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All of aviation's dangerous, exciting, and most courageous moments are featured within this compendium on flight. Packed with stories of heroic and innovative pioneers, profiles of remarkable planes from Spitfires to space shuttles, and how-to instructions for making everything from origami helicopters to bottle rockets -- all accompanied by sensational photographs, illustrations, and diagrams
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A look at the lives of the Wright brothers, from their childhood interest in flight, through their study of successful gliders and other flying machines, to their triumphs at Kitty Hawk and beyond.
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English
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"This is the true story of a friendship that shot for the Moon. Mary solves tricky math problems to help launch astronauts into space. But as a Black woman, she faces many obstacles that her colleagues don't. When she meets Kaz, a fellow NASA scientist, he helps Mary find strength in her talent. Together, Mary, Kaz, and everyone at NASA are about to do the impossible . . ."--Page 4 of cover.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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"The U.S. may have put the first man on the moon, but it was the Soviet space program that made Valentina Tereshkova the first woman in space. It took years to catch up, but soon NASA's first female astronauts were racing past milestones of their own. The trail-blazing women of Group 9, NASA's first mixed gender class, had the challenging task of convincing the powers that be that a woman's place is in space, but they discovered that NASA had plenty...
9) Spacesuits
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Publisher
Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
If you're going to orbit the Earth, moonwalk, or float in space, you need the right outfit. From helmet to space boots, every part of an astronaut's spacesuit is designed for survival. This reader, developed with Smithsonian's popular Air and Space Museum, provides a close look at the suits, boots, helmets, gloves, and other gear astronauts have worn into space, from the early days of space exploration to the present-day. --Publisher.
11) Sally Ride
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Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"As the first American woman in space, Sally Ride broke barriers and made her dreams come true. But she wanted to do even more! After leaving NASA, she created science and engineering programs that would help other girls and women make their dreams come true as well." -- Amazon.com.
"A biography of Sally Ride in the She Persisted series"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Scott wasn't sure what he wanted to be when he grew up. He struggled in school and often got in trouble with his twin brother, Mark. Then one day Scott discovered a book about test pilots and astronauts that set him on a new path. His new focus led him to fly higher and higher, becoming first a pilot and then an astronaut, along with his brother--the first twin astronauts in history. But his greatest accomplishment of all was commanding the International...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Journey to the Moon on the Apollo 12 mission with astronaut and artist Alan Bean! As a boy, Alan wanted to fly planes. As a young navy pilot, Alan wished he could paint the view from the cockpit. So he took an art class to learn patterns and forms. But no class could prepare him for the beauty of the lunar surface some 240,000 miles from Earth. In 1969, Alan became the fourth man and first artist on the moon. He took dozens of pictures, but none...
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Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"How likely is it that humans aren't alone in the universe? Reports of strange lights, UFO sightings and alien encounters abound-and some (like recent accounts from U.S. Navy pilots) even sound credible. And in recent years, armed with state-of-the-art technology and better information, the search for extraterrestrials overflows with exciting possibilities. Within our own solar system, astrobiologists search for the biochemical building blocks that...
15) Comets
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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This title will cover how comets came to be, what they are made of, where most of them are found, and why we can sometimes see them as beautiful bright streaks in the sky! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.
16) The Sun
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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This title will cover how and when the Sun formed, what it is, its size, and why it is so important to our solar system and life on Earth. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.
17) The Moon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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This title will cover how scientists think our moon came to be, what it looks like, its size, its orbit and phases, and how it interacts with Earth. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.
18) Stars
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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This title will cover how stars form, different types of stars, their lifecycle, and the most important star to us--the Sun! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918-), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942-).
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Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"This beautifully illustrated, oversized guide to the people and technology of the moon landing by award-winning author/illustrator John Rocco is a must-have for space fans, classrooms, and tech geeks"--
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