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The first 12 participants to register will receive a free copy of the book\, generously purchased by the Friends of the Library. You must attend the book club meeting in order to keep the bo ok.
\nAdditional copies are available for checkout at BPL and on the Libby app.
\nBook Summary: \;
\nIt's Jan uary 1986. The launch of the Challenger is just weeks away\, and Cash\, Fi tch\, and Bird Nelson Thomas are three siblings in seventh grade together in Park\, Delaware.
\nCash loves basketball\, Dr. J\, and a girl nam ed Penny\; he's also in danger of failing seventh grade for a second time. Fitch spends every afternoon playing Major Havoc at the arcade and wrestl es with an explosive temper that he doesn't understand. And Bird\, his twe lve-year-old twin\, dreams of being NASA's first female shuttle commander\ , but feels like she's disappearing.
\nThe Nelson Thomas siblings ex ist in their own orbits\, circling a tense\, crowded\, and unpredictable h ousehold\, dreaming of escape\, dreaming of the future\, dreaming of space . They have little in common except an enthusiastic science teacher named Ms. Salonga&mdash\;a failed applicant to the Teacher in Space program&mdas h\;who encourages her students to live vicariously through the launch. Cas h and Fitch take a passive interest\, but Bird builds her dreams around it .
\nWhen the fated day arrives\, it changes everything.
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Questions? Email Rachel Bright\, Children's
Library Specialist - rbright@bentonvillear.com
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