A Space Voyage: Hitching a Ride Through the Solar System

Start-to-Finish: Blue The Start-to-Finish Blue collection is a high-interest, considerate reading series designed to promote independent reading for struggling readers aged 9 to 17 years but reading at a 4th-5th grade level. Each set consists of a paperback book, a computer CD ROM book, an audio book and a teacher's guide. NOTE: A portable USB DVD writer is available for loan if your computer system does not have a CD/DVD drive. This book takes students on an exciting journey through our Solar System. Instead of traveling in a spaceship, they will hitch a ride on Halley's Comet! Halley's Comet has an orbit that takes it around the Sun about every 76 years. It last appeared in Earth's skies in 1986. Readers will catch up with Halley's at the far end of its orbit, out beyond the planet Neptune, in the year 2024. From there, they will get a grand tour of the Solar System as they ride Halley's around the Sun, returning to Earth in 2061.