The Girl Who Named Pluto: The Story of Venetia Burney by Alice McGinty Madeline Kloepper marking the days while grieving

marking the days while grieving

Informative and delicious for kids and their families

She grew up in Vermont and lived in North Carolina where she started Laurey's Café

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The Girl Who Named Pluto: The Story of Venetia Burney by Alice McGinty Madeline Kloepper marking the days while grievingAn 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