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    Bringing Space Home
    Bringing Space Home
    Bringing Space Home
    Ebook28 pages8 minutes

    Bringing Space Home

    By Mike Downs

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    Book Features:
    • Ages 9-15, Grades 4-9
    • 32 pages, 7 inches x 9 inches
    • Simple, easy-to-read pages with full-color pictures
    • Includes post-reading questions and activities
    • Reading/teaching tips and glossary included

    Beyond The Stars: In Reaching for the Stars: Bringing Space Home, 4th—9th graders learn about some of the marvelous discoveries we've learned about space, and what inventions led us to unravel the mysteries that had society puzzled for centuries.

    Learning About Space: Did you know we use space inventions every day? Young readers learn about some of the most interesting inventions and discoveries about space, and how they apply to our everyday lives!

    Build Reading Skills: This engaging 32-page children’s book will help your child improve comprehension and build confidence with guided post-reading questions and fun activities.

    Leveled Books: Part of the Reaching for the Stars series, the high interest text and full-color pictures make this children’s book an engaging read with fun and interesting facts about the space program’s inventions and discoveries.

    Why Rourke Educational Media: Since 1980, Rourke Publishing Company has specialized in publishing engaging and diverse non-fiction and fiction books for children in a wide range of subjects that support reading success on a level that has no limits.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCarson-Dellosa Publishing
    Release dateAug 11, 2021
    ISBN9781731650405
    Bringing Space Home
    Author

    Mike Downs

    I began my working career, and love of sports cars at age 10. I started the voyage sweeping floors at a foreign car parts store in Northern Virginia. At 16, I was a partner in a good little foreign car repair shop in Falls Church Virginia. It was there a few years later I met Bob Tullius from Group44. I did some work on his cars and later joined his famous team as a racing driver. During my tenure with Group 44, the immaculately prepared cars allowed me to win many races and a National Championship. I moved to the Mecca of American racing in California to race the new Titan Formula Ford for their West Coast distributor. I moved from there to race for BRE in the Datsun Trans Am car. I drove for the Porsche of America Racing Team in the big three American endurance events, Daytona, Sebring, and Watkins Glen. In the mid seventies I headed up Silverstone Enterprises to prepare and drive the Porsche Carreras for IMSA racing, culminating in a class win at the Daytona 24 hour race. In the late seventies I moved back to the grandeur of California to open Downs Engineering. During the next twenty odd years I raced Formula Atlantic, Trans Am and IMSA GTO. In the new century I won a championship driving my own designed and built Sports Racing Car. I've worked with the film industry and developed a remote camera mount for car chases and commercials. I've met some interesting blokes here, could be the makings of some future novels. Currently the shop builds race cars from the ground up. We do restorations on vintage race cars, and design and build specialty cars. The shop is busy building racing engines, and the Hayabusa engine parts we develop. I have written four novels so far dealing with early American racing in the 1920s and 30s. Tales of fabulous cars, Nazi intrigue, and lovely ladies keep me poking at the keyboard, and hopefully entertaining my readers. I have tons of ideas for future novels and am bursting to get them in ink.

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