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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Cash, Fitch, and Bird Thomas are three siblings in seventh grade together in Park, Delaware. In 1986, as the country waits expectantly for the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger, they each struggle with their own personal anxieties. Cash, who loves basketball but has a newly broken wrist, is in danger of failing seventh grade for the second time. Fitch spends every afternoon playing Major Havoc at the arcade on Main. And Bird, his twelve-year-old...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"In History Comics: The Challenger Disaster, we turn the clock back to January 28, 1986. Seven astronauts boarded the space shuttle Challenger on what would be a routine mission. All eyes and cameras were on crew member Christa McAuliffe, a high school teacher, who was set to become the first private citizen in space. Excitement filled the air as the clock counted down to liftoff. But at T-plus seventy-three seconds after launch, the unthinkable happened......
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The untold story of a national trauma-NASA's Challenger explosion-and what really happened to America's Teacher in Space, illuminating the tragic cost of humanity setting its sight on the stars"--
January 28, 1986. NASA's space shuttle Challenger exploded after blasting off from Cape Canaveral. Christa McAuliffe, America's "Teacher in Space" was instantly killed, along with the other six members of the mission. At least that's what most of us remember....
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on fascinating new archival research and in-depth reporting--a riveting history that reads like a thriller"--
On January 28, 1986, just seventy-three seconds into flight, the space shuttle Challenger broke apart over the Atlantic Ocean, killing all seven people on board. Millions of Americans...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1986
Language
English
Description
The author of this book about the teacher who died in the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger is "a reporter on The Concord (N.H.) Monitor, Christa McAuliffe's hometown newspaper. {He} followed the local high school social studies teacher for seven months, from her decision to compete in thesearch for a teacher to ride the space shuttle, her selection by NASA and instant celebrity, through the training period for the flight of the Challenger."...
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Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
�2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
At school in Cocoa Beach, Florida, 15-year-old Dustin Martinez watches the Challenger space shuttle launch. He's always been interested in the space program, but this launch is even more exciting: for the first time in history, a schoolteacher will be flying aboard the shuttle.
16) Challenger
Author
Series
Publisher
Jump!, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Early readers will learn about the science behind the Challenger disaster through carefully leveled text and photo illustrations. Includes glossary and index."--
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