Title: Exploring Saturn
Author: Bortolotti, Dan
Publisher: Firefly Books (2003)
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 1552977668
Call Number: j523.46 B648e
Reading Level: 3rd grade and up.
64 pgs.
Notes: Exploring Saturn tells the remarkable story of how ancient astronomers estimated with surprising accuracy the distance, weight, and composition of the planet using little more than observation and elementary physics. The book includes the latest findings from NASA as well as stunning color images from the Hubble Space Telescope, Voyager, and Pioneer probes.

Title: Mars: The Fourth Planet
Author: Cole, Michael D
Publisher: Enslow Pub (2002)
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 0766019497
Call Number: j523.43 C675m
Reading Level: 3rd grade and up.
48 pgs.
Notes: From the "Countdown to Space" series. All about Mars, including its discovery, characteristics, and the possibility that it can support life.

Title: Mercury: The First Planet
Author: Cole, Michael D
Publisher: Enslow Pub (2001)
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 0766015122
Call Number: j523.41 C675m
Reading Level: 3rd grade and up.
48 pgs.
Notes: From the "Countdown to Space" series. All about the first planet of our solar system.

Title: Neptune: The Eighth Planet
Author: Cole, Michael D
Publisher: Enslow Pub (2002)
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 0766019519
Call Number: j523.481 C675n
Reading Level: 3rd grade and up.
48 pgs.
Notes: From the "Countdown to Space" series. Explores Neptune and its terrain, talks about its early astronomical sightings, atmosphere, composition, and more.

Title: Uranus: The Seventh Planet
Author: Cole, Michael D
Publisher: Enslow Pub (2002)
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 0766019527
Call Number: j523.47 C675u
Reading Level: 3rd grade and up.
48 pgs.
Notes: From the "Countdown to Space" series. Includes historical and current exploration of the seventh planet in our solar system.

Title: Venus: The Second Planet
Author: Cole, Michael D
Publisher: Enslow Pub (2001)
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 0766015092
Call Number: j523.42 C675v
Reading Level: 3rd grade and up.
48 pgs.
Notes: From the "Countdown to Space" series. All about Venus, from its core to its atmosphere, including information about why the planet can't support life.

Title: Ten Worlds: Everything That Orbits the Sun
Author: Croswell, Ken
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press (2007)
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 1590785312
Call Number: j523.4 C884t
Reading Level: 4th grade and up.
56 pp pgs.
Notes: All of the planets and other objects that orbit the Sun are discussed. Other entries cover the asteroid belt, meteors, and the birth of our solar system.

Title: The Planets
Author: Gibbons, Gail
Publisher: Holiday House (2005)
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 0823419576
Call Number: j523.4 G352p2
Reading Level: K-3.
32 pp pgs.
Notes: Gibbons gives a history of the planets' discoveries and discusses what a planet is and the astronomer's role in space exploration.

Title: Faraway Worlds : Planets Beyond Our Solar System
Author: Halpern, Paul
Publisher: Charlesbridge (2004)
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 1570916160
Call Number: j523.24 H163f
Reading Level: 3rd grade and up.
32 pp pgs.
Notes: Check out the size, orbit, and atmosphere of several recent planetary discoveries. Also, take a look at the cutting-edge Kepler spacecraft, which will revolutionize the search for extrasolar planets.

Title: Why Isn't Pluto a Planet?
Author: Kortenkamp, Steve
Publisher: Capstone Press (2007)
Price: $21.26
ISBN: 0736867538
Call Number: j523.4 K845w
Reading Level: 3rd grade and up.
24 pgs.
Notes: This book contains a multitude of questions and answers about Pluto. It used to be our ninth planet and now it's not--find out why.

Title: Jupiter (Worlds Beyond Series)
Author: Miller, Ron
Publisher: Twenty-First Century (2002)
Price: $25.90
ISBN: 0761323562
Call Number: j523.45 M617j
Reading Level: 3rd grade and up.
72 pgs.
Notes: The discovery and exploration of the fifith planet, including its moons.

Title: Exploring Our Solar System
Author: Ride, Sally
Publisher: Crown Publisher (2003)
Price: $21.99
ISBN: 0375812040
Call Number: j523.2 R433e
Reading Level: 3rd grade and up.
110 pp pgs.
Notes: Each chapter in this book takes readers on a tour of a different planet. The section on Earth includes a timeline and theories of the evolution of life on our planet.

Title: Our Solar System
Author: Simon, Seymour
Publisher: Collins (2007)
Price: $19.99
ISBN: 9780061140082
Call Number: j523.2 Si55o2
Reading Level: 3rd grade and up.
62 pp pgs.
Notes: Our solar system, born almost five billion years ago at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy, is a place filled with mystery and wonder. In the last fifty years, we have learned more than ever about the farthest reaches of our world. With dramatic full-color photographs and spacecraft images, Our Solar System takes young readers on a fascinating tour of the Sun, the eight planets and their moons, as well as asteroids, comets, and meteoroids.