{"id":543,"date":"2019-10-07T06:50:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T13:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/?p=543"},"modified":"2019-10-06T11:11:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T18:11:28","slug":"space-adventurer-bonnie-dunbar-astronaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/space-adventurer-bonnie-dunbar-astronaut\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Adventurer: Bonnie Dunbar, Astronaut"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Space Adventurer: Bonnie Dunbar, Astronaut<\/a>
\nby Andi Diehn (Author) and Katie Mazeika (Illustrator)<\/p>\n

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Booktalk:<\/strong> When Bonnie Dunbar spotted Sputnik traveling across the sky from where she stood on her family\u2019s farm, she knew that\u2019s what she wanted to do when she got older, but it wasn’t easy. From planting crops and driving the tractor on her family\u2019s homestead to devouring all the books she possibly could to applying to NASA three times, Bonnie refused to give up! All her hard work and passion for science led her to a job that launched her into the stars as an astronaut. <\/p>\n

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Space Adventurer: Bonnie Dunbar, Astronaut by Andi Diehn (Author) and Katie Mazeika (Illustrator) Booktalk: When Bonnie Dunbar spotted Sputnik traveling across the sky from where she stood on her family\u2019s farm, she knew that\u2019s what she wanted to do when she got older, but it wasn’t easy. From planting crops and driving the tractor on … <\/p>\n

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