The Monroe County Library System is an official Rochester Museum and Science Center Community Eclipse Ambassador! Reach out to your local libraries or visit calendar.libraryweb.org to learn what space-related programs they’re offering this spring. In the meantime, check out some of these books for facts and stories about the space that surrounds us.
PICTURE BOOKS & EARLY READERS
By Andy Rash
Scholastic, 2023
A boy and his dad travel to the path of totality to view the 2017 solar eclipse in Illinois.
Ellen Takes Flight: The Life of Astronaut Ellen Ochoa
By Doreen Rappaport & Oliver Dominguez
Little, Brown, 2023
A biography about the first Latina astronaut to go into space.
By Helen Taylor & Stevie Lewis
Little, Brown, 2023
Humorous but true facts about eating in zero gravity with extra pics of real astronauts.
The Moon Tonight: Our Moon’s Journey Around the Earth
By Jung Changhoon & Jang Ho
Blue Dot, 2023
A girl tracks the moon throughout the month and explains the lunar calendar.
Thank You, Moon: Celebrating Nature’s Nightlight
By Melissa Stewart & Jessica Lanan
Knopf, 2023
Moon is thanked for many ways it helps life on Earth.
To Boldly Go: How Nichelle Nichols and Star Trek Helped Advance Civil Rights
By Angela Dalton & Lauren Semmer
Harper, 2023
A biography about the woman who played Lieutenant Uhura on the original Star Trek TV series.
MIDDLE GRADE
By Lindsay Lackey
Roaring Brook, 2023
Houston is accepted into astronaut camp and hopes to find a way to bring his brother with cerebral palsy into space.
By Benjamin A. Wilgus & Rii Abrego
Random House, 2023
A girl who lives on a space station is excited to travel to a moon.
The Most Exciting Book of Science, Inventions, & Space Ever
By Claire Watts, Jilly MacLeod, Carole Stott, Richard Walker, Lisa Swerling, and Ralph Lazar
DK, 2023
This heavily illustrated nonfiction book has a large section called “Intergalactic Guide to Space.”
By Jorge Cham
Amulet, 2023 Oliver wants to be an astrophysicist, but first he must survive middle school.
Where are the Aliens? The Search for Life Beyond Earth
By Stacy McAnulty & Nicole Miles
Little, Brown, 2023
A nonfiction chapter book with spot illustrations about the possibilities of extraterrestrial life.
YOUNG ADULT
Meet Me in the Fourth Dimension
By Rita Feinstein
Page Street, 2024
Crosby fears the passing of a rogue planet will kill everyone who doesn’t ascend to the fourth dimension.
A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Streets to the Stars
By Hakeem Oluseyi & Joshua Horwitz
Delacorte, 2023
A memoir about a poor boy with a mega-high IQ who became a renowned astrophysicist.
Star Wars: The High Republic— Defy the Storm
By Justina Ireland & Tessa Gratton
Disney, March 2024
A Jedi Knight and scientist team up to save innocent beings from an overtaken zone of space.
By Jessica Mary Best
Quirk, 2023
Cass sneaks onto an imperial palace space station to steal a fortune from an emperor who turns up dead.
