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An asteroid is hurtling toward Earth. A big, bad one. Maybe not kill-all-the-dinosaurs bad, but at least kill-everyone-in-California-and-wipe-out-Japan-with-a-tsunami bad. Yuri, a physicist prodigy from Russia, has been recruited to aid NASA as they calculate a plan to avoid disaster. The good news is Yuri knows how to stop the asteroid--his research in antimatter will probably win him a Nobel prize if there's ever another Nobel prize awarded. But the trouble is, even though NASA asked for his help, no one there will listen to him. He's seventeen, and they've been studying physics longer than he's been alive. Then he meets (pretty, wild, unpredictable) Dovie, who lives like a normal teenager, oblivious to the impending doom. Being with her, on the adventures she plans when he's not at NASA, Yuri catches a glimpse of what it means to save the world and live a life worth saving. I love a good quirky novel, and this is certainly on the quirky scale. Learning to S...

Asteroids! Planets! Astronauts! In this charming debut picture book, a grumpy asteroid named Astro is thrown out of orbit and takes an unexpected journey through space! Astro is a cranky asteroid who just wants everyone to respect his personal boundaries. But when a satellite knocks Astro out of orbit, he is forced to embark on an epic adventure through space…whether he wants to or not! So, a few years ago I started to notice some amazing covers being produced by Candlewick Press, then I noticed that most of my favourite covers were being designed by a guy named Matt Roeser. So when I found out that there was a new picturebook coming out from Simon & Schuster authored by Matt Roeser, I got SUPER EXCITED!! I managed to snag a copy the other day from a bookstore down the road, and did a happy dance, waving the book excitedly in the air until I was quietly escorted to the front to either pay or leave. But I still got the book! Yay! And now I have the book, so I can sleep at n...