Book Review: I Love You, Michael Collins by Lauren Baratz-Logsted

I Love You, Michael Collins
by Lauren Baratz-Logsted (j Baratz-Logsted)

This current Golden Sower Award-nominated youth novel is a lovely combination of humor and seriousness, told from the perspective of a 10-year-old girl writing letters to astronaut Michael Collins shortly before and during the historic Apollo 11 mission to the moon in the summer of 1969. Mamie, an unusual girl to be sure, with an equally unusual best friend, Buster, is the only child in her class to choose Command Module Pilot Mike Collins as the recipient of her letter-writing assignment. This turns into an outlet for Mamie to describe her personal and home life, and she continues writing even after school is out. Without giving too much more of the plot away, not only is it a landmark summer for the space program, but for Mamie and her family members as well. And one of the morals of the story is that every ship needs a good pilot, someone who can pick you up and take you back home after any side trips you make.

[ publisher’s official I Love You, Michael Collins web page ] | [ official Lauren Baratz-Logsted web site ]

Recommended by Becky W.C.
Walt Branch Library

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