Bibliograph

We dream of space, Erin Entrada Kelly

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We dream of space, Erin Entrada Kelly

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Contains bibliographical references (page 391)

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

We dream of space

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Erin Entrada Kelly

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

Target audience

juvenile

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