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Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Jet takes his friends on an out of this world adventure to the moon! While they are there they take a look back at mans first moon landingApollo 11 in 1969.This Level 2 Ready-to-Read includes bonus back matter content with lots of fun facts about the moon and the Apollo 11 crew.
23) The burning maze
Author
Series
Trials of Apollo volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Book three in the #1 New York Times bestselling Trials of Apollo series. The formerly glorious god Apollo, cast down to earth in punishment by Zeus, is now an awkward mortal teenager named Lester Papadopoulos. In order to regain his place on Mount Olympus, Lester must restore five Oracles that have gone dark. But he has to achieve this impossible task without having any godly powers and while being duty-bound to a confounding young daughter of Demeter...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the bold but dangerous mission to secure America's position as the first nation to reach the moon, revealing the dangers endured by its crew and the ways the mission brought renewal to a country ravaged by assassinations and war.
Author
Publisher
a novel graphic from Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
On a summer night in 1969, two men climbed down a ladder onto a sea of dust at the edge of an ancient dream. When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first set foot on lunar soil, the moon ceased to be a place of mystery and myth. It became a destination.Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of that journey, Moonbound tells the monumental story of the moon and the men who went there first. With vibrant images and meticulous attention to detail, Jonathan Fetter-Vorm...
28) Apollo 11
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A look at Apollo 11, NASA's 1969 mission to land on the moon, led by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins.
29) Apollo 13
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A big-picture reenactment of the 1970 Apollo lunar mission that ran into problems. Stranded 205,000 miles from the Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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.
31) Apollo 13
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The story of the American moon shot that almost ended in a fatal catastrophe, told by the flight's commander, offers a chronicle of courage, heroism, and adventure.
The best-selling book that inspired the blockbuster movie. A timeless tribute to the enduring American spirit, Apollo 13 tells the story of America's fifth mission to the moon, a mission that nearly ended in catastrophe in April 1970. Only fifty-five hours into the flight, disaster struck...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A celebration of the 50th anniversary of NASA's Apollo missions to the moon, this narrative uses 50 key artifacts from the Smithsonian archives to tell the story of the groundbreaking space exploration program. Bold photographs, fascinating graphics, and engaging stories commemorate the 20th century's most important space endeavor: NASA's Apollo program to reach the moon. From the lunar rover and a survival kit to space food and moon rocks, it's a...
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Expands on the myth of Phaeton, a young man who undertakes a long and dangerous journey to the gates of dawn to confront the mighty god of the sun, Apollo, and is granted one wish--to drive the chariot of the sun for a day.
Author
Series
Daughter of Sparta volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Guided by the handsome Apollo, Daphne journeys across ancient Greece to recover nine mysterious items stolen from Mount Olympus before the gods lose their powers and throw the mortal world into chaos in this reinterpretation of the Greek myth.
Author
Language
English
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Description
On May 20, 1969, the thirty-story-high Apollo 11-Saturn V spaceship was trundled from Cape Kennedy’s Vehicle Assembly Building to Pad 39A for its final inspection and countdown. The nearly 1 million spectators who began gathering at Cape Kennedy for launch on July 16, 1969, were kept at least 3.5 miles away from the pad because, in an explosion, hundred-pound chunks of shrapnel would be hurled in a 3-mile radius. Finally, at 9:32 a.m., Neil...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
High up in the sky, the Moon has spent her whole life watching the happenings of Earth below, from dinosaurs roaming to planes taking flight, hoping for a visitor, until one day in 1969 when a spaceship soars from Earth. Includes Earth timeline and a history of space exploration.
40) One giant leap
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Commemorating the 40th anniversary of man's first walk on the moon, this book is a tribute that transports readers to the stars, where they will experience the moon landing just as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin did.
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