Almost astronauts :
Stone, Tanya Lee.
Almost astronauts : 13 women who dared to dream / Tanya Lee Stone. - 1st ed. - Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2009. - 133 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-130) and index.
"T minus thirty-eight years" -- "I jumped at the offer" -- "Not a meaningful test!" -- "Mommy's going to the moon!" -- "It was too good to be true" -- "Regret to advise" -- "Let's stop this now!" -- "Jerrie Cobb isn't running this program. I am!" -- "The men go off and fight the wars and fly the airplanes" -- "NASA never had any intention of putting those women in space" -- "We want to see a woman driving the bus, not sitting in the back" -- "I am living proof that dreams do come true."
School Library Journal starred, March 2009 Horn Book Starred, March 2009 Publisher's Weekly, May 2009 Kirkus Starred, January 2009 Booklist, February 2009 New York Times, July 2009 Horn Book, October 2009 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), April 2009 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), February 2009 Kirkus Review, April 2009
Profiles thirteen women who challenged social norms and government policies to prove they could be exceptional astronauts.
5.7 5-8 Follett Library Resources
0763636118
2008017487
Project Mercury (U.S.)--History.
Astronauts--Biography.
Women--Biography.
Sex discrimination.
TL789.85.A1 / S79 2009
629.45/0092/2/73 B
Almost astronauts : 13 women who dared to dream / Tanya Lee Stone. - 1st ed. - Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2009. - 133 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-130) and index.
"T minus thirty-eight years" -- "I jumped at the offer" -- "Not a meaningful test!" -- "Mommy's going to the moon!" -- "It was too good to be true" -- "Regret to advise" -- "Let's stop this now!" -- "Jerrie Cobb isn't running this program. I am!" -- "The men go off and fight the wars and fly the airplanes" -- "NASA never had any intention of putting those women in space" -- "We want to see a woman driving the bus, not sitting in the back" -- "I am living proof that dreams do come true."
School Library Journal starred, March 2009 Horn Book Starred, March 2009 Publisher's Weekly, May 2009 Kirkus Starred, January 2009 Booklist, February 2009 New York Times, July 2009 Horn Book, October 2009 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), April 2009 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), February 2009 Kirkus Review, April 2009
Profiles thirteen women who challenged social norms and government policies to prove they could be exceptional astronauts.
5.7 5-8 Follett Library Resources
0763636118
2008017487
Project Mercury (U.S.)--History.
Astronauts--Biography.
Women--Biography.
Sex discrimination.
TL789.85.A1 / S79 2009
629.45/0092/2/73 B