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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Get ready for blast-off to learn all about rockets! Roaring Rockets follows the animal crew as they become astronauts heading to the Moon. Each page is filled with details that machine-mad kids will love: spacesuits, oxygen helmets, the lunar lander, and much more!
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Astrid the astronaut volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
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Description
"When Astrid and her fellow Shooting Stars build a rocket, Astrid is hoping to impress guest helper, Lana, to score a tour of Space-E headquarters, but when she and her classmates discover Lana does not know much about rockets, Astrid is unsure if she should speak up"--Title verso page.
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English
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"With the launch of the Falcon 1 rocket in 2008, Elon Musk's SpaceX became the first private company to build a low-cost rocket that could reach orbit. And that milestone carried major implications: Silicon Valley, not NASA, was suddenly cemented as the epicenter of the new Space Age. Start-ups and the wealthy investors behind them began to realize that the universe-ungoverned and infinite-was open for business. Welcome to the wild west of aerospace...
8) Rockets
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Series
Language
English
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Examines the history of rockets from their origins in China as early as the second century to the modern rocketry of the twenty-first century.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
5 4 3 2 1... BLAST OFF! There's a tiny little rocket that will take you to the stars, It only flies there once a year, but zips you out past Mars... Jump in for a journey that is out of this world!
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Martin Bridge volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meet Martin Bridge-a most special and ordinary boy whose well-meant plans sometimes go awry. In three illustrated stories, Martin encounters two bus drivers with very different ways of relating, makes a tough decision about a friend's pet and takes on an extremely competitive model rocket project that almost costs him a friendship. The daily rhythms, struggles and triumphs of childhood-at home, at school and with friends-are evoked with warmth, understanding,...
11) Tin Man
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Series
Language
English
Description
A YA graphic novel about unlikely friendsâa tin man seeking a heart and a high schooler trying to come to terms with the death of her grandmother
In Justin Madsonâs debut graphic novel, Tin Man, a girl and her brother befriend the titular Tin Man with unexpected results. Solar is in her last year of high school and is reeling from the recent death of her grandmother. She has abandoned her plans for the future and fallen in
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The only thing Rosalind Ling Geraghty loves more than watching NASA launches with her dad is building rockets with him. When he dies unexpectedly, all Ro has left of him is an unfinished model rocket they had been working on together. Benjamin Burns doesn't like science, but he can't get enough of Spacebound, a popular comic book series. When he finds a sketch that suggests that his dad created the comics, he's thrilled. Too bad his dad walked out...
13) Rockets
Author
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
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Description
"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to how rockets work. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
14) Racing the moon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
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Description
In 1947, eleven-year-old Alex and her impulsive, older brother Chuck befriend an army scientist who shares their interest in rockets and outer space travel.
16) October sky
Language
English
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Description
True story of a young boy growing up in Coalwood, West Virginia during the 1950's who dreams of building rockets.
"In Coalwood, West Virginia, 1957, coal mining is king and no one can escape life underground. But when high schooler Homer Hickman, Jr. sees the Soviet satellite Sputnik streak overhead, he aims for the stars and a new destiny in this incredible true story of hope, determination and triumph. With the help of his teacher and three buddies,...
17) Rocket Town
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English
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"The story follows an astronaut and his canine companion as they drive an old pickup through Rocket Town, passing all manner of space craft like a taxi rocket, a police rocket, a school bus rocket, and even a rocket that looks like a shark."--Amazon.com.
18) Rockets
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about rockets. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--
20) The rocket
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Lao
Description
A boy who is believed to bring bad luck to everyone around him leads his family and two new friends through Laos to find a new home. After a calamity-filled journey through a land scarred by the legacy of war, to prove he's not bad luck he builds a giant rocket to enter the most exciting and dangerous competition of the year: the Rocket Festival.
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