Books in You Choose: Spies series

You are an American in the 1960s. The United States and Soviet Union have been in a space race since the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik satellite in 1957. Since then, the two superpowers have been fighting over which country will control the universe. President Kennedy begins a new space program, with a goal of landing a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s. You want to be a part of it. Can you help beat the Russians and help the United States land a man on the moon?

We’ve sent a man to the moon, but…..can human beings live in space? A global team of engineers and scientists combined forces to design and create a space station so that we could find out. You’ve always been excited by the idea of space exploration. Space jobs can be difficult, or downright dangerous. Do you have what it takes to join the crew? You can be a systems engineer and design the robots, fly to the station as a shuttle astronaut, or even live on the completed station. Will you make the cut?

You are living in a time of change and progress. World War II is over, but the Cold War between the United States and its former ally, the Soviet Union, is on. The United States government is afraid the Soviet Union will use space to develop weapons with its space technology. We want to get there first! Will you help your country by developing the first space rocket, or perhaps moving to Cape Canaveral to train as an astronaut?

Whimsical illustrations and simple, engaging narrative guide readers through different situations Annie faces that cause her to get angry. She becomes frustrated when her dog drawing comes out poorly. Her mother will not allow her to have a cookie before tea. Her little brother is not playing a game correctly. Annie chooses one out of three behaviors for each situation, and the consequences of that choice is explained. A How to Use This Book Section for both parents and children shows how to apply these lessons to real life.

Mars has been a source of fascination since H. G. Wells wrote The War of the Worlds, a sci-fi fantasy of green-eyed Martians invading and overpowering Earth. In 1971, engineers succeeded in placing a spacecraft into Mars’s orbit with the idea of finding out what was on Mars: Intelligent life? Water? A place people on Earth could move if need be? Since then, a number of missions to Mars have been launched. Now is your chance to help launch the Mars Exploration Rover. Do you have what it takes to succeed?