We dream of space /Erin Entrada Kelly.
Material type: TextEdition: First U.S. paperback editionDescription: 391 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780062747303
- Challenger (Spacecraft) -- Accidents -- Juvenile fiction
- Challenger (Spacecraft) -- Accidents -- Fiction
- Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction
- Families -- Juvenile fiction
- Middle schools -- Juvenile fiction
- Schools -- Juvenile fiction
- Space shuttles -- Accidents -- Juvenile fiction
- Twins -- Juvenile fiction
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- Family life -- Fiction
- Grade five
- Grade four
- Grade seven
- Grade six
- Grade three
- PZ7 .W437 2021
- PZ7
- Booklist Top Ten Historical Fiction for Youth
- Newbery Honor Book, 2021
- School Library Journal Best Book
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Juvenile Book (10-day checkout) | G. Allen Fleece Library JUVENILE-NEWBERY | PZ7.1.K455.S633 2021 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31923002060578 |
Newbery Medalist and New York Times bestselling author Erin Entrada Kelly transports readers to 1986 and introduces them to the unforgettable Cash, Fitch, and Bird Nelson Thomas in this pitch-perfect middle grade novel about family, friendship, science, and exploration. This acclaimed Newbery Honor Book is a great choice for readers of Kate DiCamillo, Rita Williams-Garcia, and Rebecca Stead. Cash, Fitch, and Bird Nelson 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 Nelson 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. We Dream of Space is illustrated throughout by the author. - Publisher. Publisher's site
Seventh-grade siblings Cash, Fitch, and Bird Nelson Thomas, each dealing differently with their tense and unpredictable household, are changed and united in unexpected ways by the fateful launch of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986.
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Booklist Top Ten Historical Fiction for Youth
Newbery Honor Book, 2021
School Library Journal Best Book
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