moon Base Alpha volume 2
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 2041 twelve-year-old Dashiell Gibson is a resident of Moon Base Alpha, and at the moment he is faced with a number of problems: coping with the nasty Sjoberg twins, finding out how the commander of the base has managed to disappear from a facility no bigger than a soccer field, and dealing with the alien Zan who communicates with him telepathically from afar--and who is hiding a secret which may threaten the whole Earth.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 8
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
The magic treehouse takes Jack and Annie to a moon base in the future where they continue to search for the fourth thing they need to free their friend Morgan from the magician's spell.
28) Fae and the moon
Author
Publisher
Yellow Jacket
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Fae, in mourning for her missing mother, sits night after night below the Moon that her mother so loved. Then one night she discovers she can pluck the Moon out of the star-filled sky! Back safe in her house, she holds it close, feeling comfort at last. But Fae loses the Moon, and finds that taking it has awakened ancient monsters--rats, dragons, and more, who hunt it for themselves. Will Fae be able to reclaim the Moon, find her own inner strength,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
Return to Sue Lynn Tan's highly acclaimed, bestselling Celestial Kingdom fantasy romance duology with this new compilation of stories from before, during, and after the events in Daughter of the Moon Goddess and Heart of the Sun Warrior.
Each chapter is illuminated with black and white illustrations by acclaimed artist, Kelly Chong, making this a truly special collection.
Journey once more
...30) Spacemanatee!
Author
Publisher
Magination Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Sweet-natured manatee Anna Lee, believing the moon is home to a Magical Manatee Queen, flies to the lunar surface to prove her existence to her friend, the Loon.
31) First man
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The riveting story behind the first manned mission to the moon, focusing on Neil Armstrong and the decade leading to the historic Apollo 11 flight. A visceral and intimate account told from Armstrong's perspective, based on the book by James R. Hansen, the film explores the triumphs and the cost, on Armstrong, his family, his colleagues and the nation itself; of one of the most dangerous missions in history.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018
Language
Español
Description
Suhaila's wish to know her deceased grandmother is granted when a golden ladder appears at her window and Grandma Annie invites her on a journey to the moon, where they welcome people who are facing tragedy. Includes facts about the painting and woman who inspired the story.
El deseo de Suhaila de conocer a su difunta abuela se da cuando una escalera dorada aparece en su ventana y la abuela Annie la invita a un viaje a la luna, donde reciben a personas...
Author
Series
Big ideas that changed the world volume 1
Publisher
ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong took "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" when the Apollo 11 landed on the moon. But it wasn't just one man who got us to the moon. The Moon Landing explores the people and technology that made the moon landing possible. Instead of examining one person's life, it focuses on the moon landing itself, showing the events leading up to it and how it changed the world. The book takes readers through the history...
Author
Series
Knight and Moon novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The irrepressibly charming duo of Emerson Knight and Riley Moon returns in another gripping mystery by #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich. Buddhist monk Wayan Bagus lost his island of solitude and wants to get it back. The island was about two hundred miles northeast of Samoa. It had a mountain, beaches, a rain forest, and a volcano. And now it's gone. Poof! Vanished without a trace. Brilliant and boyishly charming Emerson Knight...
Author
Publisher
Live Oak Media
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
I Walked on the Moon. This is my journey. It didn't begin when I stepped on board Apollo 11 on July 16, 1969. It began the day I was born -- Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr., whom everyone called Buzz. Becoming an astronaut took more than education, discipline, and physical strength. It took years of determination and believing that any goal is possible -- from riding a bike alone across the George Washington Bridge at age ten to making a footprint on the...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"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"--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A nation in need of hope, the most powerful rocket ever launched, and the first three men to break the bounds of Earth: Apollo 8 was headed to the moon. In 1957, when the USSR launched Sputnik I, the first man-made satellite to orbit Earth, America's rival in the Cold War claimed victory on a new frontier. The Space Race had begun, and the United States was losing. Closer to home, a decade of turbulence would soon have Americans reeling, with the...
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Far from being a lifeless ornament in the sky, the Moon holds the answers to some of science's central questions. Silent, dry, and barren, Earth's 4.34-billion-year-old companion is essential to life on earth. Its gravity stabilized the Earth's orbit, and, as it once guided evolution, its tide stirring up nutrients that fostered complex life, it now influences everything from animal migrations and reproduction to the movements of plants' leaves....
39) Apollo 11
Author
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A look at Apollo 11, NASA's 1969 mission to land on the moon, led by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins.
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The world of the Lunar Chronicles comes alive in this thrilling continuation of Wires and Nerve. Iko, an audacious android and best friend to the Lunar Queen Cinder, has been tasked with hunting down Alpha Lysander Steele, the leader of a rogue band of bioengineered wolf-soldiers who threaten to undo the tenuous peace agreement between Earth and Luna."--Jacket.