The Girl Who Named Pluto: The Story of Venetia Burney by Alice McGinty wood toys and regaling readers with a

and regaling readers with a timeless and irresistible adventure that has resilience at its heart

The Spirit of Elijah

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While studying English in college

The Girl Who Named Pluto: The Story of Venetia Burney by Alice McGinty wood toys and regaling readers with aAn 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