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1) Life on Mars
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A young astronaut is trying to find life on Mars, but he's made a very big oversight"--
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Annie has a career day at her school, each member of her family wonders if she will choose their career path--her grandfather the news photographer, her father the mountain climber or her mother the basketball player--until she reveals a dream that is all her own.
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An astronaut is getting ready to explore a new world. Boots? Check. Gloves? Check. And a helmet, of course. They take their first step outside ... and discover a strange new world with towering hills to climb, fantastical beasts to meet, and a raging storm to overcome. Will they make it back to their ship safely? A child's excitement for a snowy day transforms a walk to school into a wonder-filled trek through an imaginary world."--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Young Chris loves pretending he's a brave astronaut, exploiring the universe. Only one problem--at night, he's afraid of the dark. Only when he watches the moon landing on TV does he realize how exciting the unknown can be . Inspired by the childhood of real-life astronaut Chris Hadfield"--
9) Astro girl
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Astrid has loved the stars and space for as long as she can remember. "I want to be an astronaut!" she says to everyone who will listen. While her mama is away, Astrid and her papa have fun acting out the challenges an astronaut faces on a space mission - like being in zero gravity ("I can do that all day long!"she says), eating food from a kind of tube, and doing science experiments with the help of cookie sheets. When at last it's time to meet...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In 2019, teens Mia, Antoine, and Midori are selected by lottery to join experienced astronauts on a NASA mission to the once top-secret moon base, DARLAH 2, while in a Florida nursing home, a former astronaut struggles to warn someone of the terrible danger there.
Author
Publisher
Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Molly the moth loves her home and her family - but she yearns for adventure. So by day she helps her mother look after the larvae, and by night she prepares for her space mission to the moon! It's no easy feat for a little moth to fly all the way to the moon, but Molly is not a moth to give up on her dreams.
12) Space cows
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text reveal the day-to-day lives of cow space explorers, from what they look like, to how they keep busy, to how they deal with a noisy baby.
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Space travel is the best, but making space for friends is better. An imaginative only child named Avni enjoys the perks of being the only astronaut in her space station (a. k. a. home). She can take off whenever she wants, commands a whole rocket ship by herself, and never has to wait her turn. But when space exploration becomes too much work for a solo astronaut, she goes on a mission in her neighborhood to find a capable assistant ... with unexpected...
Author
Series
Astronaut Academy volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Hakata Soy looks to make a new start at Astronaut Academy, but his past as the leader of a futuristic superhero team catches up to him when a robot doppelganger is sent to kill him.
16) Blast off
Author
Publisher
New York Review Children's Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When her friends tease her for dreaming of being an astronaut, a young African American girl uses discarded items to make a spaceship for her interstellar journey.
Author
Series
Astrotwins volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Mark Kelly and his twin brother are back for more outer space adventure, this time fixing up an abandoned Apollo command module and taking off to rescue a Russian cosmonaut who is stranded in space"--
Author
Series
Asha and Baz volume 1
Publisher
Common Deer Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Asha and Baz have a paper rocket to launch! Whoever builds the rocket that travels the farthest will get to meet astronaut Chris Hadfield. The only problem is Asha and Baz don't know how to power their rocket. Stuck and unsure, the kids brainstorm by drawing a rocket in the sand using a stick. Only this is a very unusual stick. In fact, it’s a magic stick! And it transports them back in time to meet a person who might be able to help them...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Luciana Vega wants to be the first kid on Mars. But first she's got to be a good team player here on Earth."--Page 4 of cover.
In her second novel, Luciana is off to youth astronaut training camp! She hopes to be chosen to dive to an underwater habitat where real astronauts train for life in space. But when Luci accuses her diving partner of sabotage, no one believes her and her chances of making the diving team sink fast. Things hit rock bottom...
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In this graphic adaptation of a story by Stanislaw Lem, a meteoroid damages astronaut and space traveller Ijon's spaceship, and he finds himself caught in a time loop, contending with past and future versions of himself.
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