Allen R. Wells – författare

Based on a true story, this inspiring picture book is about a curious, tinkering girl who grew up to become one of the first Black female engineers for NASA – for fans of Ada Twist, Scientist and Counting on Katherine.Yvonne Clark had an engineering spark—an instinct for figuring out how things worked.Broken lamp? She screwed, rewired, and wrenched until…light!Wrecked radio? She twisted, snipped, and hammered until…music!Clogged furnace? She picked, plucked, and cleared until…heat!When she grew up, Yvonne’s problem-solving power took her to NASA, where fellow engineers had a serious problem with the Saturn V rocket’s F-1 engine: It had hot spots—high temperatures in the engine.Can Yvonne Clark and her engineering spark solve the problem?In an electric tribute, Allen R. Wells artfully tells the life story of his favorite engineering professor who also happened to be one of our nation’s most influential African American engineers. DeAndra Hodge’s bright illustrations explode with energy, matching the vibrance of Yvonne as a creative child and following her rise to NASA and beyond.

The chief joy of travelling comes from getting from where you were to where you choose to be, on time. A close second would be finding that your luggage has almost matched your trip and can be found on arrival.

Unexpectedly high on the list of pleasures, though, are chance encounters. Seemingly dealt by fate at random, your seatmates may leave lasting impressions. They may quietly change your life.

A bucket list is a list of experiences or achievements that a person writes down, when young, and crosses off as each is accomplished. Improbable items on the list may approach one hundred. They help give a sense of meaning to life, of progress, of winning in a competition to reach the writers dreams. A bucket list seems to symbolize purposeful living.

The term relates to what people set out to grasp before they kick the bucket. The motivational value is obvious.

A word for the opposite kind of life is hard to propose. It would be a life, like the one that is the subject of this book; made up of unplanned reactions to unexpected events. Such a life might be unachieving or hum drum. It could, as easily, be striking. It could be serene carefree, lucky or unlucky, looking back.

Most readers, like this author, will not have a bucket list. Life unfolds as it may.

Like snow flakes, no two haphazard lives will be identical. The chance events of life can, just as forcefully, change the outcomes of carefully planned and structured lives. The value to you, as a traveller, is to recognize the balance of opportunity and effort that colours all our lives, in whatever order those two influences may come.

Here, then, is your opportunity for a chance encounter. If you knew the author in one of the two dozen or more scenarios of your shared life, this is your chance to reminisce. What came before and what came after, in his life or in your own? How did it all come about? How did it all come out?

If you have never met the author, here is a different opportunity. In a few hours you can follow what came to be written on the blank slate of one of your companions on lifes journey. You can experiece a different life. You can be assured that your arrival (with your luggage) and your perceptions will end with new discoveries and satisfaction.

Enjoy your trip.

Enjoy your companion.

You can begin to do both, now, by buying the book.

Book Features:• Ages 9-15, Grades 4-9• 32 pages, 7 inches x 9 inches• Simple, easy-to-read pages with full-color pictures• Includes post-reading questions and activities• Reading/teaching tips and glossary included

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Build Reading Skills: This engaging 32-page children’s book will help your child improve comprehension and build confidence with guided post-reading questions and fun activities.

Leveled Books: Part of the Beyond the Battlefield series, the grade-level text and full-color pictures make this children’s book an engaging story with fun and interesting facts about war reporters and photojournalists.

Why Rourke Educational Media: Since 1980, Rourke Publishing Company has specialized in publishing engaging and diverse non-fiction and fiction books for children in a wide range of subjects that support reading success on a level that has no limits.

Book Features:• Ages 9-15, Grades 4-9• 32 pages, 7 inches x 9 inches• Simple, easy-to-read pages with full-color pictures• Includes post-reading questions and activities• Reading/teaching tips and glossary included

Beyond the Battlefield: In Beyond the Battlefield: Homefront Heroes, 4th—9th graders go beyond the traditional battlefield to uncover the amazing tales of courageous civilians who risked their lives during times of war in their own communities.

Action-Packed Stories: Not all war heroes are fighting on the battlefield. Young readers learn about amazing civilians who risked their lives for their country and communities during times of war.

Build Reading Skills: This engaging 32-page children’s book will help your child improve comprehension and build confidence with guided post-reading questions and fun activities.

Leveled Books: Part of the Beyond the Battlefield series, the grade-level text and full-color pictures make this children’s book an engaging story with fun and interesting facts about civilians and their war efforts from home.

Why Rourke Educational Media: Since 1980, Rourke Publishing Company has specialized in publishing engaging and diverse non-fiction and fiction books for children in a wide range of subjects that support reading success on a level that has no limits.

Book Features:• Ages 9-15, Grades 4-9• 32 pages, 7 inches x 9 inches• Simple, easy-to-read pages with full-color pictures• Includes post-reading questions and activities• Reading/teaching tips and glossary included

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Action-Packed Stories: Not all war heroes are fighting on the battlefield. Young readers learn about the amazing, intelligent people who created important codes during times of war and those that cracked seemingly unbreakable ones.

Build Reading Skills: This engaging 32-page children’s book will help your child improve comprehension and build confidence with guided post-reading questions and fun activities.

Leveled Books: Part of the Beyond the Battlefield series, the grade-level text and full-color pictures make this children’s book an engaging story with fun and interesting facts about code makers and innovative code breakers.

Why Rourke Educational Media: Since 1980, Rourke Publishing Company has specialized in publishing engaging and diverse non-fiction and fiction books for children in a wide range of subjects that support reading success on a level that has no limits.

