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I am also aware that authors who are ND have spoken out about books that focus on the 'difficulty' of being a sibling of someone with autism as if this is a burden, or books that show a main character as having growth just because they learn to accept an autistic person in their life, as if this is something that should be applauded. While I am sure everything the author included came from a place of wanting to raise the profile of autism and lead to greater inclusion, I can't deny that this book does do some of those things.
Told from Frank's perspective, Balen invites us to view and empathise with a ten year old's struggles to cope with and understand not only his brother but also the great changes that shake his life. We may recognise bias and even be familiar with it but Frank's voice is so perfectly handled that Balen deftly offers us insights into the lives of all those around Max. This is a story as tender and heartbreaking as it is true. August 1959: The US launches Explorer 6, the world's first weather satellite and obtains the first pictures of Earth from space. Katya Balen has worked in a number of special schools for autistic children. She now runs Mainspring Arts, a nonprofit that organizes creative projects for neurodivergent people. The Space We’re In is her debut novel. She lives outside of London with her boyfriend and their unbelievably lazy rescue dog. I thought the portrayal of someone with autism and a family of someone with autism was mostly handled sensitively. I know the author has done a lot of work with ND people and tried her best to accurately represent the lives that she has seen.
Space exploration served as another dramatic arena for Cold War competition. On October 4, 1957, a Soviet R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile launched Sputnik (Russian for “traveler”), the world’s first artificial satellite and the first man-made object to be placed into the Earth’s orbit. Sputnik’s launch came as a surprise, and not a pleasant one, to most Americans. In the United States, space was seen as the next frontier, a logical extension of the grand American tradition of exploration, and it was crucial not to lose too much ground to the Soviets. In addition, this demonstration of the overwhelming power of the R-7 missile–seemingly capable of delivering a nuclear warhead into U.S. air space–made gathering intelligence about Soviet military activities particularly urgent. A postcard of Yuri Gagarin, the first man to enter outer space (Image credit: getty: Rykoff Collection / Contributor) April 12, 1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man into space when he successfully completed a 108 minute flight orbiting the earth a single time.
A moving, absorbing novel about a pair of brothers - one is autistic, one is not, and I came to love both of them' - Joanne Limburg, author of The Autistic Alice Above all, the reader will fall in love with Frank as he sits precariously on the edge of childhood innocence, before being dragged far too soon towards grown-up tragedy. I am not an ownvoices reviewer for this, but I am drawing from my experience of being an older sister to a physically disabled sibling. I feel like this book handled the ups and downs of living with someone who needs so much extra attention and care incredibly well. It’s especially intense for Frank as he is a young child himself and also needs attention and care too. It doesn’t just drag and complain all the time. Instead, it shows the complexities between love and frustration, of caring and needing your own space too, and everything in between. I was so impressed with how this book handled it and translated it for a younger audience too. The space race between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) was a remarkable time in history with many far-reaching achievements in science, space exploration, and technology. This timeline shows the twenty-year competition between the two nations. Space race timelineTom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book Review), The Right Stuff is the basis for the 1983 Oscar Award-winning film of the same name and the 8-part Disney+ TV mini-series.
When tragedy hits Frank and Max's lives like a comet, can Frank piece together a universe in which he and Max aren't light years apart? September 1959: The USSR launches Luna 2 and accomplishes its mission of creating the first spacecraft to reach the surface of the Moon. April 11-17, 1970: When an oxygen tank explodes aboard Nasa's third moon landing mission, Apollo 13, astronauts are fortunately able to return home in the lunar module, averting any loss of life.
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I already knew before I read it that I'd love it. The space we're in is a middle grade book that follows the lives of two siblings Frank and Max.
Now aged ten, Frank is learning that people can sometimes be cruel. When kids make unpleasant jokes about Max, Frank fails to defend him. Like many older siblings, he is also frustrated at how much of his parents’ time and attention his brother now demands. All in all, he’s currently wrestling some pretty serious feelings of guilt and resentment. Little does he know, life is about to throw something far, far worse at the family. Sometimes Frank wishes Mum could still do huge paintings of stars and asteroids like she used to, but since Max was born she just doesn't have time. The world is much more complex today than it was during the Cold War when two major superpowers vied for dominance. Now, private companies, such as Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, have joined in a new contest to show off their spaceflight capabilities, according to the BBC. While there are some competitive aspects, such as the potential for fights over limited lunar resources, tomorrow's space races will involve a greater number of actors and more muddled win-lose scenarios than before. Additional resources: Frank (the older sibling) loves codes and ciphers and football. Max (the younger sibling) has autism and for him, some colors are too bright and he has problems with new things in his daily schedule and if that happens he has melt-downs.
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In 1958, space exploration activities in the United States were consolidated into a new government agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). When it began operations in October of 1958, NASA absorbed what had been called the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and several other research and military facilities, including the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (the Redstone Arsenal) in Huntsville.
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