Stephanie Warren Drimmer - National Geographic Readers: Night Sky

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Sincerely,

Mariam Jean Dreher
Professor of Reading Education
University of Maryland, College Park

For Dad, who looks up and
wonders with me S.W.D.

Copyright 2017 National Geographic
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Published by National Geographic
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication
Data

Names: Drimmer, Stephanie Warren, author. |
National Geographic Society (U.S.)

Title: Night sky / Stephanie Warren Drimmer.

Description: Washington, DC : National
Geographic, [2017] | Series: National
geographic readers | Audience: Ages 5-8. |
Audience: K to grade 3.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016051334 (print) |
LCCN 2016053551 (ebook) | ISBN
9781426328152 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN
9781426328169 (hardcover : alk. paper)
| ISBN 9781426328183 (e-book + audio)

Subjects: LCSH: Astronomy--Juvenile
literature. | Stars--Juvenile literature.

Classification: LCC QB46 .D776 2017 (print) |
LCC QB46 (ebook) | DDC 520--dc23

LC record available at
https://lccn.loc.gov/2016051334

The publisher and author gratefully acknowledge
the expert content review of this book by Dr.
Laurance R. Doyle, director of the Institute for
the Metaphysics of Physics at Principia College
and lead research scientist of the Quantum
Astrophysics Group at the SETI Institute, and
the literacy review of this book by Mariam
Jean Dreher, professor of reading education,
University of Maryland, College Park.

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When the sun goes down, dots
of light fill the night sky.

Some of them move. Others are
still. Some twinkle. Others dont.

What kind of plates
do they use in space?

Flying saucers.

Have you ever wondered
what they are?

On most nights, one object looks
bigger and brighter than everything
else. Its the moon.

The moon is a ball of rock that orbits
Earth. It looks so big and bright
because its only about 240,000 miles
from Earth. Compared with other
objects in the
night sky, thats
pretty close!

ORBIT: To move in
a path around another
object in space

Sometimes, the moon looks
like a circle. Other times, its
a curved sliver. Thats because
of the moons orbit.