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How the Meteorite Got to the Museum
Author:
Hartland, Jessie
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Class:
523.51
Age: 7-10
Language: English
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LC: QB755.2
Grade: 2-5
Print Run: 8000
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ISBN-13: 9781609052522
LCCN: 2013007801
Imprint: Blue Apple Books
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Pub Date: 10/08/2013
Availability: Available
List: $17.99
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Hardcover
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Physical Description:
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
H 9",
W 11",
D 0.42",
1.25 lbs.
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LC Series:
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Brodart Sources:
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Brodart's Children and Teen Nonfiction Picks
Brodart's Insight Catalog: Children
Brodart's TOP Juvenile Titles
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Bibliographies:
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Children's Core Collection, 22nd ed.
Children's Core Collection, 23rd ed.
Children's Core Collection, 24th ed.
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Awards:
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Horn Book Guide Titles, Rated 1 - 4
Kirkus Starred Reviews
School Library Journal Starred Reviews
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Starred Reviews:
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Kirkus Reviews
School Library Journal
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TIPS Subjects:
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Astronomy
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BISAC Subjects: |
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Science & Nature / Astronomy
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Technology / How Things Work-Are Made
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LC Subjects:
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American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History, Juvenile literature
Meteorites
Meteorites, New York (State), Peekskill, Juvenile literature
Peekskill (N.Y.)
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SEARS Subjects: |
American Museum of Natural History
Meteorites
Peekskill (N.Y.)
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Reading Programs: |
Accelerated Reader Level:
5.8
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Points: 0.5
Lexile Level:
1030
Reading Counts Level:
8.2
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Points: 2.0
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| Annotations |
| Brodart's TOP Juvenile Titles | 10/01/2013 |
| Everything changed the day the meteor fell from the sky. Follow those who spotted the meteor as you join the space rock on a trip from space, to a car's roof, all the way to the American Museum of Natural History. You'll see how discovering and testing this special meteorite brought people together for an otherworldly experience. 40pp. |
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| Kirkus Reviews | 09/15/2013 |
| Hartland follows up earlier titles about museum acquisitions of an ancient Egyptian sphinx and remains of a dinosaur with a lively new one based on the travels of the Peekskill meteorite to the American Museum of Natural History With a catchy, cumulative "House That Jack Built"-like refrain, a science teacher chronicles for her students the travels of a meteoroid from outer space to the atmosphere over the United States, across several states, into a parked car in Peekskill, N.Y., and on to the museum. Text introducing the various role-players is set on double-page spreads of childlike paintings full of interesting details. The meteor zips across the sky past a barking dog in Kentucky, sports fans with cameras in Pennsylvania and on down through a teenager's parked car, where various officials investigate. Finally, there are the museum employees who identify, acquire, explain and display it. Each participant's title is written in capital letters and given a recognizable typeface and color. The verbs in the refrain vary intriguingly: The dog barks, yelps, woofs, howls, ruffs, arfs, yips and yaps. The backmatter includes more about the history of this particular meteorite and meteorites in general. This lighthearted, behind-the-scenes look at museum work does double duty as a much-needed introduction to meteorites: most children's closest possible connection to outer space. (Informational picture book. 6-10). 40pg. KIRKUS MEDIA LLC, c2013. |
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| School Library Journal | 01/01/2014 |
| PreS-Gr 2. Employing the cumulative narrative style used in How the Sphinx Got to the Museum (2010) and How the Dinosaur Got to the Museum (2011, both Blue Apple ), Hartland explains how the Peekskill Meteorite traveled from space to Earth, eventually finding a permanent place in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The artwork has a naive, folk-art quality, reminiscent of the work of Simms Taback and Grandma Moses. The attractive, colorful illustrations will appeal to children. Back matter includes information on Dr. Mark Anders, the first scientist who viewed the meteorite in Peekskill, and additional facts about meteorites. This engaging work is well suited for reading aloud or for budding geologists, scientists, or curators. As the Common Core State Standards place increased emphasis on nonfiction for young students, this groundbreaking effort fits the bill and does it well. Ellie Lease, Harford County Public Library, MD. 40p. SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, c2014. |
