These challenge materials are for use with purchased ebook reading challenges, which school media specialists and librarians can order via their Challenges dashboard. Each ebook reading challenge includes three curated and leveled ebooks with perpetual simultaneous use licenses, so that your readers have unlimited access to top-notch reading content within Beanstack, anywhere and anytime your challenge is running.
About this Challenge
Students take an out-of-this-world reading adventure through three astronomical ebooks about space science, travel, and technology.
Ebook Reading Lists
Kindergarten
- “Let’s Explore the Stars” by Walt K. Moon
- “To Mars!” written by Gina Bellisario and illustrated by Mike Moran -
- “The Night Sky” by Robin Nelson -
1st Grade
- “Let’s Explore the Sun” by Walt K. Moon
- “To the Moon!” written by Jodie Shepherd and illustrated by Mike Byrne
- “The Space Shuttle” by Jeffrey Zuehlke
2nd Grade
- “How Do Space Vehicles Work?” by Buffy Silverman
- “Explore Jupiter” by Liz Milroy
- “Space Exploration Robots” by Jackie Golusky
3rd Grade
- “Meteors and Comets” by Gregory L. Vogt
- “Robots in Space” by Nancy Furstinger
- “Great Science Fails” by Barbara Krasner
4th Grade
- “Discover Jupiter” by Margaret L. Goldstein
- “Cutting-Edge” Astronaut Training” by Karen Latchana Kenney
- “Aerospace Engineer Aprille Ericsson” by Laura Hamilton Waxman
5th Grade
- “Mysteries of Deep Space” by Margaret J. Goldstein
- “Discover Space Exploration” by Liz Kruesi
- “Astronaut and Physicist Sally Ride” by Margaret J. Goldstein
6th Grade
- “Mae Jemison” by Heather E. Schwartz
- “Trailblazing Space Scientists” by Rachael L. Thomas
- “Record-Breaking Earth & Space Facts” by Ed Simkins and Jon Richards
7th Grade
- “Neil deGrasse Tyson” by Jill Sherman
- “Deadly High-Risk Jobs” by Elaine Landau
- “Horror in Space” written by J.E. Young and illustrated by Courtney Huddleston
8th Grade
- “Elon Musk” by Margaret J. Goldstein
- “Black Holes” by Sara Latta
- “Key Discoveries in Earth and Space Science” by Christine Zuchora-Walske
High School
- “Exoplanets” by Karen Latchana Kenney
- “Folding Tech” by Karen Latchana Kenney
- “Human Travel to the Moon and Mars” by Matt Doeden
Challenge Materials
