Amelia Earhart (The First Names Series)

Amelia Earhart (The First Names Series)
Author: Andrew Prentice
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2019-08-13
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1683355741

See how Amelia Earhart went from a little Kansas tomboy to a high-flying feminist icon Before Amelia Earhart (1897–1939) became a world-famous pilot, she was a little tomboy from Kansas with a taste for adventure. When she visited an airfield and took a short plane ride, she knew she had to be a pilot. She signed up for flying lessons and cropped her hair short so that the other pilots would take her seriously. She became the first woman to make a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. With each flight she took and each record she broke, Amelia became more and more of a celebrity. Her final flight was intended to be a trip around the whole world, but her plane disappeared after takeoff—and her disappearance is still a mystery today. Inspirational, highly illustrated, and full of adventure, Amelia Earhart tells the story of the feminist icon who changed the world of aviation. It includes a timeline, glossary, and index.

Who Was Amelia Earhart?

Who Was Amelia Earhart?
Author: Kate Boehm Jerome
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2002-11-11
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0448428563

Amelia Earhart was a woman of many "firsts." In 1932, she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. In 1935, she also became the first woman to fly across the Pacific. From her early years to her mysterious 1937 disappearance while attempting a flight around the world, readers will find Amelia Earhart's life a fascinating story.

The Fun of It

The Fun of It
Author: Amelia Earhart
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2012-10-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0897337859

Autobiography of the famous flyer which describes her own ambitions to become a pilot and offers advice to others.

I Was Amelia Earhart

I Was Amelia Earhart
Author: Jane Mendelsohn
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2011-12-07
Genre: 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 . . .

I am Unstoppable

I am Unstoppable
Author: Brad Meltzer
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 14
Release: 2019-05-14
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0525552936

The littlest readers can learn about Amelia Earhart in this board book version of the New York Times bestselling Ordinary People Change the World biography. This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great—the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. In this new board book format, the very youngest readers can learn about one of America's icons in the series's signature lively, conversational way. The short text focuses on drawing inspiration from these iconic heroes, and includes an interactive element and factual tidbits that young kids will be able to connect with. This volume tells the story of Amelia Earhart, the famous pilot.

Amelia Lost

Amelia Lost
Author: Candace Fleming
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2012-01-25
Genre: 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.

Ferdinand Magellan

Ferdinand Magellan
Author: Candy Gourlay
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre:
ISBN:

A skilled Portuguese sailor known for his incredible navigation skills, and a survivor of terrible storms and mutinies over the years, Ferdinand Magellan always managed to get his crew home safely. Chosen to lead a crew to circle the globe--a trip that no other ship had ever completed--Magellan died before he could complete the voyage, but his ship went on to complete the first circumnavigation of the world.

Night Flight

Night Flight
Author: Robert Burleigh
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2011-02-22
Genre: 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.

A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart

A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart
Author: David A. Adler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: 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.

Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart
Author: Lori Van Pelt
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2006-06-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780765310620

Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) was the best-known female aviator of her time. She set altitude records, speed records, and transcontinental flight records. Earhart championed the efforts of women in aviation. In 1937, she attempted to fly around the world but, just days before her fortieth birthday, vanished, together with navigator Fred Noonan, in the Pacific en route to tiny Howland Island. Searches continue, and the new technologies being employed may eventually solve the mystery.