A boy who is believed to bring bad luck to everyone around him leads his family and two new friends through Laos to find a new home. After a calamity-filled journey through a land scarred by the legacy of war, to prove he's not bad luck he builds a giant rocket to enter the most exciting and dangerous competition of the year: the Rocket Festival.

"When a rocket launch goes wrong in Adventure Bay, it's up to Nickelodeon's newest heroes, the Cat Pack, to help the PAW Patrol save the day. Will Wild, Leo, Shade, Rory, and the heroic pups make a purrfect team?"--

"It's an exciting day at mission control. In 10 short seconds, a rocket is launching into space, and we get to count along! From 10 giant screens and 9 rows of engineers, all the way to 3 rocket boosters, 2 thumbs up, and 1 soaring rocket, little explorers will delight counting down while also counting the fun things to find on each spread. With Natalie Briscoe's quirky illustrations and the fun, rhyming text, this book is an out-of-this-world read-along...

Before Anna and Crocodile can go to the moon, they must do some math, build a rocket, and make plenty of sandwiches for the journey.

"Zoom! Zoom! Follow the speeding rocket up to the moon and back in this first introduction to space travel. With layered die-cuts, fun facts, and a mouse to find on every spread"--

Create your own model-sized vehicles powered by balloons, rubber bands, and small motors. Step-by-step instructions, illustrations, and photographs guide readers through the building process, while informative text explains the science--aerodynamics, gravity, propulsion--behind them.--Publisher's website.

"With the launch of the Falcon 1 rocket in 2008, Elon Musk's SpaceX became the first private company to build a low-cost rocket that could reach orbit. And that milestone carried major implications: Silicon Valley, not NASA, was suddenly cemented as the epicenter of the new Space Age. Start-ups and the wealthy investors behind them began to realize that the universe-ungoverned and infinite-was open for business. Welcome to the wild west of aerospace...

"The only thing Rosalind Ling Geraghty loves more than watching NASA launches with her dad is building rockets with him. When he dies unexpectedly, all Ro has left of him is an unfinished model rocket they had been working on together. Benjamin Burns doesn't like science, but he can't get enough of Spacebound, a popular comic book series. When he finds a sketch that suggests that his dad created the comics, he's thrilled. Too bad his dad walked out...

"Omar and his friends investigate sabotage at the model rocket-building contest they are competing in"--