The Race to Space: Countdown to Liftoff
by Ben Thompson, Erik Slader, and Tim Foley
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- Grade
- 5-8
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
Year Published 2018
Word Count 15,534
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1190L
- ATOS Reading Level: 8.1
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 195890, 3 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Science
- Social Studies
- STEAM
- Subject Headings
- Outer space--Exploration
- Outer space
- Aeronautical engineers
- Aeronautics--United States--Juvenile literature
- Exploration
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology | Aeronautics, Astronautics & Space Science
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States - 20th Century
- Astronauts
- Aeronautical engineers--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | History of Science
- Space race--Juvenile literature
- Exploration of outer space
- Astronauts--Juvenile literature
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction
- Astronautics--History
- Space flight
- United States
- Aeronautics
- Space race
- Outer space--Exploration--Juvenile literature
- Illustrated children's books
- Space flight--Juvenile literature
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