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A review by kateteaching7and8
To Fly Among the Stars: The Hidden Story of the Fight for Women Astronauts by Rebecca Siegel
4.0
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Thank you to @scholasticinc for sharing an advance copy of To Fly Among the Stars by Rebecca Siegel with the #kidlitexchange network. This book was released March 3, 2020. All opinions are my own.
To Fly Among the Stars offers a new look at the space race between the USA and Russia during the 1960s. The book details how NASA selected their first astronauts and the progress of the US space program during the 1960s. Chapters alternate between the male astronauts' progress and what female aviators were doing to try to get into astronautics.
This book is full of detail and very well researched. I learned so much about the space program, the first astronauts, and the women who dared to try to break the glass ceiling and become astronauts. I have to admit that I was a little throne by the novel as the ARC I received had the subtitle: The Hidden Story of the Fight for Women Astronauts. While the book does tell the story of the fight for women astronauts, it gives equal time and information on the original Mercury 7 and the NASA space program in general. Based on what I read, I felt it was more a story of the US space program which is why I was happy to see that the subtitle on Goodreads was different and more fitting, I believe, to the content of the novel: A True Story of the Women and Men Who Tested to Become America's First Astronauts. I liked that I was able to learn so much from this book and that the author shared both successes and failures and positive and negative character traits and episodes. This book is listed as being written for the 8-12 market; however, I feel like the narrative voice of the book and it's topic may interest a slightly older reader. I would recommend To Fly Among the Stars to those who read and enjoyed Steve Sheinkin's Born to Fly or Margot Lee Shetterly's Hidden Figures.
Thank you to @scholasticinc for sharing an advance copy of To Fly Among the Stars by Rebecca Siegel with the #kidlitexchange network. This book was released March 3, 2020. All opinions are my own.
To Fly Among the Stars offers a new look at the space race between the USA and Russia during the 1960s. The book details how NASA selected their first astronauts and the progress of the US space program during the 1960s. Chapters alternate between the male astronauts' progress and what female aviators were doing to try to get into astronautics.
This book is full of detail and very well researched. I learned so much about the space program, the first astronauts, and the women who dared to try to break the glass ceiling and become astronauts. I have to admit that I was a little throne by the novel as the ARC I received had the subtitle: The Hidden Story of the Fight for Women Astronauts. While the book does tell the story of the fight for women astronauts, it gives equal time and information on the original Mercury 7 and the NASA space program in general. Based on what I read, I felt it was more a story of the US space program which is why I was happy to see that the subtitle on Goodreads was different and more fitting, I believe, to the content of the novel: A True Story of the Women and Men Who Tested to Become America's First Astronauts. I liked that I was able to learn so much from this book and that the author shared both successes and failures and positive and negative character traits and episodes. This book is listed as being written for the 8-12 market; however, I feel like the narrative voice of the book and it's topic may interest a slightly older reader. I would recommend To Fly Among the Stars to those who read and enjoyed Steve Sheinkin's Born to Fly or Margot Lee Shetterly's Hidden Figures.