Paper Planes and Other Things We Lost

Paper Planes and Other Things We Lost
Author: Mindy Hayes
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-06-05
Genre: Aircraft accidents
ISBN: 9781533491275

On June 18, 1992, Flight 397 crashed off the coast of Long Island. But this story isn't about the crash. Not completely. This is a story about two high school seniors living very different lives, who share one connection: they both lost parents on that fateful flight. Slowly, letters bridge the gap between California and Pennsylvania as Ruby Kaminski and Brett Pratt find a way to remember the past while looking toward the future. This is a story about hope, paper planes, and the other things they lost.

The World Record Paper Airplane Book

The World Record Paper Airplane Book
Author: Jeff Lammers
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780761143833

Presents step-by-step instructions for folding twenty different kinds of paper airplanes and provides illustrated papers for 112 planes.

Paper Airplanes

Paper Airplanes
Author: Dawn O'Porter
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2014-09-09
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1613126999

Renée and Flo are the most unlikely of friends. Introspective and studious Flo and outspoken, wild, and sexually curious Renée have barely spoken in their years of going to school together in Guernsey, a small British island off the coast of France. And yet, when tragedy strikes, it is only wild child Renée, who lost her mother at a young age, who is able to comfort a grieving Flo. The girls form an intense bond that sees them through a host of deeply relatable, wince-inducing experiences—drunken snogging; a séance in which clueless friends offer to summon Renée’s mother; dating a guy for free fish and chips. But toxic mean girls and personal betrayals threaten to tear the girls’ delicate new friendship apart. In this gripping debut, Dawn O’Porter shines an unflinchingly honest, humorous light on female friendship, lost innocence, and that moment when you are teetering on the threshold of adult life. Praise for Paper Airplanes "Dawn O'Porter was a teenager in her past life. Well, duh! How else could she have gotten this bitch-perfect, debut novel so right! Paper Aeroplanes is spot on! This teen friendship, is brutal and beautiful, flawed and forgiving. The angst and anguish of adolescence are made safer by her talented hand. Wish she had written this when I was 15!" --Jamie Lee Curtis "Poignant and edgy, this exploration of lively female friendships rises high." --Kirkus Reviews

Stationery Flight

Stationery Flight
Author: Michael Weinstein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781879384460

"Stationery Flight" is a collection of thirty new, advanced designs for paper airplanes that defy the everyday concept of what aircraft should look like. A description of each plane's aerodynamic properties accompanies the easy-to-follow, fully illustrated folding instructions. These amazing airplanes range from simple craft that anyone can fold with ease, to more complex designs for the skilled folder. There's even a biplane that really flies, and a bomb-wielding jet that can launch a missile in mid-flight!

Dear Edward

Dear Edward
Author: Ann Napolitano
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2021-02-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1984854801

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • “Make sure you have tissues handy when you read [this] sure-footed tearjerker” (NPR) about a young boy who must learn to go on after surviving tragedy, from the author of the Oprah’s Book Club pick Hello Beautiful. Now streaming as an Apple TV+ series starring Connie Britton, written and executive produced by Jason Katims (Friday Night Lights and Parenthood) ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Parade, LibraryReads What does it mean not just to survive, but to truly live? One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Among them are a Wall Street wunderkind, a young woman coming to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, an injured veteran returning from Afghanistan, a business tycoon, and a free-spirited woman running away from her controlling husband. Halfway across the country, the plane crashes. Edward is the sole survivor. Edward’s story captures the attention of the nation, but he struggles to find a place in a world without his family. He continues to feel that a part of himself has been left in the sky, forever tied to the plane and all of his fellow passengers. But then he makes an unexpected discovery—one that will lead him to the answers of some of life’s most profound questions: When you’ve lost everything, how do you find the strength to put one foot in front of the other? How do you learn to feel safe again? How do you find meaning in your life? Dear Edward is at once a transcendent coming-of-age story, a multidimensional portrait of an unforgettable cast of characters, and a breathtaking illustration of all the ways a broken heart learns to love again. Praise for Dear Edward “Dear Edward is that rare book that breaks your heart and stitches it back together during a reading experience that leaves you profoundly altered for the better.”—Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Mad Honey “Will lead you toward something wonderous, something profound.”—Kevin Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of Now Is Not the Time to Panic

