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Book Selection : Which book interests you? Rate the following book titles with 1(top choice), 2 (second choice), or 3 or 4(last choices). Wait until the presentation is over to rate. . Workshop 6: Should we explore outer space?. Choice: Every Soul a Star By Wendy Mass.
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Book Selection: Which book interests you? Rate the following book titles with 1(top choice), 2 (second choice), or 3 or 4(last choices). Wait until the presentation is over to rate. Workshop 6: Should we explore outer space?
Choice: Every Soul a Star By Wendy Mass “And as streams of light fan out behind the darkened sun like the wings of a butterfly, I realize that I never saw real beauty until now.” Ally, Bree, and Jack are totally different and complete strangers brought together to view a beautiful and rate solar eclipse. Through this one extraordinary event, three lives are bout to be changed forever, in this enchanting story about unlikely friendships and finding one’s place in the universe. Ally likes the simple things in life--labyrinths, star-gazing, and comet-hunting. Her home, the Moon Shadow campground, is a part of who she is, and she refuses to imagine it any other way.Popular and gorgeous (everybody says so), Bree is a future homecoming queen for sure. Bree wears her beauty like a suit of armor. But what is she trying to hide?Overweight and awkward, Jack is used to spending a lot of time alone. But when opportunity knocks, he finds himself in situations he never would have imagined and making friends in the most unexpected situations. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx2jjs6pyIg
Choice: Rocket BoysBy Homer H. Hickman Jr. • The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that inspired the film October Sky,Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir—a powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the dawn of the 1960s, of a mother's love and a father's fears, of a group of young men who dreamed of launching rockets into outer space . . . and who made those dreams come true.With the grace of a natural storyteller, NASA engineer Homer Hickam paints a warm, vivid portrait of the harsh West Virginia mining town of his youth, evoking a time of innocence and promise, when anything was possible, even in a company town that swallowed its men alive. A story of romance and loss, of growing up and getting out, Homer Hickam's lush, lyrical memoir is a chronicle of triumph—at once exquisitely written and marvelously entertaining.Now with 8 pages of photographs.
Choice: Life as We Knew ItBy Susan Beth Pfeffer Miranda’s disbelief turns to fear in a split second when a meteor knocks the moon closer to the earth. How should her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis wipe out the coasts, earthquakes rock the continents, and volcanic ash blocks out the sun? As summer turns to Arctic winter, Miranda, her two brothers, and their mother retreat to the unexpected safe haven of their sunroom, where they subsist on stockpiled food and limited water in the warmth of a wood-burning stove. Told in journal entries, this is the heart-pounding story of Miranda’s struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all--hope--in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar world.
Choice: Go Big or Go HomeBy: Will Hobbs • Brady Steele’s love for all things extreme is given a boost when a fireball crashes through the roof of his house. It turns out that Brady’s space rock is one of the rarest meteors ever found. In fact, a professor from a nearby museum wants to study it in search of extraterrestrial bacteria, hoping to discover the first proof of life beyond Earth. • With each new day, Brady is discovering he's able to do strange and wonderful feats that shouldn't be possible. At the same time, he's developing some frightening symptoms. Could he be infected with long-dormant microbes from space? Is this meteor a prize or a menace?