Book Features:• Ages 9-15, Grades 4-9• 32 pages, 7 inches x 9 inches• Simple, easy-to-read pages with full-color pictures• Includes post-reading questions and activities• Reading/teaching tips and glossary included

Beyond the Battlefield: In Beyond the Battlefield: Hidden Soldiers and Spies, 4th—9th graders go beyond the traditional battlefield to uncover the amazing tales of courageous heroes, soldiers, and secret spies.

Tales of Heroes: War heroes aren’t just on the battlefield—many work in secret, too. Young readers learn about the fascinating people in history who risked their lives in secret, danger, and on the home front to support their countries and citizens.

Build Reading Skills: This engaging 32-page children’s book will help your child improve comprehension and build confidence with guided post-reading questions and fun activities.

Leveled Books: Part of the Beyond the Battlefield series, the grade- level text and full-color pictures make this children’s book an engaging story with fun and interesting facts about spies, soldiers, and other war heroes.

Why Rourke Educational Media: Since 1980, Rourke Publishing Company has specialized in publishing engaging and diverse non-fiction and fiction books for children in a wide range of subjects that support reading success on a level that has no limits.

Book Features:• Ages 9-15, Grades 4-9• 32 pages, 7 inches x 9 inches• Simple, easy-to-read pages with full-color pictures• Includes post-reading questions and activities• Reading/teaching tips and glossary included

Beyond the Battlefield: In Beyond the Battlefield: Journalists, 4th—9th graders go beyond the traditional battlefield to uncover the amazing tales told from the lens or perspective of war journalists, reporters, and photojournalists.

Action-Packed Stories: Not all war heroes are fighting on the battlefield. Young readers learn about amazing war journalists, reporters, and photographers who risked their lives to bring important stories and imagery to life for people back home.

Build Reading Skills: This engaging 32-page children’s book will help your child improve comprehension and build confidence with guided post-reading questions and fun activities.

Leveled Books: Part of the Beyond the Battlefield series, the grade-level text and full-color pictures make this children’s book an engaging story with fun and interesting facts about war reporters and photojournalists.

Why Rourke Educational Media: Since 1980, Rourke Publishing Company has specialized in publishing engaging and diverse non-fiction and fiction books for children in a wide range of subjects that support reading success on a level that has no limits.

Book Features:• Ages 9-15, Grades 4-9• 32 pages, 7 inches x 9 inches• Simple, easy-to-read pages with full-color pictures• Includes post-reading questions and activities• Reading/teaching tips and glossary included

Beyond the Battlefield: In Beyond the Battlefield: Homefront Heroes, 4th—9th graders go beyond the traditional battlefield to uncover the amazing tales of courageous civilians who risked their lives during times of war in their own communities.

Action-Packed Stories: Not all war heroes are fighting on the battlefield. Young readers learn about amazing civilians who risked their lives for their country and communities during times of war.

Build Reading Skills: This engaging 32-page children’s book will help your child improve comprehension and build confidence with guided post-reading questions and fun activities.

Leveled Books: Part of the Beyond the Battlefield series, the grade-level text and full-color pictures make this children’s book an engaging story with fun and interesting facts about civilians and their war efforts from home.

Why Rourke Educational Media: Since 1980, Rourke Publishing Company has specialized in publishing engaging and diverse non-fiction and fiction books for children in a wide range of subjects that support reading success on a level that has no limits.

Book Features:• Ages 9-15, Grades 4-9• 32 pages, 7 inches x 9 inches• Simple, easy-to-read pages with full-color pictures• Includes post-reading questions and activities• Reading/teaching tips and glossary included

Beyond the Battlefield: In Beyond the Battlefield: Code Makers and Code Breakers, 4th—9th graders hear the stories of courageous and innovative people and groups who created—and cracked—seemingly unbreakable codes during times of war.

Action-Packed Stories: Not all war heroes are fighting on the battlefield. Young readers learn about the amazing, intelligent people who created important codes during times of war and those that cracked seemingly unbreakable ones.

Build Reading Skills: This engaging 32-page children’s book will help your child improve comprehension and build confidence with guided post-reading questions and fun activities.

Leveled Books: Part of the Beyond the Battlefield series, the grade-level text and full-color pictures make this children’s book an engaging story with fun and interesting facts about code makers and innovative code breakers.

Why Rourke Educational Media: Since 1980, Rourke Publishing Company has specialized in publishing engaging and diverse non-fiction and fiction books for children in a wide range of subjects that support reading success on a level that has no limits.

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We proudly publish respectful and relevant non-fiction and fiction titles that represent our diverse readers, and are designed to support reading on a level that has no limits!

If you look closely, love is everywhere. Where do you see love? Instill a love for reading while learning about the feeling with the children’s book I See Love!

Love and life look different for everybody. This kid’s book illuminates the real lives of four different people and gives readers a close-up look at how people experience and describe one of life’s most beautiful feelings—love.

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About Rourke

We proudly publish respectful and relevant non-fiction and fiction titles that represent our diverse readers, and are designed to support reading on a level that has no limits!

If you look closely, family is everywhere. What does family look like to you? Instill a love for reading while learning about diversity with the children’s book I See Family!

Family and life look different for everybody. This kid’s book illuminates the real lives of four different people and gives readers a close-up look at how people experience and describe one of life’s most beautiful things—family.

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We proudly publish respectful and relevant non-fiction and fiction titles that represent our diverse readers, and are designed to support reading on a level that has no limits!

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We proudly publish respectful and relevant non-fiction and fiction titles that represent our diverse readers, and are designed to support reading on a level that has no limits!