Skyfaring

Skyfaring
Author: Mark Vanhoenacker
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2015-06-02
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 0385351828

A poetic and nuanced exploration of the human experience of flight that reminds us of the full imaginative weight of our most ordinary journeys—and reawakens our capacity to be amazed. The twenty-first century has relegated airplane flight—a once remarkable feat of human ingenuity—to the realm of the mundane. Mark Vanhoenacker, a 747 pilot who left academia and a career in the business world to pursue his childhood dream of flight, asks us to reimagine what we—both as pilots and as passengers—are actually doing when we enter the world between departure and discovery. In a seamless fusion of history, politics, geography, meteorology, ecology, family, and physics, Vanhoenacker vaults across geographical and cultural boundaries; above mountains, oceans, and deserts; through snow, wind, and rain, renewing a simultaneously humbling and almost superhuman activity that affords us unparalleled perspectives on the planet we inhabit and the communities we form.

Return to the Fold

Return to the Fold
Author: John M. Collins
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995
Genre: Origami
ISBN: 9780070118539

MORE THAN 40 PLANES! The most formidable foray into folded flight you've ever fantasized. The prized possession for every paper pilot. Boldly fold what no one has folded before. From the author of The Gliding Flight, John M. Collins; inventor and teacher, Donald C. Garwood; and the author of the Exotic Paper Airplanes and Exquisite Paper Airplanes, Thay Yang. To create the best paper airplanes in the world, you don't need scissors, glue, paper clips or rulers. All you need is a Return to the Fold.

Paper Airplanes

Paper Airplanes
Author: Tabitha Forney
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2021-09-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1647421780

It’s the end of summer, 2001. Erin O’Connor has everything she’s ever dreamed of: good friends, a high-powered career at a boutique Manhattan firm, and a husband she adores. They have plans for their life together: careers, children, and maybe even a house in the country. But life has other plans. Daniel works on the 101st floor of the World Trade Center. Erin is drinking margaritas on a beach in Mallorca, helping her best friend get over a breakup, when she hears a plane has crashed into Daniel’s building. On a television at the smoky hotel bar, she watches his building collapse. She makes her way home with the help of a stranger named Alec, and once there, she haunts Ground Zero, nearby hospitals, and trauma centers, plastering walls and fences with missing-person flyers. But there’s no trace of Daniel. After accepting Daniel’s death, Erin struggles to get her life back on track but makes a series of bad decisions and begins to live her life in a self-destructive fog of booze and pills. It’s not until she hits rock bottom that she realizes it’s up to her to decide: Was her destiny sealed with Daniel’s? Or is there life after happily ever after?

The New World Champion Paper Airplane Book

The New World Champion Paper Airplane Book
Author: John M. Collins
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2013-03-26
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1607743884

A collection of easy-to-fold paper airplane designs and innovative theories of flight, including the author's Guinness World Record-breaking airplane. Features 16 tear-out model planes. Will YOU be the next to break the WORLD RECORD? Anything is possible with The New World Champion Paper Airplane Book, the newest collection of designs and theories of flight from John M. Collins, the man behind the Guinness World Record–breaking distance plane. Featuring twenty-two unique airplane designs with step-by-step instructional photos, plus tear-out models printed on regulation-weight paper stock, this entertaining and informative guide promises hours of flying fun. Take your paper airplane–making to the next level with features such as: · Instructions for folding “Suzanne,” the plane that shattered the previous world record by flying an unprecedented 226 feet, 10 inches, and garnered more than three million views on YouTube · Four “Follow Foil” aircraft that can stay aloft for minutes at a time · A pioneering cambered-wing plane · A primer on flight theory, and how it applies to paper airplanes · Tips for improving the accuracy and distance of your throws · The adjusting technique that helped break the record · And more!

Miss Nelson is Missing!

Miss Nelson is Missing!
Author: Harry Allard
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1977
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780395401460

Suggests activities to be used at home to accompany the reading of Miss Nelson is missing by Harry Allard in the classroom.