One Giant Leap: The Story of Neil Armstrong - Paperback

One Giant Leap: The Story of Neil Armstrong - Paperback

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One Giant Leap: The Story of Neil Armstrong - Paperback

One Giant Leap: The Story of Neil Armstrong - Paperback

$9.99
Sale price  $9.99 Regular price 

by Don Brown (Author)

As a young boy, Neil Armstrong had a recurring dream in which he held his breath and floated high above the people, houses, and cars. He spent his free time reading stacks of flying magazines, building model airplanes, and staring through the homemade telescope mounted on the roof of his neighbor's garage. As a teenager, Neil became obsessed with the idea of flight, working odd jobs to pay for flying lessons at a nearby airport. He earned his student pilot's license on his sixteenth birthday. But who was to know that this shy boy, who also loved books and music, would become the first person to set foot on the moon, on July 20, 1969. Here is the inspiring story of one boy's dream - a dream of flying that landed him more than 200,000 miles away in space, gazing upon the awesome sight of a tiny earth hanging suspended in a perfectly black sky. On the thirtieth anniversary of the moon landing, Don Brown's expressive story reveals the achievement of this American legend, Neil Armstrong, re

Author Biography

Don Brown is the award-winning author and illustrator of many picture book biographies. He has been widely praised for his resonant storytelling and his delicate watercolor paintings that evoke the excitement, humor, pain, and joy of lives lived with passion. School Library Journal has called him "a current pacesetter who has put the finishing touches on the standards for storyographies." He lives in New York with his family.

Number of Pages: 32
Dimensions: 0.13 x 10.05 x 6.52 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: September 24, 2001
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: One Giant Leap: The Story of Neil Armstrong
Interest Level: Middle Grades, 4-8
Reading Level: 4.6
Point Value: 0.5

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