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21) Amelia Earhart
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (color) ; 22 cm.
Description
"Learn about the life and accomplishments of Amelia Earhart"--
22) Manhunt
Author
Publisher
HarperLargePrint
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
244 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
23) Code name Verity
Author
Series
Code name Verity volume 1
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Description
In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
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.
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Description
"After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There--after encountering a pair of pilots passing through town in a beat up Cessna--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fifteen, she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy rancher who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement...
26) 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.
30) 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.
37) 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.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
From the two-time Oscar nominated director of Kung Fu Panda comes this critically acclaimed, re-imagined take on Antoine de Saint-Exupery's classic story. At its heart is 'The Little Girl,' prepared by her mother for the very grown-up real-world. After her eccentric, kind-hearted neighbor, 'The Aviator' introduces her to an extraordinary world where anything is possible, she learns of 'The Little Prince.' And so begins the magical and emotional journey...
39) 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.
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Description
"Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. Thousands of fans flocked to multiday events, and cities vied with one another to host them. The pilots themselves were hailed as dashing heroes who cheerfully stared death in the face. Well, the men were hailed. Female pilots were more often ridiculed than praised for what the press portrayed as silly efforts to horn in on a manly, and deadly, pursuit. Fly...
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