Yanuell began his session with a surprise gift from Ms. Judie! He was beyond thrilled to open two books: Cosmic Catastrpohes 7 Ways to Destroy a Planet like Earth by David A. Aguilar and Solar System: A Visual Exploration of All the Planets, Moons and Other Heavenly Bodies that Orbit Our Sun by Marcus Chown. Yanuell wanted to read about Cosmic Catastrophes first, so we jumped right in to the vast realm of outer space where accidents happen all the time. Things bump into each other, stars blow up, space rocks smash into planets and black holes gobble up everything in their path. Any of this could change—or even eliminate—life on a planet like Earth. Yanuell was enthralled with everything from an asteroid hit to alien invasion. Author/Astronomer David Aguilar builds the scientific case for seven extreme events that could impact Earth. (Though not as we know it: most of these catastrophes are way down the cosmic line . . . we hope!) He tells an exciting nonfiction story about how and why these space catastrophes could happen and then creates beautiful, original art to show just how devastatingly spectacular it will be when any one of these seven “big ones” hit! The other book, Solar System: A Visual Exploration of All the Planets, Moons and Other Heavenly Bodies that Orbit Our Sun covers details of the entire solar system. To start, this book follows the new scientific line that there are 8 major planets and 5 dwarf planets, but it goes so much further. It includes great photos and a special page for each of the major features in our solar system. Each page includes hard data, in the case of the Solar System, Yanuell was able to read specific date on the length of day, axial tilt, diameter, mass, volume, gravity, escape velocity, surface temperature, atmospheric composition and mean density. In addition, the side of each page indicates temperature and density on a relative scale. For easy comparison, we were able to flip back and forth between various celestial bodies. Yanuell could not have been happier with these amazing gifts from Ms. Judie and will be spending a lot of time reading about one of his favorite subjects. After the research and reading, we took a trip to the library to check out new books. We got books about Martin Luther King, Jr., Abe Lincoln, Weather, Sports, Geography, and Groundhog Day. Yanuell was most excited about two books by Brad Meltzer: I am Martin Luther King, Jr. and I am Abraham Lincoln. He is looking forward to reading all of the awesome check-outs!