Review\n"The Stardust Mystery by Peter Solomon is a fabulous book that engages the reader while they learn. It is a fantastic tool that teaches children about the universe. The story is an exciting adventure where the characters encounter dinosaurs, famous scientists, and explore multiple aspects of science. Enhanced with striking illustrations, it is a captivating and educational experience that exposes students to the exciting elements of the universe. Part of the illustrations, characters, and story lines originate from two exciting video games, MissionKT and Building the Universe. Explanations, theories, footnotes,and other additions appear throughout the book to encourage the young reader to think and explore. This book is an extraordinary resource that parents and teachers will want to have in their children's libraries." Excerpt from review by Susan Sewell from Readers' Favorite.\n"I am rarely overwhelmed in a good way when a literary project is shared with me on which my opinion is being sought. So I was both surprised and delighted to experience The Stardust Mystery, a mind-blowing product of a National Science Foundation grant which blends clear and cogent science instruction into an engaging and expansive story told in the language and 21st-century illustration style designed to appeal to 8- to 14-year-old kids. 
The Stardust Mystery, authored by Peter Solomon with the assistance of his gifted family (Jeffrey, Joanne, and Sally Solomon), is an independent learning project, a comprehensive presentation of the scientific spectrum through the narration of four different character voices (Lizzy, Neddy, Milo, and VC) who tell an appealing, easy-to-read and fun young adult story in which a impressive amount of information is communicated. This narration is primarily delivered in the form of an e-book and print book, but is supplemented with videos and video games on websites and a YouTube channel, all of very high quality. 
As a STEAM curriculum developer, I was particularly happy with the Left Brain/Right Brain stimulation this projects provides, another tenet of 21st-century education. In particular the multiple perspectives through which the story is told, the non-science themes of the story that will resonate with its readers, the assistance provided in questions posed at the end of different sections and Grandpa's Extra Information, which allows for an even more expansive learning experience for readers of all levels of interest, all result in a new way for kids to access and understand scientific concepts. 
One last element of this project is the clear impression that this was a consummate labor of love undertaken by an enthusiastic scientist and grandfather whose joy in his profession and desire to share it is palpable and unmistakable in this remarkable product." Elizabeth Haydon, Author of the young adult series, The Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme, the fantasy series, The Symphony of Ages, and 36 children's books\nThis book was great! I have discussed this with my students and we are reading it together. They are loving the information presented in a fun and relatable way. They love seeing the different families that work together to complete a common goal. I love that it uses scientific concepts and principles that we are learning in the classroom. The authors do a great job of presenting the information in ways that provide the students with the content knowledge they need. As a middle school teacher, this is a great resource for my STEM classroom. We are currently working on the project portion that is provided for teachers. My students are enjoying the website and all that it entails. As a Science teacher, I recommend this book for all science teachers! As a parent, my own children are enjoying the story and learning things they have not learned in school yet! Allie, Goodreads Reviewer\n"I didn't think I'd want to be a kid again but "Wow!" if there was a book like S/D Mystery back then, perhaps I would have been

The Stardust Mystery

Children's Books

Solomon, Sally

Solomon, Peter

Solomon, Jeffrey

Solomon, Joanne

Science Fiction & Fantasy

TheBeamer LLC

The Race to the Big Bang tied for first place as the Best STEM Children's book in 2021 in the Purple Dragonfly Book Awards (dragonflybookawards.com) sponsored by Story Monsters LLC. It is an illustrated time-travel adventure book based on true science stories.\nIn The Race to the Big Bang illustrated science adventure book, the sequel to The Stardust Mystery, the Cosmic Kids return from a wonderful trip to the moon only to discover their lives drastically altered by the Covid-19 pandemic. They find relief by inventing new pandemic pastimes. The best pastime of all is a new contest called The Race to the Big Bang with a grand prize of $1 million in cash and $1 million in college scholarships. The four Cosmic Kids and coach Grandpa form a new team, the Cosmic Explorers, with two new coaches and their friends and last year's contest winners Jackson and Johari. Neddy invites her friend Richie to join them too. They are going to compete in a new series of Virtual World adventures and believe their team's previous success in using the Virtual World to time travel will give them a huge advantage. 
As they time travel to the Big Bang, they discover unusual things on Earth, in the solar system, and in the universe. They help prove the Big Bang theory by measuring the distance to a nearby galaxy and prove Albert Einstein's Twin Paradox with Lizzy's long solo round trip voyage to our closest star. After four years of travel, Lizzy returns to discover her younger sister Neddy is now her older sister. Neddy loves that. 
The Cosmic Explorers turn a planet they have found seven billion years ago into their space station by adding the events that made Planet Earth habitable. They add water by redirecting comets to hit their planet, they create an oxygen atmosphere using cyanobacteria brought from Earth, and they plant vegetation for food from seeds also from Earth. 
Their brilliant ideas have some unintended consequences that are both wonderful and awful. Finally, they end their adventure by creating videos to help other kids understand how the Covid-19 virus infects people and how a vaccine can keep everyone safe. With this new project, they learn how the cells in their bodies are factories that can fabricate substances based on pieces of genetic codes.

The Race to the Big Bang (Stardust Mystery)

Teen & Young Adult

Literature & Fiction

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