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The secret astronomers : a novel in notes  Cover Image Book Book

The secret astronomers : a novel in notes / by Jessica Walker.

Walker, Jessica (Illustrator), (author,, illustrator.).

Summary:

In Green Bank, West Virginia, two teens -- grieving, artistic Copernicus and Kepler, a small-town overachiever -- become secret pen pals through a forgotten astronomy textbook and join forces to unravel a decades-old mystery tied to Copernicus's late mother.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593692677 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 301 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Viking, 2025.
Subject: Friendship > Juvenile fiction.
Grief > Juvenile fiction.
High schools > Juvenile fiction.
Letters > Juvenile fiction.
Pen pals > Juvenile fiction.
Schools > Juvenile fiction.
Friendship > Fiction.
Grief > Fiction.
High schools > Fiction.
Letters > Fiction.
Pen pals > Fiction.
Schools > Fiction.
West Virginia > Juvenile fiction.
West Virginia > Fiction.
Genre: Young adult fiction.
Epistolary fiction.
Novels.

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  • 0 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Cookstown Branch YA Walke 31681010443521 YADULT Checked out 01/28/2026

  • B & T Entertainment
    When a recent transfer student keeps her diary in the oldest textbook at Green Bank High School Library, she doesn’t expect to receive a response, in a tale of unlikely friendship and long-buried secrets. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations.
  • Baker & Taylor
    In Green Bank, West Virginia, two teens-grieving, artistic Copernicus and Kepler, a small-town overachiever-become secret pen pals through a forgotten astronomy textbook and join forces to unravel a decades-old mystery tied to Copernicus's late mother.
  • Penguin Putnam
    Two strangers. One forgotten astronomy textbook. A decades-old secret.

    A fascinating, highly illustrated, epistolary novel perfect for fans of Rainbow Rowell and Alice Oseman, featuring designed doodled edges!


    When a recent transfer student starts keeping her diary in the oldest textbook at the Green Bank High School library, the last thing she expects is to receive a response. Thus begins a sweeping tale of unlikely friendship and long-buried secrets between two secret pen pals at a rural West Virginia high school.

    Copernicus is adrift and searching for answers after the sudden death of her mother, and leaving her cosmopolitan life in San Francisco behind. Kepler is a small-town girl with straight A's and big plans to be the first person in her family to go to college, despite her family's modest means. The two girls are so different from one another but united in their goal to solve a mystery that has riddled Green Bank for decades.

    Meticulously hand-drawn by debut author Jessica Walker across the pages of an actual ancient astrophysics textbook, The Secret Astronomers is a story of friendship, family, crop circles, secret crushes, giant telescopes, life in Appalachia, and two girls discovering new ways to connect across any divide that separates them.

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