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| Booklist | 11/01/2013 |
| Grades K-3. This companion book to Hartland's How the Sphinx Got to the Museum (2010) and How the Dinosaur Got to the Museum (2011) opens with a class field trip, but it quickly backtracks when a student asks how a meteorite got to the museum. On Friday, October 9, 1992, a four-billion-year-old meteor entered Earth's atmosphere over Kentucky, streaked across the skies along the East Coast, and crashed through the trunk of a teenager's car in Peekskill, New York. The police examined it, firefighters cooled it with water, a geologist identified it, the museum's curator of meteors obtained it, a cosmologist discussed it, and the exhibits team displayed it. Through a combination of narrative text, speech balloons, and cumulative lines using the familiar "This Is the House That Jack Built" pattern, Hartland infuses the dynamic story with human interest as well as easy-to-absorb information. Illustrated with eye-catching paintings in a vivid, naive style, this picture book adds another dimension to Hartland's fine Got to the Museum series. Phelan, Carolyn. 40p. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, c2013. |
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| Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books | 12/01/2013 |
| R. 5-8 yrs. In the latest of Hartland's museum series titles (How the Sphinx Got to the Museum, BCCB 12/10), students on a class field trip learn what happened to the Peekskill Meteorite from its fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere to cozy installation at the American Museum of Natural History. The explanation kicks off in the teacher's speech bubble, and then continues in the main text with a discussion of asteroids, meteors, and meteorites, and eventually launches into a cumulative "House That Jack Built"-styled narration of this particular space scrap's encounter with Earth. The meteorite is barked at by a dog in Kentucky, spotted by burger eaters in Virginia and high school football fans in Pennsylvania before it crashes into the trunk of a teenager's Chevy Malibu in Peekskill, New York. Nobody's hurt, but the police, firefighters, geologists, museum curators, cosmologists, and an exhibits team all take a hand in identification, procurement, and interpretation of the meteorite before it is sliced up and settled in at museums and labs. The sheer strangeness of a rock making an interplanetary journey into a parked car will rivet a young science audience, and Hartland's combination of support information and zippy, slightly askew cartoon artwork are a pleasure for group sharing. Even the oft-neglected end matter is worth visiting, as it takes on issues of ownership (yes, the teenager owns the meteorite, and it's made her enough money to replace the car), possible reasons for the meteor's diversion off course, and the likelihood of other collisions (millions of tons of space debris daily-eek!) This will make a fine classroom readaloud, but perhaps a not so settling bedtime story. EB. 34p. THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIV. OF ILLINOIS, c2013. |
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| Horn Book Guide | 11/01/2014 |
| 3. K-3. In her third behind-the-scenes museum book, Hartland describes the origins of a slice of meteorite displayed in the American Museum of Natural History. She cumulatively introduces the myriad people who encountered the meteorite, from the teenager whose car was damaged by its falling to the exhibits team who prepared space for it. Informative text and humorously detailed paintings complete the lively presentation. mvk. 32pg. THE HORN BOOK, c2014. |
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| Publishers Weekly | 10/14/2013 |
| Ages 6-9. Having previously explained how Egyptian and prehistoric artifacts arrived in museum displays in How the Sphinx Got to the Museum and How the Dinosaur Got to the Museum, Hartland goes for a hat trick. This time, a science teacher traces a meteor's billions of years spent in space before it entered Earth's atmosphere (thereby becoming a meteorite) and eventually landed near Peekskill, N.Y., in 1992. Hartland reprises the cumulative structure of the earlier books; after the meteorite crashes into a red Chevy Malibu, police arrive to investigate the meteorite "discovered by the teenager, recorded by sports fans, spotted by Virginians, and howled at by the dog as it bolted toward the Earth." A geologist later confirms the meteorite's legitimacy, and the meteorite comes to find a (partial) home at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City (the aforementioned teenager went on to sell slices of the meteorite to other buyers, as well, an afterword notes). Exuberant typography, playful paintings, and accessible prose all help Hartland's account make an impact. Agent: Brenda Bowen, Sanford J. Greenburger Associates. (Nov.). 40p. Web-Exclusive Review. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, c2013. |
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