A wilderness of stars / Shea Ernshaw.
An illness cursing the land forces seventeen-year-old Vega, the Last Astronomer, to venture across the wilderness to discover the stars' message that will save her people.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781665900249
- ISBN: 1665900245
- Physical Description: 391 pages ; illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, 2022.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Publisher,publication date and paging may vary. |
Target Audience Note: | Ages 14 up. Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers. Grades 10-12. Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers. 880L Lexile |
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Subject: | Sick > Fiction. Grief > Fiction. Loss (Psychology) > Juvenile fiction. Astronomy > Juvenile fiction. Black holes (Astronomy) > Juvenile fiction. |
Genre: | Fantasy fiction. Young adult fiction. Teen fiction. Novels. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Webb City Public Library | YA Earnshaw, Shea (Text) | 38262300007778 | Young Adult | Available | - |
A Wilderness of Stars
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A Wilderness of Stars
Chapter One ORION, Gamma Ori +06° 20' 58" A hundred years ago, the first Astronomer looked up at the night sky and made note of what she saw: horseshoe nebulas and spiral galaxies and dying star clusters. But she did not yet know what lay hidden in the shadowy darkness between stars. She was not a seer, a fortune-teller, as was common in the old world but rarely talked about now. Instead she used the circular glass rings of her telescope to make sense of the dark; she used physics and chemistry and science. She drafted charts and measured distances and sketched formations like Pleiades and Andromeda onto wax paper. Maybe if she had believed in fate. If she had listened to her gut--that hollow twisting beneath her lowest ribs--she might have feared what she didn't understand. She might have known that the shadow concealed more than dust and particles of broken moons. She would have looked closer. And seen. Excerpted from A Wilderness of Stars by Shea Ernshaw All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.