Book
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- CENTRAL: Children's Collection
- EASTWOOD: Children's Collection
- OSHTEMO: Children's Collection
We dream of space
Call Number
- J KELL (CEN, EAS, OSH)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
[New York, New York] : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
Physical Description
391 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Audience
Ages 8-12.
Summary
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 twin, dreams of being NASA's first female shuttle commander. 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.
Subjects
- Siblings > Juvenile fiction
- Twins > Juvenile fiction.
- Science projects > Juvenile fiction.
- Science teachers > Juvenile fiction.
- Life change events > Juvenile fiction.
- Siblings > Fiction
- Twins > Fiction.
- Science projects > Fiction.
- Science teachers > Fiction.
- Life change events > Fiction.
- Delaware > Juvenile fiction.
- Delaware > Fiction.
- Challenger (Spacecraft) > Accidents > Juvenile fiction.
- Challenger (Spacecraft) > Accidents > Fiction.