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42) Flight
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree
Pub. Date
©2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book explores the science behind flight. It looks at topics such as how planes, helicopters, and balloons fly. It also looks at the concepts of gravity, streamlining, drag and thrust.
43) Flying
Author
Publisher
Mulberry Books
Pub. Date
1989, 1986
Description
An airplane takes off, flies, and lands after having passed over cities, country areas, lakes, and more.
Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Have you ever dreamt you could fly? Or imagined what it would be like to glide and swoop through the sky like a bird? Do you let your mind soar to unknown, magical spaces? In Flights of Fancy, Richard Dawkins explains how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies. From the mythical Icarus, to the sadly extinct but spectacular bird Argentavis magnificens, from the Wright flyer and the 747, to the Tinkerbella...
49) Air and flight
Author
Series
Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
1984
Description
Suggested activities illustrate the properties of air and how air can be used to make things fly.
50) Alison's wings
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Young Alison, dreaming of having her own wings, tries to find a way to fly.
51) Trouble in space
Author
Series
Publisher
Troll Associates
Pub. Date
c1981
Description
Teddy is glad to take a trip into space until he runs into trouble.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 52
Description
On July 20, 1969, the world stood still to watch 38-year-old American astronaut Neil A. Armstrong become the first person ever to step on the surface of another heavenly body. Upon his return to Earth, Armstrong was celebrated for his monumental achievement. He was also--as NASA historian Hansen reveals in this authorized biography--misunderstood. Armstrong's accomplishments as an engineer, a test pilot, and an astronaut have long been a matter of...
53) The funny ride
Author
Publisher
Follett Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c1982
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When his kite lifts him above the ground, a child takes a "funny ride" as he views what is on the ground and in the air.
54) Rocketman
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
A computer geek is chosen to go on the first manned mission to Mars, and his crewmates aren't happy.
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong took "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" when the Apollo 11 landed on the moon. But it wasnt just one man who got us to the moon. The Moon Landing explores the people and technology that made the moon landing possible. Instead of examining one persons life, it focuses on the moon landing itself, showing the events leading up to it and how it changed the world. The book takes readers through the history...
Author
Series
Savage Planet volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Aliens are coming! A year after young engineering student Rip Cantrell discovered the first flying saucer buried deep in the sands of the Sahara, another saucer is brought up from the bottom of the Atlantic. The recovery is funded by a pharmaceutical executive who believes that the saucer holds the key to an anti-aging drug formula that space travelers would need to voyage between galaxies. But one of his technicians, Adam Solo, an alien marooned...
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