A Galaxy Fair, Fair Away (SweetBean 25 kids)

Welcome to the third annual SweetBean Challenge! Just like last year we're dividing the challenge up into monthly mini challenges! Discover a new theme and win each month's challenge by reading as little as 10-15 minutes a day. Complete optional activities to earn more badges! If you win all 12 challenges, you'll receive a library branded blanket at the end of the year!

Updated August 27, 2025
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Come see the fair
Savit, Gavriel
Paper Book
An unforgettable story of magic, mediums, and séances set during the Chicago World's Fair from the author of the National Book Award finalist The Way Back. Twelve-year-old orphan Eva Root travels the country pretending to channel spirits at séances. Her audiences swear...
Destination, space
Simon, Seymour.
Paper Book
The Sun is just one of trillions of stars, and it's not even a big one. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is so incredibly huge that it contains billions of stars bigger and brighter and older than the Sun. And outer space contains billions of galaxies. Now, with the aid of the venerable Smithsonian...
The midnight fair
Sterer, Gideon
Paper Book
As darkness falls on the fairgrounds, the animals venture out of the woods for one magical, memorable night! An exhilarating wordless picture book. Far from the city, but not quite the countryside, lies a fairground. When night comes and the fair is empty, something unexpected...
Space explorers
Jackson, Libby
Paper Book
This beautifully illustrated anthology illuminates twenty-five extraordinary stories of space exploration, adventure, and human achievement, from a leading expert in human spaceflight. Launch Yourself into the Great Unknown. The universe has always fascinated humans,...
Space jokes
Rosenberg, Pam
Paper Book
Where do astronauts park their spaceships? At parking meteors! How is a telephone like the planet Saturn? They both have rings! Kids are sure to enjoy reading and telling these out-of this-world jokes.

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