wrote in
oups.com:

Hi,

My 7-year-old is a reading fiend--and just got her first scope (6" Dob)
for Christmas. Now to combine the two.

Is there such a thing as good fiction (Hardy Boys reading level or
higher) that would relate to the stars that she is observing in an
interesting way--sort of star-gazing fiction? Or stories about
exploring those stars? Or...?


When I was a young-un, I read a bunch of books by Hugh Walters:
http://www.wessex.clara.net/walters/index.html

I particularly remember "Journey To Jupiter" in which the gravitational
pull of Jupiter was grossly miscalculated, leading our heroes to make
a forced landing on Io, where they stripped the ship of all unneccesary
weight in order to make it home.