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Reaching for the Stars

Reaching for the Stars The Inspiring Story of a Migrant Farmworker Turned Astronaut

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Born into a family of migrant workers, toiling in the fields by the age of six, Jose M. Hernàndez dreamed of traveling through the night skies on a rocket ship. REACHING FOR THE STARS is the inspiring story of how he realized that dream, becoming the first Mexican-American astronaut.

Hernàndez didn't speak English till he was 12, and his peers often joined gangs, or skipped school. And yet, by his twenties he was part of an elite team helping develop technology for the early detection of breast cancer. He was turned down by NASA eleven times on his long journey to donning that famous orange space suit.

Hernàndez message of hard work, education, perseverance, of "reaching for the stars," makes this a classic American autobiography.
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Center Street

Little, Brown is the literary hardback imprint that feeds into our Abacus paperback list. We publish across a wide range of areas, including fiction, history, memoir, science and travel, but within this diverse list the vast majority of books have in common a strong narrative and a distinctive voice.

Book information

ISBN: 9781455522804
Publisher: Little, Brown
Imprint: Center Street
Pub date:
DEWEY: 629.450092
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 252
Weight: 504g
Height: 235mm
Width: 159mm
Spine width: 26mm