You Are the First Kid on Mars
CRITICS HAVE SAID
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- Indeed, by involving the reader directly in the story, O’Brien helps ensure that they won’t even realize they’re learning all sorts of wonderful things about gravity, distance, geology, and life along the way. As strong as the narrative can be, though, it’s really the visuals that will drop the most jaws.
Booklist
- Indeed, by involving the reader directly in the story, O’Brien helps ensure that they won’t even realize they’re learning all sorts of wonderful things about gravity, distance, geology, and life along the way. As strong as the narrative can be, though, it’s really the visuals that will drop the most jaws.
IF YOU LOVE THIS BOOK, THEN TRY:
Aldrin, Buzz. Reaching for the Moon. HarperCollins, 2005.
Brown, Don. One Giant Leap: The Story of Neil Armstrong. Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
Burleigh, Robert. Earth from Above for Young Readers. Abrams, 2002.
Burleigh, Robert. Flight: The Journey of Charles Lindbergh. Philomel, 1991.
Burleigh, Robert. One Giant Leap. Philomel, 2009.
Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System. Scholastic, 1990.
Floca, Brian. Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11. Atheneum, 2009.
Hopkins, Lee Bennett, comp. Blast Off!: Poems About Space. HarperCollins, 1995.
Krupp, E. C. The Moon and You. Macmillan, 1993.
Leedy, Loreen. Postcards from Pluto: A Tour of the Solar System. Holiday House, 1993.
McCarthy, Meghan. Astronaut Handbook. Knopf, 2008.
McNulty, Faith. If You Decide to Go to the Moon. Scholastic, 2005.
O’Brien, Patrick. Mammoth. Henry Holt, 2002.
O’Brien, Patrick. Mega tooth. Henry Holt, 2001.
O’Malley, Kevin. Captain Raptor and the Moon Mystery. Illus. by Patrick O’Brien. Walker, 2005.
O’Malley, Kevin, and Patrick O’Brien. Captain Raptor and the Space Pirates. Illus. by Patrick O’Brien. Walker, 2007.
Reeve, Philip. Larklight. Bloomsbury, 2006.
Ride, Sally. To Space and Back. Lothrop, 1986.
Simon, Seymour. Mars. Harper Trophy, 1990.
Thimmesh, Catherine. Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon. Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Wethered, Peggy, and Ken Edgett. Touchdown Mars!: An ABC Adventure. Putnam, 2000.