Within this book, it has vocabulary words that are in bold for children to focus on so they can learn new words to better understand the story. This is a good book to read when on the topic of space to children.

In the beginning of the book, on pages 4 and 5, is a "word hunt". This gives all the new vocabulary words with their pronunciation and a small photo. This book has seven new vocabulary words children can learn; astronauts, Earth, float, NASA, Sally Ride, satellite, and space shuttle. The words are for children to hunt for while reading the book.

This book contains no art. It contains lots of real pictures to help describe what the words are saying. A very short book with large font that children can easily read.

By reading this book, readers can learn many new facts about Sally and why she is an important person. The book talks about how NASA picked Sally to be an astronaut. This made her the first American women to go into outer space. She saw the earth, from space, which only a few people have ever done and many people dream to do. ( )

This is a short picture book biography that is informational. The pictures in it are real life pictures of Sally Ride. This book gives a brief overview of Sally's experience in space. She had always been interested in the stars and NASA picked Sally to be one of the astronaunts. In 1983, Sally was the first American woman to fly around Earth in a space shuttle. She was in space for six days. Her job was to put a satellite in space using a robotic arm. In 1987, Sally left NASA and became a teacher. She really enjoyed being an astronaunt. The reading level would be first and second grade because some of the tougher content words are defined in the glossary. The topics for the curricular connections would be space and astronomy, gravity, astronaunts, NASA, and influential people. ( )