Secrets of the Space Shuttle

by Peter Rees

This work features high-interest non-fiction titles that will add depth to your project work and ensure engaging cross-curricular creative topic-led lessons. It includes 20 titles covering four reading levels - two levels for Year 5 and two levels for Year 6. It contains discussion starters to get the whole class talking. Develop children's comprehension skills and vocabulary with the glossary and index provided. It features superb photography to engage your pupils. This book presents the history of the space shuttle. Visit the space camp to gather information from astronauts as they answer questions about space.

32 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2007

About the author

Peter Rees was a journalist for more than forty years, working as federal political correspondent for the Melbourne Sun, the West Australian and the Sunday Telegraph. He is the author of The Boy from Boree Creek: The Tim Fischer Story (2001), Tim Fischer's Outback Heroes (2002), Killing Juanita: a true story of murder and corruption (2004), and The Other Anzacs: The Extraordinary story of our World War I Nurses (2008 and 2009) and Desert Boy: Australians at War from Beersheba to Tobruk to El Alamein (2011 and 2012). He is currently working on a biography of Charles Bean to be published in 2015.