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Name: Team Moon
Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Author: Catherine Thimmesh

In Team Moon, Catherine Thimmesh compiles real NASA transcripts, archival records, and photographs to narrate the story of Apollo 11 and the inaugural lunar landing. Tailored for readers aged ten to twelve, the book offers a factual, engaging portrait of the space flight that brought astronauts to the Moon for the first time. Its educational focus on space vehicles, exploration, and the Project Apollo program has earned it the Sibert Award for distinguished illustration of nonfiction.

First publish date: 2006

Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure

Authors: Catherine Thimmesh

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