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Let's Find Out About The Sun
By: Martha and Charles Shapp
Franklin Watts, Inc.
New York, N.Y./1975

The End of the World
By: Franklyn M. Branley
Thomas Y. Cowell
New York, N.Y./1974
In pictures and words, describes what the last years on Earth may be like as the Sun grows to become a red giant.

Solar Power
By: Ed Datherall
Silver Burdett
Morristown, N.H./1982
Describes simple experiments that you can do to find out what solar energy is and how it works.

Fusion: The Eternal Flame
By: Christopher Lampton
Franklin Watts
New York, N.Y./1982
What fusion is, how the Sun uses it to make light and heat, and how we may harness fusion to make energy.

The Sun
By: Seymour Simon
William Morrow and Company, Inc. New York, N.Y./1986
Describes the nature of the sun, its origin, source of energy, layers, atmosphere, sunspots, and activity.

Eclipse: Darkness in Daytime
By: Franklyn M. Branley
Thomas Y. Crowell Company
New York, N.Y./1973
Explains in simple terms what happens during a solar eclipse.

Our Friend the Sun
By: Janet Palazzo
Troll Associates
Mahwah, N.J./1982
Simple Text and illustrations introduce the characteristics of the Sun and its relationship to the earth.

Isaac Asimov's Library of the Universe: The Sun
By: Isaac Asimov
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Milwaukee, W.I./1988
Discusses the origins, physical makeup, and relationship to earth of the huge star called the sun.

The Sun: Our Neighborhood Star
By: David J. Darling
Dillon Press, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN/1984
Explains what the Sun is and how it produces such enormous amounts of energy.

Our Sun: And the Inner Planets
By: Don Davis and Anny Chartal Levasseur
BLA Publishing Limited
New York, N.Y./1989
Text and illustrations present what astronomers now know about the "nuclear powerhouse" that dominates our solar system.

Catch A Sunbeam
By: Florence Adams
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Harcourt Brace Jovanovich New York & London/1978
Includes instructions for sixteen solar experiments that reveal a variety of facts about the Sun and nd the uses of solar energy.

           
           

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