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Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
On her family's farm in the town of Star, eight-year-old Mae eagerly follows the progress of the 1969 Apollo 11 flight and moon landing and dreams that she might one day be an astronaut, too.
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books/Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1969, as her own family is falling apart, ten-year-old Mamie finds comfort in conducting a one-sided correspondence with the least famous astronaut heading toward the moon on Apollo 11.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1969 twelve-year-old Mimi and her family move to an all-white town in Vermont, where Mimi's mixed-race background and interest in "boyish" topics like astronomy make her feel like an outsider.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the Apollo 11 mission draws to a close there is a crisis at the tracking station on Guam: the antenna that will track the spacecraft during reentry, and allow mission control to communicate with the astronauts is stuck--and ten-year-old Marty is the only one small enough to reach in and grease the ball bearings that allow the antenna to move.
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