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Why Is There Life on Earth?

It’s fine.  It describes Earth as the “Goldilocks” planet, since it’s just right for life.  It goes into detail listing what features are necessary for life, and why none of the other planets in our solar system are suitable, and it ends by considering the possibility that there could be other suitable planets in the universe, but they’re so far away that the likelihood of contact is slim.  It uses every type of non-fiction text feature it could think of: bold print, subtitles, sidebars, captions, definitions, diagrams, etc.  But it still just looks like a school book, unlikely to be chosen for recreational reading. An adequate selection if it fills a need, but nothing special about it to set it apart.