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Reaching for the Moon

by Buzz Aldrin (Harper Collins, 2005)
Reaching for the Moon by Buzz Aldrin

Do you wonder what it would feel like to blast off in a rocket and leave the earth behind?  To eat in zero gravity? See earthrise from the surface of the moon? Touch earth’s satellite, where no one had ever been before?  If you really want to know what it would be like to go to the moon, ask someone who’s been there.  Buzz Aldrin was one of the Apollo astronauts who first landed on the moon in 1969, and was the second person ever to set foot on the moon. He has written this book just for kids, all about his trip to the moon and how he became an astronaut. What would you think about? What was it like? Learn all about it, from one of the first people to really do it.  He is a good storyteller too, like listening to your favorite uncle who has had amazing adventures talk around the fire in the evening.