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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
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Description
I Walked on the Moon. This is my journey. It didn't begin when I stepped on board Apollo 11 on July 16, 1969. It began the day I was born -- Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr., whom everyone called Buzz. Becoming an astronaut took more than education, discipline, and physical strength. It took years of determination and believing that any goal is possible -- from riding a bike alone across the George Washington Bridge at age ten to making a footprint on the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
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Description
This fascinating picture book memoir about NASA astronaut Scott Kelly takes readers on a journey through his childhood as an average student to his record-breaking year among the stars. --
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
On moving day, a little boy imagines he's an astronaut and learns to deal with his fear of the unknown.
8) CatStronauts
Author
Series
CatStronauts volume 5
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017-
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
volumes (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alerted to a global energy crisis, the President consults with the World's Best Scientist, who suggests sending a special group of astronauts to turn the Moon into a solar power plant.
9) Space
Author
Series
Nerdy babies volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nerdy babies explore what makes the moon, the sun, and all the planets unique on a trip around our solar system.
10) Space cows
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
220L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text reveal the day-to-day lives of cow space explorers, from what they look like, to how they keep busy, to how they deal with a noisy baby.
11) Cyborg Superman
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an unusual solar flare damages his space shuttle and causes astronaut Hank Henshaw and his crew--including his wife--to mutate, he blames Superman and as his surviving consciousness learns to fuse with technology he vows revenge.
Author
Series
Astronaut Academy volume 3
Publisher
First Second
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
"Hakata Soy's past as the leader of a futuristic superhero team is catching up with him, just as he's making a fresh start at a new school. How can Hakata study for his classes in anti-gravity gymnastics, fireball throwing, and wearing cute hats when he's got a robot doppelganger on its way to kill him?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Shares the story of renowned astronaut and distinguished scientist Kathryn Sullivan, describing how she defied the conventions of her childhood to pursue interests previously limited to boys and how she became the first woman to walk in space.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
132 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In her third story, Luciana and her family are headed to Chile for winter break. Luci can't wait to see her cousins - but the reunion doesn't go as planned, and Luci feels like an outsider in her own family. Just then she receives a surprise invite from Claire Jacobs, her frenemy from astronaut training camp, to join her at the Mars habitat in the desert and watch NASA scientists at work. It's an offer too good to refuse, so Luci decides to leave...
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
800L
Physical Desc
103 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the life and career of the physician and NASA astronaut who became the first American woman in space in 1983.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
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Description
What skills do you need to become an astronaut? Why do astronaut trainees spend time underwater and in dark caves? And how does it feel to experience zero gravity? In this new Science Slam! title, kids will discover what it takes to become an astronaut.
18) The final six
Author
Series
Final six volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Surrounded by strangers all competing for one of the six slots to travel to Jupiter's moon, Europa, Naomi, an Iranian-American science genius, finds a friend in Leo, an Italian championship swimmer, as the training tests their limits.
19) Women in space: 23 stories of first flights, scientific missions, and gravity-breaking adventures
Author
Series
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
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Description
Stories of the female pilots, physicists, and doctors who broke the stratospheric ceiling.
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the various steps necessary for an astronaut to prepare for a flight into space and follows astronaut Linda Gardner as she trains for her space shuttle mission.
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