9 best-selling middle grade books like Sky Gazing: A Guide to the Moon, Sun, Planets, Stars, Eclipses, and Constellations by Meg Thacher

Cover of Sky Gazing: A Guide to the Moon, Sun, Planets, Stars, Eclipses, and Constellations by Meg Thacher

Sky Gazing: A Guide to the Moon, Sun, Planets, Stars, Eclipses, and Constellations

By: Meg Thacher

4.56

Format: 131 pages, Hardcover

The sun, moon, stars, and planets have been a source of wonder and fascination for as long as human…

If you liked the middle grade plot in Sky Gazing: A Guide to the Moon, Sun, Planets, Stars, Eclipses, and Constellations by Meg Thacher , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets

By: Curt Gentry

3.81

Format: 848 pages, Paperback

"The cumulative effect is overwhelming. Eleanor Roosevelt was right: Hoover’s FBI was an American g… read more

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  • nonfiction
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2. The Wind in the Willows

By: Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery

4.02

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
"...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight..."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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3. Tree in the Trail

By: Holling Clancy Holling

4.15

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

The history of the Great Plains and the Santa Fe Trail is told in text and pictures by focusing on … read more

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  • middle grade
  • picture books
  • childrens
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4. Firewing (Silverwing, #3)

By: Kenneth Oppel

3.89

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

When an earthquake hits and Griffin falls into the center of the Underworld, Griffin’s father, Shad… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
"Goth. Throbb. Murk. Who named these bats?"

-Kenneth Oppel, Firewing (Silverwing, #3)

"Being scared but doing it anyway, that's brave."

-Kenneth Oppel, Firewing (Silverwing, #3)

"Being scared but doing it anyway, that's brave. -Shade Silverwing"

-Kenneth Oppel, Firewing (Silverwing, #3)

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5. Silverwing (Silverwing, #1)

By: Kenneth Oppel , David Frankland

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shade is a young Silverwing bat, the runt of his colony. But he's determined to prove himself on th… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
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6. Just So Stories

By: Rudyard Kipling

3.73

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Twelve stories about animals, insects, and other subjects include How the Camel Got His Hump. The B… read more

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  • childrens
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7. Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

Laura Ingalls and her family live deep in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Their log cabin is surrounded… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens

8. My Ántonia

By: Willa Cather

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant … read more

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9. Seabird: A Newbery Honor Award Winner

By: Holling Clancy Holling

4.02

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

A 1949 Newbery Honor Book The history of America at sea is presented through the travels of Seabir… read more

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  • middle grade
  • picture books
  • childrens
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10. A Drop Of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder

By: Walter Wick

3.90

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The most spectacular photographs ever created on the subject of water appear in this unique science… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • science
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11. Guantanamo's Child: The Untold Story of Omar Khadr

By: Michelle Shephard

3.48

Format: 93 pages, Hardcover

A prize-winning journalist tells the troubling story of Canadian Omar Khadr, who has spent a quarte… read more

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  • nonfiction
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12. The Aesop for Children

By: Aesop , Milo Winter , H.Y. Xiao

3.32

Format: None pages,

Here are 126 of the best loved classic fables, including such favorites as 'The Town Mouse And The … read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
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13. On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (The Wingfeather Saga, #1)

By: Andrew Peterson

4.33

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Once, in a cottage above the cliffs on the Dark Sea of Darkness, there lived three children and the… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
"Even if hope is just a low ember at night, in the morning you can still start a fire."

-Andrew Peterson, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (The Wingfeather Saga, #1)

"Esben Igiby was seeping into Janner’s thoughts, and there was no way to seal the leak."

-Andrew Peterson, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (The Wingfeather Saga, #1)

"But other than the cruel fangs and the constant threat of death and torture, there wasn't much to fear in Skree."

-Andrew Peterson, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (The Wingfeather Saga, #1)

"There's just something about the way he sings. It makes me think of when it snows outside, and the fire is warm, and Podo is telling us a story while you're cooking, and there's no place I'd rather b…"

-Andrew Peterson, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (The Wingfeather Saga, #1)

14. Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare

By: Diane Stanley , Peter Vennema

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

William Shakespeare was the son of a glovemaker, a small-town boy with a grammar school education. … read more

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15. A Philosophy of Education

By: Charlotte M. Mason

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

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16. Sunwing (Silverwing, #2)

By: Kenneth Oppel

4.60

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Kenneth Oppel gives a bat's-eye view of the horrors of animal testing in Sunwing, the sequel to his… read more

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17. American Tall Tales

By: Adrien Stoutenburg

4.11

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Eight exciting classic American Tall Tales! This collection includes the famed stories of Paul Buny… read more

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18. A Little Princess

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett , Nancy Bond

4.03

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary … read more

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19. Pagoo

By: Holling Clancy Holling , None

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

An intricate study of tide pool life is presented in text and pictures through the story of Pagoo, … read more

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20. Mere Motherhood: Morning times, nursery rhymes, and my journey toward sanctification

By: Cindy Rollins

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

It was back in the 1980's when Cindy Rollins, then a new mom in search of the best ways to teach he… read more

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21. The Children of the New Forest

By: Frederick Marryat

3.88

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The Children of the New Forest is a children's novel published in 1847 by Frederick Marryat. It is … read more

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  • childrens
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22. The Burgess Animal Book for Children

By: Thornton W. Burgess , None

4.27

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

When Jenny Wren learns that Peter Rabbit would like to know more about the four-footed friends who … read more

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  • childrens
  • science

23. Tales from Shakespeare

By: Arthur Rackham , Charles Lamb , Mary Lamb

4.45

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Presents an introduction to Shakespeare's greatest plays including Hamlet Othello, As You Like It, … read more

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24. The Little Duke

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

4.13

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful sca… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • childrens
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25. Home Education (Original Homeschooling #1)

By: Charlotte M. Mason

4.53

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

Book by Mason, Charlotte M. read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
"Our only means of true intimacy with a child is the power of recovering our own childhood."

-Charlotte M. Mason, Home Education (Original Homeschooling #1)

26. Think Twice (Rosato & Associates, #11)

By: Lisa Scottoline

3.71

Format: 244 pages,

From the blockbuster New York Times bestselling author of Look Again comes a novel that makes you q… read more

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27. Big

By: Vashti Harrison

4.66

Format: 60 pages, Kindle Edition

This deeply moving story shares valuable lessons about fitting in, standing out, and the beauty of … read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
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28. The FBI Way: Inside the Bureau's Code of Excellence

By: Frank Figliuzzi

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The FBI’s former head of counterintelligence reveals the Bureau's field-tested playbook for unlocki… read more

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  • nonfiction
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29. Sky Gazing: A Guide to the Moon, Sun, Planets, Stars, Eclipses, and Constellations

By: Meg Thacher

4.56

Format: 131 pages, Hardcover

The sun, moon, stars, and planets have been a source of wonder and fascination for as long as human… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
  • astronomy
  • education
  • science
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30. Laying Down the Rails

By: Sonya Shafer

4.23

Format: 239 pages, Paperback

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  • nonfiction
  • education

16 Top childrens books like Sky Gazing: A Guide to the Moon, Sun, Planets, Stars, Eclipses, and Constellations by Meg Thacher

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The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Tree in the Trail

Holling Clancy Holling

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Firewing (Silverwing, #3)

Kenneth Oppel

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Silverwing (Silverwing, #1)

Kenneth Oppel , David Frankland

4.07

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Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery

4.02

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Holling Clancy Holling

4.15

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Howard Pyle

4.07

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Helen Sewell , Alice Dalgliesh

3.81

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