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Dear Laurel,
Now you're talkin'
Have you read Is Pluto a Planet? A Historical Journey Through the Solar System by David A. Weintraub? The link takes you to my review.
That book shares your point of view about Pluto's planetary status. It came out right after the famous 2006 IAU "demotion" meeting, but it had been completed before that. Unfortunately, Weintraub ignores Eris, a.k.a. the Kuiper belt object previously known as Xena.
I wouldn't be surprised if Weintraub is working on a revised edition to take the recent arguments into accounts, so you may have stiff competition for your book.
As for me, I share Tyson's idea that it is really unimportant what category humans decide to put Pluto and other large KBOs in. What is important is to understand those bodies. We are sending a major space probe there (New Horizons), so science is still giving Pluto and the Kuiper belt an appropriate level of attention.
Fred Bortz
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