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Apollo 13 (Totally True Adventures) by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

Totally True Adventures Series

By Various Authors
Level 4
Review:

Follow the exciting adventures in this series that include wonderful depictions, beautiful language, and varied sentence structure. It portrays positive character traits of courage, strength under pressure, and kindness.

Books in this series we recommend: Apollo 13, Balto and the Great Race, Finding the First T-Rex (note: this book has several references to the world being millions of years old.), The $25,000 Flight, The Curse of King Tut’s Mummy

Books in this series that did not make the book list: Babe Ruth and the Baseball Curse

Books in this series that we have not yet reviewed: Climbing Everest, George Washington’s Spies, Kerri Strug and the Magnificent Seven, The Race Around the World, The Search for El Dorado

(Reviewed by Jenny Phillips)

Series Yes
Region North America, United States
Period 20th Century, 1970s
Genre Nonfiction
The Good and the Beautiful Library No
  • 4 Entertainment Value
  • 2 Moral Value
  • 4 Educational Value
  • 3 Literary Value
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