Sandra Clark Boone

What inspires you? For millenia, humans have found inspiration in the night sky, the moon, and the ever-spinning stars of the cosmos. In July, 1969, all of the dreams of our history culminated in Saturn V launch that carried the Apollo 11 astronauts into space. A model of the massive Saturn V rocket now stands tall just outside the city of Huntsville, Alabama. To this day, it reminds us where inspiration can take us if we let it. In honor of the Apollo program and the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, the stories in this anthology imagine the ways in which the Saturn V connects us to our past and points the way to future achievements. A great collection for reading aloud with your family. Let this anthology inspire you and give a powerful rocket-boost to your dreams

Can Chynna help a runaway boy without being carried away by the hurricane? Chynna Boswell is not sure she wants to stay on the North Carolina's Outer Banks. Caught between Pamlico Sound and the Atlantic Ocean and with only one main road, it seems a delicate perch. But her mom, Allison, has work to do there, and she and her sister, Hafley, have to go along. If the Nifty Fifties house they rent isn't weird enough, there's the mystery of a runaway boy to ponder. When that boy shows up in Chynna's kitchen, she has to decide whether to help him hide or turn him over to his uncle and aunt. Her decision will shock everyone and put Chynna in danger. Outside in the storm, trying to keep her wheelchair from turning over, with rain pelting her face and wind threatening to rip her backpack out of her arms, Chynna will wish she had been honest with her mom. But it will be too late, then, and Chynna will have to ride out the storm in a strange house with only two friends for company.