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Cosmic Collisions: Asteroid Vs. Comet presented introductory information about Comets and Asteroids through a mock collision scenario. The wrestling match presenter tone of the text made it an engaging nonfiction read for Middle-Grade readers. This book has great illustrations that make the information easy to visualize. The text did a back-and-forth presentation of facts between an asteroid and a comet that got to be a bit confusing if you do not have a good grasp on the differences between the two. I think for beginning learners’ information about this topic it would have been easier to understand if it had been presented with one and then the other before they had their mock collision. Overall, the tone was engaging and made for page-turning excitement to see which would win in a collision. It had good information about both astral events and was geared toward the target audience.