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22) Astronauts
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Describes how astronauts are trained and how they live and work in space and discusses some famous male and female astronauts.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 600L
Language
English
Description
When the spectacular, sparkling explosions at a popular tourist sight slow down, Hedgie the hedgehog is the only one capable of flying to tiny planet Mikkop to see what is wrong.
27) Astronauts
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
28) Astronauts
Author
Series
Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
Describes how astronauts live and work in space.
Author
Publisher
Harper Festival, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 510L
Language
English
Description
Pete the Cat heads to space camp, where he floats in zero gravity, flies to the Moon, and plays an interstellar song for his fellow cat-stronauts.
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In this imaginatively illustrated book from the Work It, Girl series, discover how Mae Jemison became the first African American woman in space in this true story of her life. Then, learn 10 key lessons from her work you can apply to your own life. When Mae Jemison was a little girl, she loved science, dancing and dinosaurs. She watched the Apollo moon landings and wondered why none of the astronauts were women - and she just didn't buy the answers...
32) Voyagers
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
With the future of the human race at stake, a group of young men and women, bred for intelligence and obedience, embark on an expedition to colonize a distant planet. But when they uncover disturbing secrets about the mission, they defy their training and begin to explore their most primitive natures. As life on the ship descends into chaos, they are consumed by fear, lust, and the insatiable hunger for power.
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
Describes the qualities needed to be part of the space program and various aspects of the training that astronaut candidates receive to prepare them for their first flight.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Astronauts volunteer to pioneer a colony on a newly discovered planet. They awake from their frozen sleep to discover that the ship has crashed and they're trapped in their cryo-tubes. To make matters worse, a beast breaks in and begins devouring them.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
Describes the various steps necessary for an astronaut to prepare for a flight into space and follows astronaut Linda Gardner as she trains for her space shuttle mission.
38) Space tour
Author
Series
Publisher
Penworthy Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
Contains facts and predictions about space travel now and in the future.
39) Rama revealed
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
Nicole Wakefield, ex-governor of the colony ofhumans on the spaceship Rama III, is in her cell awaitingdeath for treason. She opposed the colony's new rulers. But Richard, her husband whom she thought dead, sendsrobots to rescue her.
Author
Series
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1989.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A biography of the California astrophysicist who became, with the second mission of the Challenger spacecraft in June 1983, the first American woman and the youngest American astronaut to orbit earth.