Girl Who Named Pluto: The Story of Venetia Burney

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Girl Who Named Pluto: The Story of Venetia BurneyAn empowering, inspiring and accessible! nonfiction picture book about the eleven year old girl who actually named the newly discovered Pluto in 1930. When Venetia Burney's grandfather reads aloud from the newspaper about a new discovery a "ninth major planet" that has yet to be named her eleven year old mind starts whirring. She is studying the planets in school and loves Roman mythology. "It might be called Pluto," she says, thinking of the dark

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the Reader's Companion won the annual Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inkling Studies

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the story grows legs and starts running ahead of me