We Dream of Space

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Call Number: R Newbery Honor 2021, Kids Book / Fiction / General / Kelly, Erin Entrada, Y Fiction / Kelly, Erin , Y Fiction / Kelly, Erin
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch, Traverwood Branch, Westgate Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown Kids Reference 0-week checkout	R Newbery Honor 2021	0-week checkout	Library Use Only
Malletts Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Fiction / General / Kelly, Erin Entrada	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Fiction / General / Kelly, Erin Entrada	4-week checkout	Due 05-10-2024
Traverwood Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Fiction / General / Kelly, Erin Entrada	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Fiction / General / Kelly, Erin Entrada	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Fiction / General / Kelly, Erin Entrada	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown Kids Books 4-week checkout	Y Fiction / Kelly, Erin	4-week checkout	Due 05-21-2024
Downtown Kids Books 4-week checkout	Y Fiction / Kelly, Erin	4-week checkout	Due 05-18-2024

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.

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Challenger submitted by Xris on November 28, 2020, 2:15am The book revolves around three siblings, all in the same grade, who have the same science teacher who applied to be the first teacher in space. So naturally she teaches them about the Space Shuttle program. That part was good, but I didn’t care for the parents fighting and the one child’s anger issues.

Not what I was expecting submitted by smgop on July 17, 2021, 9:24am As a teacher, I am always looking for good books to recommend to kids. Our kids love everything having to do with space - so when I saw this title I ordered it, intrigued. It turned out not to be so much about space and kids' dreams of exploration and more of highlighting dysfunctional family relationships. I won't be recommending this to my kids.