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Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
262 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Description
Aviatrix Emmaline Cayley, test pilot Rubberbones and the rest of their wacky household decide to rendezvous on the Scottish island of Urgghh where they hope to find refuge. But the island is anything but safe--mad scientists inhabit the island and a villain known as the Collector, who devotes his time to kidnapping inventors, lives next-door.
22) Pilot pups
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Toy dogs go on air patrols to make sure that none of the other toys in a child's room go missing.
Author
Description
When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she doesn't think it's love at first sight. They wouldn't even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. Once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have the perfect set-up. He doesn't want love, she doesn't have time for love, so that just leaves the sex. Their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless,...
27) Tailspin
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Rye Mallett is a 'freight dog', a pilot who'll fly anywhere in the world, at any time, at a moment's notice, through the worst weather. As a fighter pilot in Afghanistan, he escaped death once. Figuring that it's only a matter of time before it catches up with him, he tempts it by taking risks. But one night he takes to the air, when no other pilot would, to deliver a black padlocked box. What awaits him at his destination is a near crash . . . and...
Author
Publisher
W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xv, 271 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
"Nerves of Steel is the captivating true story of Tammie Jo Shults's remarkable life-from growing up the daughter of a humble rancher, to breaking through gender barriers as one of the Navy's first female F/A-18 Hornet pilots, to safely landing the severely crippled Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 and helping save the lives of 148 people"--
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
vii, 78 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Description
Grace, an aspiring young journalist, is excited when Amelia Earhart arrives in her town of Trepassey, Newfoundland, on June 4, 1928. Earhart wants to become the first female passenger to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air. Grace is there to see them--and to receive Earhart's telegram announcing their arrival in Ireland after twenty hours and forty minutes in flight.
34) Violet the pilot
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Description
Young Violet's only friend is her dog, Orville, until one of her homemade flying machines takes her to the rescue of a Boy Scout troop in trouble.
35) Skyward
Author
Series
Skyward (Brandon Sanderson) volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
513 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
When a long-term attack against her world by the alien Krell escalates, Spensa's dream of becoming a pilot may come true, despite her deceased father being labeled a deserter.
39) Breaking sky
Author
Description
In the year 2048 Chase Harcourt, call sign "Nyx," is one of only two pilots chosen to fly the experimental "Streaker" jets at the junior Air Force Academy, but few know the pain and loneliness of her past or the dark secret about her father, and as the world tilts toward war, Chase cracks open a military secret.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Formats
Description
"Paula McLain, author of the phenomenal bestseller The Paris Wife, now returns with her keenly anticipated new novel, transporting readers to colonial Kenya in the 1920s. Circling the Sun brings to life a fearless and captivating woman--Beryl Markham, a record-setting aviator caught up in a passionate love triangle with safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen, author of the classic memoir Out of Africa. Brought to Kenya from England as a...
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