[PDF] The Story Of Michael Collins For Children eBook

Author : Iosold Dheirg
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 45,10 MB
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1781175969

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From his childhood in Cork and early working years in London, through the 1916 Rising, imprisonment in Frongoch, his involvement in the War of Independence, Treaty negotiations and the Civil War, to his untimely death at Béal na mBláth, the full story of Collins' life is narrated in simple, engaging language to appeal to readers in the 9–12 age group. Though only thirty-two when he died, Michael Collins was feared by the British and a central figure in the fight for Irish freedom. In this short biography, his dramatic story is brought to life and a human face is given to the historic figure.

Author : Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Publisher : Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,93 MB
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374303851

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A funny and heartwarming middle grade novel about a girl who writes letters to her favorite astronaut as America prepares for the moon landing.

Author : Michael Collins
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 34,27 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1429929472

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In this entrancing account, space traveler Michael Collins recalls his early days as an Air Force test pilot, his astronaut training at NASA, and his unparalleled experiences in orbit, including the Apollo 11 mission, the first manned lunar landing. The final chapter to his autobiography, revised and updated for this edition of Flying to the Moon, is an exciting and convincing argument in favor of mankind's continued exploration of our universe. "Several astronauts have written about their experiences, but none so well as Michael Collins...This is just the book to give the child whose parents made Yeager and The Right Stuff best sellers."-The Washington Post Book World

Author : Eithne Massey
Publisher : The O'Brien Press Ltd
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 13,3 MB
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1788492404

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I want to be part of it, thought Michael. I want to be part of the song, part of the story. Listening to tales of old Ireland on a West Cork farm and fighting his corner in the school playground, a little fella with a fierce sense of injustice and an equally fierce temper vows to fight for Irish independence. 'I'd rather have a living brother than a brother who goes down in the history books as a hero, a dead hero!' says Hannie Collins. But headstrong as ever, young Michael leaves his job in London and returns to Ireland to fight in the 1916 Rising. Later, he creates a spy ring of ordinary people, in a Dublin where nothing is quite what it seems. This is the story of Michael Collins – brave hero and determined leader, loyal friend and dangerous enemy. He loved life. In the summer of1922 he was full of plans for his own future and for that of his country. But history had other plans for Michael.

Author : Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 22,44 MB
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0374303878

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Amazon Editors' Pick Best Books of June 2017 Semifinalist: GoodReads Choice Awards 2017 Best Middle Grade and Children's Book National Council for Social Studies/Children's Book Council Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2018 The Planetary Society Recommended Space Books for Kids of All Ages 2017 The National Science and Engineering Council of Canada list of books for Science Literacy Week 2018 2018-2019 Keystone to Reading Elementary Book Award Intermediate Grade list 2018-19 Maine Student Book Award Reading List 2018-2019 Florida Sunshine State Young Readers Award List, Grades 3-5 It’s 1969 and the country is gearing up for what looks to be the most exciting moment in U.S. history: men landing on the moon. Ten-year-old Mamie’s class is given an assignment to write letters to the astronauts. All the girls write to Neil Armstrong ("So cute!") and all the boys write to Buzz Aldrin ("So cool!"). Only Mamie writes to Michael Collins, the astronaut who will come so close but never achieve everyone else's dream of walking on the moon, because he is the one who must stay with the ship. After school ends, Mamie keeps writing to Michael Collins, taking comfort in telling someone about what's going on with her family as, one by one, they leave the house thinking that someone else is taking care of her—until she is all alone except for her cat and her best friend, Buster. And as the date of the launch nears, Mamie can't help but wonder: Does no one stay with the ship anymore? With I LOVE YOU, MICHAEL COLLINS, Lauren Baratz-Logsted has created a heartwarming story about family and being true to yourself. A Margaret Ferguson Book

Author : Tim Pat Coogan
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 36,85 MB
Release : 2002-05-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780312295110

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When the Irish nationalist Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he observed to Lord Birkenhead that he may have signed his own death warrant. In August 1922 that prophecy came true when Collins was ambushed, shot and killed by a compatriot, but his vision and legacy lived on. Tim Pat Coogan's biography presents the life of a man whose idealistic vigor and determination were matched by his political realism and organizational abilities. This is the classic biography of the man who created modern Ireland.

Author : James Buckley
Publisher : Aladdin
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 37,84 MB
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1534424806

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Jeter Publishing presents the second nonfiction biography in a brand-new series that celebrates men and women who altered the course of history often without recognition. On July 16, 1969, a Gemini rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Previous launches had focused on getting astronauts into space, docking two spacecraft, and even walking in space, but this mission was different. Apollo 11 was designed to land two astronauts on the moon and then bring them back to Earth. Four days later, two astronauts, Neal Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, did walk on the moon. But did you know that there were actually three astronauts aboard the rocket on July 16? Michael Collins didn’t get to walk on the Moon, but his contribution is just as important as Armstrong and Aldrin’s. Prior to joining NASA, Collins was in the Air Force and flew fighter jets. After joining NASA, he made two trips into space, performing one of the first EVAs or Extravehicular activities (in other words, walking in space) as well as making that trip to the moon. Collins continued to contribute even after leaving the space program. He took a job in the State Department and even served as director of the National Air & Space Museum and as undersecretary of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. He may not have walked on the moon, but he’s one of only twenty-four people to travel there. In fact, without Michael Collins, that first moon landing might never have happened.

Author : Bea Uusma Schyffert
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 10,93 MB
Release : 2003-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780811840071

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A biography of the astronaut, Michael Collins, who circled the moon in the Apollo 12 space capsule while his colleagues Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the lunar module and walked on the moon.

Author : Tim Pat Coogan
Publisher : Roberts Rinehart Publishers
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 48,43 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Traces the life of the man who negotiated for Irish independence and describes the political background of the times. Bibliog.