Up, Up, and Away: Advice and Adventures from the Future Authors and Astronauts of Farnsworth Aerospace

By Mid-Continent Oceanographic Institute and Marlon James

Up, Up, and Away is a collection of writing by fifth-grade students from Farnsworth Aerospace school, who spent months writing these original works with the help of the Mid-Continent Oceanographic Institute. From travel guides to alien planets to advice for chihuahuas on successfully piloting a hot air balloon, Up, Up, and Away, captures the uni

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mid-Continent Oceanographic Institute
• Release date: May 18, 2016
• ISBN: 9781634890397

Book preview

Introduction

You are holding a compendium of original works created by Farnsworth Aerospace fifth graders for the Young Authors’ Book Project. Each piece contained inside is written by a student author who workshopped their story side by side with volunteers and staff from the educational nonprofit Mid-Continent Oceano- graphic Institute (MOI). Students, teachers, volunteers, and staff worked together in the classroom for six months to compose the stories you are about to read. A talented team of illustrators, designers, editors, and publishers volunteered to help bring our finished product to life.

Inside, you will find advice pieces, travel guides, and travel diaries all written around the aerospace-driven theme of Up, Up, and Away. In keeping with the spirit of Farnsworth Aerospace and MOI’s mission, students were given creative license to inter- pret the theme as they saw fit. We asked simple questions to jump-start students in each of the different styles. For pieces in the advice section, we wanted to know: Who or what would you see if you looked up? What kind of advice would that thing or creature need? For travel diaries, we asked students to ponder and report what types of things they would do if they could fly anywhere in the known, or unknown, universe. Finally, for the travel guides, we asked students to write what travelers could expect to find, do, and eat at an aerospace destination of each student’s creation.

We encourage you to turn the page and join our young au- thors as they take us all up, up, and away.

Travel Guides

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Mars 8

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Come to Mars 8. It is literally on Mars. You use a GPS to get there. It is a five-star hotel. Great service. Anything you need, we will get it for you.

The attraction is that you can ride a hoverboard. You have to pay 50 dollars at Hover Mars if you want it, but it is cheaper than the 100 dollars online. On Earth, it is like 100 to 2,000 dollars. It will not blow up. If it blows up, we will pay you 300 dollars and the hospital bill. We pay for it because we caused the problem.

The pool is rainbow colored. You also eat at an Old Mars Buffet. When you leave and it is your birthday, you do not have to pay. Your maids are actual robots. There is a velociraptor robot maid. The velociraptor is the cleaner, and kids like him. And there are people living there. The robots drink oil to fill them up.

There is a whole amusement park with a roller coaster. You see the constellations, the astro-belt, and Earth. There is a zoo in it. You see hybrid animals that are made at the zoo, like spider monkeys, which are half monkey and half spider, and velocirex, which has the body of a T. rex and claws of a velociraptor. It lives in neat habitats, and it is outside because it is so big. It is harmless to people, and it eats animal meat. They have a fun house.

It will take you years to go there. You use a rocket to get there. They speak any language. The robot scans you and sees what language you speak, and then it will speak it.

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Daunte is ten years old. If he could fly anywhere in the world, he would fly to the Philippines to see his cousins whom he has not seen since he was a baby. He would like to grow wings instead of a tail so he could fly to the Philippines.

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