Colleen, Marcie
Summary: Orville is a little penguin who lives in a zoo and dreams of big adventures, like going to the Moon; the other animals are skeptical, but Orville is determined, so he builds a spaceship and sets out all by himself--and discovers that really adventures are best when they are shared with friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC COLGall, Chris
Summary: Released in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, this nonfiction picture book offers a step-by-step explanation of how the Apollo 11 spacecraft worked, as told by a young enthusiast. Includes glossary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2019
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Summary: "Unable to interest her parents, her brothers, or her dog on a trip to the moon, Lana heads to her room where she uses creativity and imagination to blast off in her own amazing space adventure. . . an adventure so amazing that the man in the moon, a moonwoman, two moon boys, and moon monster soon soar in"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN SILYolen, Jane
Summary: A young boy, seeing that Moon is lonely, sends up a kite to cheer her then, after growing up and learning many things, he becomes the first human to visit her. Dedicated to Neil Armstrong and written in recognition of the fiftieth anniversary of the firstU.S. moon landing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zonderkidz 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE YOLHill, Susanna Leonard
Summary: High up in the sky, the Moon has spent her whole life watching the happenings of Earth below, from dinosaurs roaming to planes taking flight, hoping for a visitor, until one day in 1969 when a spaceship soars from Earth. Includes Earth timeline and a history of space exploration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HILLDiTerlizzi, Tony.
Summary: When Jimmy's mother won't let him have any moon pies for a snack, he takes a trip to the moon to get some.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION DiTerlizzi 2000Gaffney, Timothy R.
Summary: A child whose grandfather was an astronaut always asks Grandpa for a bedtime story in which the two of them blast off for the moon together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tambourine Books 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Gaffney 1996Brockington, Drew.
Summary: Alerted to a global energy crisis, the President consults with the World's Best Scientist, who suggests sending a special group of astronauts to turn the Moon into a solar power plant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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Summary: Geronimo Stilton and his cousin Trap journey to the Moon in order to stop the evil Pirate Cats from thwarting the Apollo 11 mission.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2014
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Summary: When Sean tells Jet, Sydney, and Mindy about the Apollo 11 mission, the kids decide to do a real-life reenactment of the first landing on the moon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2019
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE BROYoung, Judy
Summary: As the Apollo 11 mission draws to a close there is a crisis at the tracking station on Guam: the antenna that will track the spacecraft during reentry, and allow mission control to communicate with the astronauts is stuck--and ten-year-old Marty is the only one small enough to reach in and grease the ball bearings that allow the antenna to move.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2019