Messages from Mars - Hardcover

Leedy, Loreen; Schuerger, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0823419541 ISBN 13: 9780823419548

Publisher: Holiday House, 2006

Synopsis

Written in e-mails from orbiting students to their earthbound friends and family, Mars expert Andrew Schuerger and nonfiction star Loreen Leedy provide a fact-filled look at the planet. Breathtaking photographs from NASA are combined with comical illustrations of the characters to put laughs together with solid information.

About this title

About the Author:

Loreen Leedy's honors for her work include an ALA Notable Children's Book, a "Book Links" Best Book of the Year, and a "Booklist" Editor's Choice. This is the first book she has collaborated on with her husband, Andrew Schuerger. Visit her on the web at www.loreenleedy.com.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 2-4–In the year 2106, seven travelers, much like those in Leedy's Postcards from Pluto (Holiday House, 1993), go to Mars. Via e-mails home, the young crew members describe the voyage, make comparisons between Earth and Mars, and revisit sites of previous exploratory-craft landings. Leedy's colorful cartoons, authentic photographs from NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Cal Tech, and much factual information are incorporated into the story. Anticipating a time in the near future when humans will set foot on the Red Planet, the authors express the wonder of exploration and the possibility of a colony there. The book updates Sally Ride and Tam O'Shaughnessy's more detailed The Mystery of Mars (Crown, 1999). The authors note that scientific research continues and that updates will be posted on their Web site. Schuerger is an astrobiologist and manager of the Kennedy Space Center's Mars projects. A welcome addition.–Mary Jean Smith, Southside Elementary School, Lebanon, TN
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About this edition

• Publisher: Holiday House
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0823419541
• ISBN 13: 9780823419548
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 40