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2020., Pre-adolescent, First Second Call No: GN 741.5 Nau Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: History comics (First Second (Firm))Summary Note: Seven astronauts boarded the space shuttle Challenger on what would be a routine mission. Excitement filled the air as the clock counted down to lift off. But at T-plus seventy-three seconds after launch, the unthinkable happened . . .
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2020., Pre-adolescent, Yearling Call No: FIC PANTELEAKOS Edition: First Yearling edition. Genre: Historical fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Autistic and nearly nonverbal, twelve-year-old Nova is happy in her new foster home and school, but eagerly anticipates the 1986 Challenger launch, for which her sister, Bridget, promised to return.
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[2020]., Juvenile, Greenwillow Books Call No: Blue Fiction KELLY Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1986, Cash, Fitch, and Bird Thomas are in seventh grade. Cash loves basketball, but just broke his wrist and is in danger of failing seventh grade for the second time. Fitch spends every afternoon at the local arcade and deals with an explosive temper. His twin sister, Birdie, dreams of being NASA's first female shuttle commander, but feels like she's disappearing. They all exist in their own little orbits in their tense home, with little in common. But after the disastrous launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger, their lives change in unexpected ways.
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[2020]., Juvenile, Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: HISTORICAL F KEL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "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 wrestles with an explosive temper that he doesn't understand. And Bird, his twelve-year-old twin, dreams of being NASA's first female shuttle commander, but feels like she's disappearing. The Thomas children exist in their own orbits, circling a tense and unpredictable household, with little in common except an enthusiastic science teacher named Ms. Salonga. As the launch of the Challenger approaches, Ms. Salonga gives her students a project--they are separated into spacecraft crews and must create and complete a mission. When the fated day finally arrives, it changes all of their lives and brings them together in unexpected ways. Told in three alternating points of view, We Dream of Space is an unforgettable and thematically rich novel for middle grade readers"--From the publisher's web site.
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2020., Pre-adolescent, Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: FIC KELLY Edition: 1st ed. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: As the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger approaches, Ms. Salonga gives her students a project; they are separated into spacecraft crews and must create and complete a mission. When the fated day finally arrives, it changes all of their lives and brings them together in unexpected ways.
