The Telescope Travelers

In this fun adventure novel for young readers, Zack and his older sister, Taylor, were enjoying the last few days of their summer vacation when they made a fantastic discovery. A mysterious box buried in the sand with an unusual telescope inside. Where did it come from? Who does it belong to and why was it buried? Soon Zack and Taylor uncover the telescope's amazing ability to instantly transport them to wherever the telescope is aimed! Will the universe ever be the same? Will they?

Eight-year-old Zack and eleven-year-old Taylor are an adventurous and intelligent brother-and-sister pair who lead a normal American suburban life with their parents. One day, while vacationing at the beach, they find a mysterious box buried in the sand that contains a telescope, but it's not just any telescope. This telescope will allow them to travel to worlds far beyond that of their comfortable suburban one and will show them firsthand what other humans have only dreamed of seeing. "Where does this telescope come from? Who is the mysterious being who wants them to use it? "Zack and Taylor take the reader on a series of adventures to find the answer to these questions while space traveling.

"The Time-Traveling Telescope" tells the fascinating story of Lily, a smart and interested girl who can't get enough of learning new things and going on exciting adventures. Lily finds an interesting old telescope hidden in her family's closet, which is where the story starts. There's something special about this telescope: it can take its owner back in time. Lily takes advantage of this amazing chance and starts a series of amazing experiences that take her to a different time period and let her not only watch but also fully experience important historical events. Lily meets dinosaurs, sees the beauty of Ancient Egypt, deals with the problems of medieval life, sails with explorers during the Age of Discovery, feels the passion of the American Revolution, is amazed by the inventions of the Industrial Revolution, celebrates the Wright brothers' first flight, and sees the amazing event of the moon landing. Lily meets historical people from different times and learns about the events that changed the world from their own point of view. These meetings are more than just idle observations; they are active experiences in which Lily often contributes to the creation of historical stories by helping or learning new things that change how she sees the past. Lily's time-traveling adventures help her learn a lot about the past of people. She sees that the past is a patchwork of people's battles, victories, and strong wills. She knows that history is not a list of times and events, but a living story of people and events that are linked together. In addition to learning about history, Lily also learns values like bravery, curiosity, and kindness, which show how each person's actions affect the journey of all people. "The Time-Traveling Telescope" is more than just a fun trip through time. It's also an educational trip that shows how complicated history is and how humanity is woven through it all. Lily's journey makes people want to learn more about history and see how they fit into the story of humanity as a whole. It also serves as a motivating reflection of all the amazing things that can happen when we study our past. Chapter 1: What They Found Lily found something that changed her life in a hidden corner of her old family home that was haunted by ghosts and the secrets of the people who had lived there in the past. Lily chose to look around in the attic on a calm, sunny afternoon when dust particles were dancing in the air like small, quiet fireworks. There were things that had been forgotten all around them. History was spread out on the furniture like soft old blankets, and memories were kept in boxes. As she climbed the wooden stairs that were creaky, she felt a rush of adventure that made her heartbeat fast with excitement. The attic was a real treasure trove of strange things. There were shadows everywhere, and the air smelled like old books and leather. Lily saw something strange among the things from her family's past. Under a stack of yellow maps and old, worn-out leather-bound books, she found a telescope. This was not your normal telescope, though. It was old, with a bronze body covered in beautiful carvings and a weight that seemed heavy with secrets and stories. As she wiped off the dust, the telescope gave off a strange, ghostly light, as if it had woken up from a deep sleep and recognized its new friend. Lily carefully pointed the telescope towards the attic window because she was as interested in seeing the world through its amazing lens as she was in exploring the sky. But something strange happened when she quickly looked through it. The attic started to blur and fade, and in its place came the bright clarity of a different place and time. The old boxes and dirty air were gone. Lily was invited on a trip that was even better than she had hoped for. It was like the telescope had opened a door to another world. At this very moment, Lily started a trip through time that would show her the amazing sights and sounds of the past. She was given the strange old telescope as a new guardian, and the two of them would go on adventures to faraway places and times long ago. Lily was about to start a unique educational trip that would take her from the lush, wild wilderness of prehistoric Earth to the beauty of ancient civilizations, and from the risky adventures of the Age of Discovery to the inventiveness of the Industrial Revolution.

Zack and Taylor are at it again! Join them as they travel the galaxy with an amazing telescope that transports them to the object they're viewing. But alien life and a black hole, one of the most powerful forces in the Universe, threaten to take it all away. Can they escape and still be home in time for dinner?

Travel the Universe with Taylor, her brother Zack and a telescope that instantly transports them to the object they're viewing. When a comet threatens the Earth, the travelers leap into action as the planet's last, best hope. Can they save humanity and still finish their homework?

WINNER OF THE 2022 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION By National Book Award and the National Book Critics' Circle Award finalist for An Unnecessary Woman, Rabih Alameddine, comes a transporting new novel about an Arab American trans woman's journey among Syrian refugees on Lesbos island. Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of thirty years, Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful, among the abundance of Western volunteers who pose for selfies with beached dinghies and the camp's children. Soon, a boat crosses bringing Sumaiya, a fiercely resolute Syrian matriarch with terminal liver cancer. Determined to protect her children and husband at all costs, Sumaiya refuses to alert her family to her diagnosis. Bonded together by Sumaiya's secret, a deep connection sparks between the two women, and as Mina prepares a course of treatment with the limited resources on hand, she confronts the circumstances of the migrants' displacement, as well as her own constraints in helping them. Not since the inimitable Aaliya of An Unnecessary Woman has Rabih Alameddine conjured such a winsome heroine to lead us to one of the most wrenching conflicts of our time. Cunningly weaving in stories of other refugees into Mina's singular own, The Wrong End of the Telescope is a bedazzling tapestry of both tragic and amusing portraits of indomitable spirits facing a humanitarian crisis.

The story of the people who see beyond the stars—an astronomy book for adults still spellbound by the night sky. Humans from the earliest civilizations through today have craned their necks each night, using the stars to orient themselves in the large, strange world around them. Stargazing is a pursuit that continues to fascinate us: from Copernicus to Carl Sagan, astronomers throughout history have spent their lives trying to answer the biggest questions in the universe. Now, award-winning astronomer Emily Levesque shares the stories of modern-day stargazers in this new nonfiction release, the people willing to adventure across high mountaintops and to some of the most remote corners of the planet, all in the name of science. From the lonely quiet of midnight stargazing to tall tales of wild bears loose in the observatory, The Last Stargazers is a love letter to astronomy and an affirmation of the crucial role that humans can and must play in the future of scientific discovery. In this sweeping work of narrative science, Levesque shows how astronomers in this scrappy and evolving field are going beyond the machines to infuse creativity and passion into the stars and space and inspires us all to peer skyward in pursuit of the universe's secrets.

"Ruby is still trying to learn about magic, and Granny McQuirky is sending her lessons via the mail wind to help her. Ann Rosemount, Ruby's mother, is against Ruby using magic of any kind and forbids her to use it in the house. But Ruby can't obey, and when her house-proud mother decides to give the tarnished old travellers telescope a polish, Mrs Pinkus from next door disappears! Ruby and her friends, Avalon and Jaffa, must go in after her. One minute Ruby is in her lounge room and the next she is in a dark forest with Avalon, Jaffa and the magic carpet. To Ruby's horror, she discovers that they are not alone..." --Back cover.