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Subject: Juvenile story search
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Date: Tue, 30-Apr-85 10:59:54 EDT
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From: Slocum@HI-MULTICS.ARPA

The books you describe about a planet that can only be seen with certain
lenses is "Mr.  Bass's Planetoid", and other books.  I don't remember
the author.  I was just thinking about these books while reading your
message.  strange coincidence.  What I remember about these books is Mr.
Bass who was a charming old man that some kids meet.  He shows them in
his telescope this strange little planetoid orbiting real close to
Earth.  Later on they travel there in a space ship.  It turns out that
Mr.  Bass is a native, I think.  I don't remember much about the place,
but I did enjoy them while in 5th Grade.  I seem to recall reading them
shortly after I started reading SF.  Probably after reading A Wrinkle in
Time by M.  L'engle, my favorite juvenile book.

Brett Slocum (arpa:  Slocum@HI-MULTICS) (UUCP:
...!ihnp4!umn-cs!hi-csc!slocum)