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Pages: 128, Paperback, DK CHILDREN

Pages: 32, Edition: 1st, School & Library Binding, Holiday House

Taking Women to New Heights The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and the United States, Amelia Earhart is known for her tremendous achievements as a pilot. She was a pioneer of women's rights, believing that women could do anything they set their minds to. The book is 128 pages with black and white photos. Taking Women to New Heights The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and the United States, Amelia Earhart is known for her tremendous achievements as a pilot....

Product Description Fast-paced and easy-to-read, these softcover 25-page graphic biographies teach students about historical figures: those who lead us into new territory; pursued scientific discoveries; battled injustice and prejudice; and broke down creative and artistic barriers. These biographies offer a variety of rich primary and secondary source material to support teaching to the standards.

Library Binding, Paw Prints 2007-06-28

Pages: 32, Paperback, Saddleback Educational Publishing

This series provides young kids with worthwhile reading. While many readers at this age are just full of entertaining stories, these educational but just as interesting. Many fascinating topics of history and science are covered with age appropriate vocabulary, colorful illustrations and sharp photographs. ~ Steph

Full-color drawings engage the reader. Each biography is complete in 32-pages. Speech bubbles and nonfiction text on every page. Powerful graphics capture and hold student interest. Fast-paced nonfiction stories Author: Saddleback Educational Publishing Pages: 32 Binding: Paperback Copyright: January, 2008 ISBN: 9781599052144 Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publishing.

A fascinating biography introduces young readers to Amelia Earhart, an amazing woman whose unquenchable thirst for adventure and innovative approach to life led to many incredible accomplishments and achievements. Simultaneous.

Earhart grew up at a time when many believed that men alone had the right to experience the thrill of adventure-but, from the moment she saw her first airplane, she knew it was her destiny to fly. She made record-setting flights across America, the oceans, and, ultimately, around the world, earning more fame and admiration with every boundary she broke. Even today, her tragic and mysterious disappearance over the Pacific remains one of the great unsolved mysteries. This fascinating biography captures...

Earhart grew up at a time when many believed that men alone had the right to experience the thrill of adventure-but, from the moment she saw her first airplane, she knew it was her destiny to fly. She made record-setting flights across America, the oceans, and, ultimately, around the world, earning more fame and admiration with every boundary she broke. Even today, her tragic and mysterious disappearance over the Pacific remains one of the great unsolved mysteries. This fascinating biography captures...

Description Author Bios A candid biography of the famed lost aviator.This well-written biography features details about the early life of this pioneering pilot. Her last flight ended with her mysterious disappearance, which is still questioned today. List of suggested readings & index.A fascinating look at the life of a remarkable woman and the unsolved mystery surrounding her disappearance during her attempt to fly around the world in 1937. Photographs. show more show less Patricia Lauber was...

Home Biography & Autobiography Sound of Wings : The Life of Amelia Earhart Printable version Sound of Wings : The Life of Amelia Earhart When Amelia Earhart mysteriously disappeared in 1937 during her attempted flight around the world, she was already known as America's most famous female aviator. Her sense of daring and determination, rare for women of her time, brought her insurmountable fame from the day she became the first woman to cross the Atlantic in an airplane. In this definitive...

Profiling the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932, this age-appropriate biography explores Earhart's early years as an aviation pioneer and her mysterious disappearance in 1937.

Description Table of Contents Author Bios An interesting biography for beginning readers that reveals many details of Earhart's life & speculates on the cause of her disappearance.Examines the life and disappearance of the pilot who was the first woman to cross the Atlantic in a plane by herself.Amelia Earhart by Angela Bull is the biography of the famous American flying ace, who became the first woman to fly the Atlantic. With her husband (also her publicist), she plotted an even bigger feat ...

Bulletin for the Center... - 02/01/2010 Sturm’s graphic-novel biography Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow (BCCB 3/08) tells the story of its subject through the account of a fictional observer; similarly, this account follows Amelia Earhart through the eyes of young Grace, a resident of the small coastal Newfoundland village from where Earhart and her pilot hope to begin a transatlantic flight in 1927. Grace is a reporter and “publisher,” posting her handmade news-sheet on the wall for all in...

Using simple language that beginning readers can understand, this lively, inspiring, and believable biography looks at the childhood of Amelia Earhart. Illustrated throughout. Aladdin Paperbacks; June 2008 272 pages; ISBN 9781439108857 Read online, or download in EPUB News Wiki Blogs Tweets YouTube

Bulletin for the Center... - 03/01/2011 Since we know the end of Amelia Earhart’s story so well, it’s hard now to imagine it as anything other than inevitable. Fleming cleverly structures this biography to give the tale of tragedy a fresh and dreadful impact; she intercuts the as-it-happens account of the public and private response to Earhart’s failure to appear as scheduled at Howland Island with the chronicle of the famous flyer’s youth and growth into celebrity. The book offers a clear-eyed exploration...