I Love You, Michael Collins, Lauren BaratzLogsted
I Love You, Michael Collins, Lauren BaratzLogsted
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I Love You, Michael Collins

Author: Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Narrator: Amy Melissa Bentley

Unabridged: 6 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/14/2019


Synopsis

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.

About Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Lauren Baratz-Logsted is the author of over twenty-five books for adults, teens (including The Twin's Daughter and Little Women and Me), and children (The Sisters 8, a nine-book series she created with her husband and daughter). Before becoming an author, Lauren was an independent bookseller, freelance editor, Publishers Weekly reviewer, sort-of librarian, and window washer. She lives with her family in Danbury, Connecticut.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ellen

I was about the same age as Mamie when the first astronauts walked on the moon, so reading this book was a stroll down memory lane for me. Like Mamie's, my parents told us we had to play outside all day, every day, in the summer and I don't remember ever being bored. Mamie and her best friend and ne......more

Goodreads review by Kel

If you read this book: you'll not only know who the third astronaut was during the first landing on the moon, but you'll think about writing him a few letters, and - more than anything - want to send Mamie a whole stack of mail. And want a friend like Buster. And (regrettably) be reminded that Tang......more

It was a good book until it dragged out and i realized our main character, while young, seemed to know nothing about anything and everyone laughed at her for it? Maybe it was supposed to be that way. But anyways, story dragged. It got boring. I didn't care if the parents came back.......more