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Ellen Takes Flight: The Life of Astronaut Ellen Ochoa

Ellen Takes Flight: The Life of Astronaut Ellen Ochoa

Rappaport, Doreen
Dominguez, Oliver

Hardcover

Series: A Big Words Book, Book 12

General Juvenile Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 0759554943
ISBN13: 9780759554948
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: Sep 19 2023
Pages: 48
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.40 Width: 10.35 Depth: 11.23
Language: English

A Junior Library Guild Selection, Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, and National Science Teaching Association Best STEM Book ● Celebrate the groundbreaking life of astronaut and Johnson Space Center director Ellen Ochoa, the first Latina in space, in this picture-book biography for tomorrow's astronauts (Booklist).

Young Ellen Ochoa loved to learn. An accomplished engineer by age 30, with three patents to her name, she kept learning and trying new things. When NASA began accepting women and people of color to the astronaut program, Ellen found herself drawn to this exciting and demanding career. On her first mission, she was the only woman aboard the shuttle Discovery and the first Latina to reach outer space. After four space flights, she became the first Latina director of the Johnson Space Center and has received numerous distinctions and awards.

This addition to the award-winning Big Words biography series celebrates a STEM pioneer known for her brilliance, persistence, and an intellectual curiosity as infinite as the stars. With dynamic illustrations by Oliver Dominguez, Doreen Rappaport's richly detailed narrative--punctuated with standout quotes from Ellen herself--will inspire a new generation to unravel the mysteries of the universe.

★ Brilliant, sure-handed gouache illustrations add even more vivid life to the well-paced text.... A book sure to fly off shelves and into children's hands. --Kirkus Reviews

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