A young boy and his best buddy Butterscotch search for hidden treasure, save the city from an angry monster, and patrol a kingdom. Amazing adventures ensue as brave boy knight saves the day!

The Totally Awesome Epic Quest Of The Brave Boy Knight (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Naujokaitis, Pranas T.

Turtleback Books

History Comics: The Challenger Disaster: Tragedy in the Skies

About the Author\nPranas T. Naujokaitis is a cartoonist whose work ranges from all-age comics to slice-of-life autobio to handcrafted minicomics. His comic Laffy Meal was nominated for an Ignatz Award for Best Minicomic. He lives in Chicago with his wife and two cats.\nLet this graphic novel be your time machine! In History Comics, the new nonfiction graphic novel series from First Second, the past comes alive!\nIn History Comics: The Challenger Disaster, we turn the clock back to January 28, 1986. Seven astronauts boarded the space shuttle Challenger on what would be a routine mission. All eyes and cameras were on crew member Christa McAuliffe, a high school teacher, who was set to become the first private citizen in space. Excitement filled the air as the clock counted down to liftoff. But at T-plus seventy-three seconds after launch, the unthinkable happened . . .\nWhat caused the midair explosion? In Pranas T. Naujokaitis's imaginative tale, set in a far-off future, a group of curious kids investigate the hard questions surrounding the Challenger explosion. Inspired by the legacy and sacrifice of the Challenger seven, they continue in their footsteps, setting out toward the stars and into the great unknown!

Children's Books

History

First Second

Product Description 
Let this graphic novel be your time machine! In History Comics, the new nonfiction graphic novel series from First Second, the past comes alive!In History Comics: The Challenger Disaster, we turn the clock back to January 28, 1986. Seven astronauts boarded the space shuttle Challenger on what would be a routine mission. All eyes and cameras were on crew member Christa McAuliffe, a high school teacher, who was set to become the first private citizen in space. Excitement filled the air as the clock counted down to liftoff. But at T-plus seventy-three seconds after launch, the unthinkable happened . . .What caused the midair explosion? In Pranas T. Naujokaitis's imaginative tale, set in a far-off future, a group of curious kids investigate the hard questions surrounding the Challenger explosion. Inspired by the legacy and sacrifice of the Challenger seven, they continue in their footsteps, setting out toward the stars and into the great unknown! 
 From School Library Journal 
Gr 4-6-A catastrophe that occurred in 1986 is ancient history to young people today, but Naujokaitis finds a way to make the Challenger explosion seem immediate by framing the story as a report delivered by a quartet of fifth graders (one boy is white, another boy is brown-skinned, the two girls are brown-skinned, and one of the girls wears a headscarf) living on an orbiting space platform in 2386. Using a mix of artifacts and virtual reality, the students tour the Challenger, "interview" each member of its last crew about their work and backgrounds, witness the shuttle's destruction shortly after launch (the teacher, who is white, wisely takes over narrative duties for this part), and follow maverick scientist/celebrity Richard Feynman as he battles NASA bureaucrats to lead an investigation into the causes of the explosion. In contrast to more conventional treatments of the incident, this title offers not only a distinct sense of each doomed astronaut's personality (Christa McAuliffe: "If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat. Just get on!") but also a broader understanding of what the tragedy can teach us about our determination to forge on exploring space. Cutaway views and close-ups of spacecraft parts enhance the more technical parts of the discourse, and in the cartoon-style sequential panels the students' natural-sounding dialogue and banter, along with their broad expressions of fascination, boredom, excitement, terror, and sadness, add life and drama to the tale. "We keep going!" as one student puts it in an eloquent summation. VERDICT Definitely a "go" for middle grade readers, artfully incorporating a solid payload of information within a well-developed frame story.-John Peters, Children's Literature Consultant, New Yorkα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. 
 Review 
"Definitely a “go” for middle grade readers, artfully incorporating a solid payload of information within a well-developed frame story."―School Library Journal, starred review"A well-researched, idealistic tribute."―Kirkus"[...] in turns funny, moving, elucidating, and riveting [...]"―Horn Book 
 About the Author 
Pranas T. Naujokaitis is a cartoonist whose work ranges from all-age comics to slice-of-life autobio to handcrafted minicomics. His comic 
Laffy Meal was nominated for an Ignatz Award for Best Minicomic. He lives in Chicago with his wife and two cats.

Rugrats: Bestest Comics Book 1 (Rugrats, 1)

Brown, Box

Humor

KaBOOM

A young boy and his best buddy Butterscotch search for hidden treasure, save the city from an angry monster, and patrol a kingdom. Amazing adventures ensue as brave boy knight saves the day!

Balloon Toons: The Totally Awesome Epic Quest of the Brave Boy Knight

Literature & Fiction

Blue Apple Books

Dinosaurs, comics, and outer space—together at last! This new, two-books-in-one format of Blue Apple's acclaimed Balloon Toons series is sure to please kids, parents, and educators alike.
Dinosaurs in Space introduces ETDs (Extra-Terrestrial Dinos) and explains how they became galactic. Three short chapters chronicle alien encounters, the joys of zero gravity, and a carnivore vs. herbivore faceoff.
Crash Landing brings six ETDs back to present-day earth and shows their bumbling efforts to repair their spaceship and avoid some awkward encounters with curious kids.

Dinosaurs in Space: Out of This World! (Balloon Toons)

Animals

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The Totally Awesome Epic Quest Of The Brave Boy Knight (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

History Comics: The Challenger Disaster: Tragedy in the Skies

History Comics: The Challenger Disaster: Tragedy in the Skies

Rugrats: Bestest Comics Book 1 (Rugrats, 1)

Balloon Toons: The Totally Awesome Epic Quest of the Brave Boy Knight

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