Science-obsessed Audrey is a fifth grader in Houston, Texas, who dreams of one day working at NASA, like her dad does, however, her dad is nothing but discouraging, but Audrey doesn't give up, though, she has created her own model rocket. When it doesn't fly, she figures out a way to fix it that ends up helping the Apollo 11 astronauts after they land on the Moon. Will Audrey's dad come around, and will Audrey have a future in science?.
year: 2021
call number/section: 1000
subjects: apollo project, fiction, apollo 11 (spacecraft), space flight to the moon, fiction, father-daughter relationship, united states, national aeronautics and space administration, juvenile fiction, project apollo (u.s.), space flight, juvenile fiction, families, houston, sexism, family life, houston (tex.), fiction, historical fiction
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Rissman, Rebecca
Science-obsessed Audrey is a fifth grader in Houston, Texas, who dreams of one day working at NASA, like her dad does, however, her dad is nothing but discouraging, but Audrey doesn't give up, though, she has created her own model rocket. When it doesn't fly, she figures out a way to fix it that ends up helping the Apollo 11 astronauts after they land on the Moon. Will Audrey's dad come around, and will Audrey have a future in science?.
Schools: 3
Rissman, Rebecca
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint (2021)
"When Houston fifth-grader Audrey's ingenuity helps the Apollo 11 astronauts during their 1969 Moon landing, her dream of becoming a NASA scientist one day, despite sexism, seems possible"--OCLC.
Schools: 1