The Girl Who Named Pluto: The Story of Venetia Burney
- ISBN-10
- 1524768316
- ISBN-13
- 9781524768317
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 40
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- Schwartz & Wade Books
- Author
- Alice B. McGinty
Description
An empowering, inspiring--and accessible!--nonfiction picture book about the 11-year-old girl who, in 1930, actually named the newly discovered "ninth major planet" after Pluto, the ruler of the afterlife in Roman mythology. Full color.
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