After the Challenger — Robert Marsh

At school in Cocoa Beach, Florida, 15-year-old Dustin Martinez watches the Challenger space shuttle launch. He's always been interested in the space program, but this launch is even more exciting. For the first time in history, a schoolteacher will be flying aboard the shuttle. Dustin's father, however, isn't interested. He wishes Dustin would spend more time on the family scallop boat than staring up at the stars. But when disaster strikes the shuttle, the two must join together, searching the seas and picking up the pieces of an American tragedy.