Author : D. G. Torrens
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 37,63 MB
Release : 2011-11-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466369849
This is a true story of Amelia's harrowing journey through her childhood. All she needs to do is survive through to adulthood, then her destiny will be in her own hands. This is a powerful portrayal of the life of a child subjected to the care sysem and her desparate struggle to be free. Amelia has but one wish and that is to survive each day, but the obstacles placed before her are proving too much to bare. Amelia starts to wonder about the peace and finality of her own death.
Author : Mara dal Corso
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 15,26 MB
Release : 2017-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781610674690
Stunning illustrations capture perfectly the whimsical perspective of a young girl's dream to reach seemingly impossible heights, as well as period details and the spirit of the times. Features an ambitious young female protagonist whose adventures will appeal to all young readers. Biographical details and lyrical text make the story of Amelia Earhart accessible to today's youngest, knowledge-seeking high-flying readers.This very special picture book tells the story of Amelia Earhart as a young girl with an unconventional dream to pilot her own plane. The book also includes a biography of Earhart's path and accomplishments.
Author : Jane Mendelsohn
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 29,58 MB
Release : 2011-12-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307814203
In this brilliantly imagined novel, Amelia Earhart tells us what happened after she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared off the coast of New Guinea one glorious, windy day in 1937. And she tells us about herself. There is her love affair with flying ("The sky is flesh") . . . . There are her memories of the past: her childhood desire to become a heroine ("Heroines did what they wanted") . . . her marriage to G.P. Putnam, who promoted her to fame, but was willing to gamble her life so that the book she was writing about her round-the-world flight would sell out before Christmas. There is the flight itself -- day after magnificent or perilous or exhilarating or terrifying day ("Noonan once said any fool could have seen I was risking my life but not living it"). And there is, miraculously, an island ("We named it Heaven, as a kind of joke"). And, most important, there is Noonan . . .
Author : Doris L. Rich
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 26,90 MB
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1588343820
She died mysteriously before she was forty. Yet in the last decade of her life Amelia Earhart soared from obscurity to fame as the best-known female aviator in the world. She set record after record—among them, the first trans-Atlantic solo flight by a woman, a flight that launched Earhart on a double career as a fighter for women's rights and a tireless crusader for commercial air travel. Doris L. Rich's exhaustively researched biography downplays the “What Happened to Amelia Earhart?” myth by disclosing who Amelia Earhart really was: a woman of three centuries, born in the nineteenth, pioneering in the twentieth, and advocating ideals and dreams relevant to the twenty-first.
Author : Candace Fleming
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 11,8 MB
Release : 2012-01-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0307980219
From the acclaimed author of The Great and Only Barnum—as well as The Lincolns, Our Eleanor, and Ben Franklin's Almanac—comes the thrilling story of America's most celebrated flyer, Amelia Earhart. In alternating chapters, Fleming deftly moves readers back and forth between Amelia's life (from childhood up until her last flight) and the exhaustive search for her and her missing plane. With incredible photos, maps, and handwritten notes from Amelia herself—plus informative sidebars tackling everything from the history of flight to what Amelia liked to eat while flying (tomato soup)—this unique nonfiction title is tailor-made for middle graders. Amelia Lost received four starred reviews and Best Book of the Year accolades from School Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Horn Book Magazine, the Washington Post, and the New York Times.
Author : Donald M. Goldstein
Publisher : Potomac Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,34 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Air pilots
ISBN : 9781597970952
Describes ten rivalries that help define college football. Includes the scores of all games, profiles of legendary participants, and memorable events.
Author : Kathleen C. Winters
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,32 MB
Release : 2010-11-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0230112293
When Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific in 1937, she was at the height of her fame. Fascination with Earhart remains just as strong today, as her mysterious disappearance continues to inspire speculation. In this nuanced and often surprising biography, acclaimed aviation historian Kathleen C. Winters moves beyond the caricature of the spunky, precocious pilot to offer a more complex portrait. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary accounts, airline records, and other original research, this book reveals a flawed heroine who was frequently reckless and lacked basic navigation skills, but who was also a canny manipulator of mass media. Winters details how Earhart and her husband, publisher George Putnam, worked to establish her as an international icon, even as other spectacular pilots went unnoticed. Sympathetic yet unsentimental, this biography helps us to see Amelia Earhart with fresh eyes.
Author : Mary S. Lovell
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 22,94 MB
Release : 2009-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312587333
Describes Earhart's tomboy childhood, her early fascination with airplanes, the impact of Lindbergh's 1927 transatlantic flight on her life, and her disappearance in 1937.
Author : David A. Adler
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,80 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Air pilots
ISBN : 9780823415175
This picture-book biography of Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly across the Atlantic solo who mysteriously disappeared, features full-color illustrations.
Author : Robert Burleigh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 29,98 MB
Release : 2011-02-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1442431202
Amelia Earhart is a legend in the field of aviation, and no accomplishment of hers is more acclaimed than her unparalleled 1932 solo flight across the Atlantic. As only the second person—and the first woman—to achieve such a feat, Amelia Earhart earned a place in the history books, and award-winning author Robert Burleigh has captured every nuance of her remarkable journey in this detailed picture book that is full of action and edge. Readers will be thrilled with the adventure and drama in this nonfiction account—and Wendell Minor’s vivid paintings will make them feel as if they’re along for the ride.
