This week's dig · Oct 12 to 17

Space week

Rockets, moons and the people who reached for them.

Grab your hard hat

Cartoon teenager in a teal hoodie reading a book

How old is your reader?

Showing the week for high school.

Monday

Theme book

Packing for Mars

Mary Roach · Hardcover

Funny and a little gross: what it really takes for humans to live in space.

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Tuesday

Theme book

Cosmos

Carl Sagan

The book that made a generation look up. Read a chapter, then go stargazing.

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Wednesday

Theme book

Endurance

Scott Kelly

A year on the space station, told honestly. Good for teens thinking about hard goals.

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Thursday

Theme book

The Right Stuff

Tom Wolfe · Hardcover

The first astronauts and the test pilots before them. Fast, bold writing.

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Friday

The Martian (Classroom Edition)

Andy Weir · Hardcover

Stranded on Mars with only science and stubbornness. The classroom edition skips the swearing.

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Saturday

Play day

Beginner telescope

Start with the moon. Saturn's rings are the moment they'll remember.

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Craft of the week · for all ages

Paper plate planets

1. Give everyone a paper plate and pick a planet to make. 2. Paint it. Swirl colors for Jupiter, red for Mars, blue for Earth. 3. While it dries, cut a ring from a second plate for Saturn. 4. Add a string and hang them in order across a doorway. 5. Say the order out loud each time you walk under them.

Paper plates: Amazon · Target
Washable tempera paint set: Amazon · Target

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