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See You in the Cosmos
Jack Cheng
Exploring Space: From Galileo to the Mars Rover and Beyond
Stephen Biesty, Martin Jenkins
The Terranauts: A Novel
T.C. Boyle
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Sara Barnard
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John Corey Whaley
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The Secret Horses of Briar Hill - Megan Shepherd

I look in the window's reflection. The paste has turned my skin into a clumpy mess. 
The other children are fighting the urge to snigger. 
A monster. 
The others won't say it aloud, not with Sister Constance's watchful gaze right there, but I know they are thinking it.
Thomas is a monster because he is missing something.

I am a monster because I have too much of something. Too much hurt. Too much rage.
I do not care. 
Only monsters, it seems, know that there are worlds and worlds and worlds, and ours is only one.