Janet's Planet: From Launch to Landing - July 18, 2019
July 18th: READ A BOOK ABOUT BEING AN ASTRONAUT
Visit your library and read Scott Kelley's Middle Reader, Endurance, the stories of Sally K Ride, Mae Jemison, Eileen Collins to Hoot Gibson, Jerry Ross, and SO MANY MORE! Read about the process of becoming an astronaut and what it’s like to be in space! Post Your #ReadForSpace, #SpaceBook, #ReadingForLiftOff, #UniverseofStories, pics with these hashtags and let us know you are reading about space and exploration!
Floating in Space by Franklyn M. Branley
Becoming A SpaceWalker by Jerry Ross
Astronaut Living in Space by Kate Hayden
The International Space Station by Franklyn M. Branley
My Best Book of Spaceships by Ian Graham
One Giant Leap: The Story of Neil Armstrong by Don Brown
Eight Days Gone by Linda McReynolds
The First Moon Landing by Elizabeth Hudson-Goff and Dale Anderson
Spacebusters: The Race to the Moon by Philip Wilkinson
I Want to Be an Astronaut by Byron Barton
Roaring Rockets by Tony Mitton and Ant Parker
Astronaut Handbook by Meghan McCarthy
Mousetronaut: Based on a (Partially) True Story by Mark Kelly
If You Decide To Go To The Moon by Faith McNulty
If I Were an Astronaut by Eric Braun
To the Moon and Back: My Apollo 11 Adventure by Buzz Aldrin and Marianne Dyson
Welcome To Mars: Making a Home on the Red Planet by Buzz Aldrin and Marianne Dyson
Endurance: My Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery by Scott Kelly
Space Walk: Lift-The-Flap Adventures by Salina Yoon
The Darkest Dark by Chris Hadfield
Mae Among the Stars by Roda Ahmed
MC Longneck’s EPIC Space Adventure by Andrew Rader
Sally Ride (My Itty Bitty Bio) by Virginia Loh-Hagan Edd
Mae Jemison (You Should Meet) by Laura Calkhoven
Go For Orbit: One of America's First Women Astronauts Finds Her Space by Rhea Seddon
Endeavour’s Long Journey by John D. Olivas
La Larga Travesía De Endeavour by John D. Olivas (Spanish edition)
It's a Question of Space: An Ordinary Astronaut's Answers to Sometimes Extraordinary Questions by Clayton C. Anderson
Falling to Earth: An Apollo 15 Astronaut's Journey to the Moon by Al Worden
Space Shuttle by Dennis Jenkins
Orbit of Discovery: The All-Ohio Space Shuttle Mission by Don Thomas and Mike Bartell
The Ordinary Spaceman: From Boyhood Dreams to Astronaut by Clayton C. Anderson and Nevada Barr
A is for Astronaut: Blasting Through the Alphabet by Clayton Anderson and Scott Brundage
Reaching for the Stars: The Inspiring Story of a Migrant Farmworker Turned Astronaut by Jose M. Hernandez and Monica Rojas Rubin
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