𝙒𝙚 𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢 𝙤𝙛 𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚《我們．夢想．太空: 渺小並非微不足道》
by Erin Entrada Kelly
🥈2022紐伯瑞銀獎作品
一九八六年，距離太空梭「挑戰者號」的發射只剩幾週，全國滿懷期待，尼爾森‧湯瑪斯三兄妹正各自面臨人生難題。
凱希熱愛籃球但手腕骨折，也面臨二次留級的危險；費奇熱愛街機遊戲，並努力應對時常突襲的暴躁脾氣；綽號小鳥的柏蒂才華橫溢，非常渴望了解世界，熱愛機器的工作原理，夢想成為美國第一位女性太空梭指揮官。雖然生活在同一個屋簷下，三兄妹卻在各自的軌道上，周旋在一個緊張而難以預測的家庭關係中，夢想著逃離、夢想著未來、夢想著太空！
本書以三兄妹交替的視角，描繪出對希望、愛、歸屬感和太空的夢想，以及太空梭的悲劇如何啟發我們──雖然我們看似渺小，但就像沙灘上的沙粒，如果沙粒從不移動，海灘不會改變。我們每個人、每一天都應該努力改變，成為更好的探索者、更好的人，重點是讓自己更好……
(中文書介來自台灣東方出版社)
Cash, Fitch, and Bird Nelson Thomas are three siblings in seventh grade together in Park, Delaware. In 1986, as the country waits expectantly for the launch of the space shuttle Challenger, they each struggle with their own personal anxieties. Cash, who loves basketball but has a newly broken wrist, is in danger of failing seventh grade for the second time. Fitch spends every afternoon playing Major Havoc at the arcade on Main and wrestles with an explosive temper that he doesn’t understand. And Bird, his twelve-year-old twin, dreams of being NASA’s first female shuttle commander, but feels like she’s disappearing.
The Nelson Thomas children exist in their own orbits, circling a tense and unpredictable household, with little in common except an enthusiastic science teacher named Ms. Salonga. As the launch of the Challenger approaches, Ms. Salonga gives her students a project—they are separated into spacecraft crews and must create and complete a mission. When the fated day finally arrives, it changes all of their lives and brings them together in unexpected ways.
ISBN: 9780062747310
尺寸: 13 x 2.84 x 19.35 cm
頁數: 400頁
