Monday, September 26, 2011

Team Moom

Author:  Catherine Thimmesh
Title:  Team Moon:  How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon

Illustrator:  Photos courtesy of NASA
Genre:  Non Fiction Picture Book

Subgenre:  Space

Theme:  Team work

Primary & Secondary Characters:  Michael Collins, Charles Mars, President JFK, Joe Gavin, Max Faget, Erin Reyers, Neil Armstrong, and Buzz Aldrin. (There are many more people in this book)
Awards:  Robert F. Sibert

Date of Publication:  2006

Publishing Company:  Houghton Mifflin Company

Brief Summary:  Team Moon tells about what happened in Apollo 11 and what happened behind the scenes at Mission Control.

Use in the Classroom:  This book can be used in a science classroom for middle school.  This is the kind of work that will get boys interested in reading.

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