Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon

Thimmesh, Catherine. Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 On The Moon. Houghton Mifflin: 2006. ISBN: 978-0618-50757-3. Ages 10-14.

Team Moon is the story about all the people who didn't get credit for landing astronauts on the moon. These 400,000 people worked tirelessly behind computers at NASA. Every situation the astronauts encountered, it was the men and women behind the computers guiding them safely out of situations. Thimmesh attracts readers' attention by using actual quotes from the workers and the way she creates suspense by telling how each worker reacted to a certain situation. She also made me want to turn the page when I read "Bam!" as they were trying to land the lunar module. Thimmesh also provided great pictures. She describes each picture in full detail and makes sure it matches what is one the page. Not only did she provide great pictures, she also provides information about where she got the pictures and other information. I would recommend this book to many people, but only ones that are older than me and are doing a report on it. Some of the vocabulary is hard to understand and Thimmesh didn't explain all the quotes. It was like reading a different language at times; I didn't know what it meant. I prefer reading fiction most of the time, but for a non-fiction book it wasn't that bad.

Reviewed by T. F., 7th grade, Van Buren Middle School