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Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The crew of Sandpiper Air and their friends and family at Tom Nevers Field return for more laughs, more romance, more rivalry and more surprises. In this season, Joe Hackett and Helen Chappel become engaged and plan their wedding; Helen's sister Casey arrives to shake things up and Fay quits her job then regrets it; Lowell turns budding artist and Roy Biggins welcomes a mail-order bride.
82) Shoot the moon
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Intelligent but isolated recent physics graduate Annie Fisk feels an undeniable pull toward space. Her childhood memories dimmed by loss, she has left behind her home, her family, and her first love in pursuit of intellectual fulfillment. When she finally lands a job as a NASA secretary during the Apollo 11 mission, the work is everything she dreamed, and while she feels a budding attraction to one of the engineers, she can't get distracted. Not...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The crew of Sandpiper Air and their friends and family at Tom Nevers Field return for more laughs, more romance, more rivalry and more surprises. In this season, Joe and Helen enjoy wedded bliss, but not for long, as Brian and Casey burn down Helen's house, and the two couples have to live together.
84) Chicks rule
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text follow chicks of all ilks as they work together to puzzle out how to respond to a sign forbidding chicks from attending the Rocket Club meeting.
85) Fly
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Get ready to take off in an airplane! Ground crew, flight attendants, pilots, and tower control are all here to help you journey across the sky. For first-time flyers eager to earn their wings or experienced flyers curious about who controls the plane, Fly shows readers the entire process that helps a plane climb high into the air and then land safely at its destination."--Page [2] of cover.
86) The defector
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 1973 Israel, as the Yom Kippur War erupts and a state-of-the-art Soviet MiG fighter makes an unexpected landing, NASA Flight Controller and former U.S. test pilot Kaz Zemeckis is drawn into a high-stakes game of spies, lies and secrets that hold the key to Cold War air and space supremacy.
Author
Publisher
Woodhall Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
On the eve of the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing comes a novel in which a Jewish astronaut must reassess his moral compass when forced to confront NASA's early collaboration with Nazis and the role it may have played in his father's death. Jonathan Stein thinks only a bad heart can stop him from reaching the moon. But when he discovers his father may have been murdered to protect an appalling NASA secret, he must decide whether his moral compass...
Author
Series
Who shrunk Daniel Funk? volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When Daniel learns to control his shrinking, Pablo, his tiny twin, writes a list of fun things they can do, including riding in a model rocket near the La Brea Tar Pits, which teaches the brothers the importance of sticking together.
89) Despegue
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Español
Description
Presents a simple overview of some of the preparations leading up to the launch of a space shuttle.
90) Jet pilot
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2020?]
Language
English
Description
Sent by the Pentagon to obtain top secret information from a supposedly defecting Russian lady pilot, the Colonel courts her so successfully that they fall in love and wed. With their marriage as a perfect cover, he is ordered to flee Russia with his bride, this time with him posing as a defector. When the political charade is discovered, however, the courageous couple embark in a dangerous flight to freedom in a heart-pounding escape with enemy agents...
91) Hidden figures
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented...
Publisher
Distributed by NCircle Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Pig has promised to make pies for everyone, but he doesn't have enough letters to make them. Dog has a magical way to help Pig keep his promise - it's all about the letter S. Frog thinks that in order to build a big rocket he needs big, uppercase letters. But when he needs to rescue the Little Piggies in out space, he learns that r-o-c-k-e-t works as well. All the friends have a ball trying to guess what Dog wants to play. Tiny Ant is tired of being...
93) Bonnie's rocket
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
While her father works on the Apollo 11 mission, Bonnie experiments with different ways to build and launch her own rocket. Includes author's note.
Author
Series
Grosse adventures volume 3
Publisher
Tokoyopop
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The aliens on Uranus find Stinky and Stan's rocket and note, and they decide to head to Earth to retrieve the famous farting brothers and bring them back to their planet. But when the boys realize that the aliens are up to no good, the craft a getaway plan to return home.
Author
Series
Planet Omar volume 5
Publisher
Putnam, G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Omar and his friends investigate sabotage at the model rocket-building contest they are competing in"--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Best friends Anna and Crocodile are going on another intrepid adventure - this time, to the moon! But soaring into the space is no simple task. To start with, it's very far away. Then there's the not-so-simple matter of building a rocket. And there are the sandwiches to make for the journey. But when Anna and Crocodile set their sights on something, nothing can stand in their way...
98) First flight
Author
Series
Timekeepers volume 1
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this adventure, the Timekeepers travel back to 1903 to prevent DeLay from interfering with the Wright brothers' first flight! Will they get the job done in time?--
99) Little Smokey
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A small firefighting airplane saves the day from disaster using her courage and a little help from her friends.
100) Tin Man
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In Justin Madson's debut graphic novel, Tin Man, a girl and her brother befriend the titular Tin Man with unexpected results. Solar is in her last year of high school and is reeling from the recent death of her grandmother. She has abandoned her plans for the future and fallen in with a bad crowd. Her little brother, Fenn, doesn't understand why she's changed--she doesn't even want to help him build their rocket in the garage anymore. Campbell is...