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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"High adventure and high ideals merge when a corps of intrepid female aviators battle to take part in the hugely popular air shows of the 1920s and 1930s. Ultimately, one of our heroines would win a race that earned her the right to be called America's best pilot"--
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Series
Montana rescue volume 1
Description
Search-and-rescue pilot Kacey Fairing returned home to Montana determined to put the past behind her and start a new life. But that won't be easy: her new partner is the man who broke her heart.
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
562 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
"Lunacy is Nate Burke's last chance. As a Baltimore cop, he watched his partner die -- and the guilt still haunts him. With nowhere else to go, he accepts a job as chief of police in this tiny, remote Alaskan town where darkness falls by midafternoon and the temperature plunges below zero. Aside form sorting out a run-in between a couple of vehicles and a moose, Nate's first weeks on the job are relatively quiet. But as he wonders whether this was...
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Series
House of Winslow volume 26
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Formats
Description
Erin Winslow returns to 1920s America from Africa and becomes a barnstormer.
10) Amelia Earhart
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Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill.
Description
Describes the life of the pilot who, in 1932, was the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean, and who was later lost at sea while attempting to fly around the world.
12) Proud to be
Author
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
xv, 259 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the throes of World War II, Captain Maude Garrett joins the all-male crew of a B-17 bomber with a top-secret package. Caught off guard by the presence of a woman on a military flight, the crew tests Maude's every move. Just as her quick wit is winning them over, strange happenings and holes in her backstory incite paranoia surrounding her true mission. But this crew has more to fear; lurking in the shadows, something sinister is tearing at the...
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Description
In 1912, airplanes looked like bicycles with wings. Only men flew these scary new machines. When a spirited young woman named Harriet Quimby decided to learn to fly, everyone said it would be too dangerous. But Harriet tried it anyway! She was the first woman in the United States to earn her pilot's license. Soon the whole country was just wild about her! Harriet loved the attention and designed a purple flight suit to stand out even more. Before...
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Description
During World War II, farmer's daughter Rosalie Wright becomes a pilot assisting the RAF. But will a romantic rivalry send her aerial dreams plummeting to earth?
Ever since she was 10 years old, Rosalie Wright's eyes have been on the skies. But at the age of 18, on the verge of earning her pilot's license, the English farmer's daughter watches her dreams of becoming an aviatrix fly away without her. Britain's entry into World War II brings civilian...
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Homebuilder Jesse Amorado and former Air Force Captain Tori Carr come from the same Texas town but very different worlds. When Tori returns to Coyote Springs to help her father, a real-estate developer, turn the seediest neighborhood in an exclusive resort, she and Jesse immediately clash. As personal tensions rise and local trouble begins to brew, Jesse and Tori fall in love -- only to find they have to fight for their very lives.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
"From the best-selling author of My Weird School: a new entry in the hilarious biography series that casts fresh light on high-interest historic figures. Did you know that Amelia Earhart loved heights so much she built a roller coaster in her backyard? Or that she used to race worms with her sister? Bet you didn't know that she took photographs of garbage cans to pay for flying lessons! Siblings Paige and Turner do-and they've collected some of the...
20) Surrender
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Series
Bitter Creek series volume 16
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Description
A pilot and a smoke jumper find old grudges turning into renewed attraction when they're forced to rely on each other after a plane crash.
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