A Galaxy Fair, Fair Away (SweetBean 25 kids)

Welcome to the third annual SweetBean Challenge! Just like last year we're dividing the challenge up into monthly mini challenges! Discover a new theme and win each month's challenge by reading as little as 10-15 minutes a day. Complete optional activities to earn more badges! If you win all 12 challenges, you'll receive a library branded blanket at the end of the year!

Updated August 27, 2025
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Archie Takes Flight Space Taxi Series, Book 1
Mass, Wendy
Paper Book
It's not every day a regular kid like Archie gets to wake up at midnight. But today is Take Your Kid to Work Day, and Archie is finally allowed to ride along in his dad's taxi cab. But he's about to discover his dad is no ordinary cab driver. In fact
The book of blast off! : 15 real-life space missions
Knapman, Timothy
Paper Book
Young readers will discover the spacecraft and astronauts from 15 iconic space missions in The Book of Blast Off!, an out-of-this-world rhyming picture book from bestselling author Timothy Knapman and illustrator Nik Henderson.   3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . ....
Come see the fair
Savit, Gavriel
Paper Book
An unforgettable story of magic, mediums, and séances set during the Chicago World's Fair from the author of the National Book Award finalist The Way Back. Twelve-year-old orphan Eva Root travels the country pretending to channel spirits at séances. Her audiences swear...
County Fair : adapted from the Little house books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Paper Book
It's an exciting day for Almanzo as the Wilder family visits the county fair in this second My First Little House Book adapted from Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic Farmer Boy. There are contests, races, and good things to eat, and Almanzo can't wait to see what the judges think of his special pumpkin...
Destination, space
Simon, Seymour.
Paper Book
The Sun is just one of trillions of stars, and it's not even a big one. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is so incredibly huge that it contains billions of stars bigger and brighter and older than the Sun. And outer space contains billions of galaxies. Now, with the aid of the venerable Smithsonian...
Letters from space
Anderson, Clayton C.
Paper Book
Astronaut Clayton Anderson spent 152 days in space aboard the International Space Station--and while he didn't mail dozens of letters back to Earth (they would have burned up on reentry!), imagine if he did! These letters from space are full of weird science, wild facts, and outrageous true stories...
The midnight fair
Sterer, Gideon
Paper Book
As darkness falls on the fairgrounds, the animals venture out of the woods for one magical, memorable night! An exhilarating wordless picture book. Far from the city, but not quite the countryside, lies a fairground. When night comes and the fair is empty, something unexpected...
Space jokes
Rosenberg, Pam
Paper Book
Why did the astronaut take a mop into space? To clean up the stardust! How is a telephone like the planet Saturn? They both have rings! Kids are sure to enjoy reading and telling these out-of this-world jokes.

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