When Sparks Fly: The True Story of Robert Goddard, the Father of US Rocketry
by Kristen Fulton and Diego Funck
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- Grade
- PK-2
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
Year Published 2018
Word Count 756
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 690L
- ATOS Reading Level: 3.9
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 196212
- Curricular Area
- History
- Science
- Social Studies
- STEAM
- Subject Headings
- Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology | Aeronautics, Astronautics & Space Science
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | History of Science
- Rocketry--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Goddard, Robert Hutchings
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology | Inventions
- Astronautics
- United States
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology
- Rocketry
- Goddard, Robert Hutchings, 1882-1945--Juvenile literature
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Awards & Distinctions 4
Best STEM Books, 2017-2019
Selection, 2019
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Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2005-2020
Commended, 2019
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2020
Nonfiction Selection, 2018
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