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We Dream of Space - Erin Entrada Kelly
Children's Audiobooks Literature & Fiction
Reading level : 8 - 12 years
Grade Level : 3 - 7
We Dream of Space
By: Erin Entrada Kelly
Narrated by: Ramon de Ocampo
Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 05-05-20
Language: English
Publisher: HarperAudio
Publisher's Summary
Newbery Medalist and New York Times best-selling author Erin Entrada Kelly transports listeners to 1986 and introduces them to the unforgettable Cash, Fitch, and Bird Thomas in this pitch-perfect middle grade novel about family, friendship, science, and exploration. A great choice for fans of Kate DiCamillo, Rita Williams-Garcia, and Rebecca Stead.
Great for summer listening or anytime! A Today show pick for "25 Children’s Books Your Kids and Teens Won’t Be Able to Put Down this Summer"!
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 wrestles with an explosive temper that he doesn’t understand. And Bird, his 12-year-old twin, dreams of being NASA’s first female shuttle commander, but feels like she’s disappearing.
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.
Told in three alternating points of view, We Dream of Space is an unforgettable and thematically rich novel for middle grade listeners.